What you see above is the Frosted Pound Cake Souffle, with frozen strawberry lemonade and yogurt sorbet, it was my favorite dessert of the evening (we tried a lot of them!), the Souffle was absolutely delicious total comfort food, the frozen strawberry lemonade with the Sorbet was bright and worked perfectly with the Souffle and the frosting. I had been thinking about this dessert for weeks, and it was ever bit as good as I imagined. (That doesn’t happen that often.)

This Poached Rhubarb Tart above came with almond sable, earl grey tea ice cream (my favorite Ice Cream Flavor!).

Below is the Strawberry Tarragon Fizz, with crème fraiche sorbet and meringue, it was very tasty, the fizz specially. Tarragon paired Strawberries is something I was just introduced to in school and I have to say it’s very good, peeps.

Below is the scrumptious and beautifully plated Chocolate Custard Brownie with roasted cinnamon cream and espresso granite!

Now here comes the really cool part (seriously there’s more), the GM spoke to us during our meal, and turns out he’s a CIA alum, I was there with my friend  Dessertolicious (and our husbands as well), we told him that we go to ICE and also that we chose Oceana because Chef Jansen Chan’s Grapefruit Gala demo we both attended last year was full of awesome.

Come Dessert time Chef sent us the remaining desserts we did not order! How cool is that?!?

“Carrot Cake” Cheesecake with candied walnuts, coconut lime sorbet. Rich and very tasty! Let’s take a minute and enjoy that plating shall we?

Milk Chocolate – Cashew Sundae with angel food cake croutons and bourbon sabayon. The Bourbon sabayon was my my favorite part of this dessert only because I’d just made my first sabayon the day before! Don’t take this as a diss to a very yummy dessert.

As we all sat there enjoying the post amazing meal glow, talking about all the incredible desserts we tried, who stops by to greet us if not Chef Jansen Chan himself!

He was very cool and gracious chatting with us for a while, our topics ranging from bread starters, bread kitchens and summer fruits going all the way to externships (being on lesson 8 and all still that’s bit far off).

The perfect ending to a perfect evening and I’m very happy.

ps: The savory part of the meal was very good as well, best fish I’ve ever had.

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.

Now for the breakthrough my favorite Tiramisu of all time! I realize yours truly seems to be hyper enthusiastic pretty much on every post but this is real thing (cue song).  Let’s start with the presentation, semi sweet chocolate coffee cup (come on!)  filled with a  fresh, well balanced Tiramisu, not heavy on the coffee, or coffee liqueur at all! So balanced, so light and incredibly decadent at the same time.

Everything we tried at de Gascogne tasted crazy fresh, and you can tell everything is made with skill, care and high quality very  ingredients.

Montreal I bow to your bakeries! As I said before this trip was one of my bestest weekends ever! Thank you to my friends who took us to all these great spots! And thank you Montreal!!!

A bien tout!

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.

This Halloween (Halloween?!? Yes, this trip was all the way back in September) themed cutie pie, in case you can’t tell,  was a very good Pumpkin pie, the crust was delectable and the filling so light and fresh the spices were present but not overpowering there and the pumpkin still tasted like such. Little secret, first pumpkin pie I ever enjoyed!

More yum to come!

While visiting Québec City this past weekend in a very rainy and cold day, my friends and I stumbled upon Cafe Rabelais atop the Escalier «casse-cou» translation Neck Breaking Stairs while making our way to the Lower Town.

Our cold wet sneakers chilling our feet, our rumbling stomachs …um … rumbling and the presentation of a very good priced Table d’hôte (Québécois for Prixe Fixe) by a very cute amicable host made Chez Rabelais an easy choice to make. Did I mention the 2 for 1 special? No? Yea it was that good a deal, check out Québec City and this great spot on the off season if you can.

The meal included an appetizer, my first time eating Escargot (not bad at all), a very good creamy vegetable soup, spiced by largest pepper mill all of us had ever seen, my main course was Duck Confit (another first time and to die for!) and of course the object of this post yummy desserts!

I chose was a triple chocolate cake you saw above! It consisted of a rich Mousse with a cake middle layer and a magical wafer like crust underneath it all that was just insane!

My better half had the Crème brûlée and it was pretty special too, delightfully fresh and cool Vanilla Custard just barely sweet.

Three hours of warmth and decadent eating later we’re all ready for more Quebec City charm.

Au revoir, peeps.

Bakery Itiriki is (as I said above) a Japanese, Chinese, Brazilian and French Bakery. A little piece of heaven right in the middle of the (also awesome) Asian neighborhood in São Paulo (Liberdade). Years before I even thought about being a baker or having a blog, I spent many Sundays there drinking yummy bubble tea, yours truly was lucky to live close by!

That was my tray when we stopped by this past July! You can see a Chocolate cake (to sweet for my taste) , an AMAZING apple mini cake (top left), puff pastry Pão de queijo (yes you read it right, they got Pão de queijo and made into puff pastry!!! ZOMG) and a yummy braided bread with Leeks.

Upon entering the bakery, you’ll find trays and tongs, you pick up all the goodies you like and you make your way to the cashier. It’s not cheapest place, but it won’t break the bank specially considering the exchange rate. While paying you can get yourself a ticket for Bubble tea, coffee or Juice, which you then pick up upstairs in their small siting area. On weekends you’ll have to wait for a booth but on a weekday it was a breeze!

Check out the sweets aisle below.

This pic is also from sweet_tempura, who very kindly allowed me to use it in this post.

All the classic from all the countries I mentioned before are available, from Kare Pan (Japanese Curry Bread), Chinese Steamed Breads, Dim Sum (sometimes), Adzuki Bean paste filled Mochi to the most basic goodies such as Croissants, Baguettes and Pão de Queijo.

If you ever visit São Paulo, you should definitely stop by, if anything just for their killer Bubble Tea, but I doubt that’s all you’ll walk out with!

Bakery Itiriki is here.