Kawaii Panna Cotta

Usagi-chan & Kuma-chan Panna Cotta with Fresh Blackberry Sauce

Recipe adapted from allrecipes.com

Made with teddy bear/bunny molds bought from Daiso.

Panna cotta with fresh blackberry sauce.

A little side project: Cera was craving panna cotta today, and since it is super easy to make, she thought she'd make some, and put her new animal molds to good use! Aren't they super cute?? Cera changed the original recipe a bit by adding an extra packet of knox gelatin so that the panna cotta would not break when removing from the molds. She also made blackberry sauce instead of strawberry sauce. The panna cotta was delicious! Nice and creamy but light at the same time. The last time Cera made panna cotta, it turned out way too sweet! We highly recommend this recipe.

Afternoon Tea at Adorabelle Tea Room & Gift Shop

Adorabelle Tea Room & Gift Shop
12051 Third Avenue
Historic Steveston Village
Richmond, BC V7E 3K1
Phone: (604) 241-1947
Inquiries: hello@adorabelletearoom.com
Reservations: reservations@adorabelletearoom.com
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Adorabelle was such a cute little tea room! The place has a warm, cozy and girly feel to it. Definitely a place that must be revisited! The building used to be a old courtroom in the historic village from our local city.

The Menu of Adorabelle Tea Room

Adorabelle's choice of tea!
Wish chose the Sakura Green Tea while Cera chose the Chamomile Blend.

The set up of the teacup. Super cute, isn't it?
The napkin is folded like a rose!

Teacup, Teapot, and the cute Honey cube =)

The 3-tiers of treats!

Since there wasn't enough room on the their for 3 people,
Wish got a 3-tiered tray to herself!

Bottom tier: Tea Sandwiches
 Cucumber Sandwich
Egg Salad Sandwich
Chicken Salad Sandwich
Roast Pepper Sandwich

Top tier:
Mini Chocolate Cake
Blueberry Meringue
Poppyseed Shortbread Cookie
Mini Cupcake
Cream-filled Strawberry

Home made berry jam and sweet Devonshire cream for the scones

And finally, the decor of the Tea Room:

This is the decor on top of our table!
The other side has a painting view of the Eiffel Tower at night!

The very cute receptionist area of Adorabelle Tea Room and Gift Shop

The cute accessory products that Adorabelle Tea Room and Gift Shops.

=)

Cute aprons, so Lolita-like.

The Verdict:
Afternoon tea at Adorabelle was both charming and quaint. The napkin roses were a nice touch and romantic french music in the background added to the ambiance. We loved that they offered little honey blocks on top of regular sugar! Cera preferred the savories over the sweets but we both agreed that the fresh-baked, still hot scones were delicious! The only downside of this experience was that our afternoon tea was cut short after an hour as they were fully booked that day and needed to set the tables for the next service. We usually spend at least an hour and a half, to two hours at tea so we were sad about our short teatime =(. Otherwise, at $23 for adults, and $16 for children, Adorabelle is a great place for afternoon tea! Be sure to check out Steveston Village while you're there!

Kracie Popin'Cookin' - Sushi Kit

Hello everyone! Wow.. Can you believe it's already August? And our last post was back in July. We've been pretty busy lately but we finally found time to get together to make more interesting sweets. Without further ado, here is our sushi candy!

The box :)

The packaging of the ingredients

The ingredients ♥

Making the rice

"Rice" - ramune flavored

Onto the toppings (grape flavored)

...More toppings (grape flavored)

Tamago (yellow), Salmon (red) and "rice"

Making some "magic" water :)

...And the "magic" ingredient

THE FUN PART! - IKURA MAKING (salmon roe)

Drop the orange liquid into the water solution and it forms balls! How neat is that? ♥

Stretching the grape flavored gummy to make seaweed wrap for the sushi.
The width and length can be found on the pakaging.

Now that everything has been made, lets make some sushi!

Ikura (salmon roes) also grape flavored

The soy sauce

After splitting the rice and adding the toppings...

