Some Like it Haute

it was a glorious afternoon. the day was generous with sunshine and the fluffy clouds which scattered across the blue skies created picture-perfect day for outdoors.. well, i WOULD HAVE gladly spent it outdoors but i had a better reason to stay in- afternoon tea with kiku.

as if to add to the sloth-factor of a lazy friday afternoon, kiku and i kicked back our sneakers and allowed ourselves to be mollycoodled by pastries and hot chocolate.

from her recent trip to cologne, germany, kiku had acquired some chocolate pralines, specially made for hot chocolate! by adding them to hot milk, we attained two mugs of glorious hot chocolate and i guess a deterrant from the regular stir-in-powder mixture only served to heighten our enjoyment.

i bought the pastries from a bakery and by the looks of it, you can't get more danish than this.

the pastry below, is a icing-topped flat cinnanmon roll- every bite of which seemed to send us into a sugar jolt. it was extremely delectable and in appreciation of its finger-licking flakiness, we could not resist the crumbly bits that lie around the empty dish.

the pastry on the extreme right (from the top photo) had a similar butter puff pastry shell but contained a aperitive glob of custard within. i'm usually quite picky about custard, too much of which was have been churlish but surprisingly, this was my favourite out of the three.

i had initially thought of the middle pastry to contain jam or marmalade of some sort.. however, a bite of it proved otherwise.. like a pendulum that swung away from the sweet spectrum, my tastebuds were suddenly unaccustomed to its savoury nature.. i can't put my finger on what lay on the surface but i will make it a point to find out.. it wasn't a bad thing though as another sweet pastry would have been overkill.

it was an incredibly relaxing afternoon that would have been almost illegal to workaholics but i could do this every week...