Christmas Cake from Mad About Sucre – aged brandy, apricot, cranberries, currant, citrus peels, vanilla light rum sauce, and rum chantilly cream. Essentially the gustatory equivalent of seeing your familiar friend of many years in (ahem) naughty and slightly inappropriate Santa attire for the first time. The alcoholic fumes diffuse…
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)…
Spiral from Gobi Desserts. Essentially a simple, nice and warm chocolate cake hiding a rather delinquent and very wet rum surprise centre, topped with vanilla ice cream and nuts. Who knew gentle heat and alcohol had so much The Fault in Our Stars-esque chemistry? 3.9/5 Gobi Desserts 350 Joo Chiat…
Compressed Rum Infused Pineapple with alfalfa sprouts, vanilla ice cream and gula melaka drizzle from Feedlot Steakhouse Bar and Grill. The titular pineapple steak was sweet, juicy and really thick – you can convincingly knife and fork it as you would beef steak and role-play as a very glamorous and…
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…
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…
Buttermilk waffle with butter rum bananas and vanilla bean ice cream. The waffle was fluffy and tall like an Afghan Hound, whilst the bananas were nicely gooey and sweet. Loved the rum element, which added a naughty kick to the otherwise blank vanilla canvas. 3.7/5 Department of Caffeine 15 Duxton…