Topic: Chocolate cheese cake or mousse
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Sun 11/21/10 10:56 PM
Edited by RichardSchulz on Sun 11/21/10 11:13 PM
I am the head Pastry chef at Orso and the Brew House in Anchorage Alaska I have to change up the menu so I was thinking of putting on a dried cherry and almond tart with a brandied whip cream and a brown butter ganache so to do this I have to take a desert off the menu so what is it going to be the mascarpone dark chocolate cheese cake bomb or the espresso dark chocolate amaretto mousse??? I can not make up my mind so your help would be appreciated

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Mon 11/22/10 02:23 AM
which one does your customers like the most thats the one i would keep and then go with your new one good luck

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Mon 11/22/10 02:27 AM
Hard to go wrong with cheesecake.........smokin

metalwing's photo
Mon 11/22/10 05:25 AM
Mousse is a wonder and cake is good ... but never as good as mousse.

People can get pretty good cake anywhere. Keep the moose! It's an Alaskan tradition!

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Mon 11/22/10 05:30 AM
I'd say get rid of the mousse, but that's only because it's expresso flavored. If it were just chocolate mousse, I'd keep that.

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Mon 11/22/10 05:44 AM
Edited by tazzops on Mon 11/22/10 05:47 AM
The cheesecake I would kept. It goes good with the Oatmeal Stout you serve. Along with the barley wine Traquair. drinker By the way the spicy calamari is just grand indeed.

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Mon 11/22/10 05:08 PM
thanks I really like the calamari a lot the problem I am haveing with the cake and mousse is that they sell at about the same rate. oh an the mousse only has a little espresso in it just to enhance the dark chocolate I know the power of the dark chocolate

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Mon 11/22/10 05:24 PM
I like them both but like cheesecake more. I like to have a nice drink with it. Parings with wine and beer is better with the cheesecake I believe. Yes the calamari is one of the best I have tasted. Dark chocolate can be very over powering.