Saturday, November 6, 2010

Meringue Cookies

raspberry and vanilla bean meringue cookies


Apricot Oat Bread

Coconut Rum Cake

coconut rum cake soaked in rum sauce with coconut rum glaze

Chocolate Palmiers

Amaretti

Doughnuts

chocolate ganache filled doughnuts with olallieberry and strawberry sauces


doughnuts filled with candied kumquat-mascarpone cheese with caramel sauce and whipped mascarpone cream

Fire Truck Cake

chocolate devils food cake

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Raspberry Jelly and Ganache

Raspberry jellies topped with raspberry ganache enrobed in dark chocolate

Chocolate Bark

Dark chocolate with candied pumpkin seeds, candied lemon zest, roasted pecans, and salt

Cashew Brittle

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Dragees

Caramelized almonds enrobed in dark chocolate and rolled in either cocoa powder or powdered sugar

Rochers

Toasted kirsch-flavored slivered almonds enrobed in dark chocolate

White Chocolate Raspberry Ganache

White chocolate raspberry ganache with raspberry jam centers


Pecan Toffee

Toffee with milk chocolate, pecans, and salt

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Gianduja Molded Chocolates

Fleur de Sel Chocolate Caramels

Lavender Infused Ganache Chocolates

Cream ganache infused with lavender buds enrobed in milk chocolate with dark chocolate accent

Truffles

Assorted cream ganache truffles



Marzipan Parrots

Goofy figurines made from colored marzipan

Final Sugar Showpiece

Sugar Techniques: blown figures, pulled sugar, ribbon, bubble sugar, ice sugar, and straw sugar on a cast sugar base

Blown Sugar Pear

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Small Sugar Sculptures

Pastillage, straw sugar, pulled roses and leaves, and pulled ribbon


Pour sugar base, straw sugar, and pulled hedge rose flowers

Mr. Potato Head Chocolate Sculpture

Molded and modeling chocolate

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Wedding Cake II

This three tiered wedding cake is draped in white fondant and accented with a cascade of glittering white gumpaste orchids and branches of shimmering green gumpaste ivy leaves. Leafy green lace points border the top of the middle tier and rolled fondant ivy along the bottom. Buttercream leaves are piped around the top and bottom cake bases.


Wedding Cake

Two tiered wedding cake is decorated with pastillage extentions, drop lace, lace points, cornelli lace, buttercream pearls, a gold painted pastillage heart topper, and gumpaste orchids and ivy leaves

Pastillage Plaque

Pastillage plaque painted with cocoa butter and cocoa powder (Pixar's knick knack)

Birthday Cake

Three layers of cake with buttercream icing, draped in rolled marzipan, coated with fondant glace with marzipan roses and leaves and chocolate inscription

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Pistachio Cake

Three layered pistachio cake with Italian buttercream, masked with blanched and sliced pistachios and topped with pistachio brittle

Dobos Torte

Six layers of dobos sponge cake and French chocolate buttercream topped with a final layer of caramelized dobos and masked with toasted almonds

Triangle Cake

Sponge cake filled with almond buttercream, glazed in chocolate ganache, and topped with tempered chocolate filigree

Monday, January 18, 2010

Roulade

Almond buttercream-filled sponge roll glazed in chocolate ganache with tempered chocolate filigree

Opera Cake

Layers of joconde cake soaked in coffee syrup with coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache

Carrot Cake & Banana Cake

Banana cake with sour cream chocolate ganache and marzipan bananas
Carrot cake with cream cheese icing and marzipan carrots

Sacher Torte

Sacher cake with Kirsch syrup and apricot jam, glazed in chocolate ganache