Chocolate Marquise with Passion Fruit Parfait and a Lace Cookie Bouquet

Like the Blueberry Financier, this dessert was created for A Modernist View of Plated Desserts. Chocolate Marquise is a classic that few consumers can resist. Here, I have dressed up the original components for a more modern look. I have advocated this idea for many years: Isolate the essential elements of a time-honored favorite and build on them to create a presentation with the grandeur demanded in today’s competitive fine dining restaurants. You will see many examples of this pre