House of Good

French Festival this weekend Friday-Saturday-Sunday, and I will have a stand with TONS of French goodies, both sweet and savoury:

—> Choux à la crème, tartelettes, gourmet cookies, brownies, quiches, Flemish waffles, etc etc!!

Come and check it out!

Festival deets:
Address: the Bentway, 250 Fort York Bld
Hours: Friday 4-10pm, Saturday 11am-10pm, Sunday 11am-6pm.

Hope to you all there.

PS: I am now accepting debit cards 😁

Strawberry shortcake 😊

Throwback to 9 years ago with one of my first cake designs!!

I’d been a pastry chef for less than 2 years then, and would spend hours working on cake designs. Because I looooved a good looking cake!

Cheesecake!

This one is gluten free, with passion fruit and mango.

The crust: house-blended organic gluten-free flour, organic eggs, organic butter, organic cane sugar, organic vanilla, organic cinnamon.
The filling: luscious organic cream cheese, all natural cream, organic cane sugar, organic sour cream, organic vanilla, organic lemon juice. Passion fruit purée and fresh organic mango.

The real deal.

😊🤩🍰

This S’mores pie is such a good surprise! And the epitome of comfort food 🤩

I made *a lot* of trays as a special request for an event, and made one extra for us.

It did not disappoint! All homemade from scratch: Graham cracker crust, dark chocolate pastry cream, and vanilla marshmallow. Cut up a slice and torch it right before serving. Soooo good!!

Should I make some for the Labour Day long weekend? Or should I make s’mores kits?

Let me know!

Birthday cake of the day (part2)!
Another pink birthday cake, this one with vanilla sponge and raspberry mousse.
And mascarpone buttercream icing.
Yum!!

Birthday cake of the day (part 1)! Pretty in pink 😊
Layers of super moist chocolate cake interlaced with a luscious strawberry mousse. Simple and delicious.

About this weekend…

I had a friend, from when I was a student in Canada 23 years ago, over with her family for a pit stop on her way to her final holiday destination. What an absolute pleasure it was to catch up after all these years!!

For the occasion, I made my signature lemon meringue tarts as well as a chocolate and hazelnut tart, composed of a sweet crust, crispy praliné, salted butter caramel, dark chocolate ganache, and milk chocolate whipped ganache, finished off with roasted hazelnuts.

Good friends + good food = PERFECT combo.

Hi peeps,

I am making lemon meringue pies for this Saturday.
If you’d like one, place your order by tomorrow evening 😊

Family size, $35.
All organic!

Pick up between 9am and 12pm

About this weekend - part 3

These crunchy little cookies called “tuiles” are everything! I make them in different very fragrant flavours like thyme, rosemary, lavender, cinnamon, basil, hazelnut, matcha… the sky is the limit and they are divine!

$5 per dozen

About last weekend - part 2
Birthday weekend!

I made a triple chocolate mousse cake with some crunch on the bottom. I usually make it with a hazelnut praliné but adapted it to a nut-free version because of allergies.

About this weekend (part 1)…

The 2’ high, 2-tier celebration cake took centre stage, with 2 different kinds of cakes hiding behind the buttercream icing: coconut, passion fruit and lime on the bottom, tiramisu on the top.

Also enhancing the pink and gold colour palette were all sorts of mignardises: petits choux, raspberry panna cotta, vanilla cake pops and strawberry shortcake cups.
Oh and my signature classic chocolate ganache cake was there too 🤪😁

It was super fun making all of these for a very special customer.

Latest little creation: the chocolate bar-ette, a set of 8 Barry Callebaut Alunga chocolate topped with organic cranberries, pecans, cashews, and crispy dark chocolate pearls.

$5.50.
I have 2 left in stock right now, first come first served!

I will have loads, in dark, milk and white combinations, for the Labour day long weekend. Stay tuned!

One of the desserts of a big celebration spread!
My classic chocolate ganache cake.

Mini birthday cake, strawberry shortcake inside.
Yum!

And it’s a wrap on another birthday cake! July has been full of birthdays right up until the end, and it’s not over yet 🤩

The bad boy is composed of an almond dacquoise, passion fruit curd, lemon mousse and some coconut sprinkling on top for good measure (and to enhance the citrusy flavours).

Oh this pistachio and chocolate birthday cake was a smashing hit!!

We’re absolute nut fanatics in our house so when my husband requested a pistachio cake for his birthday, I obliged and went completely overboard (no sorry, you’re right, there’s no such thing as too much pistachio…)

It’s composed of
- pistachio dacquoise layers
- pistachio diplomate cream filling (made with homemade pistachio praliné)
- milk chocolate whipped ganache
- the cutest mini pistachio choux filled with pistachio cream
- dark chocolate shards to finish off the look.

He liked. I think. 😆

Very special birthday spread!
—> Croquembouche with vanilla choux
—> Classic fraisier with vanilla crème diplomate and fresh strawberries.

Organic eggs, organic milk, organic flour, organic sugar, organic vanilla, organic strawberries, organic corn starch.

Yum!

Simple yet delicious funfetti cake, with a moist vanilla sponge, vanilla mousse filling, and mascarpone buttercream icing, and tons of sprinkles of course.

An elevated version of the classic birthday cake 😁

Omg that millefeuille!!! 🤩🤩
Phyllo sheets, butter, honey, vanilla bean pastry cream. Simple yet so so good.

Triple chocolate mousse with hazelnut dacquoise and mirror glaze.
Gluten-free!

You can really have your cake and eat it too 😝

Check out that shine!

Triple chocolate mousse cake with mirror glaze for a 50th wedding anniversary 😁

Mousse cakes, or “entremets” in French, are lighter than cakes made with layers of sponge. Little to no butter, little to no flour.

Loads of mini treats for a wedding anniversary!
Mini blueberry tarts
Mini lemon meringue tarts
Mini strawberry shortcake cups
Mini coffee eclairs

Have an event coming up? Hit me up!

Last week I took up the challenge to make gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free and refined sugar-free high end desserts for a private event. This is one of them.

—> Pavlova with an old school dark chocolate mousse, raspberry coulis and fresh raspberries, and a lavender espuma.

I used coconut sugar and maple sugar as sweeteners as the client didn’t care for cane sugar.
Quite the challenge!

Matcha tiramisu!!
This bad boy will be a part of my Father’s Day offer.

Stay tuned…

Oh and this one was for a birthday over the weekend 😜

I forgot that I made a pavlova the other day! French meringue, vanilla bean pastry cream, homemade strawberry jam, and loads of fresh (organic of course) strawberries.

Un régal!

Birthday cake for a special little girl.
Vanilla bean sponge and vanilla mousse, vanilla buttercream icing. And matching cupcakes!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!
Raising my glass (ok, my cup of coffee..) to all the women who are “momming” one way or the other.
👏👏👏🙏🙏

Check out these cute little Bouq’cakes for this Mother’s Day!

Order before Friday 8pm.

Tulip (yellow, orange or red)
Roses (red or white)
Bouq’cake of 3, $18

Vanilla cupcake filled with homemade strawberry compote.

Pick up Sunday morning 10am-12pm

Have a lovely week!

Last call for these bad boys who need a home!
Promo prices too
Chocolate and vanilla eclairs $3
Strawberry tartelettes $7
Strawberry shortcake jars $7
Carrot cake slices $5

Reserve them now and I’ll box them for you. Pick up tonight or tomorrow.

I forgot to take nice pictures of my youngest’s birthday cake request: a matcha tiramisu.
So they will have to do!
I was so good, all the kiddos licked up their plates 🤪 and the cake is completely gone 😁