Last December, my sister and I walked the whole of London in
a day. I don’t want to exaggerate, maybe not the whole of London, probably about
95%. Its 6 months later and there are two things that’s stand out from our time
in London… 1. Just how far we walked that day and 2. The delicious raspberry
white chocolate square we treated ourselves to as our reward for walking so
far.
Our plan had been to have a quick coffee and carry on
walking. But the plan rapidly changed as
we set eyes on the beautiful white squares sitting in the display case just
begging to be eaten. We bought one to
share and quickly regretted the decision!
With each bite we mentally deconstructed it so that we could recreate it
when we got home. Luckily for us it came
from a little coffee shop called Starbucks, so we knew there would be plenty more
taste testing opportunities.
So continuing with my list of things I want to make, number
2 was the amazing Raspberry white chocolate squares and a recent addition to
the list was Petit Fours. In my head,
recreating the squares encompasses both of them so I can now tick them both
off.
In theory it should have been quite easy to make, but to
match a flavour profile from only photo and a 6 month old memory was a bit of a
challenge. Once the flavour was right,
the actual coating of the cake took some skill.
I wish it was an elegant process, but the first few attempts resulted in
me having chocolate dipped hands with minimal coating on the cake. But finally through pure trial and error, I think
I have them as close to my memory as possible.
Now that I've matched it, I think the only next logical step is for me to return to London to make sure they taste exactly the same!
