mmmm…CAKE!!!!
Before we left (and before we began dreaming about cream puffs) we went cake tasting. Its one of those things that really needs to be tangible and is extra difficult to do from across the ocean. We went to two different bakers who were both delicious though different from each other. Sadly now we’re heading towards the cream puff route, but only time will tell which way we really go!
Cake tasting round 1:
Touchet Touchet down the street from my parent’s home. It was a bit intense as there were 6 fillings and 3 squares of cake in chocolate, yellow and carrot! Shocking outcome of the day — Mr. D’orsay and I both preferred the yellow cake! Well, not shocking for Mr. D’orsay (because that’s his favourite), but surprising for me since I’m a chocolate cake fan. The fillings were, lemon, lime, strawberry pastry cream, raspberry, apricot, hazelnut mouse. Only try lemon or lime with chocolate if you never want to look at cake in the same delicious light — it’s not the best combination…
Winner of cake tasting round 1:
- Top tier - White cake and apricot filling
- Mid tier - White cake and raspberry filling
- Bottom tier - Chocolate cake and hazelnut filling
Cake tasting round 2:
Puffs and Pastries on the avenue in Hampden. Anisha is amazing! We arrived and had 7 or 8 cup cakes as well as two tarts/tortes (fruit/pastry cream and flour less chocolate and pecans) waiting for us. Although we won’t be having it as our wedding cake I highly recommend stopping by and trying out the carrot cake and cream cheese frosting — it was incredible!
Anisha also had multiple buttercreams to try out and we loved the almond one. However, Mr. D’orsay vetoed the almond buttercream since there are probably people out there who don’t like almonds — lame. So we’ll probably have regular vanilla buttercream, it’s alright though, since the insides of the cake are PHENOMENAL!!
Winner of cake tasting round 2:
- Top Tier - White cake with pastry cream (éclair insides) and fresh blueberries
- Mid Tier - Chocolate cake with hazelnut mousse
- Bottom Tier - White cake with pastry cream and fresh strawberries
Overall Mr. D’orsay and I decided that Touchet Touchet was the more traditional choice while Puffs and Pastries is more modern. Both delicious, but in different ways. Given that we are leaning towards cake #2 it shouldn’t surprise you that we are also now considering a croquembouche. The funny thing was that each cake design we discussed was vastly different although we began at the same inspiration (the invite scroll work).
Were your cake tastings vastly different or mostly the same?
October 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
HMMMMM I don’t like cake. So I’m not the best judge. However, I do love eclairs - so my vote is for #2.