Kate of the Consolation

Kate of the Consolation; blithe Kate and bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the cursed. Mostly, just Kate the cursed. Follow me on Insta instead - rarerollingobject

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Thanks for your kind words, all. You can see (most of) my cakes at https://t.co/UWpfwxkE1S

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^ @15zanaz

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Lunar New Year cake! The pillow is Chinese Southern almond cake, with mandarin jelly, caramelised white chocolate ganache and stem ginger mousse. The snake itself is mandarin jelly. 🐍

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Cut pic!

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@15zanaz Cutting it tomorrow, will post a pic!

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@SharpShard @MichaelH_PhD Kuon Omakase is also good

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@SharpShard @MichaelH_PhD When do you need the booking at Yoshii’s for? If you DM me the details, I may be able to help

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@MichaelH_PhD Strongly disagree. This Sunday is in 6 days (in this example). Next Sunday is in 13 days, because it's not this Sunday.

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A cake inspired by Cressida Campbell’s still life masterpieces. And our shared love of nasturtiums.

Lemon cake with smoked cashew praline, exquisite Spanish crystallised violets, French (whole egg) brandy buttercream, and fondant pieces painted in edible food paint.

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Whale shark cake!

Devil’s food cake, dark chocolate ganache, rum-soaked raisins, salted butter caramel, smoked salt, pistachio praline and vanilla buttercream. And a whale shark I hand made and painted from sugarpaste and white food colour and edible isomalt splish splashes. 💦

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2/2 - the salmon is carrot cake, mandarin buttercream and modelling chocolate for the skin and flesh. Skin painted with edible lustre dust and I’m pretty happy with the scale texture I got on it.

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I have a friend who smokes salmon for a living. So what better to make him than a carrot cake salmon on a mousse pillow?

Pillow is yuzu mousse, mandarin ganache, candied yuzu peel, pistachio praline and carrot cake, sprayed with white cocoa butter for the velvet effect. 1/2

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@Rainmaker1973 It's very Eurocentric to give the French name for the technique when there's a perfectly good Chinese one - 切丝, qiē sī. I'd be willing to bet existence of this in imperial cuisine would have predated French kitchens by about a millennia.

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@MichaelH_PhD Incorrect..I plan all the places where we're going around where I want to eat.

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@StephanieRuff3 White Rabbit is a milky Chinese candy, lynch pin of all Chinese childhoods https://t.co/OICpZjYnVI

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Lunar New Year cake! 🐉

Butter cake brushed with Chinese sweet southern almond milk, candied walnuts, smoked salt and White Rabbit milk candy buttercream. Sprayed in red cocoa butter for a velour effect.

And dragons I molded, with a sparkler candle for some fire breathing.

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With 🔥

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Elvira with the Detachable Boobs cake.

Devil’s food cake with black cocoa buttercream, caramel and smoked salt. The eyeballs are white gumballs I painted with edible food paints.

Boobs are salt and pepper shakers, filled with maple sugar and cocoa for sprinklage over your cake.

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All the cakes I made in 2023 😅 https://t.co/2z0huNqGac