The undoubted confectionery trend of this year is a return to basics. No, this does not mean at all that we will eat honey cakes and cottage cheese rings again. This means that we go back in time for inspiration. New technologies, ingredients, tools have appeared and now you can replay the design and decoration of desserts. We are tired of molds, inedible decor and unnecessary piles. They will not disappear, but there is an opportunity to express yourself, develop your own style, make desserts new in the old way.
Frank Hasnot, Cedric Grolet, even Amari Guchon, known for his love of complexity, are starting to set the trend for artisan desserts. Why do we need a mirror glaze, if there is a shiny fruit jelly, we change the neutral gel to confiture, instead of mold, a bag and a nozzle are suitable, mastic is easily inferior to marzipan, dyes give way to sublimates and further on. We are on the verge of new discoveries, techniques, technologies, fresh ideas and unusual solutions. Desserts will become both simpler and more complex, they will be clearer and more surprising, the tastes will be calmer, but deeper.
Therefore, when I saw Grolet’s new cakes, I realized that I wanted to repeat them. Outside, it looks like a bright bag in which fresh berries were collected, but inside it is the same sponge cake with a layer of berries and a layer. Such a cake does not look pretentiously festive, you want to eat it for no reason, just with tea on a regular evening. I made a reimagined Queen Victoria biscuit – New Queen Victoria, it will get airier, get a new dense texture, but it will become juicier, and citrus notes will surprise anyone. You have definitely never received such an amazing result from simple ingredients. Further layers of whipped strawberry jelly, cream with berries and the most interesting. Cedric invented, but rather simply remembered the origins, that you can use marzipan as a covering for cakes. Looks amazing, the almond, slightly alcoholic flavor fits perfectly into the lemon-strawberry story, and the raspberry coloring adds volume to the strawberries. As a result, we get an incredibly simple and just as amazing cake! We have missed such trends for a long time!
