tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58231599937479184172024-03-21T16:38:42.842-07:00Marron and DolceWe are a small artisan patisserie dedicated to supplying high quality handmade pastry, deserts, chocolates and bespoke cakes.At Parnell Farmers Market each saturday 8am-12pmMarron and Dolcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002849818965692386noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823159993747918417.post-51818142181002422013-04-23T00:07:00.000-07:002013-05-01T14:21:31.414-07:00Custom Birthday Cakes<div style="text-align: center;">
The following shows an example of a fondant wrapped customised birthday cake which needed a touch of humor and novelty to reflect a particular interest of the recipient. We can create birthday cakes in a range of flavors including (but not limited to) ...<br />
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dark chocolate mud<br />
raspberry and white chocolate<br />
traditional fruit<br />
vanilla<br />
almond<br />
lemon<br />
banana<br />
hummingbird<br />
carrot<br />
gluten free orange and almond<br />
chocolate<br />
gluten & dairy free dark chocolate</div>
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Marron and Dolcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002849818965692386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823159993747918417.post-30181836050561771702013-04-23T00:00:00.001-07:002013-04-24T13:58:06.231-07:00Corporate Favours at National Awards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Marron & Dolce recently supplied 170 corporate branded chocolate truffle favours for a National Awards event held at the new Auckland Art Gallery.</div>
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The chocolate truffles (one each of white chocolate & raspberry and dark chocolate & hazelnut praline) were presented in a small box at each table setting with the awards logo on the box.</div>
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A little chocolate treat was a nice surprise for guests at the event. The chocolates we make don't use any preservatives and are made with real cream ganache - so you can really taste the difference.</div>
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The event organisers gave us the following feedback:</div>
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"Marron & Dolce certainly delivered on our brief: Classy chocolates to match our red carpet event! They looked superb and tasted divine - the perfect branded boxed gift for our guests." </div>
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We can customise a gift for your corporate promotional needs - just give us a call to discuss.</div>
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Late Summer has been a busy season for weddings with a range of gorgeous cakes created. A theme coming through is one of simplicity - especially for fondant cakes. Clean lines and use of real flowers as the feature and just really good quality cake made with the best ingredients.</div>
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Many weddings are now held in winery venues and a recent cake we did followed that theme with fresh grapes and grape leaves used as the decoration - we think the result is fresh and fit well with the wine barrel cake stand and location for the wedding. </div>
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"Thank you so very much for your amazingly delicious cupcake wedding cake you made us. Wow it was brilliant and all our guests raved about it.</div>
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You made our day that so much more special.</div>
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We still can't believe how amazing it was.</div>
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We can't thank you enough! It was worth every dollar spent".</div>
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An April wedding with a peach colour theme and 94 white chocolate wrapped individual cakes (with top cutting cake) displayed on crystal drop tiered cake stand.</div>
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Each tier of the stand had a different flavoured mini cake; lemon syrup, chocolate mud cake & white chocolate and raspberry. Extra cakes that don't fit on the stand can come out later so each guest has their own mini-cake.</div>
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Last year was the first christmas for Marron & Dolce and we produced a range of edible gifts ready packaged. </div>
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Traditional european christmas cookies were also a nice treat for gifts or the christmas table.</div>
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We had fun ensuring a christmas feel to the farmers market stall to ensure everyone's shopping was a pleasure during the crazy build up to christmas.</div>
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We will produce a broader range of beautifully packaged gifts for christmas 2013 - including the popular quince jelly (great with roast pork and turkey), our famous tamarillo chutney - watch this space.</div>
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A summer savoury item we are now selling at the <a href="http://www.parnell.org.nz/Parnell-Trust-Farmers-Market-Auckland">Parnell Farmers Market</a> is a range of savoury quiche. As with all our products, the quiche is made using free range eggs, Clinton's hand-made pastry and quality ingredients including herbs from our garden.</div>
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Current flavours include a traditional quiche lorraine (pictured above) with free range bacon, onions, fresh thyme and cheese, smoked salmon & feta with dill or sage and vegetarian with mixed seasonal vegetables, feta and marjoram from the garden.</div>
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Fondant and royal icing wedding cakes still remain a favourite. Current styles tend to be simpler and have a clean look with feature flowers. This cake uses a simple one colour fondant rose that links with the bridal colours to create a contemporary wedding cake.<br />
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Due to demand from our customers, Clinton is now producing a range of boutique danish pastries for the Saturday morning <a href="http://www.parnell.org.nz/Parnell-Trust-Farmers-Market-Auckland">Parnell Farmers Market</a>. </div>
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The point of difference with Marron & Dolce danish is our use of real ingredients and hand-made pastry. We only use real butter - and that is what makes all the difference to a real crispy flaky danish. We like to use interesting and seasonal fruits on the fresh fruit danish, so far flavours have included rhubard & elderberry, damson & apple, pear, strawberry, plum (a favourite with our customers), peach, traditional apricot, feijoa & apple, cinnamon spiced apple and quince. </div>
