Posts Tagged ‘cake’
Chocolate Mousse and Cake with Caramelized Pears
Posted by Sweetthea
Bittersweet chocolate caramel mousse and flourless chocolate cake with golden rosemary infused caramelized pears, earl grey tea crème anglais, apricot fruit sage coulis and filo.
Served at Sooke Harbour house April 2004.
La Maison du Chocolat: Transcendent Desserts by the Legendary Chocolatier Robert Linxe
Posted by Sweetthea
Master chocolatier Robert Linxe is famous for boxed chocolates; he has shops all over Paris and in New York. Naturally when I bought this book I thought I was getting some great recipes for chocolates – was I ever wrong! There is not a single recipe for any couverture chocolates in the book – pictures [...]
Hazelnut Cake with Wildflower Honey Frozen Mousse
Posted by Sweetthea
Brown butter hazelnut cake with wild flower honey frozen mousse, blackcurrant grand fir sorbet, marionberry compote and whipped crème freche.
Served at Sooke Harbour house March 24 2004.
-->Cherry Hazelnut Cake
Posted by Sweetthea
Cherry, brown butter, hazelnut cake, with a warm cherry, loganberry, lemon thyme compote, Fromage frais mousse, caramel sauce and sorrel cream.
Served at Sooke Harbour house June 2004.
The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef
Posted by Sweetthea
‘The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef’ is a reference book – an advanced pastry textbook – and as such is a very handy book to have in your kitchen. It provides a wealth of quality information and a wide range of basic techniques with very practical applications, especially for a beginner without formal training in [...]
Professional Touches: The Art of Advanced Cake Decorating
Posted by Sweetthea
‘Professional Touches’ is a well-written, advanced book about cake decoration, with meticulous step-by-step instructions and captioned illustrations, making it methodical and practical.
The author walks the reader through a couple dozen of her own creations, with names like ‘The Sheep Dog’ and ‘God Bless Marc’, taking time to address specialty techniques as she does so. Marzipan [...]
Molasses Ginger Cake with Caramelized Apple
Posted by Sweetthea
Molasses ginger cake with warm pineapple sage caramelized apples, Late Harvest Riesling and lemon thyme sabayon, toasted pumpkin seed crème anglais, and a sugar twist.
Served at Sooke Harbour house Friday September 26 2003.
Such a Deere!
Posted by Laurie
Sarah Higgins is getting married to Mark Matthews on Saturday, and their rehearsal dinner was last night, at the cozy Crescent Beach Bistro.
Zeichnen und Garnieren fur Konditoren
Posted by Sweetthea
This is another sweet gift from my mentor, George Wagner; a German instructional book filled with design and illustrative ideas for cakes.
I haven’t tried any of this stuff yet, it is a relatively new gift; and everything I take from it will be visual only, as the book is written in German.
Still it does have [...]
Chocolate Truffle Cake with Licorice Spice Ice Cream
Posted by Sweetthea
Warm chocolate truffle center cake with pumpkin, licorice spice ice cream, coffee cream and Grand Fir caramel.
Served at Sooke Harbour house Saturday October 4 2003.
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