La Creme Patisserie Blog

Raspberry Bavois for the Brangwyn Hall

Wednesday 26th November 2008 and the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea played hosted to the 2008 Swansea Bay Woman of the Year Awards. Last year Sian was one of the finalists in the business section but this year we didn't get to go to the ball - instead we provided the desserts. 400 desserts Raspberry Bavois in fact, each individually handmade.

 Take a look at the video.

We supply our handmade individual desserts to numerous restaurants, hotels and banqueting venues across South Wales. If you would like more details then please send us an email [email protected] or telehone the shop on 01639 638574

La Creme Christmas Cakes

The La Creme Christmas Cake catalogue is now available with lots of fabulous desserts to order from. We anticipate closing the order books by 15th December so please do not leave it too late to order. We have limited supply especially for our award winning frangipane mince pies.

La Creme Iced Fruit Christmas Cake

 

The full catalogue can be download in pdf format from the following link.

Download christmas_2008.pdf

As well as cakes we also have available chutneys, chocolate truffles and a selection of Christmas savoury and dessert canapes.

If you are thinking of hosting a party this Christmas why not let La Creme take the stress out of cooking by ordering a La Creme Takeaway. Perfect for that romantic meal for two or for entertaining friends, the La Creme Takeaway is supplied with simple warming instructions and we can tailor the menu exactly to your requirements.

Please send us an email with your requirements or ring Sian on 01639 638574

La Creme Mini Dessert Cups

Great alternative to large desserts - why not order La Creme Mini Dessert Cups for your next party. Available in a variety of flavours and beautifully displayed on our dessert tower, the cups are a fantastic centre piece for any event you are holding, either private or corporate.

We have supplied these desserts for weddings, for birthdays and for prom nights. People have bought small boxes of ten as gifts for family and friends. They are perfect as dessert canapes for large corporate functions or for that Christmas party you may be planning. Just don't leave it too late to order.

 

Owen Martell and S4C visit La Creme

S4C rang us this week to see if they could use our patisserie as a venue to film an interview with the welsh author Owen Martell. They even paid a location fee!!. If only we could speak Welsh we could have given you a sneak preview of what was being said.

At least Sain managed to get a picture with Owen Martell and the presenter outside the shop.

Welsh Assembly and Castell Howell Food Fair

Wednesday 12th November we took part in a food fair hosted by the Welsh Assembly and Castell Howell in Cardiff. Products we had for sale included our award winning frangipane mince pies, our petit four welsh cakes, chocolate brownies, chocolate truffles and millionaire shortbread. We had lots of interest from the general public and people have taken our business cards away to order our products online for gifts this Christmas.

 

The first person we spoke to in the morning was the Presiding Officer of the Welsh Assembly, Lord Elis-Thomas. He was extremley interested in our products and our business and he wished us every success with our future expansion plans. All day people from the Welsh Assembly kept coming over saying how impressed the PO was with our cakes. Praise indeed.

If you would like to order our products this Christmas then our new website should be operational by the end of November so that you can place your order on-line. In the meantime please send us an email with your request or telephone the patisserie on 01639 638574.

Birthday Cake delivered to La Parrilla,SA1

As well as making the desserts for the La Parrilla, we were recently asked to make a birthday cake for a family celebration to be held at the La Parrilla restaurant in SA1 Swansea.

The customer choose a vanilla Cheesecake with a Champagne and Raspberry topping together with a Happy Birthday plaque. This particular cake was made to serve 26 portions.

 

The customer was so delighted with the cake that he telephoned the next day to thank us and he also sent us the following email :

Hi Sian

The champagne cheesecake you provided for my wife's birthday was fantastic to look at and even better to eat. The staff at La Parrilla restaurant were excitedly talking about the cake before we saw it so we knew we were in for a treat. Perhaps the greatest compliment to your work was the large number of favourable comments made by manu of our 21 guests; "Fantastic!"."Best dessert ever", "Wow! Where did you get it?" were just some of the comments.

In our experience, the pudding course rarely engenders much excitement, but your cake had completely the opposite effect.

Thanks once agian.

If you are holding a party at La Parrilla and are looking for a celebration cake then please take a look at our galleries and send us an email with your enquiry.

Frangipane Mince Pies

Winner of a gold award at the Great Taste Awards 2008, the La Creme Frangipane Mince Pies are avaialble to order in a Gift box of 12 or as individual canape size for Christmas. We will shortly be launching our new website which will include a feature whereby you can buy our products online. In the meantime if you would like to place an order then please send an email or telephone the shop on 01639 638574.

Gift Boxes are priced at £6.00 plus postage.

Award winning La Creme Frangipane Mince Pies

Chocolate Wedding Cake feedback from Neath Bride

When you are making a Wedding Cake it is always nerve racking waiting for the brides approval of your creation. Nice is not good enough - thanks would be a let down - we loved it, is starting to get there - but what you really want is tears of joy.

I recently had this feedback from a Neath bride which is just the type of feedback that makes my job the best in the world.

"Seeing my cake on my special day was the highlight. I had no clue what to expect. My direction to Sian was mad, unique and crazy and this is what she came up with. My husband and I were gobsmacked, we were over the moon with how beautiful and extraordinary it was. Everything we wanted and more. I asked Sian to do my cake as the previous year my mother bought a cake off Sian for my Birthday. I loved my Birthday cake and knew I wanted something like that for my wedding cake. Amazing,beautiful and unique! Plus it had to be chocolate.

Our guests at our wedding were amazed with our cake, everyone I have since shown pictures of the cake to have said one word "WOW". Everyone is competely amazed at the fine detail. A lot of hard work went into making the cake, as you can see! Apart from how amazing the cake looked, it tasted even better. Chocolate cake at its best! Thank you so much Sian for making my day extra special by making the cake of my dreams. It was truely beautiful. Thank you xx"

Making celebration cakes is such a rewarding job. You are there for the happy times in life such as the Wedding or the christening or the birthday.

If you would like to talk to me about making your celebration cake then please ring to make an appointment on 01639 638574 or send me an email [email protected]

We can arrange to meet up and discuss your dream cake and I can make samples for you to try out. I am already taking orders for 2009 and the diary is filling up fast so please don't leave it too late.

This particular cake is called "Jardin du Chocolat" and is priced at £495 for three tiers 12",10" and 8" serving 100-140.