Pop Up Studio! - We're Doing It All Again 196 Flinders Street

Wow! What a fantastic response to our first 'pop up sweet studio' last week here at Careers Australia building, 196 Flinders Street.

We had loads of our friends, blog readers, twitter & facebook friends down to the store last week on Thursday & Friday, so many in fact that we underestimated production and run out of delicious cakes on both days.

We even had an angry bird visit us and claim its prize of a coconut, ginger, mint & passion cake (thanks foodsze!! www.foodsze.com)

So......we're doing it all again and this time we have made MORE of everything. Also by popular demand we have started production on individual serves of the four flavours of cake we have on offer. We found last week that some of our customers were only after a couple of portions so come down to see us again this week and you won't be disappointed.

FOR TWO DAYS ONLY VISIT OUR 'POP UP' BURCH & PURCHESE SWEET STUDIO.

For the second week in a row!

Careers Australia Building, 196 Flinders Street, Melbourne

Thursday 31st - Friday 1st only

Open from 10 am - 6 pm

SPECIAL SWEET STUDIO CAKES OF THE WEEK ARE:

RASPBERRY, LYCHEE, WHITE CHOCOLATE & CHAMPAGNE

Champagne Jelly, Raspberry Champagne Mousse, Raspberry & Hibiscus Jam, Yoghurt & White Chocolate Sponge, Exaggerated Raspberry Cream, Puffed Wheat & Freeze Dried Raspberry & Lychees, White Chocolate Velvet Spray

COCONUT, PASSION FRUIT, GINGER & MINT

Coconut Mousse, White Chocolate & Mint Wafer, Passion Fruit Jelly, Coconut Caviar, Passion Fruit Curd, Salted Oat & Ginger Crumble, Brilliant White Chocolate Velvet Spray, Ginger Macaroon

DARK CHOCOLATE, PEAR & HAZELNUT

Tarakan 75% Chocolate & Vanilla Mousse, Caramelised Pear, Hazelnut Cream, Pear Pastry Cream, Chocolate Hazelnut Brownie, Hazelnut Milk Jelly, Dark Chocolate Velvet Spray, Gold Leaves

CHOCOLATE, MANDARIN, MURRAY RIVER SALTED CARAMEL

Kendari 60% Chocolate Mousse, Murray River Salted Caramel, Burnt Mandarin Cream, St Clements Marmalade, Aerated Chocolate Shortbread, Azabache Mirror Glaze & Orange Zest

All cakes are 18 cm (serves 6 - 8) and sell for just $45

PLUS

All varieties are available in individual portions for the amazing price of $8

Come down and see us or place an order by calling Cath on the number below

WE ARE ALSO OPEN FOR BUSINESS FOR BESPOKE CELEBRATION CAKES AND SPECIAL FUNCTION REQUIREMENTS - TO DISCUSS OR ARRANGE A CONSULTATION WITH OUR TEAM PLEASE CALL CATH 0417 010 728

Each cake is constructed in our signature style of intricate and delicious layers.

The feedback on our creations last week was amazing so make sure you don't miss out. 

Burch & Purchese on The Circle

We were very happy last week to be invited onto the popular Channel 10 show The Circle. We conjured  up one of our sensational desserts using cream from Jonesy's dairy and Heilala Vanilla. An earlier segment on the show touched on the plight of farmer and local producers in Victoria who have had a dreadful time of late with drought, bushfire and flooding. Jonesy's were once of the many producers highlighted and as we are big fans of their cream and milk we were pleased to be asked to cook up something to tie in with the theme. We produced a silky smooth vanilla mouse with 'cow print' apple & rhubarb jellies and they went down a storm with the crew. We were also able to showcase our chocolate flower cake and one of our unique chocolate celebration cakes, these were a great hit judging by the orders we received following the episode. We wanted to say thanks to our new friends at Channel 10 and we are expecting a stampede from them as 'Sweet Studio' is just across the road from the studios. Click on the link below for the recipe to the dessert which is on the Channel 10 website, you can also view the episode if you missed it! Enjoy.

