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Friday, May 06, 2016
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Cream & Custard @ Jalan Bukit Ho Swee | Tiong Bahru, Singapore

Living up to their mantra, Melissa and Wesley aims to create and serve cakes that are made with quality ingredients and comes with a friendly price tag too. With that said, they try to move out of the fancy bakeries found in Singapore and craft a taste of their memories with a touch of elegance.

Cream and Custard café is located approximately five mintues away from Tiong Bahru station, exit B. Be prepared to bask away in the minimalist and cosy setting, and indulge with some freshly baked pastries. Note that the cakes are made in limited quantities each day, offering only five to six servings per cake flavour.

Why not start with the legendary cake which was first created by Black Star Pastry in Sydney, Australia. Just months ago, I had the chance to taste it and I got to say I fell deeply in love with it ever since (review on that will be up soon).

I was really hyped to try Cream and Custard’s rendition of the famous Strawberry Watermelon Cake | $6.8, keeping it light with two layers of almond dacquoise, fresh rose, whipped cream and watermelon. Finished it off with fresh strawberries, grapes, blueberries and rose petals atop. It came off a little disappointing as the bottom layer slides off the cake.

If I were to be compared it with Black Star’s, I'm sticking to the original for the reason that it is more refreshing and brings forth a hint of sweetness (sweeter watermelon maybe?). In addition, the layers of almond dacquoise are made to crisp unlike Cream and Custard’s. However, I would like to emphasise that this is my own opinion and there are people who have tried the original and still prefers Cream and Custard’s. If no comparison were to be made, I would say it’s quite well done and I won't mind coming back for more.

Next in the line up, we had Pure | $6.8 - made from a combination of lychee and passion fruit mousse cake. If you fancy a lighter taste, this would be for you. Followed by Sundae | $6.8 - a creamy mascarpone cheese mousse topped with a layer of strawberry mousse glazed and lastly covered with milk chocolate ganache. It tasted like a de-constructed cheesecake.

For the tarts, this has to be one of my favourite, Passion Fruit Meringue Tart | $5.6. Giving off the fragrant from the made-from-scratch tart, filled with tangy and creamy passion fruit curd and covered with scorched meringue. A perfect combination and is simply the crowd pleaser that day.

Featuring Melissa’s most recent recreation, The Black Ball | $9.8, it is inspired while she was traveling in London. This dessert involves you pouring their signature hot dark chocolate sauce over the dark chocolate sphere. Slowly revealing the passion fruit curd and 66% valrhona chocolate mousse layered intermittently with homemade crumble. An ideal dessert meant to please dark chocolate lovers.

Another proud creation, Triple Chocolate Devil | $6.8 (left) which consist of 66% valrhona dark chocolate mousse with a layer of melt-in-your-mouth raspberry jelly centres, and coated with 70% valrhona dark chocolate ganache infused with Belgium chocolate bailey’s glazed with glossy dark chocolate glaze. Don't forget to eat till the centre as the taste differs from your first bite.

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Address: Block 46, Jalan Bukit Ho Swee, #01-894, Singapore 160046

Opening Hours:

Mon-Sat: 11:00am - 9:00pm

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Monday, March 28, 2016
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CakesOnline.sg - Your Online Gourmet Cake Shop

Cakes

From the spanking new online gourmet cake “shop”, Cakesonline.sg. Brought to you by the pastry team comprises of a group of young, enthusiastic and passionate bakers. Where you can enjoy freshly handmade daily cakes and tarts, and also the fuss free collection and get them to deliver to your doorstep or even event venue at a minimum spending.

Cakesonline.sg uses premium ingredients and does not use preservatives and artificial colouring. That’s what made them stand out from the other cake shops. Their icing on the cakes got them awarded the ISO 22000 certification – a testimony to the strict quality and hygiene standards it abide by.

No bake Spectaculoos Cheesecake | $58 - more than just the usual cheesecake with a cookie butter cheesecake, topped with ribbons of cookie buttery cream and a dash of speculoos crumbles, it has definitely won my heart (and stomach).

Tiramisu | $58 - a renowned coffee-flavoured Italian dessert packed with bold flavours of cocoa, espresso with the creaminess of mascarpone cheese, and layered with ladyfingers (biscuits) that are soaked in aromatic coffee extract. This is also alcohol-free, hence children can indulge them too.

Eggless Blackforest Cake | $58 - here’s to a guiltless pleasure while savouring the alcohol-free cake. Fences with chocolate slides and filled with chocolate shavings. Vegetarians approved.

Pistachio Raspberry Litchi Cake | $58 - fixated on raspberry and pistachio, with raspberry mousse spread between the layers of pistachio sponge, lastly crowned with pistachio nuts and studded with raspberry.

The Malt-Teaser | $58 - remember those red packs of Malteser? Up the mark, this is a deconstructed cake of Maltesers, consisting of malt cocoa powder and white chocolate, and topped with crunchy Maltesers balls over the chocolate batter.

Apart from the mainstays, they also provide Customised Cakes such as photo cakes. All you have to do is to upload the desired photo you want to be printed on the cake, choose the flavour and leave the rest to the bakers. If you want to customise everything top to bottom, they will try their best to create it.

Chocolate Salted Caramel Tart | $65 - this tart allows you to get the best of both worlds, consisting of gooey salted caramel and bittersweet chocolate ganache. Lastly, garnished with fleur de sel crystals to produce a seductive and rich experience.

Lime Meringue Tart | $65 - featuring a new spin on the classic tart for those who fancy citrus essence. The mounds of smooth white meringue are lightly torched to a warm hue.

Mixed Berries Tart | $65 - every bite off this tart is like a party in the mouth. The tart features the flamboyant red shade using natural beetroot colouring and topped with fresh strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. Talk about all the antioxidant you could get from this tart.