Anyway, cinque terre is flourless chocolate biscuit, citron crème, raspberry crèmeux, candied vanilla olives and chocolate cinnamon mousse topped with meringue. The mousse is deliciously chocolatey and rich but tempered by the bitter tang of the citron. The surprise of olives is embedded in the chocolate mousse. The bf commented, ‘Nice, isn’t it?’. ‘Ur mmm erhnmm’, I replied (translation: oh gosh, this is divine).
And speaking of weird names, what’s this? First, Ed is flavour of the month, with all sorts of proposals being thrown at him; now this. Tsk tsk, Ed. Knocked up, indeed!
** I did look it up, and cinque terre (as most people know, except me) are five coastal villages in the province of La Spezia in the Liguria region of Italy. Hence the olives in the cake!
Belle, I didn't know of cinque terre either! What I do know is that the gateau is completely delightful and I could happily have another five hundred. That shot of "ed knocked me up" is perfect - the coffee bean looks just like a navel...
ReplyDeletelin mei - yes, it is a rather fertile-looking cake! There is a piece of gold leaf on the other side, but I wanted the coffee bean navel shot...
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