Lucia's Wine Dinner Dessert Gotham

Chocolate mousse, hazelnut nougatine, hazelnut powder, caramel sauce, hazelnut cake,

candied hazelnuts, hazelnut tuile, hazelnut frozen yogurt

Nice one Lucia!

Opus Dinner Gotham

Chocolate and Blood Orange

64% ganache, chocolate crumble, blood orange and campari gel, chocolate sauce, blood orange tuile, blood orange segments, blood orange sorbet

Molecular recipes-Blackberry Cremeux

http://www.molecularrecipes.com/multiple-techniques/blackberry-textures-chef-russell-karath/

Gotham Dessert

Walnut custard, poached pears, walnut crumble, pear puree, maple gel, candied walnuts,

pear walnut cake, walnut ice cream, red ribbon sorrel

Dessert Special Hakkasan

Walnut cream, cardamom sponge, sesame powder, crystalized pine nut, sake gelee,

 lychee gel, black sesame ice cream, coffee ice cream, red ribbon sorrel 

Lilly's Dessert Gotham

Coconut mousse, passion fruit cream, coconut biscuit, ginger citrus sorbet, lime meringue, ginger gelee, coconut powder, lime marshmallow 

Really well done Lilly!

Silicone Molds

The use of different shapes is essential in pastry. I really love using silicone molds. They offer both versatility and consistency. As you may already know from looking at my pictures...I really like spheres and dots. To get perfect spheres or hemispheres (half circles) you really should use silicone molds. When purchasing silicone molds there are a few things you must consider...what am I going to be molding? Is the mixture hot? Am I going to need to bake or freeze the item? How am I going to unmold the product? These are all questions you must ask yourself before deciding which type of mold to use. There are a few different places where I go to purchase my molds. JB prince in NYC has quite a large selection of nice molds. Another really great source is the Chicago Mold Making School. Here is a link to there geometric mold section of there online store.

http://store.chicagomoldschool.com/category_s/5.htm

Here is a picture of my favorite mold...The popup sphere mold...a single piece sphere no lines...really nice mold.