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Thea’s Wedding Cake Flavors for 2011 Season

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Only a few years ago, brides didn’t have much choice in wedding cakes flavors – only heavier cakes like traditional english fruit cake could be used to fashion beautiful multi-layer tiered cakes.   But things have changed – your cake … Read More »

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Sour Cherry Brioche Pudding

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Dried sour cherry brioche bread pudding with a maple glazed walnut, cranberry and coriander stuffed baked apple, and Grand Fir caramel, apple cream and hemp seed crisps. Served at Sooke Harbour house Friday September 19 2003.

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Chocolate Mousse and Cake with Caramelized Pears

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Bittersweet chocolate caramel mousse and flourless chocolate cake with golden rosemary infused caramelized pears, earl grey tea crème anglais, apricot fruit sage coulis and filo. Served at Sooke Harbour house April 2004.

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The Ultimate Candy Book

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When you see ‘Ultimate’ in the title, you can usually infer is American, and probably part of a series.  Yep, at the bottom of this cover it says that Weinstein is also the author of ‘The Ultimate Ice Cream Book’ … Read More »

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Caramel and Chocolate Mousse tart

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Caramel & Chocolate Mousse tart with crispy chocolate pearls Served at the Vancouver Club, February 2009

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Cherry Hazelnut Cake

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Cherry, brown butter, hazelnut cake, with a warm cherry, loganberry, lemon thyme compote, Fromage frais mousse, caramel sauce and sorrel cream. Served at Sooke Harbour house June 2004.

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Chocolate Truffle Cake with Licorice Spice Ice Cream

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Warm 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.

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Chocolate Cake with Nougatine Flutes

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Chocolate 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.

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Apricot Muscat Miroir

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This is a lovely dessert I recently served – an almond cake with apricot bavarian cream and Italian muscat jelly.  Pictured here with with a Raspberry Financier and a Caramel & Chocolate Mousse tart.

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Rosana and Raymond’s Wedding Cake

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Rosana Lo & Raymond Ng sent us these lovely photos of their Sweet Thea cake, from their August 2008 wedding. The 1st layer is Thea’s delicious ‘Carmelita’ flavour – Caramel mousse and chocolate mousse layered in chocolate cake -, the … Read More »

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