Dessert-o-licious

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the New Taste of the Upper West Side – Divine Desserts event in NYC. The event was fantastic! It was set in a tent near the Museum of Natural History and had representation from many of the Upper West Side’s greatest restaurants.  The photo above was [...]

I know this picture doesn’t look like much, but it signifies the start of pastry school! Those objects are actually parchment paper that I rolled into cones, called cornets, which are parchment paper pastry bags to be filled with chocolate, icing, or caramel and will be used to pipe very thinly onto various pastries. Pastry [...]

For our 4th and final day in Paris we decided to kick things off with a champagne cruise down the Seine. We tasted 3 different champagnes, Demilly de Baere, Monmarthe “the secret of the famille”, and Eric Phelizon (shown from left to right above). The Demilly de Baere was a Brut champagne, meaning no sugar [...]

Our our third day we visited Montmartre and walked by the famous Boulangerie there. After coming back to the center of town we decided to walk the Champs Elysees and wound up at a delicious chocolate shop called Le et Gourmet Chocolats on Avenue Franklin D Roosevelt. This shop had such wonderful looking chocolates. Everything [...]

On our second day in Paris we decided to take a trip to Versailles, but of course had to stop to get food for the one hour train ride and we decided to go to La Boulangerie de papa in the Latin quarter for some Beignets. The one I got was filled with raspberry jam, [...]

This past week, I had the joy and pleasure of being able to travel to Paris for 4 days! What ensued was a truly gastronomic experience and I can happily say that I achieved my goal of stopping for a pastry every couple of hours. Since we arrived late in the day, the first stop [...]

This is such a beautiful idea for a Mother’s Day cake! Originally posted by Tortentante on Flickr. See the post on her blog here.