6 Decadent Christmas Cakes That Will Have You Licking Your Plates Clean
Christmas is just round the corner and everyone is scrambling for turkey and log cakes. But what if we told you that you don’t necessarily need to get a log cake? After all, there are many other cake options available.
We’ve compiled a list of the best cakes for you this festive season that actually taste as good as they look.
Cake For Days
1. Black Forest Cake By Awfully Chocolate
Awfully Chocolate is doing something different this year. It may be a log cake, but it’s technically more of a stump cake.
It looks like a stump. That’s what we’re saying. I mean, look at it.
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Image Credit: Awfully ChocolatePrice: $98
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Pandan chiffon sponge is covered in a glossy berry glaze that is made with 6 different types of berries (cherry, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and lingonberry).
It almost looks too pretty to eat. Almost. The berry glaze is surprisingly mild and not overly sweet and complements the pandan flavour of the sponge cake.
Get yours from Pandan at Andaz Singapore before they run out.
Andaz Singapore
Address: 5 Fraser Street, Singapore, 189354
Contact no.: 6408 1288
Price: $32
Website
3. Reindeer Cake By Cake Avenue
Cake Avenue is known for their funky desserts that resemble their savoury food counterparts. This Christmas, they’ve come up with an adorable Reindeer Cake ($112.50) that’s available in 3 different flavours.
Choose from Vanilla Buttercream, Chocolate Fudge, or Chocolate Cherry Red Velvet.
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This gorgeous signature Christmas cake serves 10 to 12 people. If you’re thinking of getting this cake for Christmas, do order it at least 3 days in advance.
Order your very own Reindeer cake from 4. Dadar Logcake By Sinpopo Brand
You’ve heard of, seen, or eaten Kueh Dadar. Now prepare yourselves for Sinpopo Brand‘s take on the classic Kueh Dadar. A Dadar Log Cake ($48). That’s right. As weird as that sounds, Sinpopo Brand has managed to meld the flavours of Kueh Dadar into a log cake. Classic Cakes is a gem of a cake shop that’s hidden in Sunset Way, Clementi. True to its name, this unpretentious cake shop serves up classic cakes with traditional flavours such as Black Forest Cake, Radish Cake, Yam Cake, as well as the Best Ever Chocolate Cake. However, our favourite is the Black Velvet Cake ($45). A rich chocolate cake topped with creamy mascarpone cheese. It’s a simple combination that is unbelievably delicious. If you’re wondering what “Horly” is, don’t worry. We were initially puzzled as well. Turns out, Horly is a play on the words “Holly” and “Horlicks”. That’s right. Jolly Horly ($38.90) is a Horlicks cheesecake.
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Image Credit: 5. Black Velvet Cake By Classic Cakes
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Horlicks is mixed with cream cheese and sweetened with condensed milk before it is poured on a biscuit base. If you’re a fan of Horlicks like us, then this is the perfect cake to get this Christmas.
Order your Jolly Horly cheesecake from here!
Cat & The Fiddle
Address: 171 Kampong Ampat, #05-04 KA Foodlink Singapore, 368330
Opening Hours: Mon – Thu: 9am – 7pm, Sat – Sun: 9am – 5pm
Contact no.: 6287 0709
Price: $38.90
Website
Just because it’s Christmas doesn’t mean you have to get a log cake. These cakes are delicious and perfect for every occasion.
Don’t discriminate cakes. They’re just trying to look and taste good.
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10 Quirky Mooncakes That Break Tradition With Flavours Like Bubble Tea, Chilli And Salted Egg Yolk
As Mid-Autumn Festival rolls around, it’s once again time to binge on mooncakes!
While we love a good traditional lotus paste mooncake, we have to admit, it’s the novel, intriguingly flavoured mooncakes that tend to grab our attention – and this year, there are plenty of these out there.
Alcoholic mooncakes, ice cream mooncakes, ‘liu sha‘ mooncakes… The list goes on.
Here are some of the most outrageously untraditional mooncakes we could find, and we think you’ll be hard pressed to pick just one to try.
1. Mandarin Orchard – Red Wine Cranberry Paste With Japanese Yuzu and Lemongrass
Alcoholics, now you can even get your buzz from mooncakes!
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Mandarin Orchard‘s range of Mini Snow Skin Mooncakes includes two boozy flavours – Lychee Martini And Chocolate, and Red Wine Cranberry Paste With Japanese Yuzu and Lemongrass.