Tada!

 The Verdict:

Rice:
When we began mixing the powder with water, it smelled like ramune, a popular Japanese soda.  At first glance, the texture seemed very realistic, very rice-like. However, upon tasting it, the texture of the candy rice was wet and squishy and almost unpleasant; at least it still tasted of ramune.

Toppings: Tamago and Salmon
Somehow, we think we added a bit too much water and as a result, our tamago and salmon jelly turned out really watery. The grape flavor was also quite diluted. As for texture, imagine a mushy, grainy jelly.

Ikura (salmon roes):
Making these eggs was definitely the most fun part of this kit. In addition, we found them to be the most delicious (and edible) out of everything in the kit. The texture is very similar to the real salmon roe and bursts when chewed.

Seaweed:
The gummy for the seaweed was a bit dry and easily broke if over-stretched. It tasted of grape and the texture was like chewing bubble gum.

Overall:
The sushi kit is super easy and fun to make!

At least they look delicious :)

いただきます!!!!

Thanks for reading! See you all next time

Love,
Cera & Wish

Afternoon Tea at Patisserie Für Elise

Pâtisserie Für Elise
847 Hamilton St
Vancouver, Canada
(604) 684-1025
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Picture from Fur Elise's Facebook

A sneakpeak of the interior

The elegant chandelier... Haha, yes, I have to take a pic of that

The tea set for our selected menu

Wish's tea set - Honey Scented Tea

Bird-shaped tea filter =) (the filter was suppose to rest on the rim of the teacup and then you pour the tea into the cup...but that never occurred to us /derp)

Montblanc - Chestnut Sweet

Our tier of cute snacks! =)

Bottom Tier (Savories)
Handmade Jam
Prosciutto Croissant
Wild Mushroom Quiche
Cucumber Dill Finger Sandwich
Plain Scone

Top Tier (Sweets):

Macarons: Rose and Strawberry

Pâte de Fruit (Apricot)
Lemon Delight
Für Elise 

Chef's Choice - Sachertorte

The mini display on the first floor. (The second floor is a tea room and the first floor has a bakery)

 The verdict:
Afternoon Tea at Für Elise Patisserie is definitely worth checking out. The decor is very feminine and elegant, with a European flair, and would be a great place to relax with the girls. The savories were delicious, although slightly large for finger-sandwiches, and the sweets were well executed. Cera, the self-claimed "Afternoon-Tea Addict" was disappointed that Devonshire cream was not provided, although the waitresses kindly found some for her. Also, the macrons were well made: fluffy and sweet with no air pockets. ♥

Kracie Happy Kitchen - Donut Kit

Hi everyone!

So for our first project, we'll be making the Kracie Happy Kitchen - Donut kit. From the packaging, the end result looks super cute! Let's see how ours turns out =)

Super cute donuts on box!

The back of the box with instructions

The tray and the magic ingredients

Vanilla dough and mixing tray

Fill water up to the line, and add the powder

Vanilla dough

...after a lot of mixing...

Chocolate time =)

=)

Dividing the dough into 5 pieces each

Dough in molds

HOW CUTE IS THAT?!

Time for the frosting, strawberry first

...and the vanilla and chocolate frostings

かわいい!!!! <3

The Verdict:

Dough:
The vanilla flavored dough smelled great when we began mixing it, but had a very light, almost non-existant vanilla taste. It was also somewhat wet and squishy. The chocolate flavored dough tasted more like chocolate and the taste was not as diluted as the vanilla. 

Frosting:
Strawberry - The strawberry frosting smelled and tasted like Strawberry Pocky ♥
Chocolate - The chocolate frosting's texture and consistency is similar to that of chocolate syrup. Wish thought that it tasted like Nutella. It was also considerably less thick than the strawberry and vanilla frosting.
Vanilla - Smelled like vanilla and tasted like icing sugar.

Overall:
So cuteeee

Thank you for reading! See you next time

Cera & Wish