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2011-03-18
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There are a lot of high end patisseries around, and there was one cake that really drew me here, the apple bavarois. Previously I had a hazelnut bavarois at Chez Patrick Deli.It seems to be spelt bava"r"ois but at Chez Patrick it is spelt bava"v"ois, but then Chez Patrick shouldnt be wrong as they have native French chefs there.The display had a nice selection of cakes; I couldn’t decide between the carrot and yoghurt and the chocolate and raspberry, but in the end I picked the chocolate and ras
Previously I had a hazelnut bavarois at Chez Patrick Deli.
It seems to be spelt bava"r"ois but at Chez Patrick it is spelt bava"v"ois, but then Chez Patrick shouldnt be wrong as they have native French chefs there.
The display had a nice selection of cakes; I couldn’t decide between the carrot and yoghurt and the chocolate and raspberry, but in the end I picked the chocolate and raspberry.
The cakes that I got were the apple bavarois, strawberry macaroon and the chocolate and raspberry cake.During transportation, the strawberry macaroon did a roly poly somersault and the top broke off and went backside down, while the apple bavarois skidded to the side and the chocolate and raspberry just fainted sideways on the apple bavarois toppling all the berry decorations all over the place!
Despite the disaster, all turned out well, all of them were delicious.Strawberry macaroon:
In the patisserie, this was the prettiest of them all, it looked like a pink éclair, a macaroon extruded instead of the shape of a circle. There were five layers. I was expecting the macaroon layer to be extremely sweet but it wasn’t, the texture was slightly soft.
In between the macaroon layers were strawberry cream and strawberry jelly, fresh raspberries, which was very refreshing for a macaroon without that cloyingly sweet taste. Best of all the raspberries in the cake were kept very fresh.
The strawberry cream was intense in colour and it was interesting they had fresh raspberries as a layer when it was a strawberry macaroon.
Apple bavarois:The taste reminded me of the apple yoghurt I had at Starbucks, very refreshing, with light whipped apple mousse and pieces of apple with a crisp texture.
There was a light green shell covering the cake, it was a bit like white chocolate but flavoured gently with apple. In the centre there was apple jelly and pieces of apple. I also found pieces of orange bits which were peach or mango, but not strong enough to be tasted.
Apple yoghurt at starbucks: http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2094952
Chocolate and raspberry:
A layer of thin chocolate sauce covered this cake and in-between were layers of chocolate cream and a layer of raspberry jelly.
The raspberry could have been strong, but the jelly layer tasted similar to the macaroon one.
The cake base was slightly hard though.
All the fruit cakes had a fruit flavoured jelly layer in them, next time I am going to try the carrot one because of the yoghurt layer on top. The cakes were all at the right sweetness, which was really good because you can try several cakes at one time without feeling sickly.Post
