Tis The Season To Be Jolly!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

2011 Christmas Orders

On Tuesday, Epicure reviewed a selection of Fruit Minced Pies, surprise surprise the supermarket brands came in tops at an extremely affordable price.

Unfortunately, we are unable to compete with the supermarket chains on their price.  However, we can assure you our fruit minced pies are preservative and artificial colouring free, very short (ie rich) on the pastry with quality minced fruit.

Personally, I am no friend of minced pies, I find them a little boring to eat, it's like eating mixed up fruit peel and pastry shell plus they are quite large, one minced pie and there goes your quota for other desserts.

So why minced pies if you ask?   About a month ago, I had my fruit soaking for my fruit cakes ready to be used, coincidentally I had my hands on a master pastry book and decided to give a sweet pastry a try, but what filling will be good?  TaDa!  Fruit Minced - all ready to go!  There our master pastry with indulgent fruit mince soaked in brandy and sherry (cranberries, razz cherries, sultanas ..)
I've made 2 batches so far, but they never made it to be sampled and sold :-)

Our Christmas 2011 Fruit Minced Pies and Fruit Minced Pie-lets  (Miniature Pies) (Samples are available upon request)

Fruit Mince Pies and Pie-lets

$1 per pie or $10 for 12 pies

$0.30 per pie-let or box of 30 for $8

Last Day for Order: 

20 December 2011 to be collected on 23 December 2011

Made to Order

Craving for something DIFFERENT? or Dessert made a DREAM appearance? or Special REQUEST from someone awesome?

Note:  Made to Order requires no less than 5 days lead time, remember our cakes are made from scratch, nothing nothing is made out of a package!

A Carrot Cake with Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting & Rolled Sugar Carrots!

A Tiramisu Cake

We do not use commercial sponge fingers, we make our own sponge cake, then dry them into biscuits.  We use Nespresso (R) brand coffee, good italian mascarpone cheese. 

Too Many Calories Very Chocolate Mudcake

Dandenong Show Winning Mudcake;

Filled with Oh-So Chocolatey Mousse;

Frosted with Whipped Chocolate Ganache;

And definitely not Calories Friendly;

Ready to take on the Challenge?

Vanilla Cake with White Chocolate and Berry Frosting!

Croquembouche

Love Croquembouche?

Very elegant, very showy and really does not take much to impress!

We've made a few by now, not all in the classic conical shape.
We fill them with finger licking vanilla or chocolate creme patisserie.

Price: From $240 for the large croquembouche (feeds 30 at least)
Leadtime: 2 weeks minimum

A decorated masterpiece for a 21st birthday!

Feedback:  "Attached is a photo of the Croquembouche before the hoards got to it!  Thank you so much for making it - it held up against the humidity well and everyone sends their compliments to you (it even broke a few diets).  It was delicious!  Birthday girl was wrapt - she went to another 21st party the night before which had a croquembouche and she said it wasn't even close to yours!"

Here's another one for a 30th Wedding Anniversary

Other shapes & forms!

A Present Perhaps

A miniature croquembouche 

Tetrahedron

Straws are used as holders for sparklers!  Oh Yes, please have 000 on speed dial.

A croquembouche ready to be dressed!

Delice-ious

DELICE

What makes a Delice so delicious?
It's a cold dessert, really good for summer.  It's a light dessert as well, sponge cake is layered in between light airy mousse and topped with a layer of jelly.   It's also a good looking dessert, looks impressive on any cake platter!  Best of all - it's simply delicious.

Flavours:  Passionfruit & Orange or Berry (Seasonal)
Price:  $60 for a 9" Delice and will serve 12-15

Greetings written under the jelly!

Silver balls adds an elegant touch (Needs to be consumed within the hour)

Our Favourite :: The Bomb

Bomb (noun) :  Something extremely good or exciting

CAKE CONSTRUCTION

Cake : Show Winning Chocolate Cake (1st Prize Dandenong Show 2011)

Filling:  Intensely Dark Chocolate Mousse or Chocolate Buttercream

Frosting: Silky Buttercream

TASTING NOTES:  Perfectly balanced taste, not too sweet.

PRICES

Serves 10-12 : 7 inch cake : $40

Serves 12-15 : 9 inch cake : $50

Serves 20-30 : Tall 12 inch cake : $60-$80

More than 30 : Tall or even tiered 13 inch cake  : $100 onwards

*Serving size is a "cafe" size wedge of cake, most of the time you can get a lot more servings from the cake

ORDERING LEAD TIME

3 days minimum for a cake to serve less than 20
1 week for a cake to serve 20+

A Skylander Portal
The 'walls' are made out of chocolate cookies.

Simply add your favourite Skylander character!