Eglise St Augustin (red fruits, strawberry-basil confit, vanilla choux sponge, Madagascar vanilla cream, white chocolate) from Mad About Sucre’s new autumn/winter cake collection. Mad About Sucre 27 Teo Hong Road Singapore 088334
Sous vide salmon with white chocolate hollandaise from Antoinette’s new Fetish Chocolat menu, which runs from 1 September 2016 until end October. Antoinette (Penhas Road) 30 Penhas Road Singapore 208188
Charcoal waffle with mango lime ice cream, Valrhona white chocolate sauce, maple pecan granola and fresh berries from Double Scoops. The mango lime was happily diverting, but the sparsely-populated charcoal waffle needed some nourishment which its (in one instance, ostentatiously monikered) inhabitants were helpless to do much about. 3.6/5 Double…
Lemon & White Chocolate Sundae from Populus – Tahitian vanilla ice cream, fresh lemon jelly, white chocolate sauce, meringue kisses, white chocolate crumb, cornflake crumble, citron mascarpone. Essentially a rotund love child of Hokkaido milk and McDonalds’ soft serve. The citrus elements lend a wince-inducingly zesty zing to the proceedings,…
Aquarium Japone from Henri Charpentier – matcha, chocolate, white chocolate and yuzu mousse. The chocolate cap over the aquarium – wherein honeycomb, crumble and green tea sponge reside – disintegrates dramatically when hot chocolate is poured over it, and the dessert eventually segues into a green tea take on Eton’s…
Black Glutinous Coconut Mousse Cake from Bakersfield – steam baked black glutinous sponge, pumpkin creamux, coconut panna cotta, lime sable. While a vertical fork-dive nets you a rather watery coconut experience, patient exploration of the individual layers will reward – you get to better know and understand the cake beyond mere…
Le Lapin from Antoinette – 66% dark chocolate mousse with peanut feuilletine and caramel peanut, raspberry marmalade, chocolate genoise with rum. I should have went straight for the dark chocolate part and avoided the white altogether, as the latter was like a spurned ex-lover who can’t let go and persistently…
Gnome Dome – choux pastry with Horlicks and hazelnut crème pâtissière with white chocolate. Probably needed a warm hug before being served, as it was rather frosty. Horlicks may have been on medical leave that day, as I tasted only Kinder Bueno manning operations. 3.5/5 Out Of The Cake Box…
FOC Hamburguesa de chocolate – white chocolate and vanilla mousse with sesame seeds, chocolate ganache, strawberry, mango and mint. Madame Tussaud must have mistook her lunchbox for her toolbox. This baby is so pretty and delicate that it probably should go on my desk rather than down my oesophagus but…..ooops.…