Check these out people. How cute are they. These little flowerpots were devised by Paul Kennedy, one of Savour's teachers, for his daughter's birthday party. Paul made eight pots with the plant at progressive stages of growth. The plant with the flower bud was for the birthday girl. Call yourself a father Paul! Any mother would know that every girl at that party would want the pot with the flower bud, wouldn't we girls!
There were a number of components involved in producing these pots. Most obvious is the flower pot, which is made of chocolate & dusted with a bronze metallic powder to hilight. Sprinkled into the chocolate are crispearls, which are crispy little cereal balls coated in chocolate. Lining the inside of the chocolate pot is a hazelnut feuilletine, which provides another textural component. Elements are then layered within the pot. Starting from the bottom up, we have a light milk chocolate mousse topped with a tangy passionfruit jelly sphere. Atop this sits a milk chocolate biscuit that has been soaked with some of the passionfruit jelly on one side & then on the other side, is coated liberally with more of the hazelnut feuilletine. We delve through more mousse to find three little discs of passionfruit crème brulee. And just because we love chocolate, how about ....more mousse! We then come to the chocolate dirt. This is a combination of two chocolate biscuit doughs, crumbled & baked, with the addition of popping candy, just to provide that little element of surprise. All these elements together were absolutely delicious.
The plant stems, leaves & bud were all rolled, paletted or moulded from couverture white chocolate coloured with green liposoluble colour powder.
Now what little girl wouldn't love that for her birthday party? Bet she thought her dad was hero material!
It was such a beautiful afternoon that, after class, I took the tram down to St Kilda to do some penguin spotting. Apparently, the breakwall near St Kilda pier is a breeding ground for a particular colony. They reportedly come onto the rocks of the breakwater around sunset, so that's where I was, waiting with camera in hand. Unfortunately, the breakwater is currently fenced off while undergoing reconstruction. You really needed a torch to do any spotting. A website I checked out suggested covering the torch with red cellophane, as the penguins see less in the red spectrum & don't get as spooked. So unfortunately, my penguin spotting mission was unsuccessful, though I could certainly hear them.
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