La Creme Patisserie Blog

40th Birthday Party

Saturday 13th December we were asked to cater a 40th Birthday Party to be held at the St.Athans Commnuity Centre, near Cardiff. Sian devised the most amazing menu for the event, based on the brief that the client wanted as much gluten free alternatives as possible.

To download a copy of the menu in pdf format please follow the attached link Download Birthday Banquet 13 Dec 08

The menu included soups shots, Asian Beef salad shots and prawn cocktail shots.

Goats cheese tartlets, lamb koftas, and main courses of Roasted stuffed peppers and chicken breasts marinated with lemon and fresh herbs, roasted on a bed of caramelised onions and lemon.

Served with wild rice salad,with ginger garlic and pomegranate seeds, potato salad, green salad and fresh bread rolls.

For dessert Sian made a tower of mini desserts including banoffee cheesecake, sherry trifle, tiramisu, raspberry meringues and lemon mousse.

The Birthday cake was a two tier chocolate cake with a painted white chocolate collar and a chocolate Happy Birthday plaque.

It was a fabulous evening and everybody commented on how lovely the food tasted.

If you would like more information about La Creme catering your party then please send us an email [email protected] with your requirements. We supply catering for all events, corporate, business, civic or private functions, including catering for breakfast meetings, directors lunches, private parties or wedding banquets.

Simon is Ace of Cakes

Simon Williams has joined our team at La Creme Patisserie and this is a cake that Simon baked and decorated last week for a customers Birthday. When Sian gave him the brief of a weight lifting theme Simon went away and made up some scale drawings of how he wanted the cake to look. Just like Sian he couldn't leave the cake alone once he got started and eventually he was ordered to "step away from the cake" because in his pursuit of perfection he had put hours and hours into his craft.

This is the first of many - for the new Ace of Cakes.

New Years Eve Takeaway

Why not let La Creme take the stress out of cooking on New Years Eve.

Sian has developed a spectacular menu, which can be simply put together at home to wow your guests.

The food can be collected from the shop on New Years Eve morning and would just require putting in the oven at home and then serving.

This concept was hughly popular last year and we are anticipating a high demand so place book early if you are interested.

The menu is as follows :

La Creme New Years Eve Takeaway

Duck and Pork Terrine

served with fresh bread and La Creme Chutney

*

Fillet of Beef with gratin of mushrooms

Potato & Celeriac Dauphinoise

Green Beans

*

Vodka soaked Raisin and Poppy seed Cheesecake

*

Price per guest £25 (inc VAT)

Please follow the attached link to download a copy of this menu.Download New Years Takeaway 08

If you would like to order the takeaway or speak to Sian about a vegetarian alternative then please telephone the shop on 01639 638574 or email [email protected]

 

 

La Creme Centre of Excellence

Breaking News :

Friday 5th December we finally signed to purchase our new manufacturing unit on the Baglan Moors - The La Creme Centre of Excellence.

 

We are hoping to be operational mid March 2009 and you can follow the progress on our blog pages over the coming months.

The plans are for a magnificent Wedding Cake studio and we intend to run cookery courses and hold cookery demostrations from the centre. It will also be a working kitchen from where we will supply the most exquisite desserts for the finest venues in the area and eventually supply a chain of our own patisserie's across South Wales.

Our patisserie shop in Neath will remain open to serve the general public and we will use the unit to supply desserts to restaurants, hotels, coffee shops, banqueting and conferencing venues.

Raspberry Bavois for the Brangwyn Hall

Wednesday 26th November 2008 and the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea played hosted to the 2008 Swansea Bay Woman of the Year Awards. Last year Sian was one of the finalists in the business section but this year we didn't get to go to the ball - instead we provided the desserts. 400 desserts Raspberry Bavois in fact, each individually handmade.

 Take a look at the video.

We supply our handmade individual desserts to numerous restaurants, hotels and banqueting venues across South Wales. If you would like more details then please send us an email [email protected] or telehone the shop on 01639 638574

La Creme Christmas Cakes

The La Creme Christmas Cake catalogue is now available with lots of fabulous desserts to order from. We anticipate closing the order books by 15th December so please do not leave it too late to order. We have limited supply especially for our award winning frangipane mince pies.

La Creme Iced Fruit Christmas Cake

 

The full catalogue can be download in pdf format from the following link.

Download christmas_2008.pdf

As well as cakes we also have available chutneys, chocolate truffles and a selection of Christmas savoury and dessert canapes.

If you are thinking of hosting a party this Christmas why not let La Creme take the stress out of cooking by ordering a La Creme Takeaway. Perfect for that romantic meal for two or for entertaining friends, the La Creme Takeaway is supplied with simple warming instructions and we can tailor the menu exactly to your requirements.

Please send us an email with your requirements or ring Sian on 01639 638574

La Creme Mini Dessert Cups

Great alternative to large desserts - why not order La Creme Mini Dessert Cups for your next party. Available in a variety of flavours and beautifully displayed on our dessert tower, the cups are a fantastic centre piece for any event you are holding, either private or corporate.

We have supplied these desserts for weddings, for birthdays and for prom nights. People have bought small boxes of ten as gifts for family and friends. They are perfect as dessert canapes for large corporate functions or for that Christmas party you may be planning. Just don't leave it too late to order.

 

Owen Martell and S4C visit La Creme

S4C rang us this week to see if they could use our patisserie as a venue to film an interview with the welsh author Owen Martell. They even paid a location fee!!. If only we could speak Welsh we could have given you a sneak preview of what was being said.

At least Sain managed to get a picture with Owen Martell and the presenter outside the shop.

Welsh Assembly and Castell Howell Food Fair

Wednesday 12th November we took part in a food fair hosted by the Welsh Assembly and Castell Howell in Cardiff. Products we had for sale included our award winning frangipane mince pies, our petit four welsh cakes, chocolate brownies, chocolate truffles and millionaire shortbread. We had lots of interest from the general public and people have taken our business cards away to order our products online for gifts this Christmas.

 

The first person we spoke to in the morning was the Presiding Officer of the Welsh Assembly, Lord Elis-Thomas. He was extremley interested in our products and our business and he wished us every success with our future expansion plans. All day people from the Welsh Assembly kept coming over saying how impressed the PO was with our cakes. Praise indeed.

If you would like to order our products this Christmas then our new website should be operational by the end of November so that you can place your order on-line. In the meantime please send us an email with your request or telephone the patisserie on 01639 638574.

Birthday Cake delivered to La Parrilla,SA1

As well as making the desserts for the La Parrilla, we were recently asked to make a birthday cake for a family celebration to be held at the La Parrilla restaurant in SA1 Swansea.

The customer choose a vanilla Cheesecake with a Champagne and Raspberry topping together with a Happy Birthday plaque. This particular cake was made to serve 26 portions.

 

The customer was so delighted with the cake that he telephoned the next day to thank us and he also sent us the following email :

Hi Sian

The champagne cheesecake you provided for my wife's birthday was fantastic to look at and even better to eat. The staff at La Parrilla restaurant were excitedly talking about the cake before we saw it so we knew we were in for a treat. Perhaps the greatest compliment to your work was the large number of favourable comments made by manu of our 21 guests; "Fantastic!"."Best dessert ever", "Wow! Where did you get it?" were just some of the comments.

In our experience, the pudding course rarely engenders much excitement, but your cake had completely the opposite effect.

Thanks once agian.

If you are holding a party at La Parrilla and are looking for a celebration cake then please take a look at our galleries and send us an email with your enquiry.