The Lychee Martini And Chocolate Mooncake releases a burst of crisp, citrusy chocolate into your mouth with every bite, while the Red Wine Cranberry Paste With Japanese Yuzu and Lemongrass Mooncake leaves a lasting impression as each mouthful reveals yet another layer of subtle flavour.
Mandarin Orchard Singapore Ain’t nobody got time for old school mooncakes when there are alcoholic snow skin mooncakes to be eaten. Grand Hyatt is adding a new creation to their growing list of alcohol infused mooncakes: Violette & Gin, which comes infused with Tanquert No. Ten Gin and a crème de violette liquor for a delicate, floral twist. Another must-try is the Strawberry-Lime-Tequila Truffle, a fruity yet intense mooncake with a kick. Their snow skin mooncakes are available at $69 for a box of eight. Grand Hyatt Singapore Can a person get drunk on mooncakes? Probably not. But that’s not going to stop us from trying all the alcoholic mooncakes out there. Bakerzin‘s Prestige Collection ($56) will make your inner alcoholic rejoice, with four different spirits to try. Each box comes with two pieces each of Apple Vodka Snow Skin, Butterscotch Baileys Snow Skin, Coconut Liqueur Snow Skin, and Latte Kahlua Snow Skin mooncakes. You won’t even know where to start! Bakerzin Old Seng Choong may be well-known for its old school bakes and cakes, but head pastry chef, Daniel Tay, definitely knows how to take things up a notch.
Address: 333 Orchard Road, 238867
Contact.: 6831 6320/6831 6262
2. Grand Hyatt – Violette & Gin
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Address: 10 Scotts Road, Singapore 228211
Contact.: 6738 1234
3. Bakerzin – Butterscotch Baileys Snow Skin
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Contact.: 6455 8885
Website4. Old Seng Choong – Cranberries With Choya
Alcohol heaven with the Four Heavenly Beauties (Image Credit: Besides the usual mooncakes, Old Seng Choong wants you to meet the Four Heavenly Beauties ($60.80), a quartet of snow skin mooncakes that will stimulate your senses. The flavours are Cranberries with Choya, Passionfruit with Martini Mint, Coffee with Whisky, and Chocolate Rum, all of which are as aromatic as they are flavourful.
Old Seng Choong While it seems like everyone is trying to one up each other in terms of who can come up with the most outrageous, most unexpected mooncake filling, we think Shangri-La‘s ones take the cake.
Address:#05-04, 171 Kampong Ampat, KA Foodlink, Singapore 368330
Contact.: 6282 0220
5. Shangri-La – Yuzu Bird’s Nest
(Image Credit: Shangri-La’s latest Mini Snow Skin Eight Treasures ($88) features two new flavours.
The first is the more typical Chocolate Salted Toffee, which comes encased in a layer of crisp milk chocolate – perfect for sweet tooths. The other is a more luxurious and interesting blend of Yuzu Bird’s Nest that is both tangy and sweet. Who knew bird’s nest would go well with a mooncake?
Shangri-La Singapore If you love bubble tea and have $17.20 to spare, try The Pine Garden‘s Pearl Milk Tea Snow Skin, which is infused with tea, and comes with bits of chewy boba. Yum!
Address: Orange Grove Road, Singapore 258350
Contact.: 6737 3644
6. The Pine Garden – Pearl Milk Tea Snow Skin
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The more health-conscious can opt for the Purple Sweet Potato With Ginger Mooncake, which you can choose to have either with a baked or snow skin. No more calorie counting this Mid-Autumn season!
The Pine Garden
Address: #01-2369/ #01-232, 529 Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, S560529
Website
7. Thye Moh Chan – Chef’s Private XO Recipe
Go old school, but with a twist with Thye Moh Chan‘s traditional Teochew-style mooncakes.
Teochew mooncakes typically see a sweet filling encased in a flaky crust pastry, unlike the baked skin mooncakes we typically see during mooncake festival.
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They come with various fillings, including an all-new Chef’s Private XO Recipe ($40.80 for four pieces), a Salty Tau Sar With Egg Yolk ($29.80 for four pieces) and the Teochew Mooncake ($18.80 for one piece), which uses a traditional recipe of maltose, citrus strips and five-spice powder.
Although we were at first unsure about how XO sauce would fare in a mooncake, the Chef’s Private XO Recipe completely won our hearts and was a favourite in the office! Unlike most of the mooncakes listed here, these ones lean towards the savoury side, with delicate hints of har cheong (shrimp paste) that is simply addicting.
Thye Moh Chan also has a Mao Shan Wang Durian mooncake ($40.80 for four pieces), which infuses durian and mung bean paste.