Recipe & Episode - http://ten.com.au/the-circle-white-chocolate-vanilla-mousse.htm

Jonesy's Dairy       - http://www.jonesysdairyfresh.com/

Heilala Vanilla      - http://www.heilalavanilla.co.nz/

Sweet Architextural - Feedback has been amazing!

Cricket Battenburg

Ian, gorgeous ballerinas and the famous chocolate flower cake

The crowd waits with anticipation for the 'Big Dessert Reveal'

Explaining the night with the help of Masterchef's Matt Preston

Those jellymongers with a wobbly Flinders Street Station

We wanted to say thanks to all who attended our night at the Espy earlier this month as part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. We had so much fun with the jellymongers and meeting all of our friends on what was THE event of the festival. It seems everyone who attended enjoyed themselves as well and we have made lots of new friends with some special people. Some of them have been very kind and written some beautiful words on the night and we wanted to share those links here on this page. We have been blown away by the response and the following blogs really made it all worthwhile and we wanted to say a BIG thanks to those responsible for taking the time to write such kind words.
Check out the following links to blogs with full run-downs on the night and stunning photography that really captured the atmosphere.

Foodsze - http://www.foodsze.com/2011/03/sweet-architextural-night-a-sugary-fanfare.html

Lee Tran Lam - http://www.theunbearablelightnessofbeinghungry.com/2011/03/sweet-architextural.html

Inside Out - http://blogs.homelife.com.au/insideout/article/sweet/

Gina B - http://daintycakes.blogspot.com/2011/03/sweet-architextural-with-burch-and.html

Mrs Cake - http://www.mrscake.co.nz/2011/03/sweet-architextural.html

Ms I-Hua - http://msihua.com/2011/03/sweet-architextural-burch-purchese-with-bompas-parr-mfw-2011/

Our new friends are very special to us and we thank you very much, we hope to thrill, amaze and delight all of you in future events.

SWEET STUDIO OPENS! - IN OUR TEMPORARY HOME IN THE CITY

SORRY WE HAVE BEEN NEGLECTING YOU! It has been manic at our temporary home at Careers Australia, 196 Flinders Street, Melbourne but we have some good news for you all.

FOR TWO DAYS ONLY VISIT OUR 'POP UP' BURCH & PURCHESE SWEET STUDIO.

Frustrated by a few delays in construction at our South Yarra Studio and dying to do what we do best, we have decided to just start baking and have some fun!

Careers Australia Building, 196 Flinders Street, Melbourne
Thursday 24th - Friday 25th only
Open from 10 am - 6 pm

SPECIAL SWEET STUDIO CAKES OF THE WEEK ARE:

RASPBERRY, LYCHEE, WHITE CHOCOLATE & CHAMPAGNE
Champagne Jelly, Raspberry Champagne Mousse, Raspberry & Hibiscus Jam, Yoghurt & White Chocolate Sponge, Exaggerated Raspberry Cream, Puffed Wheat & Freeze Dried Raspberry & Lychees, White Chocolate Velvet Spray



COCONUT, PASSION FRUIT, GINGER & MINT
Coconut Mousse, White Chocolate & Mint Wafer, Passion Fruit Jelly, Coconut Caviar, Passion Fruit Curd, Salted Oat & Ginger Crumble, Brilliant White Chocolate Velvet Spray, Ginger Macaroon



DARK CHOCOLATE, PEAR & HAZELNUT
Tarakan 75% Chocolate & Vanilla Mousse, Caramelised Pear, Hazelnut Cream, Pear Pastry Cream, Chocolate Hazelnut Brownie, Hazelnut Milk Jelly, Dark Chocolate Velvet Spray, Gold Leaves



CHOCOLATE, MANDARIN, MURRAY RIVER SALTED CARAMEL
Kendari 60% Chocolate Mousse, Murray River Salted Caramel, Burnt Mandarin Cream, St Clements Marmalade, Aerated Chocolate Shortbread, Azabache Mirror Glaze & Orange Zest



All cakes are 18 cm (serves 6 - 8) and sell for just $45

Come down and see us or place an order by calling Cath on the number below

WE ARE ALSO OPEN FOR BUSINESS FOR BESPOKE CELEBRATION CAKES AND SPECIAL FUNCTION REQUIREMENTS - TO DISCUSS OR ARRANGE A CONSULTATION WITH OUR TEAM PLEASE CALL CATH 0417 010 728

Each cake is constructed in our signature style of intricate and delicious layers.

