Best tasting Cakes in Singapore ?

[tina1980]

Where can you find the best tasting cakes in singapore ?

I'm always on the hunt for the yummy cakes and the ones I have eaten in Europe are way way better than the ones found in the stores here. The only way I can explain the taste is to say that the ones found here seem to have a local home grown taste (more salt/more lard -cant really pin it down) .Given there are a few better tasting ones from Rive gauche but which ones have you discovered to be the best ?

[QRM]

Hilton Cake shop, but you have to be picky, some are good ( cheese cake, carrot cake,) but other are awful.

[Mary Hatch Bailey]

da Paolo

[Vee]

PS Cafe mmm...

[aargon]

Which shops in Singapore actually use fresh cream in their cakes? cant seem to find any.....

[ksl]

? That's a good one!

[JR8]

Good question. Retail outlets seems to use WAY too much sugar. Crap oil or shortening, not butter. That revolting plastic fondant icing, rather than simple basic icing (I've never used icing anyway, i have no need to gild my cherry ). The ingredients are just rubbish (chocolate just doesn't taste of chocolate at all). Dayglo food colouring.

Yukh! SGn cakes tend to be revolting for me, and I will not, cannot, eat them.

Best cakes are home made IMO. So simple, and leagues better. The other pleasure lies in baking quality cakes and sharing with friends and family, and blowing them away. They're used to junk, so it is not that hard to do...

[nakatago]

Good question. Retail outlets seems to use WAY too much sugar. Crap oil or shortening, not butter. That revolting plastic fondant icing, rather than simple basic icing (I've never used icing anyway, i have no need to gild my cherry ). The ingredients are just rubbish (chocolate just doesn't taste of chocolate at all). Dayglo food colouring.

Yukh! SGn cakes tend to be revolting for me, and I will not, cannot, eat them.

Best cakes are home made IMO. So simple, and leagues better. The other pleasure lies in baking quality cakes and sharing with friends and family, and blowing them away. They're used to junk, so it is not that hard to do...

+1; ditto for local ice cream brands.

[blackbeard]

I think the Cedele cakes are quite alright

[Vee]

Check out Bakerszin and 1-Caramel too

[JR8]

Nah....

I going to do a lemon drizzle cake tonight. Mmmmm... unbeatable...

Edit to add -

[tina1980]

Looks Yummy ! Can I talk you into giving me the recipe

[trumpet]

I think the Cedele cakes are quite alright

Me Too!!! yummy

[JR8]

No problem. It was one that came up from a Google search, with the ingredients in metric rather than cups/sticks etc which I prefer.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/othe ... izzle-cake

If you read the comments below the recipe you'll see a few people had problems getting it to rise, so as a precaution I added 1/2tspn of baking powder to the self-raising flour.

Also:
I couldn't get poppy seeds, shame really as they look nice.
I baked it at 170c/fan, that was a tiny bit too much, should have stuck to 180/conventional as per the recipe.
I only made half the stated quantity of syrup and that seemed fine.
The icing looked rather watery so I added more sugar (maybe 350gms total), end result was the cake above is well over-iced

Have fun!

[QRM]

Try his fluffy pancakes alot of effort but well worth it ! I heard poopy seeds are banned in Singapore or is that another urban myth, like the government wanted to sterilise all uneducated women?