Desserts, whither thou goest I shall go

OK let’s talk about why we’re here in the first place: desserts. And we’ve had plenty of ‘em over the past several weeks, compliments of Susie the pastry student and Le Cordon Bleu.

Let’s start with the "Jamaique", a chocolate sponge cake with pineapple-coconut mousse and a mango-passion fruit mousse, from September 5:



And on September 6, a "Fraisier" (sponge cake with strawberries and pastry-butter creme):



And on September 11, Susan's first "Opera " cake (sponge cake with chocolate ganache and coffee-butter creme):



And then we had "Three-chocolate Bavarian creme" on September 14:



Followed by "Heavenly chocolate" (chocolate mousse and "dacquoise") on September 20:



And at the same time, just for something different, we had truffles and coffee-chocolate candies:



On September 27 we had "Plaisir" (Pleasure), sponge cake with vanilla and chooclate mousse:



And recently, on October 10, Raspberry-Passion fruit creme cake:



And on October 11, Walnut cake (sponge cake with caramel mousse):



Mind you these don't include the stuff Susan baked at home . . . Yeah! It's great to be married to a pastry chef, take my word for it! Man can this woman bake!

Anyway, we're taking a break from desserts and head off to the Loire valley Saturday morning for an overnight -- a quick train trip to Amboise where Leonardo da Vinci is buried in fact. More about that later.

Wish you were here,

Steve