La Creme Patisserie Blog

Sunday Garden Party Desserts

Last sunday was a fabulous day for a garden party. The sun was shining everybody had a smile on their face.

Gina and Paul asked us to supply savoury canapes, a selection of salads and lots of desserts for a party they were hosting at their home in Rhos, near Swansea.

The savoury canapes they choose included vegetable spring rolls, onion bajias, lamb samosas, thai chicken skewers, chicken tikka satay skewers, chicken caesar shots and goats cheese tarts.

For salads they choose Greek salad, Pasta salad, Cous cous salad and fresh coleslaw.

Desserts included dessert cups, cup cakes and whoopie pies for the children. For the adults we supplied our Banoffee Cheesecake, Black forest Roulade, Strawberry fresh fruit Gateau and a Fresh Fruit Meringue Pavlova.

We had lovely feedback from Paul when he returned the cake stands on Monday morning to say that the desserts "stole the show" and that they must book us for their next party in September.

It is always a lovely start to a monday morning when you have such positive feedback.

R2D2 Birthday Cake

William is 6 this weekend and for his Birthday he wanted a R2D2 Cake.

As adults who grew up in the era of Rocky and Star Wars this was a fantastic cake to make.

"May the force be with you"

We are getting more and more requests for novelty cakes and next week it is the turn of the Power Rangers.

 

Strawberry Bavoris for The Scarlets

Last Saturday the Scarlets held their end of season dinner for 370 guests at Parc y Scarlets stadium in Llanelli.

We were asked to supply the dessert and they choose a Strawberry Bavoris, which they asked if we could dress up to look like a saucepan.

What do you think?

Can you see a saucepan? or as my daughter remarked "a cake with a flake sticking out of the side".

We can cater for all size banqueting and wedding functions, with individual fresh desserts supplied on the day. Send us an email with your enquiry [email protected]

 

Whoopie Pies

Following on from Cupcakes, the latest craze from America is terms of cake and sweet treats is Whoopie Pie... The cupcake craze swept the whole of Britain with the humble cupcake becoming the height of fashion.  In London, there are whole shops dedicated to cupcakes of all varieties and flavours.  According to cake fashionistas, the whoopie pie is set to take on the mantle in the future.

   

So what is it ? Whoopie Pie looks like a giant Oreo cookie and is two mound shaped chocolate cakes, sandwiched together with a creamy marshmallow filling.

The history of Whoopie Pie is very interesting, traced back to New England, the Pie is an Amish Tradition.  Apparently, Amish women would make the pies and pack them into their families lunch-boxes.  When the husbands, and children opened their box, if they found a sweet treat, they would shout “Whoopie !”

Whoopie Pies are about as big as a hamburger and are best eaten with a glass of milk.  They consist of 2 soft chocolate cookies made with vegetable shortening, not butter, then filled with “Marshmallow Fluff” (which is available in supermarkets, on the jams aisle.)

Follow the attached link if you like to download a copy of Sian's recipe for Whoopie Pies which appeared in one of the spring editions of the South Wales Evening Post.

 Download Whoopie Pie by Sian Hindle

 

 

Cakes, Cakes, Cakes

Another busy week in cakeland.

Top of shop this week was a gardening cake for a lady who was celebrating her 70th birthday. The cake came complete with flowers and family cat.

Then we have a 21st Birthday Cake decorated in pink with a large 21 on top and lots of butter-cream!

Followed by two 18th Birthday cakes - both for boys.

One shaped in 18 with blue decoration and the other a chocolate cake with chocolate decorations.

 

On the patisserie side we made our biggest Black Forest Gateau ever for a party of 100 held at the Woodman pub in Swansea.

and a strawberry gateau for a private party.

This is just a selection of our cake orders for last week.

In total we supplied over 2,000 pieces of cake and dessert for restaurants, hotels and coffee shops across South Wales last weekend.

Busy, busy, busy in Cakeland !!!!

  

Handbag,Shoes & Boxing Gloves

Two unique cakes this week. One for a young lady celebrating her 18th Birthday and one for young gentleman celebrating his 21st.

Lilac handbag with pink shoes edged diamante diamonds.

The second cake is a celebration of boxing.

Individually designed cakes for special occasions.