La Creme Patisserie Blog

Evening Post Business of the Month for December

Tuesday this week, we were taken out to lunch at the Marriott Hotel in Swansea to be awarded the title of South Wales Evening Post Business of the Month for December.

We were both honoured to accept the award on behalf of all our staff who have work so hard this year to make La Creme Patisserie a success story.

Council Leader visits La Creme

We had a very special visitor to our Centre of Excellence on the Baglan Moors in Port Talbot today. The Leader of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, Ali Thomas, called in to see how our new unit was progressing and to offer his support and encouragement for all our future ventures.

Accompanying the Leader were members of the Economic Development department for NPT Council, who had been instrumental in helping our business over the last 3 years. The leader commented how please he was to see the ongoing success of our business. He also thanked the economic development team for the great work they are doing to support and promote economic prosperity in the region.

As a parting gift we gave Ali a box of our Great Taste Award Winning Frangipane Mince Pies.

He has promised to spread the word about how good they are.
 

Fairtrade desserts for The Towers

The Towers Hotel in Swansea played host to the NPT Environment Awards on Friday 20th November hosted by TV presenter Iolo Williams.

We were asked to provide Fairtrade desserts for the award banquet and Sian came up with two fabulous creations.

The first was a Banoffee Cheesecake. A layer of biscuit, topped with a banana cheesecake, toffee sauce, Fairtrade bananas from Ghana, dusted with Divine Chocolate and a chocolate piece made from Callebaut Fairtrade couverture.

The second was a Mocha Chocolate Mousse Gateau. Chocolate sponge made using Fairtrade cocoa powder, mocha mousse made with fairtrade Coffee and Couverture, dusted with cocoa and decorated with chocolate coffee beans and a chocolate piece made with Fairtrade couverture.

Other ingredients included locally sourced cream from Ty Tanglwyst dairy farm in Cornelly which goes from Cow to cheesecake within 24hours and free range eggs from Old Castle Farm in Tonna.

As a business we strongly believe in using local ingredients in our products and we work hard to support local food producers and encourage the general public to buy from and support local businesses wherever possible.

We are delighted to supply desserts to the Towers Hotel and we appreciate their commitment to buy locally sourced products.

Wedding cake for Canada Lodge

Canada Lodge is a stone built lodge sitting in private grounds overlooking Canada Lake. It can be found on the outskirts of Creigiau village, a few miles northwest of Cardiff and a few miles from J34 of the M4. It is a most beautiful venue for a Wedding Ceremony and this weekend it played host to the Wedding of Alun and Anna.

Alun & Anna choose a 3 tier ivory wedding cake with their names hand written across the cake in autumn orange.

We also made chocolate truffle Wedding Favours for the adults and chocolate lollipops for the children.

Check out our Wedding cake gallery to see more examples of our contemporary Wedding Cake designs.

 
 

Contemporary Wedding Show at Liberty Stadium

Our latest exhibition took us to the Contemporary Wedding Show at The Liberty Stadium in Swansea on Sunday 15th November. There was a large crowd all day long and Sian, Tonya & Melania were all "caked out" at the end of the day.

The stand looked amazing and there was lots of interest from brides to be. The show seemed to attract people from all across South Wales including Llanelli, Swansea, neath, Port Talbot, Bridgend and Porthcawl.

If anyone is interested in booking a consultation, then either send an email to [email protected] or telephone the patisserie on 01639 638574. 

Don't delay - ring today - because we are fast booking up for next year.

Saturday Night Takeaway to resume

After the amazing success of the Neath Food & Drink Festival and the fabulous reaction to Sian's cookery demonstrations we have decided to resume supplying food in our patisserie with immediate effect.

So to all those people who have been petitioning us over the last two months - we have listened and you can stop writing in.....

As well as supplying our daily specials, we have also decided to resume our Weekend Takeaway Menu for the next 2 months leading up to Christmas.

The menu for w/e 14th November is as follows :

 

Starter : Goats Cheese Tartlet with Walnut Salad

Main: Chicken Breast wrapped in Parma Ham, in a tomato and tarragon sauce

Dessert : Tiramisu

Price £12.50 per head

 

In order to avoid disappointment we ask all our customers to order in advance if possible although a limited supply will be available on the day.

Download Saturday night takeaway 14th November 09

Wedding Cake and Daleks

A surprise was in store for us when we delivered our latest Wedding Cake creation to Margam Orangery last friday.

Sian had made a 3 tier ivory wedding cake with ivory roses and diamante diamonds. The room had been decorated with an autumn theme and the cake looked amazing in the beautiful Orangery setting.

Having set up the cake our eye was drawn to a movement at the end of the room. Sian went to investigate and before we knew what was happening she had been stunned....

 Rest assured the effects were only temporary and Sian has suffered no permanent damage.

Luckily there was a doctor in the house.