‘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 CommentColette Peters has been around quite a while, and can be credited for starting the trend towards big, crazy, wildly-colored, wacky-shaped cakes – man they are something to behold! Her innovative and amusing gravity-defying cakes are definite attention-grabbers,
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged cake, cookbook, recipes, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentLemon eucalyptus poached pear with toasted hazelnut dacquoise and dark chocolate granache cake, a chocolate and rosemary cream filled flute, a pear and mint puree, and crème anglais. Served at Sooke Harbour house Tuesday September 30 2003.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged cake, creme anglaise, dacquoise, dark chocolate, desserts, eucalyptus, ganache, hazelnut, lemon, mint, pear, rosemary, Sooke Harbour House | Leave a comment‘French pastry: Tradition and Evolution’ is the first professional book I ever bought, on the advice of my mentor and instructor, Chef George Wagner. Bellouet was a teacher at the Lenotre Ecole, one of the top pastry schools in the … Read More
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