Earlier this week in Patisseries a Paris, I saw an image very similar to the above, and was instantly driven crazy with intrigue! The pastries in this Patisserie didn’t look like anything I had ever seen, yet I wanted to eat them more than any other pastry I had ever seen!
What you are looking at here is the Patisserie Sadaharu Aoki. Sadaharu Aoki, was trained in the art of pâtisserie in both Japan and France, so his work offers interesting twists, slipping Japanese ingredients into typically French confections, and applying the Japanese sense of detail and design to his presentation. His line includes pastries and entremets, cookies and cakes, chocolate confections and macarons — all of them strikingly beautiful and perfect. There are currently five Sadaharu AOKI boutiques in the world – three in Paris and two in Tokyo and a handful of restaurants and salons de thé in Paris feature his pastries on their menu.
I don’t know when i’ve ever seen anything more sophisticated yet more delightfully childlike in its colours and concept. My first thought was that they all looked like brightly coloured lipsticks or covetable eyeshadow tins at an expensive department store.
Delicacies such as; opera cake and lemon tarts, black sesame fondant covered eclairs, large spongy ‘macha duomos’, and pistacchio, caramel salé, violette, chocolat, fraise, framboise, pêche canalle, sesame noir, chocolat umé, flavoured macarons, amongst other colourful delights are served in abundance.
This is a ‘Macha Duomo’ which is a green tea-flavored ball of creamy goodness, containing a shell filled with sweet red bean paste, with a miniature matcha macaron stuck on the side! Pure art.
LOOK, at these eclairs!!!! Filled with options of green tea, caramel, black sesame and yuzu pastes.
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