La Creme Patisserie Blog

Great Taste Awards 2010

The results have been published for the 2010 Great Taste Awards and we have just been notified that we have won a Gold Star for our Pear & Ginger Pudding.

This is going to be a fantastic dessert for Christmas served with warm custard (or fresh cream which is my favourite for accompaniment to any dessert).

Pear & Ginger is a perfect combination for a winter dessert and Sian has produced a recipe that really works.

This dessert is definately not just food,  its "Comfort Food"

(You need to say that in an M&S voice for the full effect)

Hungry Caterpillar, Peppa Pig & Sponge Bob

We made some special birthday cakes last weekend with children's characters, Hungry Caterpillar, Peppa Pig and Sponge Bob Square pants.

The lady who ordered the The Hungry caterpillar cake rang us on Monday morning to say that "the cake was amazing. Everybody loved the design and it tasted as good as it looked".

It is always so rewarding when you receive feedback and this particular cake was definitely a favourite of mine.

For the Peppa Pig cake we delivered this to New Dock Stars Clubhouse in Llanelli. The organiser rang to ask for a peppa pig cake and the design she wanted was the design on a child's lunch box which showed Peppa Pig The Brave. Mel was able to download a copy of the image and then she decorated the cake in a patch work quilt style. Needless to say she did an amazing job.

This cake was 10" square, jam and butter-cream madeira cake which serves 50 plus slices.

For Sponge Bob Square Pants, Mel made the figures out of sugar-paste including Patrick and the giant pineapple and decorated the cake with an underwater theme.

If you are looking for a special cake, please send us through your enquiry and we will cost it up for you. You can always arrange to visit our premises in Baglan, Port Talbot if you would like to "talk Cake" and go through your ideas.

September is already going to be very busy for us so please don't leave it too late to order.

Sporty Cup Cakes & Animal Cup Cakes

"Penblywdd Hapus Morgan", eight today.

Morgan is sports mad and his mother asked if we could design some cup cakes to incorporate his favourite sports - Rugby, Football & Golf

Another theme we were asked to create recently was animal character cup cakes.

Next week it is iggly piggly, upsey daisy, hungry caterpillar, peppa pig and sponge bob square pants.

"Novelty cakes r us" 

 

Our latest Wedding Cake creations

Three wedding cake creations last weekend,

delivered to The King Arthur in Reynoldston in the Gower,

Coed-y-Mwstwr Hotel in Bridgend and The Vale Hotel in Hensol. nr Cardiff.

The first wedding cake cake was a three tier ivory cake with diamante diamonds and dark green ribbons with a diamante broach.

The second wedding cake was a three tier white cigarillo cake with pink dusted roses.

The final wedding cake was a 2 tier cake, styled in double height. Each tier was 10" tall and decorated with crystal bands and a swarovski fountain cake topper.

 

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If you are looking to order a Wedding cake, then read

 our Q&A page  for more information.

We will be opening our order book for 2011 Wedding cakes at the start of September.