I designed a dessert for each zodiac sign
In my zodiac dessert series, I designed a delicious dessert for each sign over the course of 2021. This quarantine project had me dipping my finger into multiple dessert pots, tasting my fingers for conceptual personality parallels and visual symbolism to match each unique sign.
Capricorn Dessert: Goat Cheesecake Mountain
A mountain made of goat cheesecake and browned butter gingersnap crumb.
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Aquarius Dessert: Salted Creme Brûlée with Candied Hazelnuts and Spun Sugar Cloud
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Pisces Dessert: Raindrop Cake with Ube, Spirulina and Coconut
Edible fish flakes and coral, juice caviar, and coconut dust and sweet coconut cream surround a clear dome made with agar agar, a gelling ingredient derived from seaweed.
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Aries Dessert: Flambéed PB&J Birthday Bombe
This birthday bombe boldly boasts pound cake with a peanut butter and raspberry mousse core enrobed in spike-y meringue to be set ablaze with amber rum.
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Taurus Dessert: Edible Earth Petrichor Parfait
This parfait embodies the scent of petrichor with a rich chocolate mouse, chocolate edible earth crumb with puffed rice perlite, meringue mushrooms, pistachio moss, and finished with beet smoke.
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Gemini Dessert: Afternoon Tea Spread
Afternoon tea spread with floral jam petit fours and cucumber mint ice cream sandwiches with cream cheese sponge cake.
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Cancer Dessert: Moon Pies
Old-fashioned moon pies with moon crust shell. A twist on this southern classic treat of two soft graham flour cookies sandwiched with a generous layer of marshmallow fluff and a hard chocolate coating.
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Leo Dessert: Sunflower Croquembouche
A tall croquembouche filled with vanilla bean and sunflower seed butter creme diplomat and adorned with sunflowers.
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Virgo Dessert: Gâteau Mille-Crêpes with Lemon
A special version of the classic simply dressed crêpes with lemon and icing sugar, this crêpe cake is layered with lemon cream and garnished with candied lemon spirals.
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Libra Dessert: Balanced Honey Lavender Tart
A pastry tart shell is stood on its side and filled with a white chocolate lavender mousse and adorned with salted honeycomb and hard honey flower petal candies.
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Scorpio Dessert: Spiced Devil’s Food Cake Bombe
Devil’s food cake and cardamom chocolate mousse concealed with a chili spiked mirror glaze.
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Sagittarius Dessert: Naked S’mores Cake
Naked graham cake with smoked marshmallows, fireball ganache and graham cookie butter buttercream.
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