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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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Jackie marries Russell

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Russell marries Jackie Burns Saturday, June 12, 2010 location: Brock House Restaurant, Vancouver (where is that?) Chocolate Chiffon base tier Lemon top 2 tiers

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Matt & Nicole’s Wedding Cake

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Matt & Nicole September 12, 2009 location: Brock House Restaurant, Vancouver  (where is that?) Base tier Mocha; 2nd tier lemon; 3rd tier black & white (chocolate and vanilla) with fresh raspberries; top tier mocha.

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Roasted Nectarine with Burnt Peach Ice Cream and Ginger Cake

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A Sooke Harbour house honey and lemon roasted nectarine, with burnt peach ice cream, blueberry and candied ginger butter cake, spiced blueberry compote, and ice wine sabayon. Served at Sooke Harbour house Tuesday September 30 2003.

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Chow – Tieu Wedding (Photos by Dan Fontaine)

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Professional wedding photographer Dan Fontaine sent us these beautiful photos of the Sweet Thea cake from the wedding of Yvonne Chow and David Tieu, July 26, 2008.  Sometimes Thea enjoys working on a cake so much she gives it a … Read More »

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Lemon Eucalyptus Poached Pear with Dacquoise & Cake

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Lemon 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.

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Spago Desserts

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Spago is an over-the-top Las Vegas restaurant (owned by Wolfgang Puck), so naturally all the desserts in this book are deliciously outrageous as well. I have made quite a few recipes from this book, and don’t have even a minor … Read More »

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4 Tarts and a Mousse Cake

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Today I created 5 desserts for the Club’s regular dessert tray – this is how they looked in the kitchen, before they were plated. This is my first try at photoing pastries in a commercial kitchen under bad lighting – … Read More »

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French pastry: Tradition and evolution

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‘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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Yvonne Chow marries David Tieu

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location: Shun Feng Seafood Restaurant, Richmond, B.C. (where is that?) photographer: Dan Fontaine, Dan Fontaine Photography guests: 100 Mabel: one tier is Lemon & Fresh Raspberry Bavarian Cake, the other 2 tiers are fake cake . Also served cupcakes -  … Read More »

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