My particular favourite: take an Opera cake (more or less), cover in fondant icing and call it "Phantom of the Opera". NB: some of the Phantoms of the Opera have one eye, some two.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
I wish you all a premature happy Halloween
I welcome you to the world of Canadian (specifically Quebecois) Halloween cakes. It will be nearly impossible for you to distinguish between those from the pikey rural supermarket and those from the fancy-schmancy patisserie, of that I am sure.
My particular favourite: take an Opera cake (more or less), cover in fondant icing and call it "Phantom of the Opera". NB: some of the Phantoms of the Opera have one eye, some two.
My particular favourite: take an Opera cake (more or less), cover in fondant icing and call it "Phantom of the Opera". NB: some of the Phantoms of the Opera have one eye, some two.
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Oh, I want one I want one! I really want one. But since Halloween isn't so popular here, perhaps I shall have to make one instead.
And since when has this thing known as a Halloween cake even existed? I'd like to know, since I've lived in Canada my whole life and there were no Halloween cakes when I was small and doing the treat-or-treat thing. I mean, the whole point of Halloween is to pretend to be something you're not and to go around to peoples' houses in the dark and ask for candy and chocolate. Who needs cake too when they already have a big bag full of sugary sweet goodies?
Very interesting and charming - Mr Kipling was never as imaginative as that - but when will I be able to look at a mille feuille pastry once more without visualising it as a coffin. (Should that be mille feuilles - I am too tired to check?)
Do Quebecois go in for chestnut puree a lot in their patisserie, like the French? (Please forgive absence of accents.)
Pinklea is right. Hallowe'en cake is a recent invention.
But people. Cake. Do we need a reason?
Those Phantom Of The Opera cakes look a bit more like Elephant Man cakes, to me. Still, quite appropriate.
I am oddly drawn to the Phantom of the Opera. Its single eye is very plaintive.
Argh, now I want cake!
I really badly want cake.
With lots of fondant icing.
I am supposed to be having a cakefree week.
It is insanity.
Carefree would be much better.
Being a lover of terrible puns, I'm quite keen on those Fantômes de l'Opéra.
However, reading the small print, I fear their ghostly shrouds are in fact marzipan. Which makes them wrong in even more ways than I originally thought.
There is a deragned beauty to these cakes. I wish to try the one eyed Fantome of the Opera cake as it glares balefully at me, oh and the spidery cake at the top please. Oh, and the coffin cakes - just love those!
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