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Date: Mar. 31st 2009
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She dreams of Rahier.
Cream Puff has been dreaming of cake a lot these days.
Mainly because she hasn’t been able to bake one in, like, forever. (Sorry. When the Cream Puff is tired her Valley Girl persona emerges).
Whatever.
Anyway, soon the scents of baking shall be wafting forth from this blog once again.
Until then … just dream along with the Cream Puff … today’s dream is about coconut dacquoise, white chocolate buttercream, coconut mousse and passionfruit cream otherwise knows as the Colbert!
Ciao!
I first learned of Francois Rahier when I read about him in an issue of Martha Stewart Living. As it turned out, the man had a patisserie in my own city. Happiness! Quite frankly, Rahier is a patisserie on par with any in the world and in my humble opinion, has the best croissants in Toronto. The cake pictured above is called the Colbert and is the cake we ordered to celebrate Mama Cream Puff’s birthday!
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03/31/09 at 8:05 pm
I may need to move to Toronto. One gorgeous cake.
03/31/09 at 8:30 pm
LOL the ‘valley girl’ cracked me up. Do they have valley girls out there in Toronto?
Happy birthday and many felicitations to Mama Cream Puff!!!
03/31/09 at 10:07 pm
A great cake!
Cheers,
Rosa
04/1/09 at 12:24 am
Happy Birthday Mama Cream Puff!
04/1/09 at 1:56 am
i can only dream of getting such a beautiful cake here - i wonder if it would survive mail order… sadly not. just wish i could share this with you right now!
happy birthday!
04/1/09 at 4:32 am
Right in Toronto? Who knew?
looks stunning!
04/1/09 at 5:56 am
NIIIIIICE!!!
04/1/09 at 7:28 am
Happy Birthday Mama Cream Puff…that’s a neat idea. I love the way they’ve tied up cocnut in the deco…COOL!!!
04/1/09 at 8:10 am
Simply gorgeous and the combination of flavors sounds divine! Just the cake I would have chosen. And waiting for your baking return
04/1/09 at 9:08 am
What a beautiful cake!!! Loooove coconuts……Baking cakes is wonderful, but sometimes it’s nice to get something beautiful and ready for us, no?
04/1/09 at 1:35 pm
Thats a block from my house! Well my parent’s house I guess. I love Rahier so much! Try their little bag of cookie’s, you wont be dissapointed. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA CREAM PUFF, I can’t think of a better place to get a cake from.
04/1/09 at 4:02 pm
How did I not know this existed?!??
04/1/09 at 5:12 pm
what a lovelly cake! Wonderfull.
04/1/09 at 6:51 pm
Wow that looks awesome.
04/1/09 at 10:24 pm
Oh wow, that cake looks absolutely divine!
04/2/09 at 12:33 am
spettacular!
04/2/09 at 2:15 am
I’ll have to look for it the next time I’m in town!
04/2/09 at 1:34 pm
Gorgeous cake with all the right stuff.
Happy Bday!
04/3/09 at 11:32 am
I owe Rahier so much…My favourite croissants, and also my first published article in the food section of the Star.
Their ham and cheese croissant are my favourite!
07/7/09 at 7:15 pm
[…] few months ago, I shared with you the fact that when I want to order a special a cake (and don’t feel like baking it myself), I turn to […]
07/11/09 at 9:43 am
Amazing! I’ve never seen anything like it! Too bad I live in L.A.