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Get ready for Broad Appetit 2010!

Veron — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:55:19 +0000

Mark your calendar for this Sunday, June 6th, because it's Broad Appetit 2010!

There will be macarons and cupcakes ofcourse! Macarons are great make-ahead treats because they need a couple of days to mature in flavor. Here are some behind-the-scenes from my marathon macaron baking sessions...

Chocolate macarons waiting to be filled with Espresso Buttercream

And my favorite macaron to make...

Passion Fruit-Milk chocolate

My least favorite thing to do is washing dishes...

Empty bowls of ganache

Don't worry, that ganache left on the spatula and bowls won't go to waste and was done on purpose.

I’ve learned my lesson…

Veron — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:57:32 +0000

Remember at the Bridal Show earlier this year, I nearly lost my voice repeating all five flavors of my macarons plus three flavors of cupcakes 300 times. Well this time for the Broad Appetit, I am more prepared ( I hope).

Let me present to you the macaron food pyramid. ("Hungry" Hubby undertook it upon himself to take pictures of the macarons stacked up like this...)

And the cupcakes? I am very excited to unveil....

... Petites Bouchees Cupcake flags! They are made by the ultra-talented Jen of Miss Pickles Press who I found while visiting Courtney's blog Little White Book. I am very impressed with the quality of Jen's work and look forward to working with her in designing more fine paper goods for Petites Bouchees.

I will try to remember to take pictures of our setup at Broad Appetit. I just baked 350 macarons and 160 cuppies and I am so freaking exhausted - not to mention having to package them. But they are totally worth it because they are too cute!

Oh and Richmond peeps, please visit the Petites Bouchees booth. We're #65 and are between Madison and Monroe! The cupcakes with the flags are in limited availability, so stop by early :). See you all (hopefully) at the Broad Appetit!

Petites Bouchees at Broad Appetit 2009!

Veron — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

I’ve had blogger's block before but this recent case is the worst of the lot. A girl can only have so much brain power and it doesn’t help if it is filled with thoughts of macarons and cupcakes – those sweets can take over the mind, especially since my legs turn to jello when faced with their utter cuteness. Anyway, before I forget I want to announce that Petites Bouchees will be at this year’s Broad Appetit!

There will be over 60 restaurants participating and some of them are my favorites too. The first Broad Appetit last year recorded 7500 attendees and the food actually ran out that the rain that day was a blessing.

The event this year is on June 7, Sunday from noon to 5pm. Now I know 5 hours is precious little time to sample all 60 restaurants (I’m participating as a vendor), but please leave room for dessert for my cupcakes and macarons. Now is the chance to taste them without buying an entire dozen! (And Rvafoodie just twitted me and said that macarons make "a pre-meal amuse bouche & a between dish palate cleanser")

For those on twitter I will twit on @kitchenmusings for my location and whatever is happening that day…maybe one of you can bring us food too just in case we are fortunate to be swamped and cannot leave our booth .