Thursday, December 17, 2009

Chocolate Molten Cake

Chocolate molten cake with vanilla creme anglaise, raspberry coulis, and candied pistachios

Key Lime Parfait

Key Lime parfait on a shortbread cookie with lime chips, caramel cream sauce, and tangy lemon curd

Caramel Apple Napoleon

Caramelized apple slices between layers of puff pastry served with caramel cream sauce and sea salt


Chocolate Yam Chips with Apple Sorbet

Jewel yam chips brushed with chocolate and served with apple sorbet, vanilla creme anglaise, tuile, and a tempered chocolate cage


Monday, December 14, 2009

Apple Gilette

Caramelized apple slices in a pocket of puff pastry served with caramel cream sauce, lemon curd, caramel garnishes and an apple chip

Neopolitan Napoleon

Chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry pastry cream between layers of puff pastry served with whipped vanilla creme fraiche, strawberry coulis, and dark chocolate shavings.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Chocolate Decadence

Chocolate decadence coated with chocolate glace served in a tempered chocolate cage with chantille, creme anglaise, grand marnier chocolate sauce, and passion fruit coulis

Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate mousse served on a shortbread cookie with chantille and tempered chocolate decorations, with creme anglaise and raspberry coulis

Sour Cherry Mousse

Sour cherry mousse set in jaconde sponge cake served with raspberry coulis, creme anglaise, and tuile

Charolette Royal

Vanilla bavarios encased in raspberry jelly roll served with chantille, sweetened piping sauce, raspberry kiwi coulis, and a tuile cookie

Petit Fours Glace

Three layers of dobos cake and apricot jam topped with marzipan and drizzled with fondant glace and dark chocolate dots

Napoleon

Classical Napoleon: vanilla pastry cream between three layers of apricot-glazed puff pastry, topped with fondant glace and dark chocolate


Candyland

Candyland Mirror Buffet Platter: Plum Tartlets, Chocolate Candy-cane filled Puff Pastry, Chocolate-dipped Almond Biscotti, Hazelnut Cookies, and Coffee-cream filled Cream Puffs


Coffee-cream filled cream puffs dipped in chocolate glacage


Vanilla Cream Plum Tartlets


Chocolate Pastry Cream Filled Blitz Puff sprinkled with powdered sugar and crushed candy-canes



Sunday, November 22, 2009

Cheese Twists

Puff pastry with twists of parmesan cheese and crushed red pepper

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Paris-Brest

Bicycle wheel-shaped pate a choux with toasted almonds filled with praline pastry cream and topped with powdered sugar and drizzled chocolate

Swans

Swans made from pate a choux filled with rose pastry cream mousseline


Mini Cream Puffs

Pate a choux puffs filled with rose pastry cream mousseline dipped in fondant

Double Chocolate Chip Muffins

Chocolate chip chocolate muffins sprinkled with powdered sugar

Eclairs

Chocolate pastry cream-filled eclairs with piped chocolate ganache accent

Chocolate Brownies

Rich chocolate brownies dusted with powdered sugar

Chocolate Raspberry Genoise

3-layer chocolate raspberry genoise soaked in chocolate syrup, with layers of framboise liqueur chocolate frosting, topped with fresh raspberries


Raspberry Chiffon

Chiffon cake with raspberry jam and chantilly


Buttercream Genoise

3-layer vanilla genoise with buttercream frosting


Monday, November 16, 2009

Pecan Square Bites

Almond Biscotti

Almond biscotti, some dipped in dark chocolate ganache


Oatmeal Cookies

Oatmeal cookies with cranberries or chocolate chips

Sliced Nutty Cookies

Hazelnut and almond sliver ice box cookies


Tuile

tuile cookies shaped into cigars & cigarettes, curly q's, palm trees, and saddles topped with almond slices





Butter Tea Cookies

Butter tea cookies with raspberry and blueberry jam


Salted Pretzels

Roasted Garlic & Rosemary Focaccia

Fugasse Sand Dollar

Semolina Bread