Thye Moh Chan It only makes sense for a bakery famous for its cheesecakes to create cheesecake-filled snow skin mooncakes – and they’re actually quite legit.
Address: #01-45, Chinatown Point; #B1-12, Paragon
Contact.: 6604 8858/ 67328858
8. Cat & The Fiddle – Cream Cheese Mooncakes
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The Cow Jumped Over The Moon-cake selection from Cat & The Fiddle features 4 different flavours filled with cream cheese and lotus paste.
The mooncakes come in a Blueberry Cream Cheese and Lotus Paste with White Chocolate and Dried Cranberry Truffle, an Oreo Cream Cheese and Lotus Paste with Dark Chocolate Truffle, a Strawberry Cream Cheese and Lotus Paste with Mint and White Chocolate Martini Truffle, and a Chocolate Cream Cheese and Lotus Paste with Orange Vodka and Dark Chocolate Truffle.
Each flavour has a personality of its own, with some of them even containing hints of alcohol! You can order the mooncakes online, or by phone at 6287 0077.
Cat & The Fiddle
Address:#05-04, 171 Kampong Ampat, KA Foodlink, Singapore 368330
Contact.: 6287 0077
Website
9. Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant – Mini Salted Egg Custard Mooncakes
Here’s one that you can Boomerang.
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Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant will bring your Instagram game up a notch with their Mini Salted Egg Custard Mooncakes.
As you break open your mooncake, watch the gooey molten lava center come flowing out. Each box contains eight pieces and goes for $72. You can order them Mini Snowskin Green Tea White Lotus Seed Paste with Passionfruit Truffle, and a Snowskin Mini White Lotus Seed Paste with Strawberry Sea Salt Truffle that is sure to intrigue your tastebuds with a mix of fruity and salty flavours.
Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant
Address: Sheraton Towers Singapore, 39 Scotts Road
Contact.: 6839 5636/ 6839 5623
Website
10. Summer Palace – Pineapple & Pink Peppercorn Chocolate Snow Skin
The people at Summer Palace are always shaking things up with their mooncake offerings year after year.
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Spicy mooncakes anyone? (Image Credit: Regent Singapore, 1 Cuscaden Road, Singapore 249715Contact.: 6725 3239
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This Unique Honey Cheesecake Is The Sweetest Way To Say ‘I Love You Mum’
Let’s admit it, a meal isn’t quite complete without a sweet treat at the end of it.
Here in Singapore, there are countless bakeries offering up decadent, sweet treats but if you’re looking for a cheesecake that will blow your socks off, head to Cat & The Fiddle.
Opened by award-winning pastry chef Daniel Tay in 2014, Cat & The Fiddle is Singapore’s first online cheesecake retailer.
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Serving up 17 varieties of cheesecake from the Classic New York Cheesecake to the Mao Shan Wang Durian cheesecake, Cat & the Fiddle serves up cheesecakes that are bursting with flavour!
‘Queen Bee’ Mother’s Day Cheesecake
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Teaming up with Nature’s Farm, Cat & The Fiddle has created a special limited edition ‘Queen Bee’ Mother’s Day Cheesecake ($55.90 for 7″) so you can spoil the most important woman in your life this Mother’s Day.
This spectacular creation comprises two layers: a top layer crafted from UMF 5+ Manuka Honey, Osmanthus flowers and Goji berries, and a bottom layer crafted from luscious cream cheese mousse infused with Manuka Honey and lime zest.
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A delightful combo, this cheesecake was surprisingly light. The cream cheese mouse was creamy and dense, with the touch of lime zest giving it a slight sour kick. The Manuka honey glaze was slightly sweet and the goji berries added a bit of added texture to this dessert.
Health conscious? This is the perfect dessert if you (and mum) are watching your weight or trying to cut down on processed goodies.
The Queen Bee Mother’s Day Gift Set
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The Queen Bee Mother’s Day Gift Set[/caption]
If you haven’t decided on what to get for mother dearest this Mother’s Day, why not get the Queen Bee Mother’s Day Gift Set! Priced at $99, this set includes the Queen Bee Cheesecake, a 500g bottle of NF Reserve UMF +5 Manuka Honey and complimentary delivery service!
Cat & The Fiddle not only serves up tastebud tingling cheesecakes for any (and every) occasion, you can order them online from the comfort of your home! To check out more of their decadent desserts, head to https://www.catandthefiddle.com/
Cat & The Fiddle
Address: 171 Kampong Ampat, KA Foodlink #05-04, S368330
Contact no.: 6287 0077
Website
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