There's more than pastries really...
March, 2010
Chocolate Lace & Caramel Spider
Striped Chocolate Cup
Butterscotch Birthday Cake
Techniques from: Bo Friberg
March, 2010
Chocolate Lace & Caramel Spider
Chantilly cream, maraschino cherry, chocolate cigarettes.
Techniques from: Bo Friberg
March, 2010
Striped Chocolate Cup
Chocolate Cup garnished with butterscotch Swiss butter cream & butterscotch ganache. Chocolate cigarettes. Caramel layer. Maraschino Cherry.
Techniques from: Bo Friberg
March, 2010Butterscotch Birthday CakeChiffon Sponge Cake garnished with butterscotch Swiss butter cream & butterscotch ganache. Almond paste rose & sign. Chocolate cigarettes. Caramel layer. Cointreau syrup.Base recipe from: Bo FribergThe design is mine :)
March, 2010
Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Chiffon Sponge Cake garnished with chocolate Swiss butter cream. Raspberry & Blackberry. Grand Marnier Liquor...
Recipe from: Bo Friberg The design is mine :)
February, 2010
Chestnut Puzzle Cake
Chiffon Sponge Cake (regular + Chocolate) garnished with Swiss butter cream (Chocolate + Chestnut puree) and Frangelico liqueur.
Improvement: - Circle should be 10in diameter; not 9. - Layers should be 12mm, not 16mm thick - More chestnut to match the chocolate flavor. - More moister to make it easier on the diagonal.
Recipe from: Bo Friberg
February, 2010
Faubourg Pavé
Chocolate cake garnished with a salted caramel chocolate ganache. One of them is garnished with apricots and the other one is just chocolate.
Recipe from: Pierre Hermé
February, 2010
Chicken Parmigiana
Mozzarella and Parmesan over breaded chicken, Linguini & homemade tomato sauce.
January, 2010
Macaron
Chocolate Macarons, Orange "Tuiles"
January, 2010
Mozart
Layers of cinnamon dough & chocolate mouse with caramelized apple.
Recipe from: Pierre Hermé
January, 2010
Poached Pear and Walnut Tart
Recipe from: Pierre Hermé
January, 2010
Chaussons aux Pommes
Filled with "Twenty-Hour Apple" - Recipe from Pierre Hermé
January, 2010
Pastries
Chocolate Milles-feuilles
Puff pastry dough folded with cacao - Double vanilla pastry cream mixed with whipped cream.
Recipe from: Pierre Hermé
January, 2010
Pastries
Éclairs chocolat, choux café, milles feuilles, paris-brest, polonaises, petit choux pralinés, brioches suisses, brioches et meringues.
January, 2010
Wedding Cake
Nougatine, Choux garnis (noisette), Meringue Suisse, Crême au beurre, rose en sucre et quelques fruits rouges...
October, 2009
Crêpe - Tuna Filet
Sour cream, dill, white pepper & salt, capers, stuffed olives
White butter sauce
October, 2009
Fruit Cake
Okay, that's very basic but for my defense I don't have time to do fancy stuff...
August, 2009
Eclair, Mille feuilles, Polonaises and choux
February, 2009
Double Chocolate Cookies
I found this recipe browsing around and I thought I would try it; works great.
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/food/la-fo-sos14-2009jan14,0,1370637.story
February, 2009
Double Chocolate Cookies
I found this recipe browsing around and I thought I would try it; works great.
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/food/la-fo-sos14-2009jan14,0,1370637.story
April, 2009
Petit Choux
April, 2009
Petit Choux
March, 2009
Elephant Ears
April, 2009
Flan
I added quite a bit of sour cream in the batter and it works.
March, 2009
Flan
March, 2009
Flan
March, 2009
Friands
March, 2009
Friands
March, 2009
St Honoré
March, 2009
St Honoré
April, 2009
Swiss Meringue
April, 2009
Tartelette
January 20th, 2009
Paris Brest
January 20th, 2009
Paris Brest
January 17th, 2009
Tart - Chocolate & Citrus
January 4th, 2009
Swiss Brioche
January 4th, 2009
Mille Feuilles
January 4th, 2009
Mille Feuilles
October 17th, 2007
Strawberry Pie
October 12th, 2007
Quiche aux lard
October 5th, 2007
Eclairs and Choux
October 4th, 2007
Croissants
January 27th - "No reason whatsoever" Party
(from left/ top to bottom/right) (Leftover the next day...)
Swiss Brioche
Friands
Eclairs
Mille Feuilles
Polonaises (Filling: Pastry Cream, Candy Fruit & Tangerine Vodka)
Pizzas
Chocolates (Anis, Coffee, Walnut, Pecan nut, Coconut, Toffee)
January, 27th 2007
July 22nd - Summer Party
(from left to right)
Milles Feuilles
Gāteau Lorain (Brioche base top with coconut & sugar with Pastry Cream and Italian Meringue filling)
Meringue (Almond)
Polonaises (strawberry, Cherries, Pineapple)
Chocolates (Ganache filling "Anis", "Rum/nuts", "Kalhua", "rum/coconut")
Cake Pineapple / Apple (Calvados
July, 22nd 2006
Fraisier
Absolutely decadent;
Strawberry jam, butter cream, Strawberries, white chocolate ganache (grand marnier) and Italian Meringue...
June, 27th 2006
Būche
Chocolate Ganache & chocolate butter cream
December, 11th 2005
December Party 2005 :-)
Gāteau Lorrain
Tartelettes Amandine
Polonaises
Mille Feuilles
Savarins
and some "Strawberry" Meringues...
December, 9th 2005
Būche
Hazelnut meringue & chocolate butter cream
November, 24th 2005
Mille Feuilles
November, 15th 2005
Halloween Party - October, 28th 2005
Brioches, Savarin, Chocolats, Polonaises, éclair & choux, Forźt noire.
Savarin
(Rum cake)
August, 5th 2005
Chocolate Cake with whipped cream and cherries topped with ganache (white chocolate / Grand Marnier)
Eclair & Choux
Chocolate (hazelnut filling / white ganache)
February, 25th 2005
January, 23rd 2005
Christmas "Būche"
Admittedly, I'm a little late...
No time to put colors on the mushrooms...as usual work gets in the way on me baking pastries :-(
January, 13th 2005
Chocolate
- Almond / Cooked sugar
- Amaretto Liquor
Bad thing about working with chocolate is that the last thing on earth you want to eat when you're done is chocolate.
January, 9th 2005
Pithivier
November, 20 2004
November, 12 2004
Pineapple cake
November, 12 2004
Strawberry cake
Taste pretty good - I'm not sure about the color though... more pastel next time.
October, 29 2004