La Creme Patisserie Blog

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.

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.

Camper Van Birthday Cake

Its must be motor week in Neath and Swansea because we have had two very special commissions this week.

One for an 18th Birthday Camper Van Cake and one for a Racing Car 1st Birthday Cake.

We have also had two orders for two very special young ladies who requested Giant Cup Cake Birthday Cakes.

Send us an email [email protected] if you are interested in order a cake and would like to receive a cake brochure.

Swansea Debenham's Wedding Cakes

Today we launched a range of Wedding cakes to be displayed exclusively at the Swansea branch of Debenhams, on the Wedding department. The year long agreement with Debenhams will allow us to have a permanent presence in the store and we will also be able to use the space to showcase cakes for other occasions such as Birthdays, Christenings and Anniversaries.

If you are visiting Debenhams check out the cakes on the Wedding department and pick up a leaflet.

 

Cup Cakes with roses and lillie's

Cup cakes are definitely the height of current fashion in Wedding Cakes.

Sian latest creations were cup cakes decorated with roses and Lillie's for a Welsh bride and groom, who were getting married in West Wales.

As a Wedding display, it looked absolutely stunning.
 

New desserts for la Parrilla

Menu change again at La Parrilla in Swansea with two new desserts coming onto the menu.

The first is an individual Apple Crumble Cheesecake which was our entry to this years Welsh True Taste awards.

And the second is a real winter dessert - la creme individual sticky toffee pudding.

So if you are eating out at La Parrilla on SA1 make sure to leave some room for the desserts.

They are la creme.
 

Banqueting Desserts for The Towers

The Towers Hotel in Swansea were holding a banquet last week and they asked us to make 140 Chocolate desserts and 140 Strawberry desserts for the event.

We supply a number of hotels, restaurants and wedding & banqueting venues across South Wales with our individual desserts as well as a number of deli's and coffee shops.

Send us an email [email protected] if you would like further information.

 

Lemony Desserts for October Swansea Life Magazine

The October edition of Swansea Life magazine was released today, complete with Sian's recipes for lemony desserts.

Tarte au Citron, lemon & blackberry drizzle sponge and lemon meringue pie.

Click on this link to Download All desserts lemony.

We also had a mention in the magazine about supplying our desserts to So Cocoa Chocolate shop in Mumbles and we are making the wedding cake for Swansea artist Laura Bishop, who is featured talking about her Winter Wedding which is taking place in the King Arthur Hotel in Reynoldston in December.

Laura's cake will have four tiers with different flavour sponges and different fillings in each. Check out our Wedding gallery to see examples of our contemporary wedding cake designs and if you like what you see give Sian a ring on 01639 813166 to arrange a free consultation.