Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio South Yarra, Melbourne

Have a sweet tooth? Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio presents a wide range of "sweet tooth" products such as chocolate cakes and macaroons. Treat yourself to a wonderful "sweet tooth" journey with Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio.

User Reviews of Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio, South Yarra

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6.5 Recommended

Food 7 Ambience 7 Service 6 Value 6

Is where science meets sweets.

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Jul 31, 2011

KitchenBug
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8 Recommended

Food 7 Ambience 9 Service 9 Value 7

South Yarra and its Chapel Street precinct is Melbourne’s Rodeo Drive – home to frenetic shopping, orange tanned bodies, boozy nights, big brands, big hair, bigger cars and cash. A distance away from the bustling shopping area, the facade of the recently-opened Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio resembles the outside of one of its signature mousse-cake creations. A bare painted off-white frontage, with the only embellishment being a neon pink crown above its entrance. Epitomising the proverb “do not judge a book by its cover,” at first glance, both the Sweet Studio and its signature irresistibles evoke an air of modern minimalism. Beyond the surface however, they are internally intricate creations. MoMo & Coco couldn’t think of a better place to solicit some exquisite irresistibles to commemorate the end of three months of one part of us entering the workforce, and also a related entity’s wish to celebrate some royal wedding far far away.

Burch and Purchese’ mousse-cake creations are truly unique — they are beautiful on the surface, intricate on the inside. There’s simply no other specialty cake sweet boutique quite like it in Melbourne. Yet, the very intricacy of their constructions is a double-edged sword. In great honesty, the various described components of each mousse-cake in the best terms, are subtle, and in the worse, tend to become lost in expression, with maybe no more than 2-3 components really strongly manifesting. MoMo & Coco can’t overlook the use of mousse as the predominant cake base either — mousse allows creations to be refrigerated and kept longer before purchase/consumption. Freshness (or lack thereof) cannot arguably, be so disguised in a flour-based cake base. Nonetheless, (a few of) Burch & Purchese’s creations is to mousse-cake what Calvin Klein is to fashion. Modern, minimalistic, understated, irresistible, with perhaps a little touch of Alexander McQueen for unique difference. One would be hard-pressed to find more exquisite creations for that impressive afternoon tea cake stand… hmmmmm… irresistible…