Sweet & Sour
On my last update, I mentioned it was daylight savings time. So when my mother woke up at 5AM she looked at the clock on the microwave in the room. She figured it was an ok time to get showered & ready for driving home. She wakes me up to say bye and Im like - crazy woman, its 4:45AM in the morning. She forgot completely about the Daylight Savings.
I rolled back over and went to sleep until a more reasonable time. I woke up at 7AM and got dressed. I had a plan of getting breakfast at either Whispering Canyon Cafe or Boardwalk Cafe prior to heading to EPCOT for my Sunday Mornings With Event. I got my luggage in the car, turn it on and I have the low tire light. The temperature had dropped about 40 degrees overnight so I had to go to the gas station to fill up the tank and fix the tire. I kept attempting to fill up the tires to make the light go away and couldnt do it. Ugh!
I got to EPCOT prior to opening and giggled at how much people were complaining that is was cold in Disney. It is November! There is always a chance of cold weather but at least there wasnt snow.
I slowly made my way after park opening to the Festival Center where I checked in for the Sunday Mornings and got my assigned table card and hung out until 10AM when the event was due to start.
The tables were preset with some of the brunch items prior to sitting down so you would be able to enjoy right away. We were given a glass of the prosecco as we entered the dining area at the Festival Center.
The almond pastry was the best part of the first course of this meal!
So, here is the menu for the event:
The Menu
Seared Free Range Chicken Breast, Lobster Cream Sauce, Oven Browned Potatoes
This dish felt like banquet food. It tasted ok but was nothing special & I wouldnt order it if it was on a menu but as this event is heavily geared towards sweets, this savory beginning was a welcome prior to sugar overload.
As we were eating our meal, Keegan came out to start his presentation.
He is a great story teller and makes it very simple when explaining how to do something. He says pastry it is easy if you understand ratios needed which is really true.
The first course was served. These doughnuts were so light & sweet! The pink peppercorn jam helped balance it.
Vanilla Sugar Doughnuts w/ Strawberry Vanilla & Pink Peppercorn Jam
The demo for the meringue began where his wife showed the right type of peak to have prior to using for this dish.
The 2nd course was served. The tart was actually an almond cookie which was nice. The lemon wasnt too much which can happen for some lemon tarts. There was enough meringue to cut the tartness.
Lemon Meringue Tart w/ Blueberry Compote
He began the demo for the molten thingy which he explained how molten cakes typically are just slightly undercooked flourless cake but for large scale events, chefs tend to put truffles in it when you have to serve many of them at the same time.
To be honest, I didnt eat much of the cake. I was full at this point and didnt want to get sick during my drive home. The bite I had was tasty.
Chocolate Molten Cake Thingy with Pistachio Ice Cream & Macerated Raspberries
Overall, this event was great. As Ive said in previous reviews for Sweet Sundays, it is entirely too much sweets too early in the morning. That wont stop me from going to another Sunday Morning if the chef is worth it. That list of chefs isnt large though so I guess it depends on who is there next year during my trip!.
As soon as the event was over, I left EPCOT. When I returned to my car, even with the rise in temperature, still had the low tire light. None of the tires looked low so I drove the 3 hours home on it but I think this is the first time I didnt speed as I didnt want to risk an incident. The next weekend I replaced 2 of my tires and the problem went away!
I was really worried that rain was going to cancel the fireworks, but luckily I got to see them! And yeah, probably good that you missed the ghost cupcake. I got it and it was super disappointing.
