Pineapple pound cake with a shot of orange pear fruit enzyme. You get to choose if you want to heat up the pineapple pound cake, and I tried both the warm and normal versions. The truth of the matter is that the cake itself is irrelevant in this exercise – it’s…
Chocolate molten lava cake, flambé with Sambuca and Grand Marnier and served with vanilla ice cream. The cake was fairly competent and the lava thick and oozy, but the alcohol – two separate glasses brought to the table and poured over the cake in a tragic flop of a pyrotechnic…
Framboise Delight – raspberry mousse, raspberry compote, lady fingers sponge, pistachios and raspberry crispies. Very classy-looking and the display indicated the use of alcohol, so expectations were high. However, just like the moment when I peeled the wrapper off my first chocolate coin when I was a baby, I realised…
Carrot cake. Massively sized and filling without being too cheesy or sweet. The numerous treasures within – raisins and nuts etc – are nicely distributed so each mouthful tastes different texturally. I like how they serve the cakes on a big circular tray that provides for klutzy cake toppling. 3.8/5…
Choc Rocher Cheesecake. Rich, indulgent and only cheesecakey in its gooey texture. The Oreo-esque crumbs hiding below the cake assist in taking the edge off the sweet hazelnut richness. Essential that you share, otherwise it would be a richness that eventually segues to misery. On an unrelated note, my dining…
San Domingue – a jewel box with rum emulsion, chocolate mousse, caramelized plantain and a Brittany crust. Essentially the chocolatey equivalent of Christmas morning. The jewel box reveals liquid rum emulsion by way of in-mouth squirtage once you bite it, and you get to chew the chocolate box with the…
The Bette Midler – earl grey sponge with lemon emulsion and blueberry buttercream. A cake so dense, filling and statuesque that it can probably serve six girls with thigh gaps. Fork vertically and the lemon emulsion essentially overrides everything else; try only the sponge bits and you enjoy the highly…
Big Lub’s Carrot Cake. Despite the carrot cake seemingly wearing a highly avant garde and fashionable carcass of a deceased bird on its back, it tastes extraordinarily masculine. The coconut shavings were the most memorable bits, all rough and gnaw-gnaw-gnaw in your mouth. The carrot cake itself was dense and…
Paddlepop cheesecake, earl grey cheesecake and almond coco. The standout was the earl grey cheesecake which had a chewy, salty crust and flaunted its distinct tea flavour and aroma with more swag than A&F does with its baby prostitute scent outside Knightsbridge. The paddlepop cheesecake, which I initially dismissed as…