Chocolate overdose again! Just 2 weeks after our intensive dessert study with Textbook, we attended the second annual SmoothFM Chocolate Festival at The Rocks! The organisers have certainly got the knack for picking perfect spring days - last year we were sunburnt from the glorious weather, and this was repeated with the most beautiful sunny spring weather one could ask for!
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| There was much to see and taste - a feast for the taste buds as well as the eyes! This beautiful sugar sculpture and the chocolate handbag belonged to the Australian Patisserie Academy. I love this handbag though I doubt this will be very useful at all!! |
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| The goodies from the various vendors - generous volume of sweets in a jar, looks fun but I couldn't help but think what we would do with the jars after we've finished...?? |
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| The goodies from Choco Samta looked so enticing just scattered in the cabinet! |
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| We like eclairs - they are just so pretty! From Passion Tree Velvet |
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| Chocolate sculptures - chocolate cocoa pods and cocoa tree, and that dirty shallot, the succulent plant, quail egg and the salami in the background were all chocolate too! |
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| Rosewater cheese cake from Choco Samta. No chocolate here ... :p |
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| "Tacos" from Black Star Pastry - highly recommended the "Angel" (lemon curd, passionfruit jelly, meringue and coconut) which was tangy; Loved the spicy "Devil" (dark chilli chocolate ganache, freeze dried plum and hazelnut) and the creative "Match-mallow" (matcha white choc, freeze dried lychee and raspberry marshmallow) |
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| That is the queue at midday! Patience is a virtue .... especially when chocolates are involved. |
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| This was the reason for the queue - Zumbo's "Chouxmaca" and a dessert BigMac. Worth the wait? We think so! |
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| Anna Polyviou (I'd like to call her Polyanna ... not because she looks like a Polyanna but just her name!!) demonstrated her version of a wagon wheel - "Wag Anna" - and gave away a couple of colourful kitchen appliances by making people dance!! |
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| Tamas Pamer's creation at the Callebaut test kitchen - chocolate mochi, red bean ice cream, aerated dried chocolate |
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| Australian Patisserie Academy's beautiful demonstration - chocolate mousse, crumble, rice pudding, mango "skin" (or fruit roll up, as I see it), cardamon and caramel pudding, white chocolate with mango puree centre - LOVE! |
And, that was not it. There was so much going on, so many goodies to taste and to see, we just have to stop somewhere! Here's hoping that this event will continue and become another one of those annual DDT pilgrims like the Aroma Festival and the October Good Food Month! (And we are very thankful that this is now held in September so it doesn't clash with the Sugar Rush of October!!)
CS
