Café Papillon started out as a place to have coffee after the Café Royal became a hotel and then in 2016 opened as London’s first dessert lounge with ingenious menus based around dessert, cake and small savoury plates, it’s here that I brought my daughter to celebrate her 14th birthday. Renowned Café Royal pastry chef Sarah Barber remains at the helm creating cakes and desserts for the newly created Café Papillon as she did for the Dessert Lounge and the…
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Chocolate Soup, it just sounds sooooo very sexy, images of lovers jumping into a pool of rich silky chocolate and then…. well, I’ll leave that to your imagination. This dessert is the ultimate in…
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Chocolate pots are another really simple dessert and a chocolate lover's paradise!! Much the same as the lemon posset recipe (which you can look at here) with simple ingredients, you can create something so…
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Lemon Posset is one of those simple yet without doubt impressive desserts using three humble ingredients, lemon (or other citrus fruit, orange, lime even grapefruit) sugar and cream. With it's origins dating back to…
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I love Italy and its cuisine even more so. Having been to Italy many times - to Rome, the Amalfi Coast, Portofino and Venice, I have had the pleasure of eating some of the…