Exploring Neighbourhood :Telok Blangah Heights : