Posts Tagged ‘Vancouver Club’

Lina marries Brent

Posted by Sweetthea
Lina marries Brent

Saturday May 22, 2010
Lina Lee marries Brent Roberts

Location: Vancouver Club, Vancouver, B.C.  (where is that?)

5 tiers
Chocolate cake with chocolate mousse
strawberry gelee and strawberry mousse

Congratulations Lina & Brent!

Stephanie and David’s Wedding Cake

Posted by Sweetthea
Stephanie and David's Wedding Cake

October 3, 2009
Stephanie Charles marries David Hammond

Location: Vancouver Club, Vancouver, B.C.

Lovestruck November 15 – you MUST come!

Posted by Sweetthea
Lovestruck November 15 - you MUST come!

Sweet Thea is thrilled to be part of this year’s Lovestruck Bridal Show at the fabulous Vancouver Club, on Sunday November 15.  You should come!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Location: Vancouver Club, Vancouver, B.C. (where is that?)
10am – 6pm
Essentially a large cocktail party, Lovestruck is Vancouver’s most interactive and fashionable bridal event, in an upscale and [...]

Josephine and Frank (photos by C.J. Scott)

Posted by Sweetthea
Josephine and Frank (photos by C.J. Scott)

Josephine & Frank booked Victoria photographer C.J. Scott well over a year before their wedding.   They knew they could trust her with their most important day – so you know we were pleased when C.J. forwarded these lovely photos to us!

Michael and Jordana’s wedding cake (photo by Daniela Ciuffa)

Posted by Sweetthea
Michael and Jordana's wedding cake (photo by Daniela Ciuffa)

Jordana and Michael are an absolutely lovely couple – I was delighted to get this email:
Hi Thea,

Michael and I would like to thank you for the amazing job you did of our wedding cake. Everyone was in awe when they saw it, and it was also incredible tasty…I haven’t had a wedding cake before [...]

Opera Cake

Posted by Thea Wilgress
Opera Cake

I created this  for the fine dining room at the Club.  Opera cake (gateau l’Opera) is a very traditional Parisian cake, named for the Opéra national de Paris, and been a known pastry since sometime in the late 1700’s, when chocolate was introduced to France.
Almond cake soaked with espresso syrup, layered with coffee butter cream [...]

Apricot Muscat Miroir

Posted by Thea Wilgress
Apricot Muscat Miroir

This is a lovely dessert I recently served – an almond cake with apricot bavarian cream and Italian muscat jelly.  Pictured here with with a Raspberry Financier and a Caramel & Chocolate Mousse tart.

2 Hazelnut additions to the dessert tray – banana mousse cups and a financier

Posted by Sweetthea
2 Hazelnut additions to the dessert tray - banana mousse cups and a financier

Last week at the Club I added two new desserts to the regular dessert tray., both using a little hazelnut.

This week’s goodies!

Posted by Thea Wilgress
This week's goodies!

Today at the Club I had a lot of desserts to prepare, and happily had the time to be a bit creative. I always try to make everything from scratch with fresh ingredients (ah memories of Sooke Harbor House!) and today was no exception. I made these for our daily dessert cart:

Rhubarb Tart with [...]

Triple Chocolate Mousse

Posted by Thea Wilgress
Triple Chocolate Mousse

Today I made this nice Triple Chocolate Mousse – layered dark, milk, and white Chocolate Mousse, garnished with White Chocolate straw and Valrhona cocoa.
I was a little uncertain about a step when creating the white chocolate nest, so I turned to the excellent book Chocolate Decorations – by Jean-Pierre Wybauw -  to review his recipe, [...]


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