Reinterpreting Dessert Der Raum vs. Burch & Purchese 7th + 8th March 2011

Image used from http://www.stylesage.co.uk/hers/der-raum-vs-burch-purchese/ 

Here are a few images from our sold out two night appearance at the world famous Der Raum cocktail bar in Richmond.
We paired five of our sweet dishes with five of Der Raum's signature cocktails and thoroughly enjoyed the collaboration with Matt Bax and Matthew Rees and the rest of the talented team.
Ian whizzed up some fancy apple sugar tubes for one of the courses which contained burnt vanilla cream, explosive hazelnut crumble and acidulated apple. Other highlights were our mint mousse sphere with lime shortbread, mint tapioca, compressed cucumber and sugar mint leaf and our liquid centre Mojito marshmallows.
The boys at Der Raum produced absolutely stunning drinks pairings and we look forward to further events and collaborations with them in the future - watch this space for details! For a further review of the night check out the excellent blog Style Sage at http://www.stylesage.co.uk/hers/der-raum-vs-burch-purchese/ and thanks to those guys for some great images as well.

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival - PHEW!! All Over For Another Year!!

Bompas & Parr with Burch & Purchese at our pop up 'Sweet Studio'

Sweet Architextural at The Espy was a great success

Progressive cocktail & dessert matching with the team at Der Raum

Open day at our temporary home brought lots of onlookers

Mr Preston making an exclusive appearance at our event

Sam & Harry with Flinders Street station reproduced in wobbly jelly

Well! Another Melbourne Food & Wine festival has been and gone, it is always a whirlwind of demonstrations, special events, and catching up with old and new friends. The team at Burch & Purchese were of course right in the thick of things with an impressive series of events and there were some real highlights that we can't wait to show you here on these pages.

The jellymongers arrived from the UK and brought with them a great humour and work ethic as well as some amazing creations! Thanks to Sam & Harry for everything and we look forward to the return in London sometime in the future.

We will be publishing in depth accounts of all of the events and other stuff over the next week or so as we collate our media files. We are looking forward to letting you know about the following highlights:

• Sweet Architextural - THE event of the festival at the Espy. We will publish photos, video, menus and recipes from the event the whole of town is talking about! 
• Reinventing Dessert - Unforgettable cocktail & dessert pairing combinations with the team at the world class 'Der Raum'.
• Our open day at our temporary pop-up sweet studio at Careers Australia building on Flinders Street in the city.
• Our view of the festival stars from what we saw behind the scenes, including cooking for Nigella Lawson, meeting some of the international chefs, dinners with some of Australia's most decorated chefs and more.
• A round up of press and blog mentions on us and Bompas & Parr and other related matters.
• We will also be letting you know the progress of our much anticipated Sweet Studio on Chapel Street, including an insight to what you might find and a definitive opening date.

We would just like to say a BIG thanks though to the following for all of their invaluable help during the festival. Without these people and organisations we would not have been able to achieve all that we did. 

Cath Claringbold, our business manager & events coordinator. 

Bompas & Parr, we can't thank you enough Sam & Harry.

Der Raum, unbelievable standard of bartending. Thanks for two unforgettable nights.

Matt Preston, very much appreciated.

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival - To all of the team we look forward to the BIG one next year!

Scott Robertson and the team at Careers Australia at our temporary home at 196 Flinders Street.

Steve Molloy, our lighting man at the Espy for services above and beyond.

Chocovic - Our sponsor, in particular Adele & Joel and massive thanks for the generous supply of chocolate.

