i stopped by my new favourite shop the other day — adriano zumbo — for a chorizo-and-olive baguette, to have with a bowl of the cauliflower and cumin soup i’d made the day before, with a whole cauliflower i’d bought for $1.82.
down the other end of the counter, a vision in pink caught my eye. little blocks lined up in a tidy row, and at the very front was a little card that said:
WIMBLEDON
pain d’epice and pistachio base, baked white chocolate cheesecake, raspberry mousse, creme fraiche.
ostensibly a white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake. a fairly classic combination… but with all sorts of insane detail. look! plump raspberries. chopped pistachios. white chocolate shards with arty marbling. squiggles of pink-tinged creme fraiche.
it was a fairly straightforward transaction up until this point: i was immediately won over by this cake, i had to have one, i placed my order…
and then the counterboy said, “that website, ragingyoghurt, is that you?”
GAH. sprung.
happily, the only chastisement i received was, “stop calling me ‘the counterboy’!”
so, the boy behind the counter, his name is charlie. and in case you were wondering, the macarons that day were mandarin, and hazelnut.
but i had my mind on other things.
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THAT is beautiful. im gonna try really hard to visit them soon.
Ahh,i’m in love,i need to visit this place,i can’t take it anymore!
oh wow! so i thought my problem was reading your blog when i was hungry.. have now realised that regardless of when i read it, it makes me hungry!!!!
hope your coughing less! im finished exams so let me know when you’re free! X
Oh my. That’s such a beautiful cake ! Yummm.
heh sprung! any freebies from the counterboy for mentioning him?
hello charlie. hello cake!
haha, i imagined he must have googled “adriano zumbo”. that’s one fine looking cake
sprung indeed! what was it that gave you away (or has he been politely making enquiries with every regular? lol)
the cake looks fine indeed. methinks i need to make my way over there, and soon!
hello everyone. wow. surely the most popular cake yet! so yeah, it was a little googling on charlie’s part, and an easily-identifiable little photograph of bunny-painted kid on mine. in case anyone is interested, the beautiful cake of the weekend was an oversize macaron filled with strawberries and cream.