When I met my ICE Admissions director, she quickly put me in touch with two ICE alums that we’re also from Brazil. One of which was just about to come to NY for a class and that’s how I met the awesome Priscila from Make the Cake (the website is Portuguese but pics are universal!!) She is a very skilled and talented cake designer and owns an amazing cake shop in São Paulo. She visits NY often (yay!), and this time we hung out at MacarOn Café, it’s the coolest frenchest little tiny Macaron shop in midtown!
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This past December, I was fortunate to attend the Texas Sweet and PastryScoop Grapefruit Gala at FCI alongside with my friend and demo buddy Dessertolicious. Presenting this Demo was the awesome Jansen Chan, he’s the executive Pastry Chef at Oceana and quite honestly one of my heroes!
The delectable pretty thing above is a White Chocolate Grapefruit Parfait with Honey Sabayon, it was very good. (Not to toot my own horn; that’s also a pretty good shot for an Iphone pic)
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I haven’t done a “Product I ♥” since last April, doesn’t mean my pan collection has been at a standstill! Read more »
Happy New Year!
(ringing in the 2010 center justified!!)
Pumpkin Pie?!? Is she high??
High on life, friendorino!
Remember the pie from Thanksgiving? My friends responded so well to the pic posted on facebook, I decided to make one for Christmas. Since I’m always a few weeks behind so it’s here for you today!
Happy New Years to you, dear reader, all the best in 2010.
Part two of this deliciousness odyssey presents you dear reader with my two favorites from my visit to de Gascogne (which I also call Heaven!)
The Raspberry Framboise is my kind of desert! The vanilla custard was so light and pure, the raspberries perfectly ripe and plump! They worked so beautifully with the cake around it and the vanilla custard. It was like music was playing in my mouth and I am not kidding.
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