“Apple of My Eye” gourmet cheesecake, a Mother’s Day special item from online patisserie Cat & the Fiddle. Essentially an apple pie which randomly fell from the clouds and conveniently plopped onto a cheesecake cushion with a digestive biscuit base. The apple chunks were not of the gooey variety but were rambunctious…
Snow White in the Blackforest from Halia (Singapore Botanic Gardens) – fresh red apple sorbet in a white chocolate casing, kirsch marinated cherries, dark choux branch, chocolate crumble, whipped cream and castor sugar soil. So jawdroppingly, show-stoppingly gorgeous a concept that the food could have been shit and all would…
Last minute cooked apple pie, cinnamon ice cream, and calvados (apple brandy). Essentially a delightful puff pastry which had a prior good roll in a bed of sugar granules. The cinnamon ice cream was rather spicy, the apple brandy appreciatedly strong and the caramel-esque sauce added sweet gooeyness to the…
Apple cinnamon waffle bar from Hvala Waffle Bar. Essentially the evolution of the “cheap hotdog waffle” of secondary school/pasar malam days, having adapted to today’s waffle-obsessed times. The apple slices were torched and thus nicely warm and sweet, in stark contrast to the relatively temperature-challenged sliced waffle pieces they rest…
Panseared Pulau Ubin sea bass, roasted new potato, garden herbed beurre blanc sauce. The wondrous sauce makes the entire dish – it was an unbelievably tasty creation, like a zesty combination of skim-milk mayonnaise and Pure Yoga oil, with oodles of vitality. Everything tasted a bajillion times better with the…
Apple Berry Pie. Less yogurty than Llaollao, and the crumble added an element of saltiness and crunch. However, as we went deeper down the cup, the intensity of sourness (it could have been from the yogurt or apple chunks, or both) reached such a degree that it made my tongue…
French toast with sautéed apple, raisins, house cured bacon, and maple cream. The French toast was a gift from heaven – warm, fat and fluffy, like a Japanese Spitz puppy. The apple maintained its integrity well, being warm, crunchy, intensely sweet and just a tad sour. The bacon was so…
Golden apple – original-flavoured yogurt with handmade cinnamon apples, apple jelly, honey oats and disgestive biscuit crumbs. The sour yogurt is a mere canvas on which the age-old flirtatious tension between apple and oat play out. Damn, those two should seriously get a room – the romantic chemistry between the…
Apple swiss roll. A decent throwback to yesteryear cakes, with nice apple chunks. The cake is paired with Tea Forte hot tea as a set. Buy this cake and give cafés who deign charge triple the price for a third of the pleasure a metaphorical kick up the nuts. Toothsome…