Caramelized pear strudel with a frozen hazelnut parfait, chocolate, sweet marjoram foam, and Grand Fir caramel sauce. Served at Sooke Harbour house Friday October 3 2003.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged chocolate, Grand Fir, hazelnut, marjoram, parfait, pastry, pear, Sooke Harbour House, streudel | Leave a commentThea and I met recently with Susan at Bridges Restaurant, and got acquainted with this lovely wedding venue. Bridges has a beautiful waterfront location in the heart of Vancouver, on beautiful Granville Island, and so naturally attracts lots of events … Read More
Posted in Community | Tagged Bridges Restaurant, vancouver, wedding venue | Leave a commentJenn Best posted this lovely photo on her blog of a Sweet Thea cake – she is sending me some more – I will post them soon! date: June 18, 2009 location: Kirin Restaurant at Starlight Casino, New Westminster (where … Read More
Posted in Weddings & Events | Tagged Wedding Cake | 1 CommentThis slim volume by Nicholas Lodge was loaned to me quite a while ago; at the time I wasn’t impressed, its 70′s appearance fuelling my judgement that it was passe, outdated techniques by old-fashioned pastry artists. It is easy to … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged sugar, sugar flowers, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentJas and Gurinder from Phulkari Weddings recently ordered several ‘faux’ cakes from Thea, and I managed to snap a few pictures of one, which I named Adway (an Indian name meaning ‘One’, or ‘United’), before it left our studio. Unfortunately … Read More
Posted in Wedding Cake | Tagged fake cake, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentWarm 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.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged cake, caramel, chocolate, coffee, desserts, Grand Fir, ice cream, licorice, pastry, pumpkin, Sooke Harbour House | Leave a commentSweet Thea is pleased to be added to Cecil Green Park’s list of preferred Service Providers, giving us the opportunity to bring our delicious cakes to one of the most beautiful wedding sites in British Columbia.
Posted in Community | Tagged cecil green, venue, wedding | Leave a comment‘Sugar Craft’ is one of 3 books about cake decoration written by these two authors; the others are ‘Cake Decorating’ and ’101 Cake Decorating Ideas’. As you can probably guess by those titles, these books are relatively basic in tone … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged cake, cookbook, marzipan, recipes, sugar, Wedding Cake | 1 CommentWhen we launched this website six weeks ago, we hoped to make a nice presentation of Thea’s great cakes, and become a little better known in our local community. International exposure wasn’t really our goal, but that is a great … Read More
Posted in Press & Thank-You's | Leave a commentChocolate Cake with Cocoa, Espresso, Nougatine Flutes filled with white chocolate mousse, served with coffee, lemon verbena ice cream, pear puree and caramel sauce. Served at Sooke Harbour house Friday March 26 2004.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged caramel, chocolate cake, coffee, lemon verbena, nougatine, white chocolate | Leave a comment