After dining at Graham Elliott, I decided to take my visiting aunt and sis next door to the Kenmore Live Studio for dessert. It was "Celebrate America's Right...to Eat Chocolate!" night. Yes, please!
The Kenmore Live Studio is such a unique marketing concept: they don't sell anything and they're not blatantly plugging Kenmore products. As the owner slash visionary extraordinaire pointed out in a speech tonight, this is a free event to bring the community together over unique experiences, like cooking demos, fashion shows, punk rock music, belly dancers, you name it, they're trying it all. In fact, the last time I was at the studio, Ty Pennington competed in an "extreme" celebrity cook-off.
{ Chef Omar Martinez }
{ sis and aunt at Kenmore Live Studio }
Tonight's was a dessert-themed, July 4th holiday event with pastry chef Omar Martinez from Le Cordon Bleu. There was a hand-carved American flag and eagle... all chocolate, of course.
Chef demonstrated how to make homemade marshmallows (easier than you think!), and plated this patriotic-themed dessert with a blueberry and strawberry compote, chocolate ice cream, and a chocolate butterfly made specially by the Le Cordon Bleu students. (I would have used strawberry ice cream, instead, but it was delish, nevertheless.)
There was a refreshing summer soda float of jalapeno, mint, watermelon, and simple syrup, topped off with a vanilla sorbet.
And my favorite... a special cupcake, vanilla and chocolate with Boston creme frosting.
{ i dressed for the occasion }
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