[CAKE PAR-TEA] BROOKLYN AMERICAN CAKERY

Here I am again. Back to the blogger routine, sitting in front of my computer and then start writing. Today, I'm gonna show you here about my last event at Chakra Venue at The Breeze, Bumi Serpong Damai. It's CAKE PAR TEA event which is held by Brooklyn American Cakery, Premium cake provider based in Jakarta. Have u ever heard about Brookyln American Cakery? Let's read the full story.

As I told you before, This "PAR-TEA" held at Chakra Venue. That was my first time visiting Chakra since that day was my 9th month in Jakarta. As I read on its official website and I have proved it on the spot, Chakra has a wonderful architectural design which is surrounded by beautiful lake with some ducks every corner. You can enjoy your lunch, dinner, and casual tea with amazing experience that you don't wanna miss out. It is also providing place for wedding ceremony, wedding reception, birthday celebration, corporate gathering, and many more at Chakra Pavillion (Chapel) #chakralounge #chakrapavillion #chakravenue.

Chakra Pavillion (Chapel)

Beautiful Lake

As I entered the Chapel, I could sneak-peeking the beautiful decor inside from the outside.

Brooklyn

In the collaboration Versarabelle, Brooklyn had turned the Chapel into "Rustic Garden". Versarabelle is the specialist of event and interior decorations that established in 2013. You can find their office at Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, Indonesia. If you need some consultations on your party design, exhibition, interior design, hampers, dan goodies, maybe Versarabelle would suit up for you. As seen on their official website (versarabelle.com), I love their portfolio so much. There's no doubt, many business partners used their service such as The City Bazaar, Columbia Asia, Cosmo Girl, Luree, Summarecon Mal Kelapa Gading, SOGO, and also the Brooklyn Indonesia. 

Table Situation

My Place

View From Above

Rustic Garden

Romantic Flowers

Great Event, Great Music. Not focus on decoration only, Brooklyn also gave us more experience on the "PAR-TEA". Yay, they invited Eclat Story. I did enjoyed their acoustics performance because i felt groovy and romance inside the Chapel. My favourite song on the event from them is All I Ask (Adele Cover) which performed in duet version. I got another new music reference on that day. Eclat consists of Klara, Joshua, Yos, and Willy (missed out one name of the members). So, please listen to their music on You Tube and don't forget to subscribe.  

Eclat Story (Preparation)

All I Ask (Adele Cover) Performance

Let's move to the main event, #CAKEPARTEA. Actually, this was another cake tasting from Brooklyn. Many bloggers had also invited to taste amazing signature cakes from Brooklyn both sweet and savory. Brookyln has been established in Jakarta on June 2015. They create tasty and decadent cake in any new concept that I'm sure you never seen and tasted before. First of all, we learnt about cake layering technique shared by Brooklyn Indonesia's Pastry Chef, Dikdik Frima Suwarto. It was not easy as seen on cake layering. We need to practice a lot to be good on this skill. Thanks to Brooklyn for having us on this session. Before we started the session, we got a warm welcome from Lucas Costan as a public relation of Chakra Venue.

Warm Welcome from Lucas

Cake Layering Technique

Oh, that was very interesting for us. We have finally seen what happen in baking industry. Mr Dikdik gave us a lot of tips in cake layering technique.

Next session was my most favourite part of the entire event. It was "Garnishing Miniature-Cake" on the spot competition. They provided five basic toppings for us and we were allowed to bring any additional toppings. For the winner, we could get a prize of IDR 750,000.00 Pancious Group Voucher. On that day, I brought nothing into the competition and I would use the source from Brooklyn. Let me show you my creation, MarshMallow Band.

MarshMallow Band

This simple creation of mine was not too strong to win this competition. But I loved doing garnishing and I was happy. Hope it would be another competition ahead. Here is the creation of the winner, Steven Wang. He had been chosen as the most creative on the competition. I admitted that his garnishing skill was totally amazing.

Candy Lemon Treasure by Steven Wang

Now is the time for main event. It's cake tasting and Hell Yay, everybody loved it. Who doesn't resist for the cake. I couldn't stand seeing the delicious cake since I entered The Chapel. "When would I eat the cake?"' LOL.

SWEET CAKES
1. Black Sesame Matcha
This is green tea sponge with black sesame cream, covered with green tea frosting and whole ogura on top. I love matcha (green tea) flavour but I don't like anything related to sesame. In my humble opinion, This cake would be more delicious if It had matcha flavour only. The black sesame has ruins the authentic matcha flavour.

