January 15, 2008: Brunetti Ix

Update 27/1/2019: Brunetti is nevertheless trading, but has moved from Faraday Street into a huge custom-built infinite within Lygon Court.

After spending ii weeks inwards regional Victoria alongside her sisters, my Mum had i final gratis nighttime inwards Melbourne earlier flight dorsum domicile to Brisbane. It was virtually fourth dimension nosotros introduced her to Brunetti, right? Two of her sisters, Lynne in addition to Carol, every bit good joined us. They are an indecisive bunch when gathered together in addition to the diversity available at Brunetti was the catalyst for a expert twenty minutes of umm-ing in addition to aah-ing. But everyone got their coffee, cake in addition to spot inwards expert time.

I picked a cake that I haven't seen displayed before. The Domino ($5.90) is a sizable while of chocolate cake, layered alongside strawberry cream in addition to kirsch, thence iced alongside chocolate. It far exceeded my expectations - I was anticipating a dense brick of a cake alongside impenetrably difficult icing, but instead encountered a yielding ganache in addition to almost sponge-light cake that retained enough of flavour. The cream in addition to kirsch were sparing, adding solely a smidge of extra richness. It's fortunate that I arranged to part it alongside Michael - I would otherwise bring consumed all of its deceptive lightness in addition to been rather deplorable afterwards. It's nevertheless a triple-layered chocolate cake, after all.

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