La Creme Patisserie Blog

Wedding Cake for Fairyhill and desserts for The Village Hotel

We have just received the most delightful feedback on a Wedding cake we supplied for a bride and groom who got married at the Fairyhill Hotel in Gower on the 5th September and for Wedding desserts we supplied for their evening function held at The Village Hotel Swansea on 13th September.

  The Wedding cake was a two tier chocolate cake decorated with chocolate cigarello's and chocolate roses. 

The email we received read as follows :

"Thank you so much for the cakes you provided myself and Owen for our Wedding on the 5th and our Wedding party on the 13th september. As soon as I saw my cake I almost cried, it really exceeded my expectations, whereas Owen just licked his lips! As well as looking stunning our cake was also delicious and not one of my guests failed to tell me! You also kindly provided all my desserts for our party on Saturday which again, were absolutely gorgeous and went down a storm.

I can't tell you enough how happy I was with everything you provided for me and I look forward to using you in the future as will many of my friends and family."

Thanks again, Lucy Lock

For the evening function Lucy and Owen ordered 150 individual cheesecakes in three flavours :

  Raspberry Cheesecake

  Chocolate Cheesecake, and

  Banoffee Cheesecake

It is always very rewarding to get personal feedback and you feel honoured to have played a small part in creating the perfect day.

Wedding cake for Peterstone Court, Brecon

Sian's latest Wedding cake creation was a croquembouche for wedding reception at Peterstone Court in Brecon. The croquembouche was decorated with orange lillies and look fabulous as the centre piece decoration for the Wedding breakfast.

 

The croquembouche was not designed to be eaten but instead the bride ordered 60 mini profiteroles covered with caramel and decorated with orange chocolate pieces.

 

Take a look at our Wedding Cake gallery to see more of Sian's creations.

If you are considering ordering a cake then ring Sian on 01639 638574 to book an appointment.

La Parrilla on SA1 start selling La Creme Desserts

La Parilla is a stylish, waterside restaurant located in a former grade II listed warehouse called J shed in Swansea'a up and coming SA1 district. The restaurant is owned by the same people who own La Braseria in wine street - probably Swansea's most famous restaurant. The decor at La Parrilla is amazing designed by Thomas Parry Design. The food and the wine are first class and now starting from Saturday 28th June, La Creme Patisserie will exclusively be supplying the desserts as the perfect finalle for the meal.

We have been asked to develop a desserts menu specifically for La Parrilla and Sian has come up with the following:

La Creme chocolate and amaretto truffle torte.

This is a dense chocolate truffle cake with a crunchy amaretti base, flavoured with Amaretto and decorated with a painted chocolate piece.

This is an extremley rich dessert for serious Chocoholics.

Creme Catalan.

This is the Spanish equilvalent of the French Classic Creme Brulee. 

The difference being that Creme Brulle is Vanilla flavoured and Creme Catalan is Lemon and Cinnamon flavoured.

Blackcurrant Bavarois

This is a vanilla sponge base, with Blackcurrant flavour mousse and a vanilla sponge top.

This is finished with a blackcurrant licquer gel, cream and fresh raspberries.

Vanilla & Raspberry Cheesecake

Digestive biscuit base, topped with vanilla cheesecake, rippled with raspberry gel and decorated with fresh raspberries and raspberry coulis.

Pear Frangipane Tart

Sweet pastry, filled with poached pears and frangipane filling.

Glazed with apricot jam, flaked almonds and drizzled with chocolate.

The perfect served warm with cream.

So remember the next time you dine at La Parrilla to leave some room for the dessert.

Croquembouche La Creme Style

Sian was asked to produce a croquembouche as a Birthday and retirement cake for a gentleman who was retiring from the royal engineers. A croquembouche is a traditional French patisserie dessert made up of choux buns filled with creme patisserie. Traditionally it is held together by caramel but in this case the request was for white chocolate. Sian decorated the cake with toy soldiers and barbed wired to give the cake the look of "no mans land".

If you watch the following video you can see how Sian made the croquembouche.

With over 400 choux buns individually filled, this dessert popular with Weddings is very time consuming to make but makes a spectular centre piece. It also tastes fantastic.

More examples of Sian's award winning cakes and Wedding cakes can be seen on our website.

Raspberry Mousse Gateau - La Creme style

Sian produced this cake yesterday for a customer and I think visually it is world class.

Its a raspberry mousse gateau decorated with fresh raspberries, chocolate pieces and the most vibrant raspberry gel.

What do you think?