Heilala Vanilla - Thank you for the association and supply of vanilla for our gift bags. We look forward to working closely with you in the future.

Thermomix Australia
Jazmine Thom - Our photographer.

All of our supporters, friends, bloggers, twitterers and all others involved including Mrs Burch and Catherine Wallace xxx

Stay tuned for a new post every day this week!! Darren & Ian

NEWSFLASH! - Pop Up Studio Open Day Set For Weds 9th

We are pleased to announce that we have set up a temporary Sweet Studio at the smart Training Centre at 196 Flinders Street in the city. We have been well accommodated and have made a great start to the mammoth prep list for our events for the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2011. 

The new Careers Australia Training Centre is located right in the heart of Melbourne, next door to St Paul’s Cathedral and opposite Federation Square and the Flinders Street Train Station. This state of the art campus offers 6,000m2 of classrooms, computer labs, commercial teaching kitchens, clinical nursing skills labs, student common areas and other facilities. The Melbourne campus provides training for apprentices, trainees and full time students across a range of study areas and we are happy to have this association. 

We have been inundated with requests for tickets to our sold out event at the Espy on Thursday this week and we are sorry for those who could not attend. By way of a gesture we would like to announce that the Careers Australia Training Centre at 196 Flinders Street will be open for those of you who would like to pop down and have a sneak peak of production. The kitchen will be hard at works and we promise beautiful chocolate pieces to admire, decadent tastings of some of our creations and a chance to see Bompas & Parr at work creating iconic Melbourne buildings out of jelly!

So tell your friends and family to come down between 2.30 pm and 3.30 pm on Wednesday 9th March, we hope to see as many of you as possible there will be plenty of photo opportunities and as we said a few sweet treats on offer. 

In the meantime we will be based in the city for the entire festival and work is well on its way, we have even had the pleasure of Mrs (mum) Burch making an appearance, travelling all the way from the UK to lend a hand!

For now enjoy the rest of the festival and we hope to see you on Wednesday this week, also keep an eye on the blog for updates, news and feedback and images from our 'Reinventing Dessert' nights at Der Raum on Monday and Tuesday this week.

Burch & Purchese Hits The City! - and a surprise is in store!

Due to building works at our Sweet Studio taking longer than anticipated, and needing to get stuck into preparations for our very special Melbourne Food & Wine Festival events, the Burch & Purchese team have set up in some very smart kitchens in the city. 

We are so excited that the festival is now upon us and we are extremely happy to be working away at our very special 'pop up studio'. Preparations have been underway for three days now on our 'Reinventing Dessert' nights at Der Raum and our 'Sweet Architextural' night with Bompas & Parr at the Espy and we have an exclusive surprise in store for all followers of this blog. 

Our kitchen is buzzing with anticipation and exciting deliveries, Chocovic our sponsor have delivered over 200 kilos of chocolate for the events and we have taken hold of 60 bottles of Hendricks gin for a special boozy jelly! Jonesy's milk, Heilala Vanilla, Organic Roses from Blumin and Green Eggs have arrived to complete an all star ingredient cast and it's all hands on deck getting it prepared for next week.

All events for Burch & Purchese have now SOLD OUT so thanks to all of you who have purchased tickets, we hope you enjoy what we have planned, but for those who missed out, don't despair. We will reveal here on this blog on Monday details of our whereabouts in the city and also announce a time and date for an exclusive open day. We will open up the kitchens of our sweet roadshow and invite everyone along to sample some sweet delights, meet our team and view some spectacular chocolate creations. The British jellymongers, Bompas & Parr will also be on hand making their trademark jellies. 

We are also close to announcing our opening day for Sweet Studio and we have a few other fantastic announcements in the next couple of weeks. So please stay tuned to this page, our Twitter feed and Facebook updates on this special unique event and all the news from the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. 

Thanks for all of the messages and support we have received in the last few weeks and we hope to see you at our kitchen next week! 

Darren, Ian, Cath, Cara, Marie & Razza