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Meredith’s Brock House wedding cake

laurie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:04:03 +0000

Sunday, August 23, 2009

location: Brock House Restaurant, Vancouver (where is that?)

Black & White (Chocolate/vanilla) with fresh raspberries, and 2 individual chocolate spelt cakes

Rosana and Raymond’s Wedding Cake

laurie — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:17:18 +0000

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 two middle tiers are fake, and the 4th tier is chocolate and vanilla with fresh raspberries. Yum!!!

location: University Golf Club, Vancouver (where is that?)

1st tier – Carmelita (Caramel mousse and Chocolate Mousse layered in chocolate cake)

2nd & 3rd tier – fake cake

4th tier – black & white with fresh raspberries (chocolate & vanilla)

Thank you Rosana and Raymond! You can see another picture of this cake here

Silva – Braun Wedding (photos by Sherri Koop)

laurie — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:16:56 +0000

Vanessa & Mike Braun have shared some photos of their Sweet Thea cake with us -

photo credit: Sherri Koop, Sherri Koop Photography, www.sherrikoop.com

The top is a 6 inch black & white cake with fresh raspberries (chocolate & vanilla); the formal wear on the ‘Charlie Brown & Lucy’ topping was hand-made by a member of Vanessa’s family!

photo credit: Sherri Koop, Sherri Koop Photography, www.sherrikoop.com

Their happy guests chose between two kinds of cupcakes, Coconut Angelfood with passionfruit icing, and Chocolate with raspberry icing – Yum!

photo credit: Sherri Koop, Sherri Koop Photography, www.sherrikoop.com

Vanessa Silva marries Mike Braun

date: September 6. 2008

location: Coal Harbor Community Centre, Vancouver (Where is that?)

guests: 100

photos: Sherri Koop Sherri Koop Photography

photo credit: Sherri Koop, Sherri Koop Photography, www.sherrikoop.com

Just the beginning of a wonderful marriage!

Emily & John’s Hart House Wedding (photos by Barbara Casey)

laurie — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:09:19 +0000

Barbara Casey from “I Do!” Wedding Photography sent us these photos from the wedding of Emily Scott and John Peterson, last summer. The cake is black and white with fresh raspberries, and two layers of marzipan cake. Marzipan and chocolate icing. Yum!

Photo credit: Barbara Casey, "I Do!" Wedding Photography. www.idoweddingphotography.ca

Location: The Hart House, Burnaby (where is that?)

guests: 55

photographer: Barbara Casey, “I Do!” Wedding Photography

Photo credit: Barbara Casey, "I Do!" Wedding Photography. www.idoweddingphotography.ca

This week’s goodies!

thea — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Today at the Club I had a lot of desserts to prepare, and happily had the time to be a bit creative. I always try to make everything from scratch with fresh ingredients (ah memories of Sooke Harbor House!) and today was no exception. I made these for our daily dessert cart:

Rhubarb Tart with Orange Vanilla Custard and Almond Streusel (30 servings)
Citrus Panna Cotta with Raspberry Gellee and Field Berries (20 servings)
Poached Pear & Caramel Cream Charlottes (20 servings)
Chocolate Caramel Tartlets with Maldon Sea Salt & gold flakes (140 servings)
Lemon Tarts with slivered pistachio (25 servings)
Fresh Raspberries set in Raspberry Champagne Jelly with Milk Chocolate Mousse and Crispy Chocolate Pearls (40 servings)

Here are some photos:

Fresh Raspberries set in Raspberry Champagne Jelly with Milk Chocolate Mousse and Crispy Chocolate Pearls

Chocolate Caramel Tartlets with Maldon Sea Salt & gold flakes

Citrus Panna Cotta with Raspberry Gellee and Field Berries

Lemon Tarts with slivered pistachio

Poached Pear & Caramel Cream Charlottes

Rhubarb Tarts with Orange Vanilla Custard and Almond Streusel

have a great weekend everybody!

Thea

4 Tarts and a Mousse Cake

thea — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:54:26 +0000

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 – sorry about the quality, I am sure a little practice will improve my photos!

MAPLE PECAN TART
with the flakiest crust you can imagine! What makes them especially delicious is using maple syrup, instead of corn syrup, for the tart – yum!!! Maple syrup, pecans, brown sugar, eggs and butter.

APPLE ALMOND STREUSEL TART
Melt-in-your-mouth! A delicious crumble topping (without oats), with finely ground almonds, butter, flour and sugar..

ESPRESSO-LACED MILK CHOCOLATE MOUSSE CAKE
The milk chocolate mousse is layered with a rich marzipan chocolate cake, thin thin layers finished with a silky chocolate glaze

FRUIT TARTS with VANILLA PASTRY CREAM
Raspberries or Blackberries (fresh, from Mexico). The pastry shells are painted with chocolate, so the moisture of the cream doesn’t make the pastry soggy. Delicious. (Some bakeries call these tarts ‘flan’, but they really aren’t, as there is no frangipan used). The berries are coated in an apricot glaze, to preserve their freshness and give that nice shine, then decorated with gold flakes.

LEMON TARTS with SILVERED PISTACHIOS
Classic dessert! No need to get fancy with this recipe – nothing to improve!

Jennifer Scherbakov wedding

laurie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:00:00 +0000

Venue: Sequoia Grill at the Teahouse, Vancouver (where is that?)
Black & White with Fresh Raspberries

Jennifer Lynett marries Peter Lolley

laurie — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:00:00 +0000

location: Galiano Inn, Galiano Island, BC (where is that?)

guests: 70

Chocolate cake

2 tiers with Raspberry Mousse

1 tier with Bavarian Cream with Raspberries

Jennifer Keefe marries Andrew Clauson

laurie — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0000

A beautiful and inspiring cake, for a beautiful and inspiring couple….

Location: The Hart House, Burnaby (where is that?)

Photographer: Sarah Johnson

Guests: 60

photo credit: Sweet Thea

1st and 3rd tiers are black & white with fresh raspberries (chocolate & vanilla)

middle tier is passionfruit

Teal fondant with periwinkle and green piping – flowers, leaves, and swirls

photo credit: Sweet Thea

Gisella Ripolo marries Paul Carvalho

laurie — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0000

location: Hellenic Community Center, Vancouver (where is that?)

guests: 300

photographer: David Custodio

photo credit: Sweet Thea

Orchid Cascade:

4th tier Black & White with fresh Raspberries (chocolate & vanilla)

other tiers are fake cake

Slab cake served for 300.

photo credit: Sweet Thea

Hi Thea,

Thanks for making such a gorgeous cake. I received so many compliments about how the cake was light and delicious at the same time. .. Thanks again.

Gisella

photo credit: Sweet Thea