The Leaning Tower of Zumbo
2 April 2009
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Not another Adriano Zumbo post ?
Fear not, I am not going to describe every cake and macaron into microscopic details. But for those of who you who are unaware of what I am on about, Adriano Zumbo usually needs no introduction as it seems every food blogger, man and his dog has visited this store atleast once. If you havn’t, perhaps you should give it a go as his creations are quite special.
The purpose of my recent visit was not to blog about this place, but to pick up a birthday cake for Linda. Due to the delivery guy being late, I had no choice but to do a little bit of window shopping in Zumbo’s cabinets. Well, that didn’t work out too well as I bought a few things to take home. I guess you can’t visit Adriano Zumbo without taking a few treats home, even if it’s one too many.
Macarons ($1.80)
I believe there is nothing new with the maracons I purchased, but the sticky date one is probably my favourite.
I started taking some photos and I was going to do them one by one and describe them. I then thought this would be pretty boring, so I tried to see how many macarons I could stack without breaking them.
I started off with five, which wasn’t too bad. My main concern was the earl grey tea macaron at the bottom. Along with the sticky date macaron, it’s one of my favourites of Adriano’s offerings and I didn’t want it to break.
I decided to take a risk and try stacking six of them up ….
The Leaning Tower of Zumbo
And there you have it, The Leaning Tower of Zumbo. For the record, I ended up knocking it down by accident with the lens of my camera and the orange macaron came off second best.
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This is my favourite cake because it has lychee, which is a fruit I have a soft spot for every time. This baby is filled with coconut dacquoise, lychee jelly, coconut mousse, coconut crunch, strawberries and lychees.
Dr Apple ($7.70)
The Dr Apple consists of pistachio dacqouise, apple cider jelly, vanilla creme, calvados cooked apples, green apple mousse. It’s quite a refreshing cake and not as sweet as the others.
Chocolates
I had some change left and purchased three chocolates which I have never tried. From the top we have the hot cross bun and at the bottom the fried egg. For the life of me I cannot remember what the third one was. The gold fish memory is kicking in, I’m definately in a mid life crisis.
Adriano Zumbo
296 Darling Street
Balmain, NSW 2041
Ph: (02) 9810 7318
Web: adrianozumbo.com/home.html
Nice gimmick! Good work for getting all 6 macaroons stacked
I have the feeling that I’m about the only blogger that has not gone there before. I’ll have to check it out the next time I’m in the area.
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Oh no, the leaning tower fell! Lucky you got a photo first.
What flavour was the fried egg?
not the only one! close as i am to balmain, the fear of having to parallel park my car in peak hour has stopped me from heading there… yet.
(though i am hoping to go soon…)
and mid life crisis? at your age? try a quarter life crisis
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Maybe you could skewer the macarons and make a macaron kebab – they’re probably too delicate but hey, you’re going to eat them anyway… And the log-shaped chocolate is Gianduja.
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Nice to see you using your time wisely
I second Belle’s idea for a macaron kebab!
Hee hee is towers the new trend? Love your DOF!
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I’ve been but didn’t take photos! A foodblogger’s sin. My favourite macaron is the salty caramel – heaven.
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MACAROONSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!
Do they have coffee macaroons coffee has to be my fav flava????
awesome how you managed to stack these.. like leaning tower of zumbo LOL
you go to awesome places to eat. Its amazing i swear i would be 8748945 kilosss =( wish i had a fast metabolism
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there can never be too many adriano zumbo posts!
congrats on the 6 macaron tower! awesome job.
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Simon : Yeah, it’s always good to visit now and then incase he has new stuff coming out!
Arwen : The fried egg had coconut white choc on the bottom and apricot in the middle, yum.
Shez : lol yes qtr life crisis. And I agree the parking in Balmain is a pain, I always park really far.
Belle : Thanks for the tip on the choc! A macaron kebab would be interesting, I’m up for giving it a go!
Y : Some would say I have too much time, some would say I’m creative. Though I think it’s the former.
FFichiban : Thanks dude, the DoF turned out suprisingly well.
Moya : The salty caramel is very nice, I think I like most of them but the stick date is a hit.
Smileona : Hmm can’t remember if they have coffee, Belle from ooh look would know she’s a Zumbo regular!
Betty : I guess so! Luckily his menu changes every so often.
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This gave me a good giggle! I can’t believe they actually STACKED!! THis is gastronomic architecture…