Have Your Cake and Screen It Too
The Unmitigated Twin Pleasures of Dessert and Cinema
Today at Chez Tribeca Shortlist Outtake, we invite you to peruse our specially prepared dessert menu, featuring a half dozen of cinema’s sweetest scene stealers. (Because if visions of sugarplums were confined to December, the rest of the year would be too damn dreary.)
On the menu:
Mayan Hot Chocolate served Chocolat (2000) style
No messing around with that gutless “just add hot water” packet stuff. We’re talking cream, real chocolate melted into a liquid cocoa lava, vanilla bean and cinnamon sticks for flavoring, with a sprinkle of chili powder on top. Guaranteed to throw a devout French village on the cusp of Lent into absolute chaos (but in a good way)! Watch Chocolat on Tribeca Shortlist now.
Bonus Recipe: Mayan Hot Chocolate courtesy of PopSugar
The Candyman Special inspired by Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971):
Enjoy our most popular assortment of confections, featuring oversized lollipops and licorice, lickable wallpaper, gelatin frogs, candy trees, giant gummy bears, cream-filled toadstools, candy tea cups and a chocolate river, all topped with an edible gold leaf ticket. Should you be feeling a tad sick to your stomach after this course, the complimentary bottle of Fizzy Lifting Drink (included) should sort you right out. Chef’s note: the Gobstopper does not pair well with a corrupted palate.
Bonus Recipe: Roald Dahl’s own website has amassed these amazing Wonka inspired recipes like Whipple Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight and Violet Beauregarde Blueberry Bubble Bombes.
The Courtesan au Chocolat Pastry from The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Indulge in this stackable delight featuring pastry puffs filled with chocolate cream, fancifully decorated. This gourmet work of art is the perfect complement to assorted prison break contraband! Dessert-worshipping prison guard not included.
Bonus Recipe: Courtesan au Chocolat courtesy of Buzzfeed
An Entire Dessert Cart a la Marie Antoinette (2006), Served With A Champagne Tower:
For the dessert glutton who simply can’t decide, may we suggest this revolutionary mélange of bon bons, cream puffs, cakes, candied almonds, candy of every other variety while we’re at it, fruit tarts, donuts, macaroons and more or less everything else ever featuring sugar as an ingredient in the history of food. Includes bottomless champagne and a lifetime’s supply of shoes.
Bonus Recipe: French Macaroons courtesy of Food Network
The Pie Porn Special a la Waitress (2007):
Marshmallow Mermaid Pie. Vanilla Custard Pie (aka I Can’t Have No Affair Because It’s Wrong And I Don’t Want Earl To Kill Me Pie). Strawberry Oasis Pie. Falling In Love Chocolate Mousse Pie. These heavenly homemade creations are just the thing for marking a momentous milestone in your life (unless that milestone involves an affair with a married physician, which may produce a bitter aftertaste, but you already knew that……).
Bonus Recipe: A Handful Of Pie Recipes From The Movie courtesy of the blog Supergloriousm
Layer Cake With A Cornetto Chaser a la Hot Fuzz (2007):
This delicious duo pairs the incomparable (and chicly convenient) delight of the iconic frozen dessert cone with a slice of fluffy frosted layer cake. So delicious, it’ll render that pesky series of grizzly murders unfolding in your quaint village as infinitely less bothersome!
Bonus Recipe: Mint Cornetto Cake courtesy of Delicious Magazine
Bon appétit!
See why the queen of entertaining, Martha Stewart, thinks you should watch Chocolat now:
