Chocolate DeSte

Italian Garden
(Smooth ricotta cheese with citrus jellies, pistachio bar and dark rock chocolate)

(the beautiful package for takeaways)

While walking to Orchard 313 from the small alley beside coffee club, I chanced upon this nice cafe with a nice setting and a fountain opposite it. Nice ambience I would say. But the cake there is REALLY expensive. I bought the Italian Garden (as recommended by the waitress as their signature cake) for $9.10 inclusive of GST! Really an expensive cake. But when I went home to taste it, it tasted really heavenly... The white part is the cheese and the flavour is rich and fragrant. A nice mix with the dark rock chocolate. Everything mixed in the mouth and the sweetness and fragrance are all to the right proportion. The green pistachio bar on top is also very fragrant and nice! At least that's what I think. A must try!

Rating: 5/5 !

Mandarin Oriental

Baked Chocolate Pudding

Thick and rich chocolate fudge oozing out of the baked chocolate cake. Chocolate cake is "crispy" and not too sweet. Goes well with the warm chocolate fudge inside. We tried this at one of the weddings held at Mandarin Oriental. Could probably serve a bit more raspberry sauce for those who like to dip their chocolate cake with raspberry sauce. A must try!

Rating: 4.5/5

Sweet Indulgence @ Stanley Street

Warm Choco Lava Indulgence

Found this little shop tucked along the Stanley Street. I ordered the warm choco lava indulgence, which is supposedly one of the signature dessert of the shop. It is essentially like a baked chocolate pudding, with chocolate oozing out when you cut the cake into half. It is served with cut fruits and vanilla ice-cream with almond nuts. I think the ice cream tasted nice, while the pudding was average.

1 Caramel @ The Cathay

Fraise Pistachio Tart

Choco Praline Mousse Cake

This shop is located next to the Grand Cathay building, will be able to see it when you walk from Plaza Singapura to Grand Cathay. The shop has good ambience, and in general, the cakes "look" delicious.

The Fraise Pistachio Tart is nice and unique.The purple filling is probably yam,mixed with pistachio nuts and the combination goes quite together.The cake isnt too sweet and hence, one wont feel too sick eating it.
Rating: 4/5

Choco Praline Mousse Cake: the top layer is consists of a layer of very rich chocolate fudge. I particularly love the praline layer at the bottom, which is crunchy and goes very well with the mousse. Chocolate lovers should not miss this cake. its so chocolatey!
Rating: 3.5/5

Dapaolo Gastronomia @ Paragon

Lemon and Chocolate Muffins (with asorted sugar icing on top)

These muffins were from onr of the specialty shops at paragon basement. They are famous for their lemon muffins. I tried one and it was quite nice! the muffin itself isnt too sweet. it was just nice. However, the sugar icing on top was really really very sweet though it looks really appetizing and promising. i took a big bite at first (tgt with the icing), and it was really way too sweet for me. The sugar icing laer is very thick. i prefer to scrap some off so that it doesnt taste as sweet tgt with the cake.

Rating: 2.8/5 (could have given 3.5 and above but i took some pts out because of the icing)

Snow Frost @ AMK Hub

Mango snow ice

Heh, what can i say, taiwan is a food haven....anything franchised from taiwan even those way under par could still be decent...And hence the 'xue hua bing' (snowflakes ice) /'mian mian bing'(cotton ice) desserts are one that is hard to pass up when u c it....Wish i could have the ice making machine LOL....So much different from the shaved ice from those normal shops selling ice kachang for those who dunno why is it so popular in taiwan...The ice really melts in the mouth...the mango was really just so so since it doesnt have the freshness of fruits like taiwan has...But hey, its better than nth haha, you should just try it for yourself...

FYI : In taiwan the serving they give is HUGE...lotsa fruits too :)...

Rating : 3.5/5

Bakerzin @ Jurong Point

New York Cheesecake

Haha, this was 'da-baoed' when we were bored and walking around, then we saw that during the month of june this cake was the 'cake of the month' and had 50% discount off, so we bought it :) The cake was generally nice, you can taste the lemon in it and the bisuit base was pretty good as well, so overall taste, is well, nice haha...Only down side to it was that parts of it was still a bit frozen coz it was placed in refrigeration too long i guess, so some parts tasted a bit hard.

Rating : 3.5/5 (bee thinks its probably not the best cake in bakerzin)