Has my body recovered from the chocolate weekend? Certainly doesn't feel that way ... At least, my jeans are still a little tight. We're dessert obsessive compulsives but Good Food Month being in the middle of spring? Beached whale season is just around the corner ... no hiding behind layers of clothes anymore!!!
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| The goodies! |
We cherry picked four places out of a long and impressive list of Let's Do Desserts. Here's the first one - Ananas Bar & Brasserie's "Les Desserts Four Play". BUT have you looked at their menu? Being compulsive gluttons we wanted variety, so we had EVERYTHING (except the cheese plate)!
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| Yalumba FSW8B Botrytis Viognier, and Campbells Classic Muscat. Excellent muscat! Botrytis was lovely though too sweet for most of us! |
The moment the first dessert arrived, we were in awe. And we were in awe 8 times. It was spectacular and exciting, with angels singing and I swear there were hyper little fairies fluttering about. Every single dessert was presented beautifully and full of character, each one saying EAT ME EAT ME! The most painful part was the photography, actually. Chefs around the world hate it - everyone whipped out their smart phone and running around madly trying to capture the masterpieces on a plate, letting the food go cold or the ice cream melt ....
But once the kerfuffle is over, heaven on a plate was found. Most of them induced a "oooh" or a "mmm" or a "oh my god" or a combination of these. At one stage the general consensus was along the lines of "better than sex". Of course, each of us had our favourites and different preferences of flavours, but on a whole, no duds. And we're a tough group of experienced desserts!!!
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| Ananas 4 ways (spectacularly delicious), Trio of Ananas Eclairs (mixed reviews by dessertees), pistachio and citrus crème brûlée (creamy custard, delicious grapefruit milk sorbet) |
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| Pineapple Yogurt Popsicle (possibly the most popular dessert, served with popping candy!), The Snicker's Revolution (excellent peanut ice cream, light chocolate mousse), Chocolate Festival Exclusive (crunchy and creamy and chocolatey, cut by salt!) |
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| The Black Swan (chocolatey hazelnutty gooey) |
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| Let's Do Dessert - Les Desserts Four Play of triple chocolate fantasy tart, earl grey and rose eclair, mango passion and coconut entrement, and an absolutely gorgeous exploding black forest! |
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| Les Desserts Four Play's exploding black forest |
So Ananas has set a very high bar for the rest of the month ... And we may have to come back to indulge on our personal favourites another time!!
CS
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