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We've now got a custom-designed marquee at the Parnell Farmers Market. We have included images of our products on the marquee to ensure everyone knows what we are selling at the market. This may seem odd but we have found that because we keep all our products in perspex covered boxes for health reasons people often didn't realise what we were selling. Hopefully the crisp new marquee will draw in even more customers - keep an eye out for us and call in!</div>
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We have put in place a number of sustainable business initiatives to ensure that we minimise our impact on the environment wherever possible.</div>
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We operate with a Four bin system in the kitchen (food waste, organic, non-organic and recyclable), with all organic waste going to our on-site worm bins which in turn produce wonderfully rich organic compost and vermicast for our vegetable garden and orchard fruit trees.</div>
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Our worm bins are made using recycled bathtubs and produce both vermicast compost and worm tea.</div>
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Worms mix the minerals and organic matter in our kitchen waste with enzymes inside the worm's gut making minerals and nutrients more available to the plant in a slow-release form. The great thing about worm composting is that the action of the worms means the compost (called vermicast) is created more quickly.</div>
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So these little guys do a fantastic job of helping us keep our business more environmentally friendly! Vermicast is a wonderful soil conditioner, rich and full of healthy bacteria and soil life than ordinary compost and has been shown to grow healthier plants and hold more moisture than ordinary compost.</div>
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If you can get vermicast or make your own with your own worm farm, then you only need to apply small amounts, so it can cover a larger area of garden than ordinary compost. Used as either a solid or liquid, it will not burn plants and can be used for all types of plants in the garden. It is certainly starting to have results in our garden.</div>
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A beautiful and rich organic compost of vermicast takes only a few weeks to be created from all the organic food wast from the kitchen.</div>
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Auckland Council has some great information on how to start out with worm farming at the following link: <a href="http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/council/services/garden/worms.asp">http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/council/services/garden/worms.asp</a> </div>
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Other sustainable business initiatives include the obvious one of working from home - therefore reducing our travel requirements, using our own produce (and/or local Kaipara produce) whenever possible ensuring minimisation of food miles and in the not too distant future we will be installing a living (green) roof on our kitchen area to reduce or even eliminate the need to summer cooling in the kitchen.</div>
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If you like the modern 'mad hatter' style cake, then this vibrant pink 3-tier fondant cake will liven up any pink inspired wedding day.</div>
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One of the great pleasures we have at Marron & Dolce is using our own produce from the garden in our products. We grow a range of fresh herbs which we use in a variety of products including our herb rolls (a real farmers market favorite).</div>
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We can't get enough of herbs and in our kitchen garden have the following: rosemary, french tarragon, chives, marjoram, thyme, vietnamese mint, bay, basil, lemongrass, lemon verbena, dill, lavender, oregano, sage, parsley (flat and curly), coriander and lemon balm - but the list keeps growing each year as we plant more varieties. We will keep expanding our range of home-made products that utilise our herbs (we're currently experimenting with home-made herb pasta) because we believe they not only taste better, but often have medicinal and nutritional benefits.<br />
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We are now a regular store-holder at the <a href="http://www.parnell.org.nz/Parnell-Trust-Farmers-Market-Auckland.htm">Parnell Farmers Market</a> selling a range of home-made quality pastries, fresh filled and plain rolls and other farm-produced seasonal products. Feedback from our regular customers has been great and we are looking forward to continuing to provide high quality artisan products to visitors at the market. </div>
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The following show some of the range of products we have at the market - we regularly change what we make to ensure variety for our customers.</div>
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Using our custom-designed and built tiered cake stand, Clinton has designed a decadent spring inspired wedding cake with white chocolate wrapped individual cakes. We think this cake is perfect for a spring or summer garden wedding or those wanting to use the modern crisp green and white theme for their wedding.</div>
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Creating and decorating a child's novelty birthday cake doesn't need to be a daunting task. One of the easiest and most successful approaches is to create a 2-dimensional shape of your chosen animal, car, or storybook character. By sticking to 2-d (rather than 3-d) you avoid any possible collapses of cake and don't need to put in supports - but you still achieve a great look.</div>
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Additional advantages of this approach ensure you have enough cake for all your guests. The pukeko above was draped in colored fondant.</div>
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The steps in a 2-d cake creation can be seen in the following pictures of the Gruffalo cake we made for our nephew - it involves baking a large slab of your (or the birthday girl or boy's) favorite cake flavor (big enough to cut out the desired shape). Print out an image of the shape you want as a guide and then cut out (sculpt) with a sharp knife and cover with a layer of ganache ready for the top layer of fondant or further ganache decoration.</div>
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A select range of our savory and sweet patisserie products are now available at particular farmers markets in Auckland. You can find us at the <a href="http://www.parnell.org.nz/Parnell-Trust-Farmers-Market-Auckland.htm">Parnell Farmers Market</a> for the next month and we had a successful debut at the Coatesville market last week.</div>
