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Wednesday, 6 July 2016

Textbook Boulangerie Patisserie - Alexandria - Sydney, Australia

Textbook Boulangerie Pattisserie offers delicious pastries, cakes and bread.

Located on busy Botany Road in Alexandria, its been open for close to a year now and has garnered a following after making its rounds on social media.

After having lunch at BOB, a pop up restaurant in Rosebery by Three Blue Ducks, we quickly drove down the road to to the patisserie to have dessert.

Arriving with minimal time before closing, most of the small cakes were sold out. With less than half an hour to go, we chose our cakes, got our coffees and scoffed everything down. We even got some cakes to take away. So greedy we are. How could one resist? The cakes are all so pretty.

The 'White Chocolate, Mango, Kaffir Lime & Coconut Cake (8.50)' tastes as good as it looks. I'm drawn by the Asian inspired flavours. Encased in a white chocolate mousse wall and filled with coconut dacquoise and layers of kaffir custard and mango jelly. A beautiful creamy dessert that's not too sweet.

The pastel green 'Apple Crumble Cake ($8.50)' is one of their most popular cakes for a reason. It's smooth, glossy and has amazing textures. The crumbly biscuit base and the apple custard mousse go so well together, with bits of poached cinnamon apple pieces hiding within.

'The Blueberry Cheesecake ($8.50)' looks aesthetically amazing with deep purple impressions. A picture perfect dome shaped cheesecake that is not too rich nor too heavy, balanced out by the thick biscuit base.

Texbook Patisserie have been releasing new croissant flavours every weekend that are strictly limited in quantities. Recent savoury flavours have included truffle and foie gras. Apparently you have to go early in the morning to grab one one these delicacies as they do sell out quickly.

Worth going to for a decent sweet fix if you are in the area.

Where?
274 Botany Rd
Alexandria NSW 2015
Australia

Phone no:(02) 9699 6156

Opening Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday - Friday: 7:00am to 3:00pm
Saturday: 7:00am to 4:00pm
Sunday: 7:00am to 2:00pm

Website
www.textbookpatisserie.com.au

Saturday, 7 September 2013

Baked Patisserie - Kirrawee - Sydney, Australia

Baked Patisserie

It's that time again. It's Federal Election Day in Australia today and for those that live here and haven't voted yet, go and cast your vote and make sure you choose wisely! Just before the doors opened at 8am today, we were already in queue at our local public school and thankfully the waiting time wasn't too long.

Then it was off to our local patisserie who are well known in the Shire for their desserts specially their macarons, tarts and cakes. Baked Patisserie is a family run business by Adam and his wife Emma that opened in 2011. The colourful display of macarons, cake slices and tarts, is just too tempting and I had to restrain myself from buying too much.

Ever since the craze started with Dominique Ansel's cronut from Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City, many bakers have hopped on to the bandwagon to take advantage of this opportunity. Adam, the head baker from Baked Patisserie is no exception, and from the looks of it, it is very popular. It is made in store fresh daily using quality ingredients.

If you read my previous post on Ramsgate Organic Farmers Market, you would have seen me post about the cronut I had there. To reiterate, the cronut is what they call a hybrid croissant-doughnut. I'm actually not a big fan of the cronut and much prefer the croissant or doughnut on its own but no harm in trying more right?

A range of cronut flavours are available and Adam introduces new flavours regularly. Usually there is quite a number of flavours on offer during the weekends and last Saturday they had banoffee, apple crumble, choc malteser, choc hazelnut, vanilla and raspberry, and caramel with chunks of honeycomb and brownie. Quite a good selection to choose from.

There were only two flavours available in the early morning so I got both. It looked amazing from the outside and you can see that a lot of effort went into designing and making the cronut. Very creative!

The 'Apple Crumble Cronut ($5.00)', is coated on the outside with sugar and infused in the centre with sticky and gooey caramel. Didn't see or bite into any apply pieces but the cream icing on top had a slight taste of apple puree, with a coating of cinnamon, nutmeg and crumble.

'The 'Vanilla and Raspberry Cronut ($5.00)' is infused with raspberry jam and vanilla cream. A bit too heavy handed on the jam but the cream balanced it out well and I really liked this cronut of the two. This was also coated on the outside with sugar, with a raspberry cream icing and three blobs of meringue.

These cronuts were very messy to eat and were more buttery than the ones I had at Ramsgate. They were good but not great. It might have been the flavours I chose, as I really wanted to try the banoffee, as I've read that it's a winner.

Now that Spring has finally kicked in with gorgeous weather for the beach, do drop by if you're in the Shire and give them some support. A wide variety is on offer and you know you want it. It's open every day except for Sunday.

Happy Election Day!

Where?
1/10 Marshall Rd
Kirrawee NSW 2232
Australia

Phone no: +61 415 232 557

Opening Hours
Monday - Friday
6:00am - 3:00pm
Saturday
6:00am - 1:00pm

Website
www.bakedpatisserie.com.au

Sunday, 3 June 2012

The Ivy Patisserie - Sutherland - Sydney, Australia.

The Ivy Patisserie

A deal popped up on Living Social a few months back for a dozen assorted tarts from the Ivy Patisserie. Any deal to do with desserts in the Shire, then count me in. I placed an order in one week prior to pick up to avoid disappointment this time around.

At 9am on a Saturday morning I drove down to the patisserie. It's located in a suburban area and you wouldn't notice it if you didn't have a closer look. Upon entry, I could smell the desserts and pies being baked in the oven. It was already making me drool.

I gave my voucher in and the lovely baker gave me my tarts in a neatly packed box. All I can say was yum, yum, yum. IT WAS DELICIOUS. The pastry shell was thin and crispy. It wasn't overly buttery which I prefer.

My favourite was definitely the chocolate tart. It reminded me of a chocolate mud cake.