Desserts in Wonderland Event

We had a successful event, filled with 8 tables of different desserts, and h'or doeuvres in the center of the room. We also added a projection screen to play White Christmas. Thanks to everyone who went and helped us.

  The event took place at the Canyon clubhouse, at Forest Highlands golf club

                                          Inside the clubhouse dining room

                                                  Our menu for desserts

                                            Kristi making madeleine batter

  

                                 Katrin decorating Gingerbread gentlemen

                                                 Take home baggies

                                           Mini pecan and pumpkin pies

 Buche de Noel. Chocolate sponge, filled with milk chocolate mousse, iced with chocolate buttercream.

                                              By the entrance

                                                  Toys for Tots marine

                                                   Custard table

                    Refreshments and projector screen, showing White Christmas

                                               Gingerbread house

                                                        Cake table

 Red velvet cake with mini red velvet village houses and hazelnut-chocolate wreath bundt.

                                          Cookie table with a cookie tower

 Gingerbread gentlemen, honey madeleines, coconut macarons, molasses cookies and pizzelles.

                                           Raspberry Financiers

                                      Mini lady apples dipped in caramel

                            The candy table, decorated with gumdrop branches

                  Peanut and hazelnut brittle, caramel popcorn and peppermint bark

                                      Pumpkin, rum and sherry truffles

                                         White chocolate-snowflake cake

                                               Bread and dip and cheese assortment

                                Baked brie filled with cranberry-cinnamon compote

                                    Mini roasted vegetable quiche

                                               Pretty, crunchy pizzelle

                 Some of our guests wanting pictures with the chefs! Thank you.

                                                         So classy.

Event Food Sculptures

We know it's January, and we're behind on posts. The holiday season has been crazy, especially with our Winter Wonderland event on December 7th, which turned out wonderfully... what else?
Here are some photos of our sculptures that we worked on weeks before our event...

Gingerbread Mansion

A gingerbread house built together with caramel, and a large property covered with icing and coconut.

Croquembouche Tower

Cream puffs stuck together with caramel and sprayed with edible pearl color.

Buche de Noel

A chocolate sponge cake rolled with chocolate, decorated with chocolate butter cream, and decorated with powdered sugar and meringue mushrooms.

 

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The 1st Annual Dessert and Wine Tasting Gala
Friday, December 7, 2012
Flagstaff, AZ

Join us for an exclusive night of gourmet desserts, wine tasting and live music at the Forest Highlands Golf Club, 2425 William Palmer, Flagstaff! The ultimate upscale sugar rush begins at 7:00 p.m. and will wrap up at 9:00 p.m., culminating with several raffle drawings for wine and gourmet pastry baskets. Bring your special someone to the wonderfully decorated and exclusive holiday event at Forest Highlands.

The cost is $40 per person; $30 discount tickets are available for Military, College Faculty or Students with valid ID’s. Raffle tickets for beautiful wine and pastry baskets valued at over $100 are available for $5 each. If you bring a new, unwrapped toy valued at $10 to donate to Toys for Tots Flagstaff, you will receive 1 free raffle ticket for each toy donated.

The evening will feature tastings of palate complimenting wines paired with each dessert station. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will also be served. Edible pastry centerpieces and show pieces will be on display, including a masterpiece gingerbread house that is modeled after the members-only club. A select menu of confections will also be available for purchase at the event, including small cakes, pies, holiday cookie bags and platters, gourmet jellies and curds, as well as the Clubs’ own peanut brittle, caramel popcorn and hand-dipped truffles. You may also purchase larger 'to-go' versions of most of the pastries featured at the gala at our 'pop-up' Bake Shop, as well as place orders for holiday pastries for local delivery or pick-up and/or shipments of select pastries for holiday gift delivery. Live holiday entertainment will be provided by local Flagstaff guitarist Brian David.

Tickets to the exclusive night's food and entertainment are available here on our blog via PayPal (upper right-hand side "Buy Now" button) or at the Forest Highlands Golf Club. Please e-mail Chef Biemann at kbiemann@fhgc.com with any questions. Tickets will be available at the door for purchase. This event is open to both club members and non-members. 

We'll see you there! -K&K

Cascading Rose Wedding Cake

We were asked to make a vanilla cake, soaked with Orange patron liquor, and filled with vanilla buttercream.
We decorated the cake with small detailed buttercream piping, and 100 pink roses, in and around the base of the cake.
The couple was extremely happy with the cake. We could not have asked for more. Here are some pictures:

Our Event! December 7th

We're so happy to have an event filled with tastings of dessert and wine in northern Arizona at the Forest Highlands golf club on December 7th. 7-9pm. It will be an intimate evening, brought to you by Verbena Pastries, with beautiful Christmas decorations and an acoustic guitarist. Come buy tickets! Also bring a new, wrapped toy, worth $10 in value and be entered in our wine and chocolate gift basket give away raffle.

Click on the photo below to enlarge.

Halloween Fun

We had some halloween fun this year.. as we always do, freaking people out with red food coloring. We made gingerbread cake cupcakes with cream cheese icing and sugar daggers, and shortbread witch fingers with almond/cashew nails. Very fun.

Gingerbread Cake:

4 ounces of fresh peeled and grated ginger

1 cup molasses

1 cup sugar

1 cup oil

1 cup water

2 eggs

Mix all of the above together, till smooth, then add:

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

2 teaspoons baking soda

Mix again till smooth, and divide in to cupcake liners in cupcake pans. This recipe will make about 40. Bake at 350F. The recipe will come out lovely and fluffy.