Its Chinese Moon Festival and Chinatown on this Tuesday night is very, very busy. To the left of Cafe Y2K is a cake shop that looks a little different to the numerous cake shops that dot Chinatown. Brown wood panelling and rich chocolate tones surround and whilst most breads look familiar they also have a selection of Portuguese custard tarts and some delicious mango cakes covered in overlapping slices of mango.
I am peckish for some dessert and ever since my first Mont Blanc crepe from Creperie Stivell in Paddington many moons ago (is it still around?) with sweetened chestnut puree and lashings of whipped cream, I’ve been a chestnut puree devotee, even buying it by the jar and eating it with a spoon.
So it goes without saying that when I see the “Chestnut” cake in the display ($3.95) I mutter “You will be mine!” under my breath. They box it up prettily and I rush back to sink my fork into this baby.
Outside are ribbons of sweetened chestnut puree combed and dusted in icing sugar with half a sweetened chestnut and a chocolate leaf adorning the top. I cut into the cake to reveal a pillowy soft vanilla sponge surrounded by whipped cream with a custard centre. The cake is sitting upon a disc of sweet, very buttery flakey biscuit. It is heavenly and air light-the soft sponge, whipped cream, custard and chestnut puree melting in the mouth. Its gone in 5 blissful forkfuls.
Montagne Bleue Patisserie
45 Dixon Street, Haymarket (to the left of Y2K supercafe which is 43 Dixon St)
For every $10 spent, you receive a free bread.
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oh yum, i love chestnut puree too!
the chestnut tart from emperor’s garden is my usual fix. it’s a whole mountain of piped chestnut… deliciousness indeed!
Hi Helen-the chestnut tart sounds like a definite must try. There’s something so appealing about a mountain-like pile of sweetened chestnut puree!
I think the mango cake looks nice… wonder if it is nice inside.
Hi Popeye-sounds perfect for a birthday cake no?
Perhaps they sell it by the slice and you could try a slice first.
oh yes the tart is fantastic. thin crisp shell, a pillow of fake cream and a beehive of chestnut string on top.
ps is it montague or montagne bleue? all this time i’ve called it montague bleue. the font is very tricky to read!
Hi Helen-That description sounds fantastic-I’ll have one in every colour!
I’m not quite sure, we thought it was Montagne Bleue as it means “Blue Mountain” in French and the image in the logo is a blue mountain but it seems that everyone else thought the same as you from searching google as there are numerous references to “Montague Bleue” but only one to “Montagne Bleue”! Although neither shows up on whitepages.com.au. Very hard to read writing indeed.
hmmmm…. you make a very strong case and yes, further scrutiny of the font makes me think it probably IS montagne. argh, i will have to untrain myself, and yes, how strange too that everyone else calls it montague. what to do!
Hi Helen-With the amount I’ve examined the sign, I feel like a forensic writing specialist
Perhaps they should go by both names!
one of the chinese characters in the sign means mountain (not sure about the other word) so i’m sure it’s bleue mountain.
Hi Blythe-ah ok another confirmation that it is indeed mountain. I didn’t even think to look at that!
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