Ogura On Top

2. Strawberry Cheese Almond
Good news for strawberry lover. Brooklyn has this one. Cheese sponge layered with strawberry jam and cream cheese, also topped with almond cookies. Cool cakes and blend in cheese and strawberry. It is frosting consistency. Very nice, moist, rich, sweet, and it get more flavorful when I bite the almond cookies.

Topped  with Almond Cookies

3. White Coffee Chocolate
Coffee sponge filled with coffee jelly, crunchy sweet walnut, and white chocolate frosting. They are so skilled in what they do and have a great creation on flavour of the cake. Perfect balance of sweetness and moistness and you will fall in love with every bite. Since coffee is my personal favourite, this cake will be on my list. I think a few ideas has to be applied on this cake to make it more attractive on appearance.

White Chocolate Frosting

4. Carrot Crumble
Carrot sponge with cream cheese filling completed with crumble and walnut on top. Incredible, fabulous and taste great. The lightest and most enticingly moist carrot sponge you will ever come across. Brooklyn has it, now!. You will get extra texture from the chopped walnut and more juicy from frosting cream cheese.

Mini Carrot Crumble

5. Lemon Butter Cream
Lemon sponge filled with lemon jam, white chocolate, butter cream, and slices of lemon on top. Simply delicious yet refreshing taste. The texture was spot on fluffy and creamy. Well done, Brooklyn.

Slices of Lemon

6. Brooklyn Salted Caramel Honeycomb
Vanilla sponge with cream cheese filling, salted caramel sauce, Macadamia and honeycomb on top. Another killing cake from Brooklyn. A dense vanilla sponge that stands up well to the rich salted caramel sauce outer the frosting. The much desired crunch comes from crushed honeycomb and signature Macadamia. This cake is created magically. It's light and divine.

Honeycomb

7. Chocolate Marshmallow
Vastly rich chocolate sponge combined with almond completed with chocolate frosting, glazed with dark chocolate, and toasted marshmallow on top. I assume that anything related to chocolate will be so delightful for us. Yes, this is coincidence, I love this cake most because it is so scrumptious. The moist chocolate sponge melts in my mouth, sticky with fudge frosting on my tongue. The bitter and simultaneously sweet smell of the chocolate puts me in peaceful mind state.

Glazed with Dark Chocolate

8. Banana Palm
Banana sponge with coconut milk and palm sugar glazed. I do love banana but not so in love with coconut and palm sugar. I have to say, a tasty banana cake is good alternative when you're looking for a sweet treat and this Banana Palm is suit up for you. My review is just OK for this one but the palm sugar glazed beautifully outer the layer. Simple but significant in presentation.

Banana Sponge

SAVORY CAKES
1. Southern Chicken and Spinach
Mixed savory taste sponge cake of chicken and spinach. Topped with whole leg of fried chicken and waffle. I bet you guys first time seeing this cake. Wow, there is a fried chicken on the cake. I'm sure you will be curious about its taste. I think this is the brilliant idea from Brooklyn Indonesia to mix the chicken with spinach. Since that spinach only be applied on Parmesan Cakes commonly. In fact, the benefit of spinach is we will get "The Popeye" effect like ability to restore energy, increase vitality, and improve the quality of the blood. This cake is also dedicated for those who cares about healthy issue so they can eat cakes without any worry. Without being sweet, The cake is still worth to eat.

Fried Chicken

2. Beef Cheese Bolognaise
Cheesy savory based sponge layered with smoked beef cuts and spices. Accompanied with mashed potato frosting and Bolognaise sauce. As you see on the cake layering section, their pastry chef shared his technique on Beef Cheese Bolognaise cake layering. For me, this cake has a good presentation, so attractive. First taste impression is WOW! I love the way they use mashed potato frosting and combine it with beef on the cake. That's the warm authentic sensation of the cake. I can't deny my love for this succulent kind of cake.

Beef Cheese Bolognaise

That's all the whole signature cakes of Brooklyn Indonesia. Overall, I will give score 7/10 for the taste and 8,5/10 for the presentation. Thank you Brooklyn American Cakery for having us. We had so much fun!!

Come to the outlet and have your own review on the cakes. You can compare your review with mine by leaving your thought in the comment section below.

Brooklyn American Cakery Outlets
1. Pancious Mall Kelapa Gading 5
2. Pancious Central Park
3. Pancious Senayan City
4. Pancious Mall Puri Indah
5. Pancious Plaza Indonesia'
6. Pancious Emporium Pluit
7. Pancious Pacific Place Mall
8. Pancious Grand Indonesia
9. Pancious Mall Taman Anggrek
10. Pancious Pondok Indah Mall 2
11. Pancious Summarecon Mall Serpong 2

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