/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12754875

>>12754904
>frozen solid berries that will soon melt and make everything watery

>>12754875
Your image looks like the color scheme of a camwhore’s bedroom

>>12755086
Fuck, we can't even have pastels now?

Traditional Glorious Japanese Desserf. $300 now gaijin

>>12755095
Looks very nice.

>>12755287
Wait until the seed autist enters the thread.

>>12754929
I think those are just lightly coated with fine sugar, but I could be wrong

>>12756158

>>12755319
fuck me

>>12755500
Nice get!

>>12755092
Man i fucking love pastel colors but they do seem to get a bad rep

>>12755095
that's not tamago nigiri

>>12757140
I make candy (hobby) and I have nothing against pastels other than their colors are synthetic as fuck. If they were natural, they would be pale but not pale in a cute way, but like a ghost.

>>12754875
Why did I click on this. I'm on a diet.

>>12754875

>>12754875

>>12754875
Here's another one

>>12754875
It looks similar to the one above, but I promise that you'll like it.

>>12756720
How are the cakes so cheap and the cup cakes so expensive makes me think

>>12754875
Fit only for instagram.

>>12754875
Who /teampeeps/?

>>12754875

>>12754875
More LGBT food

>>12757688

>>12757696

>>12754875
Emperor Palpatine returns in Star Wars Episode IX

>>12754875
go back to tumblr, FAG

>>12757708
PNW 10/10

>>12757709
Banana Bread

>>12757683
I like it has trippy LSD rainbow instead of layered gay rainbow

>>12754875

>>12757719
mods

>>12757683
That actually looks fucking scrumptious.

>>12757816

>>12757816
>this looks fucking scrumptious
the gay flag or the dessert butt pirate?

>>12754875
>>12754904
>>12756158
>>12756720
>>12757295
>>12757683
>>12757688
>>12757707

>>12757696
>>12757697
I will literally Find You and fucking Kill You

I made this cake for my daughter's baptism, what you guys think?

>>12758149
Do people get cake for baptisms? I just shook everyone in the church's hand

>>12758161
You didn't have a party after the church? Thought everyone did that.

>>12755301
That motherfucker has serious health issues lmao

>>12758149
Jesus died on this cake.

>>12758135

>>12758149
beautiful

>>12754875
>being impressed by 'basic instagram bitch' desserts

this pastel trend was semi cute for a few weeks years ago and now its just tired and overused

>>12756720
Is that a butt top middle???

>>12757719
TOO FUCKING FAR

>>12754875
I made this today.
Bread pudding, homemade salted vanilla caramel with a little scoop of Butterfinger ice cream.

>>12758690

>>12758691

>>12758149
trippy

>>12758690
Not bad, Anon.

>>12758991
Thank you very much. It could have been prettier I guess, but I didn't know I'd run across a thread that it would fit into.

>>12758149
that's some dedicated floral work, be proud of yourself

>>12758690
>>12758691
>>12758695

Good job anon! I bet it tastes great. Honestly though, the plating makes it look a bit like meatloaf and mashed potatoes or something--it could just be the photos/lighting.

A high tea place I went to recently

>>12758149
Very nice

>All this low-effort reddit meme garbage

>>12758149
>homemade cake
The top looks great, you just need to work on the sides, get longer offset spatula and work on single long strokes instead of manny small ones. I suppose that a Cross-shaped cake would be very awkward to work with, so I do not know if I could have done it better the first time.

Now, for a more serious and harsher comment, what were you using as frosting? I do not know how much of it is the picture quality, but it looks very grainy and thick, the frosting was detaching itself from the tip in a irregular way which affects the final look. Which is a shame since you put a lot of work into it

>>12760284
>phone out and on the table
Someone's not getting a second date

>>12757678

All the cakes contain the same cheap sponge middles that they make in batches of 20 or so and put sheets of fondant over. They don't take that much longer to make than cupcakes.

>>12760284

Huh, never actually heard of high tea before.

>"look at all these commoners enjoying afternoon tea! Well we'll make a superior one with luxury meats and fruits that they won't be able to afford gwahaawhaaaw"

>Want to be a Pâtissier
>Have warm hands
NOT FAIR!

