Sometimes in winter a woman needs something more than hot soup and when I saw just the right shade of dark caramel and chocolate, the gleaming glaze on the mandarin tartlet, the cerise cherries nestling in cream on these winter cakes I knew Mira Karu, busy in her kitchen at Isle of Anu, had the knowhow to produce timely and expert winter fare.
These pastries remind me of the cake sequence when Bow Wow Wow sing 'I Want Candy' in Sofia Coppola's 2006 film Marie Antoinette
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