de Gascogne – Montreal’s Pastry Heaven – Part Deux

By Ms. Cherryspoon | December 4, 2009

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!)

Framboise

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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de Gascogne – Montreal’s Pastry Heaven

By Ms. Cherryspoon | December 3, 2009

de Gascogne

Peeps, Ms Cherryspoon has been on this eating blogging path for a short while compared to my other blogger friends. However the knock my socks off bakeries have started to become somewhat less frequent. Fortunately there are places like Pâtisserie de Gascogne. (ooh la la!)

This traditional Montreal bakery has been knocking Quebecois socks off since 1957 and the founder’s rag to riches stories is even published. A very awesome friend had the thoughtful and brilliant idea to take husband and I there.

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Cherry Picks – Geeky and Cute (teh qte)

By Ms. Cherryspoon | December 1, 2009

Foodie Fridays’ Periodic Table Cupcakes - for all you Chemistry Geeks out there!  In school I had a Chemistry teacher that taught us that a lonely Electron was a sad Electron, so he would transfer orbits to be happy amongst other Happy Electrons. In my head while they transferred orbits they went: “Weeee”.

JustJennrecipes’ Mini Espresso Mascarpone cupcakes - mini bits of awesome if you ask me…

The Huffington Post’s Gallery of The Geekiest Wedding Cakes EVER (PHOTOS) – If it were that Geeky it would be spelled EVAR, I’m just saying, on a side note I’m partial to the code one, me think it’s quite romantic, I really do.

Baking Obsession’s rendition of Swedish Princess Cake – Pretty and Yummy.

Love To Cake’s Kitty Cat Cake – I don’t think I’d be able to cut this cake, lol, who am I kidding?!?

And just in case you have not been obsessing with this video like the rest of us are, feast your eyes on the cutest thing you’ll see all day!