Everything so far has being from Frank Haasnoot, the next three are by Garu Haru, a Pâtissiere from Seoul

>>12760698

As much as these are neat, I kinda get the idea that they ran out of ideas once they'd come up with layered cakes and mirror finishes.

>>12760717
Mirror glaces are very classical not. Something which I have seen more and more is this velvet finish you can thee in >>12760658 's chocolate rose and >>12760670 Who know what the next development will be, that sponge ring at the base of some cakes is something you see a lot in high pastries, I don't like it but I am sure in a few years it will be gone

Source in the filename for the next three

Do any of these actually taste good? Like something more than just sponge cake and sugar?

The next ones are made by Sebastien Bernis (Fug :DD:DDDD:D:DD) at the Mandarin Oriental in Macau

>>12760757
Most are mousse-based, with things like jelly, fruit purees and chocolate. Good cakes are not very sweet, imagine a dish that tasted like nothing but salt savory, sweetness is like that for desserts, you expect things like creme, fruit, chocolate, etc and not just sugar

>>12760753

Of course it has matcha in the middle. It's the salted caramel of high end pastries.

>>12760795
I was genuinely curious. In the states, our equivalent to stuff like this is white cake covered in fondant shaped 100 different ways. It makes quite a spectacle but it all tastes like shit

>>12760803
Is a pineapple and Verveine jelly
http://www.letribunal.com/anoa-mandarin-oriental/

>>12760812
The same happens in my country. Pastries are not seen with the same respect as salty-dishes. So their complexity is as one-dimensional as a piece of cardboard with a similar-tasting interior

>>12760812

Whilst there is a lot more effort put into the looks of these things than the flavours and they tend to to all be takes on 4-5 different items, they do put a lot of effort into the flavour. There's generally a bit focus on getting a variety of flavours into them so everything isn't just overpowered by one aspect like in shitty fondant covered cakes.

You put it into your mouth, get the flavour of the coating or icing, bit into it and get the texture of the pastry, the cream/mousse wipes your wipes your pallet a bit then you get a strong hit from the bit of filling in the centre.

>>12760831

Meh, still a tea.

>>12760831

Never had a Mille-feuille, are they as insanely sickly and messy to eat as they seem?

>>12760880
The only one I have had was a classical one with thinner layers that made it easer to cut It was flaky and very good, but the one I posted seems very thick, I am not sure how your are supposed to eat it without pressing down everything in the first cut. Maybe I am overestimating how hard it is and maybe it is easy to cut. Anyways the mouse should catch most of the flakes that fall off

Those sugar flowers in some of the cakes are a bit lazy in my opinion tbqhf

And that's all from me unless I remember some other chef I can steal nice pictures from

>>12760950

At least it's not spun sugar or caramel shards.

How much does it cost for one of these pastries or a slice of the cakes?

>>12760970
I have no idea because I am poor and I have never set a foot these, but here is the list of prices for other cakes served in the Honk Kong hotel in Hong Kong Dollars. The smallest one is $50 dollars. I don't think they sell slices, only whole cakes in smaller diameters.

And about the caramel shards, I know that you are supposed to add baking soda to prevent large crystals from forming, it makes it so the caramel breaks in your mouth in small pieces and gets dissolved by saliva almost immediately. My chef told me this was done mostly to stop people from eating what is basically glass, it also improves the texture.

Spun sugar looks good, tho, if done correctly

>>12761037

Smallest one is probably something that can be shared between 2-3 so it's about $25 a portion which is a bit eye watering but affordable as a once in a blue moon treat.

>>12761056
Well, that's how I believe one should consume desserts. Once a week at most, but of very good quality.
There are very few good pastries in my city, so I only eat cake (outside of school) when I go out with friends

>>12754875
NOTHING is more aesthetic than entrements
>small and personal
>sweet flavor but just enough
>delicate texture
>effay presentation
It's the perfect thing to get the last meal's taste out of your mouth without getting you too bloated.

