Eat out: Dessert Outing 3

Yes, another dessert outing. I should create a series, lol. Be warned though, this outing today is way more epic than the previous two. You could get a toothache just by looking at the pictures, haha.

My friend and I started off with Luxbite. We wanted to check out the new Christmas/summer range.

How cute does the macaron snowman look?

This meringue monster looked similar to the one I ordered during the previous visit, but inside is totally different.

Instead of watermelon, it is now a pumpkin mousse with apricot, yoghurt and white choc sponge base.

Endless love - giant raspberry macaron with amazing lycee and rose filling.

Kudos to them for discovering this amazing flavour combination.

The Igloo - coconut panacotta with passion fruit, covered with marshmallow coating.

Like eating a cloud, absolutely lovely.

Can't forget their macarons! We tried two of their new flavours. Bamboo and oolong tea - nutty with roasted flavour of the oolong tea. No idea how this macaron was related to bamboo though... We both liked this macaron very much.

Ribena and lemonade. This one wasn't as good as the first. I couldn't taste any ribena or lemonade at all.

Chocolateria San Churros - chocolate cake drowned in molten dark chocolate and topped with whipped cream. So rich and divine.

Max Brenners - banana praline crepes with vanilla ice cream. Warm banana and nutella filling sandwiched by thin crepes, mmmm.....

Tutti frutti waffles. These waffles are the bomb. Crunchy on the outside, fluffy on the inside, so perfect just on it's own.

Laurent Patisserie. I took this shot from upstairs, The shop layout is like an authentic french cafe, stepping into the place make you feel like you're in France.

The on top is called Bora bora, and the bottom called Bahia. Wonder what the names mean...?

Bahia was composed of a light chocolate nougatine mousse with flourless almond sponge and passionfruit.

Bora bora was made of coconut dacquoise, coconut and dark choc mousse with bonus coconut macarons!

Chokolait - Their famous choc pavlova. Light meringue with bits of chocolate embedded in the middle, topped with cream and strawberries, simply heavenly.

Burch and Purchese. Left is coconut sago mousse, passionfruit curd and salted ginger crumble. Right is a layered cake, with chocolate mousse, meringue, ganache, custard, sponge... that's why it's called chocolate chocolate chocolate, hahaha.

That's it! Oh my gosh, looking back I can't believe we eat all that. In one day. I totally skipped dinner after that, was way too full. And I'll definitely have sweet dreams tonight =DDDDD

Eat Out: Sydney!

Be ready for an epic food (sweet) post on Sydney! I'm gonna show you all the heavenly things I ate.

This was at a family gathering party. The mixed berry trifle on the top was the best. The brownies were deliciously sticky, and I couldn't stop at just one cassava cake (bottom right). The people who made these are serious dessert experts.

The was at Westfield food court, Via Del Corso Pasticceria. Apparently their gelatos are really good. I got a grape fruit gelato, which was pretty pricey. The flavour was good, but I got sick of it after a while.
A giant pistachio marshmallow from Sweetness the Patisserie. Really soft and fluffy.

Cake display at Azuma Patisserie. One of their specialities are the chiffon cakes. Sadly we didn't try them.

We did try the match latte. It was smooth and creamy, with the bitter tones of green tea. Thumbs up!

A chestnut mont blac. I finally get to try a mont blanc! They don't have it anywhere in Melbourne. Actually this one was too creamy for me. The top is all chestnut cream, and the bottom is a really thick biscuit base.

Black sesame piggy buns at Chef's Gallery. How adorable are they! I almost couldn't bear to eat them. Almost.

Steaming sweet black sesame filling, yum yum.

Next was Meet Fresh, a Taiwanese dessert cafe. This was grass jelly with taro balls and honey beans. It was so good! The taro balls were soft and chewy, and the grass jelly was not firm, almost liquid but overall such a great combination.

Mango supreme is another winner. It's like ice kachang, loaded very generously with lots of mangoes, topped with ice cream.

A honeydew mochi from a bakery in Chinatown. It had real melons inside!

The strawberry mochi version.
Cute cakes at bakery called 85 degrees.

And lastly some blackberries from my aunt's garden.

Eat Out: Dessert Outing 2

I went on another dessert outing with a friend. That day was epic, we ate like 10 sweet things between us, one of the happiest days of my life, lol. Be ready to be sugarfied.

This was at the crown casino. If I remember correctly, this was a banana roulade. It's a swiss roll, and in the middle is a dense chocolate ganache which tasted like cookie dough.

This was a blood orange cheesecake. The cake was really light and airy, tasted like mousse.

We bought and tasted some chocolate truffles....

...and walked by this gorgeous display of cakes and tarts which stopped us in our tracks. But the line for that tea room was so long, we decided to come back another day.

Next stop was Laurent Patisserie. They have the most amazing selection of french pastries.

This was a chocolate mousse cake with a brownie cake base, very rich and very yummy.

A lighter cake compared to the first one. I chose this one because of the pretty design, haha.

The raspberry mousse inside was tart yet sweet, although the sponge was a but dry.

Lastly we went to Passionflower. We went for their speciality desserts this time.

Strawberries with strawberry ice cream, strawberry syrup and whipped cream.

This was my favourite of the day. Black sesame ice cream with sticky glutinous rice balls and crunch peanut topping. I enjoyed every bite, and was solely disappointed when there was no more left...

Birthday = CAKE!

One thing I don't like about my birthday is that it is always so close to exam time. Which means everyone is studying for exams (including me), so I can't celebrate it properly! But the best thing is that I get to eat lots of cake, hehe. This year I am so blessed to be able to celebrate it with people I love, not just once, but THREE times!

The first time was with family. My aunt's birthday is actually 2 days before mine, so we decided to celebrate together. And we baked each other's birthday cake, how cool is that? Of course, my aunt is a way better baker than me, just by looking at the cakes you know which one was made by whom.

Did you guess right? The beautifully decorated cake on the left was made by my aunt, and the clumsy jagged looking cake on the right was made by me. Still have a lot to improve on...

I made a strawberry mirror cake. It's a baked cheesecake, topped with strawberry jelly and fresh strawberries. Gosh, I was so scared that I didn't put enough gelatine, and that the jelly wouldn't set. Thank goodness it did.

My aunt baked a green tea and chocolate cake. This cake was YUM. I went back for seconds, which I am entitled to since it was my birthday =DDD

The second time I celebrated was with 2 of my best friends. We went for gelato at this famous gelato shop. There were people queuing for it all the way from the door! The selection to choose from was amazing. It was so hard to choose the flavours, I wanted to try everything!

They had a whole section dedicated to chocolate, lol. They even have asian flavours like green tea, black sesame, pandan and durian!

We all got different flavours so we could get a taste of everything. The durian was the best. The flavour really packed a punch. Second would be Ferrero Roche, I loved the bits of ferrero roche in the ice cream.

The third time was with another of my best friend. We went to a Korean restaurant, and she actually baked me a cake! We sang the birthday song and ate it in the restaurant. It was my first time celebrating it that way, haha.

We both love korean food. We ordered chilli chicken karaage, (which tasted like spicy popcorn chicken, only loads better) and soon dubu, tofu stew.

Here's the cake she made for me. It was a red velvet cake, and she even made the plague out of chocolate. By the way, she is studying to become a pastry chef, so you can be sure her cakes taste good.

And it did! It tasted out of this world. Moist with a hint of chocolate along with the cream cheese meringue icing.... *drool* I ate 3/4 of the cake. It was so good! I was really touched that she made me a birthday cake.

Best birthdays EVER! ^0^