L'Eclair de Genie Mid-Autumn collection 2017

Since the opening L'Eclair de Genie at Pacific Place and Prince’s Building in autumn 2015, there are now branches in Kwun Tong, Olympic and Tai Koo.
For Mid Autumn festival, they have launched two festive eclairs and limited edition Mid-Autumn festival mooncakes.

The man himself Christophe Adam was in Hong Kong to showcase the new collection.

No 286 Chestnut Umeboshi is filled with vanilla mascarpone cream and chestnuts from France, following a layer of umeboshi confit which gives it a salty kick to complement the chestnut.
It is garnished with a white chocolate golden rabbit, golden leaves and chestnut cream to give it that Autumn festive character.

No 287 Red bean sesame is very buttery and a popular pick because it is infused with smooth red bean cream and sesame crisp garnished with a rabbit and lotus pattern on pink.

La Lune Mooncake gift box are 4 colourful milk or dark chocolate shells filled with goodies.

Two contain fruit jellies (lemon yuzu lemongrass, coconut pandan) and the other two are caramelized nuts (caramelized hazelnuts, almonds).

The jellies which appear to be wrapped in plastic are 100% edible because the wrapping is just rice paper.

Fruit jellies (pate de fruit) are a traditional French sweet treats that are made with natural fruit juice.

http://leclairdegenie.com.hk/81-mid-autumn-collection-2017

Novelty fun and delicious eclairs with quality

Before there was Arome bakery room, I rarely bought from Arome bakery because it sold cream cakes made with localised cream and other localised bakery items so it was not my cup of tea.
However Arome bakery room appeals to me because the bakery is Western style with a Japanese touch and the quality is slightly better leading to it prices higher than the ordinary Arome Bakery.

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As well as the bakery products, the design of the bakery and the menu matched the overal theme as well.
I really liked the eclair illustrations and the room where they actually make the eclairs.

 

 

The name of this shop is meaningful and there really is a bakery room.

 

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I was drawn to their eclairs because each one was neatly made and the icing was nicely finished off.
There were five flavours and I couldnt decide because each one was unique in its own way so I got them all and it seemed the box was made for holding five flavours perfectly.

 

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The eclairs cost $19 which is slightly cheaper than the average bakery item at Starbucks or Pacific Coffee and the quality is surprising good as well.
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White chocolate and citrus eclair
Although I do not like white chocolate, the white chocolate icing was not that creamy and on top of the eclair there were pieces of real dehydrated oranges which gave it a nice citrus taste to balance out the sweet white chocolate.
The dehydrated orange pieces were really nice.
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Green tea eclair
Usually green tea items are flavoured with green tea powder, however I was really impressed that on the top of the eclair it had real pieces of green tea leaves.
The filling inside was silky smooth green tea filling as well.
I do not usually like green tea but this one was nice.
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Chocolate and caramel eclair
The caramel pieces on top of this eclair were strong and you could taste the butteryness of it.
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Raspberry eclair
This is the most popular eclair sold at Arome Bakery Room, its appearance and taste did not disappoint.
It had freeze dried pieces of raspberry on top and raspberry cream custard in the middle.
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Dark chocolate and Hazelnut eclair
This was also one of my favourites because the filling inside had hazelnut flavouring and it was topped with generous amounts of roasted hazelnuts.
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