>>12757673
>>12757660
>Not making the baby head out of cake, instead taking an inedible plastic head
disgusting

>>12760868
Just because it's a leaf?

>>12756720
Who looks at this and think its good?
>inb4: It's for children
appealing to children is how you get manchildren

>>12761408
I'm sorry you never had a 5th birthday party, fag.

>>12761408
Liking this kind of stuff doesn't make you a manchild. Maturity =/= Liking cute sugary things

>>12754875
I never thought food could look this gay

>>12761480
Not that anon but once a kid brought a cake to school and it was the littest. It was a jungle themed cake (idk why) with sparkly blue frosting for the amazon river (idk why we dont live in south america btw) and it was the coolest thing ever.
At least when I was even younger than that, they had cakes with printed photos on it and I thought the weird frosting they used tasted delicious. I wonder if it's fondant because if that shit was fondant, I don't get the hate. I would pull off the entire fondant and eat it before the actual cake.

>>12761550
This one time my mom made me a barnyard cake to take to school. It had little fondant animals and a "tree" with gummies growing on it and everything. My mom is based.

>>12761562
She is based, I agree.

>>12757683
There's a bakery near me that does a fucking delicious rainbow cake. I can't quite put my finger on it but the flavor reminds me of tropical fruit candy which really suits the appearance. I look like a faggot eating it but I don't give a fuck.

>>12761480
Sorry I forgot to mention why that has anything to do with your comment: basically, kids don't really like all that cutesy stuff that much. Even girls like more colorful stuff than anything.
The people who are making those pastel things aren't making them for children but for adults who can't connect to their child or adults who are doing a "thing" (like ladybug themed parties) which is okay.

>>12761590
Young kids (5 and under or so) like this kind of stuff though. Or at least their parents always get it for them.

>>12761608
There was a time where I realized that I only asked for thing because I thought that was I was supposed to like

>>12761093
yum

>>12758149
>>12758690
Whatever happened to people posting pictures of their food creations here? /ck/ used to be known as "where lonely fags post pictures of stuff they cooked for attention". Is it because of alternative attention whoring platforms? Are people scared of autistic doxers?

>>12757140
>Man i fucking love pastel colors but they do seem to get a bad rep

I've decide to just ignore rep. Otherwise neat things will always get 'ruined' by hipsters, just ignore hipsters and keep enjoying it.

>>12755319
I actually like this, I could smell the blueberries and butter.

At some point I would totally have to make some cake pops, but I want the center to be gelatine.

>>12758149
Looks really nice, hopes it taste good too, though I wish you had filmed this in better lighting and with something other than a potato.

I love the colour blending.

>>12757737

I have those same Christmas ornaments that I got from Dollarama.

>>12762159
Those look wonderful.

>>12762127
I love eating Osmanthus Jelly with Wolfberries (桂花糕) during dim sum in the summertime, it's such a cool and light treat that's mildly sweet, and it looks so pretty.

>>12762168
>Kolaches
These are Czech kolaches, I don't know if I have ever eaten them before, but the Polish bakery down at Mimico, Toronto (Universal Bakery) has these danish like things with an egg custardy center that I think is like the kolache on the far right of pic.

I wish I actually know the name of the things I was eating...

>>12762183
That looks delicious. I want one.

>>12762207
I think I remember seeing something like that (though I did not taste it) in another part of Toronto, no Polish, I think this is just an eastern european pastery, so you just find your eastern european bakery!

The center kinda taste like egg tart if it was kinda soft bread as well, I love it, it was sweet but not too sweet. Might pick up some this week, freezes and thaw rather well.

>>12758149
Nice one. I love the piping work.

>>12754929
Its about looks not taste

>>12758135
You won't do jack shit. How does this make you feel faggot?

>>12758631
Yeah, it's a bunny butt cake

>>12762626
It's too cute to eat and so cute I want to eat it all at once.

>>12762626
based

>>12758135
autism

>>12760283
>a bit like meatloaf and mashed potatoes or something
yeah, if i get more before it's gone, i will try to contribute in a better way.

>>12761259

because you brew it

>>12763438
So all broth is matcha

>>12762626
/comfy/