La Creme Patisserie Blog

Wedding Cake for famous Swansea Bride & Groom

This week we have made an amazing Wedding Cake plus Wedding Desserts for a famous Swansea bride and groom. The cake is a 5 tier chocolate cake and for dessert we have made chocolate mousse served in a chocolate tulip cup decorated with a strawberry.

 

Fortunately help was in hand. This week we have had a pupil from Bryntawe School at La Creme on work placement. The girls name was Rhian and she came to spend a week with us to experience first hand what it like to work in "Cake Land". Rhian was very conscientious and hard working. Again just like Bradders before her she was a credit to her school and her family.

These are pictures of Rhian at work filling the tulip cup desserts with chocolate sponge prior to piping in the chocolate mousse.

  

 

More about who the famous Bride and Groom are next week. The Wedding is being covered by the Swansea press so keep watching ......

Birthday Party Cup Cakes

Latest cup cakes from La Creme are for a 16th Birthday Celebration with a giant cup cake topper, an 18th Birthday Party and a Red & Black themed Birthday Party.

  

The 18th Birthday party

 

Lynne's Red & Black themed cup cakes

 

Visit our patisserie in Neath to see more examples of our cup cakes and award winning patisserie.

Welsh True Taste Awards Dilemma

This week, the entries for the Welsh True Taste Awards had to be submitted for judging. We had a real dilemma trying to decide which products to enter.

Finally after much trialling we decided on a baked cheesecake with vodka soaked raisins. The problem was - What do we top it with?

Should we go for Rhubarb or Apple Crumble topping. Both tasted amazing. The staff were split down the middle, the customers in the patisserie were undecided and even Wayne and Nigel from CGL couldn't make up their mind.

Simple answer was to toss a coin.

In true X factor style      -       the winner is .........

 

Apple Crumble

Dwr-y-felin work placement week

Where ever you have gone in Neath this week you will have seen children from Dwr-y-felin School on work placement. Monday morning Neath businesses were awash with young and eager talent on a mission to find out what it means to "go to work".

We have all done it. The reality is that work placements can be really boring. The old saying of "what you put in,determines what you get out " is very relevant and especially with teenagers as it can sometimes be difficult for them to communicate with adults in an unfamiliar environment.

Our trainee was called Bradley. Sian had asked Bradley to think of a cake he would like to make during the week. Days 1 & 2 Bradley mucked in with the cleaning and the washing up to get a feel for how hard it is working in a catering environment. Days 3,4 & 5 Bradleys creative talents were challenged and this is the cake he made.

 

We think that it is amazing - truly exceptional for a first attempt. It took Bradley 2 days to complete and in the end we had to shout the La Creme warning "Step away from the Cake".

As well as completing his task he also helped Sian make a number of other orders for this weekend including a Mickey Mousse Cake.

It was an absolute pleasure working with Bradley this past week. His manners and work ethic were first class and he fitted in as part of the team doing whatever was asked of him. He is a credit to his family and his school and with his great attitude he will go a long way in life.

 To download Bradley's initial cake brief click on the following link Download Bradley's Cake ideas