Ispahan cupcake from Fluff Bakery. The cupcake was ridiculously moist and delicious, with the fragrance of rose permeating from every pore of both cake and cream whilst an entire piece of succulent, juicy lychee waits patiently within. Now I understand why people queue. 4.2/5 Fluff Bakery 12 Jalan Pisang Singapore…
Baba au Rhum from Sugarhall, with jamaican rum syrup and whipped cream. Sugarhall is all about the rum, and here they certainly don’t hold back – the rum is generously present (I’ve been to stingier joints where they probably use one squirt from a pipette or similar science class apparatus)…
Oreo bomb from Banana Tree. Essentially vanilla ice cream resting atop an Oreo cookie post-apocalyptic wasteland, with earthen heat still radiating from the heated frying pan. Have the cookies warm as they are served, smash them into crumbs and have warm cookie cereal, or mix the crumbs with the ice…
Madagascan vanilla ice cream with Guinness draught and Créme de Mure from The Naked Finn. The vanilla ice cream sinks and melts with greater haste than Road Runner from the Looney Tunes, so you essentially get a very boozy, fizzy alcoholic milkshake. 3.8/5 The Naked Finn 39 Malan Road Gillman Barracks…
Peanut cake from Tête-à-Tête Café. Essentially mee chiam kueh (peanut pancake), peanut butter and crunchy/gooey muah chee (glutinous rice balls coated with peanut and sugar) having a playful romp in a hyper-delicious ménage à trois. The muah chee bits were to die for, and this was amazing. 4.1/5 P.S. The peanut…
Dome from Henri Charpentier – a chocolate sphere encloses a chocolate parfait biscuit of fraise d’amande. Essentially a bewitching combination of pyrotechnics, hazelnut biscuit, strawberry sauce and a very good Magnum-esque chocolate shell. The strawberry liquor is, like the Dome pictured above, quite the proverbial “blue baller” – you immediately…
Waffle with blueberry and strawberry ice cream from Brownice. The waffle was as humble as a bespectacled, holey singlet-wearing ten-year-old who helps his father out at a char kway teow stall at Whampoa Drive Food Centre, while the vegan, organic ice cream was surprisingly enjoyable – the blueberry was like…
Chocolate root beer flavoured waffle from The Cold Pantry – served with charcoal vanilla ice cream and drizzled with homemade root beer sauce. The rather black-faced vanilla ice cream — perhaps so coloured after experiencing wretched and tragic betrayal in a Wuxia (武侠) novel — was restrained in its milkiness…
Korean shaved ice with three fruits and gelato from Insadong Korea Town. You get to choose the gelato and sauce to drizzle over the ice, and pictured is the green tea gelato with kuromitsu sauce. Essentially an idealistic Korean bingsu challenging itself not to be pigeonholed as “exotic”, “novelty” or “foreign…