Cookbook vs. Catalog Follies

[Smithy]

I don't know when or whether I'll get around to that holiday baking, but I will give a preliminary report on petits fours. I ordered a bunch from Swiss Colony -- some to share and some to test. I'm not as disappointed as someone had suggested earlier in this topic. Maybe I'm just a cheap date. 🙂

 

Here's a sampler box:

 

 

...and cross-sections of five of those.

 

 

I was surprised to discover that the lemon petits fours have a delightfully tart flavor that plays off well against the frosting layers. The strawberry flavor leaves me unimpressed, as I'd rather expected. Ditto the ones with coconut. Overall, I think it's about the firm frosting (fondant, I think) with tender cake in between. I bought a batch of Chocolate Lover's petits fours for a friend, and discovered yesterday that its chocolate frosting layer is rich and fudgy.

 

These are good enough for me (as I said, maybe I'm a cheap date) and I doubt I'll go to the trouble of making them. The Bavarian tortes or other confections from Kaffeehaus, now...maybe those will be a challenge for later this month.

[Smithy]

I definitely won't be getting to a petits four project, and maybe won't even be cracking the cookbook for the Sacher torte recipes. But I do want to compliment Swiss Colony on their petits fours. Again, I may simply be a cheap date on this issue, but I think they're pretty good. I've been sharing them around with our mail and package delivery folks, too. They make a nice little treat for these folks who are working such long, cold hours.

 

 

Red Velvet. Junk food! Tasty!

[DesertTinker]

7 hours ago, Smithy said:

I definitely won't be getting to a petits four project, and maybe won't even be cracking the cookbook for the Sacher torte recipes. But I do want to compliment Swiss Colony on their petits fours. Again, I may simply be a cheap date on this issue, but I think they're pretty good. I've been sharing them around with our mail and package delivery folks, too. They make a nice little treat for these folks who are working such long, cold hours.

 

 

Red Velvet. Junk food! Tasty!

Hmm… I wonder if the petit fours come from different sources, the ones in the assortment packs (cheese, sausage, cookies, candies, etc.) are always individually packaged in plastic, also there are only the stripes and different colored coatings, no other decoration on them like yours have.

Edited December 16, 2024 by DesertTinker (log)