Red wine poached Anjou pear with Fromage frais mousse served with bittersweet chocolate, walnut and sweet cicely pod sorbet, sorrel gelee and red wine reduction. Served at Sooke Harbour house Tuesday May 25 2004.bit
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Leave a commentJosephine & 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 … Read More
Posted in Weddings & Events | Tagged almond, c.j. scott, chocolate ganache, fake cake, Lemonberry, macaroons, Vancouver Club, vanilla buttercream, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentNot all wedding cake is thrown away after a wedding! On this day last year, a piece of wedding cake from the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 was sold for $1,000 UK pounds (approx $1,830 … Read More
Posted in Wedding Cake | Tagged princess diana, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentToday is the 10th Anniversary of the wedding of the Kabaka (‘King’) of Buganda, Ronald Mutebi II and his ‘American’ wife, NYU graduate Sylvia. Buganda is one of 4 Kingdoms in the country of Uganda, which most westerners know only … Read More
Posted in Wedding Cake | Tagged buganda, mutebi, wedding | Leave a commentToday is the anniversary of Prince Haakon and Mette-Marit Tjessem-Hoiby of Norway – check out this beautiful wedding cake! Mette-Marit is an unlikely princess – a single mother whose ex-husband was in prison for assault and cocaine possession when she … Read More
Posted in Wedding Cake | Tagged royal wedding | Leave a commentShady Lane farm fresh strawberries and Dianthus flowers, with strawberry, mable grey scented geranium sorbet, rose honey and lemon verbena ice cream, and chocolate anise custard. Served at Sooke Harbour house Wednesday June 23 2004.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged anise, custard, desserts, dianthus, geranium, ice cream, lemon verbena, mable grey, rose honey, Sooke Harbour House, sorbet, strawberries | Leave a commentAngela Grippo wedding July 11, 2009 Passionfruit Wedding Cake
Posted in Community, Weddings & Events | Tagged daniela ciuffa, passionfruit, sweet thea, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentSweet Thea wedding cakes are now featured in a great wedding planning website, The Ring Bearer. We get contacted regularly by sites that want to trade links with us; most of them are just collections of links, without any unique … Read More
Posted in Community | Leave a comment‘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 … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged cake, icing, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentIrazu marries Juan-Carlos August 16, 2009 location: Brock House Restaurant, Vancouver (where is that?) Chocolate Ganache, with passionfruit middle tier
Posted in Weddings & Events | Tagged Brock House, chocolate, ganache, passionfruit, sailboat, Wedding Cake | 1 Comment