Happy belated Halloween to everyone! During the week leading up to Halloween, we hold a special event called the Witch's Tea. Instead of our usual tea pastries, we serve Halloween-themed goodies.
First up, Gingerbread zombies...
...with half of its head and leg bitten off.
We also made crispy meringue spiderwebs, then dipped them in chocolate.
Next year, maybe we can try piping out skeleton's claws??
We also made gravestone cookies--chocolate shortbread cookies sandwiched with chocolate mousse, just like chocolate-creme oreos.
For our entremet, we made blood orange mousse layered with joconde. It is then finished with cocoa butter spray. Originally, we decorated them with crossbones, but we special ordered some Halloween sugar decorations...
...and the results were much cuter.
I didn't take a picture, but in addition to the above, there were Chocolate "ooze" cupcakes (chocolate cupcakes with raspberry jam filling, with purple frosting), cranberry-orange scones, and pate de fruit dusted with poprocks instead of sugar. Because of this special event, the number of reservation had skyrocketed during this time, forcing me and my partner to stay longer hours. We were both pretty drained after this whole ordeal. Inbetween now and Thanksgiving is the time to (somewhat) catch up and relax a bit. Cuz the holidays, I've heard, is going to be like an arrival of a hurricane...