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Marron & Dolce will be available for consultations and have a display of our wedding cake and favors range at the <a href="http://www.ascensionwine.co.nz/weddings">Ascension Wedding Fair</a> in March and May. Come and meet Clinton to discuss your wedding cake requirements and be inspired.</div>
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A croquembouche is a traditional French pastry that is often the pride of place at weddings and other special occasions in Europe. It consists of a cone of choux pastry buns (or profiteroles) filled with cream fillings. The traditional decoration is caramel with threads of caramel and other sugar work decoration, but it can also be created with chocolate (white and dark). The one featured below was created by Clinton and has sugar ribbon decoration.</div>
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We are known for our rich dark chocolate mud cakes, ideal for any special occasion - whether it be a dinner party desert, birthday celebration or wedding.</div>
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The tumble of dark chocolate curls and wrapped smooth chocolate sides over a chocolate ganache and with mud cake interior is a chocolate lovers dream.</div>
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A 8 inch cake (featured in photos) </div>
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We have created a custom designed crystal beaded and perspex tiered cake stand which provides a wonderfully dramatic way to display individual wedding cakes. The stand can accommodate the normal cup-cake but we think that the tapered fondant covered or chocolate wrapped option has a bit more style than cupcakes. We provide the stand hire within the price of the cake.</div>
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The top of the stand has a traditional cake which is used for the cake cutting ceremony and can be decorated to match your wedding theme (in this example pink bridesmaids dresses and pink flower bouquets). Individual cakes are created to the exact number your require for your guests.</div>
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The beauty of individual cakes is that they can then easily function as the full desert for your wedding and different cake flavors can be made to suit all your guests tastes, from chocolate to vanilla and anything in between. </div>
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If you have a particular theme for your wedding or a special setting where you first met which you would like to be featured through your wedding cake, then we can talk to you about how to best create a bespoke design to reflect your needs. Clinton has years of experience in knowing what is possible and how to achieve particular effects and will be able to guide you to the perfect cake choice.</div>
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The example below was for a couple who were both skiers and met on the slopes and had a winter themed wedding. The fondant cake was created to reflect a mountain ski run, with edible snowflake decorations and two glass skier cake toppers.</div>
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You often hear people talking about the need to temper chocolate. The tempering of chocolate is a process which ensures you get the best from your chocolate by creating a smooth and shiny finish and a clean snap (when broken) to the chocolate.</div>
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If you do not follow this process of heating and cooling to just the right temperatures then the crystallisation of the cocoa butter and mass will not occur correctly (and you will get the white colored 'bloom' that sometimes you see on store bought chocolate that hasn't been kept in hot conditions). Tempering creates small crystals which improve the quality of the chocolate and is imperative to good quality chocolate work.</div>
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At Marron & Dolce we hand temper our chocolate. This process involves melting the chocolate in the right way and then working the chocolate on a large marble slab (to keep cool) until it has reached just the right temperature using specialised scrapers. The chocolate is then returned to the bowl and heated again to the right temperature for use.</div>
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We thought you might like to see the process involved to create the high quality chocolate we use in our products and how important it is for the quality of the end product.</div>
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Another type of chocolate cake decoration can be achieved with white chocolate sculpted ribbons - they look just like fabric ribbons but with the added advantage of being edible! The ribbons can be different colors and forms - whatever might suit your requirements.</div>
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This example is from a garden wedding with dark chocolate mud cake with white chocolate smooth coating and white chocolate ribbon decoration with rose buds, petals and ivy leaves from the bride's bouquet that also linked with the decoration of the tables at the wedding dinner.</div>
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At Marron & Dolce we only use the best quality couverture. Knowing the difference in quality between couverture and other chocolate products (such as compound and cooking chocolate) is important if you are wanting to ensure a 'real' chocolate experience and quality product.</div>
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Couverture is the name of a professional-quality chocolate product with a high percentage of cocoa butter, at least 32%, and as high as 39% for good quality couverture. The extra cocoa butter allows the chocolate to form a thinner coating and has a cleaner taste and less fatty texture on the palette. Couverture requires expert handling as it needs to be tempered to maintain a quality finish - the snap, shine and depth of color typical of excellent chocolate work.</div>
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Compound or cooking chocolate has part or all of the cocoa butter replaced by vegetable fat and usually a whole range of whey powers and other ingredients. Sometimes the cocoa mass/liquor is also replaced by cocoa powder. It is a lower grade product and easier to work with but does not have the flavor or texture of couverture. At Marron & Dolce we do not use compound or cooking chocolate as we feel it results in an inferior product that doesn't do chocolate justice!</div>Marron and Dolcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002849818965692386noreply@blogger.com0