Pastries & Desserts
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PB&J Parfait; peanut butter crumbs, nutter butter ice cream, raspberry preserves, crunch berries ice cream, toasted marshmallow
Valentine pomelos, Cara Cara oranges, Blood oranges, Dekopon, Oro Blanco grapefruit
Warm spiced persimmon cake, goats milk caramel, eggnog parfait, turmeric syrup, textures of persimmon
Textures of citrus- murcott orange cake, creamsicle parfait, burnt orange caramel, candied citron, kumquat, orange leaf oil, bitter chocolate from CRU
Fourth of July with Red, White and Blue fruit, nuts and flowers
Caramelized walnut tart, Chantilly cream, persimmon caramel, five-spice powder
Elberta peaches, cooked over a grill, blood peach syrup, sweet corn ice cream, popped corn, honeysuckle petals
Buddha's hand citron infused liqueur
Bika Ambon (Indonesian tapioca flour cake), vanilla bean gelato, preserved strawberry sauce, late summer fruit (late strawberries, blackberries, physalis, passion fruit, figs, elderberries
Passion fruit semifreddo, meyer lemon curd, toasted meringue, caramel corn, basil
Leftover fruit, berries and sugar, turning into Sin Pot, a lightly fermented syrup, amazing with ice cream
Fluffer Nutter Butter: Nutter Butter cookie ice cream, peanut butter brownie brittle, peanut crumbs, toasted marshmallow, caramelized white bread
Crabapple granita in ice bowl, autumn sycamore leaves
Blood oranges with their stems, hollowed out and frozen
Toasted elderflower pound cake, st. Germain syrup, strawberries macerated in rose sugar, chantilly cream, mini strawberry candies
Passion fruit mis en place
'Coffee Crisp!', inspired by the Canadian chocolate bar: ganache tart, espresso cream, vanilla wafers, mocha sauce, chocolate crumbs
Lemon posset with plum & peach granita, dried pluots & Thai basil
Jaguar rare white cacao beans, toasted, these have an amazing nutty aroma and flavor, from CRU chocolate
San Joaquin 'Mess': saetern farm strawberries, late-peach sorbet, pomegranate, sherry syllabub, vanilla bean meringue
Mixed fruit Sin Pot
Pickled Fuyu persimmons
Pacojet ice cream; candy cap mushroom (top) and salted black licorice
Panache (Tiger Stripe) figs, Golden Bear Ranches
Black garlic, barley amazake & sesame levain
Sourdough/ Levain bread trials clockwise from top: Barley Koji amazake, black garlic amazake, sourdough using local flours, crème fraîche sourdough
Rhubarb preserves
Forest infused bitters- yarrow, goldenrod, buffalo berries
Gummies can be made from any fresh fruit juice, these are made from a local peach
Etrogs and Calamondin citrus
Sea buckthorn posset; local cream, sugar & sea buckthorn juice, sea buckthorn powder- like a lemon posset but set with the acid from sea buckthorn juice
Fermenting potatoes for potato bread
Fresh cacao nibs, Kupa’a Farm, Maui, HI
Grinding fresh cacao for drinking chocolate, Kupa’a Farm, Maui, HI
Buddhas Hand ready to cook in syrup
Blood orange granita served in blood oranges
Beautiful just-picked Monterrey strawberries