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2017-09-03
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Mid Autumn Festival is coming up and like many other shops in Hong Kong, L'eclair de Genie has a selection of new Mid Autumn Festival treats. In celebration of their new items for the festival, the creator, Christophe Adam, arrived to demonstrate how he decorates the latest eclairs. I was invited to this fun afternoon event. Many thanks to Monsieur Adam for flying in despite the typhoon to show us his craft.He starts out by peeling away the tops and removing the filling. Different than what is u
He starts out by peeling away the tops and removing the filling. Different than what is usually done where the whole thing is filled without removing the tops. This is due to the fact that the eclairs are layered with several ingredients and not just one pastry cream.
The eclairs are then filled with a vanilla marscapone cream.
Hazelnuts are added.
It was then filled with umeboshi cream.
Topped with a chestnut cream.
And finally decorated with cute little gold rabbits and other bits of decoration.
To present the current eclairs for Mid Autumn.
Pretty isn't it?
There are two new eclairs for the festive season. The Chestnut Umeboshi (on the left and right) and Red Bean Sesame (in the middle).
Chestnut Umeboshi costs $48. Topped with a light tasting chestnut cream that wasn't too heavy. The gold rabbit was a piece of thin chocolate.
Inside had a layer of vanilla marscapone and tart umeboshi to balance the heaviness of the cream filling. It was a good combination.
The red bean sesame eclair cost $42. It had a layer of almond glaze on top with a pretty flower design.
Inside was filled with a red bean cream and a surprising black sesame crisp to give it a bit of crunch. I think I liked this one more as the sesame was intense in flavor and the red bean was not too strong.
Of course, what is Mid Autumn Festival without mooncakes? This is this shop's offering. A box of four chocolate mooncakes. Price? $328 ($208 if you pre-order). But the surprising thing about these mooncakes is that they aren't solid chocolate. Instead they are hollow. Lift the lid and you get surprise inside.
Used more like a container where you can eat it, too, are a few items inside. Chocolate covered peanuts and almonds that have been caramelized and colored in a pretty bronze color, coconut jelly candies and yuzu jelly candies. The nuts were delicious. A crunchy salty and sweet combination. But the best was the jelly candies. They are wrapped in rice paper so it's completely edible so don't attempt to peel them away. The coconut one stood out for it's strong intense fragant flavor. The yuzu was not as strong but it had a nice fruity taste. They were soft and just plain juicy. A great idea that is different than the usual mooncake selections out there.
A photo of the jelly candies. Coconut on the left. Yuzu on the right.
Always creative, this year's Mid Autumn selections are even more inventive than last years. Especially the mooncakes are definitely different and worth a try.
张贴