No wonder Sian was voted one of the top three patissiers in the UK at last years British Bakery awards.

If anyone out there would like to make a comment on this picture please follow the link below.

The best thing is that is tastes as good as it looks. Absolutely delicious.

Patisserie for the mayors inauguration by la creme

Friday 16th May, La Creme Patisserie supplied 500 pieces of patisserie for the Swansea Lord mayors inauguration at the Brangwyn Hall. We also supplied 300 pieces of patisserie for the Neath Port Talbot mayors inauguration on the same day held at the princess royal thearte Port Talbot. The photos below show some of the products supplied :

Chocolate cups filled with chocolate ganche and decorated with painted white chocolate.

Lemon merangue bite size patisserie

Chocolate profiteroles

  Raspberry and cream patisserie

Jam and cream mini patisserie scones

Raspberry Kisses

Mini patisseries are available to order from the shop.

The cakes are perfect for small tea parties or for large corporate events.

There are lots of different cakes to choose from but please give us plenty of notice.

Sex in the City cup cakes from la creme

Following the release of the new Sex in the City film Neath has gone cup cake crazy. Last saturday the Daily Mail ran an article about how one of the stars of the show had sent Victoria Beckham a years supply of cup cakes from the patisserie featured in the film. Following on from this, we were asked if we would like to appear on S4C on Wedi 7 at 7.00pm on Thursday 22nd May to talk about our cup cakes. As neither Sian or I are welsh speaking one of our chefs called Barbara volunteered to be infront of camera. She did brilliantly.

The following video is a short clip of me filming them, filming us and Sian talking about our cup cakes.

The story has also been picked up by the Evening Post Newspaper who came to our patisserie on friday to film a short clip for their blog and to take some pictures of La Creme to feature in Monday nights edition of the newspaper.

Its been a long week. Not only have we had some great publicity but we have also made lots of cake.

We made 500 pieces of patisserie on Friday for the Swansea Lord Mayors inauguration at the Brangwyn Hall, 300 pieces of patisserie and 50 choux swans for the Neath Port Talbot mayors inauguration, 100 Caramel & banana bavoise for a corporate event at the Dylan Tomas centre and 75 individually decorated raspberry cheesecakes for a wedding at Margam Orangery.

All this as well as 2 wedding cakes and 12 birthday cakes.

So Cocoa in Mumbles start supplying La Creme Cakes.

Situated in the back streets of Mumbles, in the former house of Captain Dunn is  So Cocoa, Chocolate shop.

This little gem is stuffed full of fabulous and unusual chocolates and has recently started supplying desserts and cakes from La Creme Patisserie.

As the only independent chocolate shop in the Swansea area, So Cocoa speciases in gourmet and luxury chocolates, including some hand made in Wales.

With brands such as Rococoa, Damian Allsop and Charbonnel et Walker, owner Sian Thomas provides only the very best.

Damian Allsop's water-based range, H2O, provides a healthy alternative to dairy based chocolates.

Customers can choose their own selection of delicious Belgian chocolates for gifts or personal treats.

Sian approached La Creme to see if we would be interested in supplying Wedding Cakes because she has lots of enquires and the relationship has now developed whereby we supply cakes and desserts on a weekly basis.

Customers can choose  from our portfolio either direct from our internet site or from our brochure in store and deliveries can be made to order.

This week we supplied Raspberry Roulades as well Strawberry cheesecakes,

both individual and large size,

and chocolate & Amaretto torte.

 

Coloplast Corporate Cakes

Have you ever wrapped 100 fairy cakes?

A corporate customer of ours called Coloplast are attending an exhibition and the Rep Cath Curran has asked us to provide corporate gift boxes packed with a fairy cake. The cakes were iced in the company colours of blue & gold and decorated with the company logo. Cath is very innovative with her thinking and she has often used our cakes as gifts for her customers there by setting herself apart from her competitors. The cakes supplied will be displayed on a tower stand.

Take a look at the following video to see how the display looks on film :

This idea of a small cake, gift packaged in a box will work equally as well as a Wedding Gift/Favour.

More examples of our award winning cakes can be seen on our website.

Ivory three tier Chocolate Wedding Cake

Following on from Sian's success being voted one of the top three patissiers in the UK last September, Sian has been in-undated with requests from brides for her to produce their Wedding cakes. Sian's skill is in working with chocolate and brides looking for more contemporary designs and ideas have been flocking to La Creme to work with Sian to develop their dream cake. Sian's lastest creation was an ivory three tier chocolate Wedding cake.

Take a look at the following video to see the cake in detail.