Smoor’s new menu boasts sinful dark chocolate treats and textural desserts 

Sweet nothings
Smoor
Smoor

Chef Elaine Young has a job many would envy. As the executive pastry chef and chocolatier for Smoor, the chocolate studio, she formulates the creative recipes, plating and presentation. Now, she has created a new dessert menu for the lounge in Indira Nagar. We were invited for a sinful tasting last week as Elaine was down from Melbourne to introduce this new menu.


There are 15 new desserts on offer, each more enticing than the next. Elaine explains the process behind the selections, “Most of these desserts are born out of flavours that are already loved and created for Indians and presented in a way that would surprise and excite them even more.”


We started with the Pistachio raspberry and rose gateau, a sea green cake with a pistachio glaze with rose cream. The subtle raspberry gives the flavours a fine balance. The rainbow cake was a visual delight with seven layers of colourful sponge cake and topped with meringue rocks. One of our favourites was the Earl Grey and peach — an Earl Grey mousse with a homemade peach jam and almond streusel. Do try it if you are a lover of Earl Grey tea. Some other options include Almond praline St Honore, Coconut mango and cashew, and Smoked carrot.


Cocoa fantasy


All the chocolate creations in the menu had us craving for more. The 8 Textures of Chocolate, a favourite of Elaine as well, has layers such as mousse, namelaka (a type of ganache), meringue, croustillant, cocoa crumbs and is a chocolate lover’s delight. The aptly named, Intense, is just 70 per cent high quality couverture chocolate and is luxurious as can be. The Black Forest Choux is a chocolate pâte sucrée and a choux pastry with a cherry-almond coulis filling. The filling gives the necessary tarty edge.


There is a range of loaf-shaped travel cakes on the menu as well, which are easy to carry and serve. The Blueberry and almond travel cake with its milk chocolate couverture glaze makes for a great nibble with some tea. The Cranberry and walnut travel cake and the Caramel almond travel cake are nutty and soft at the same time. Overall, the new menu delivers on what Smoor stands for — guilty pleasures done right.

Rs. 800 for two. At Smoor, Indira Nagar. Details: 25211901
 

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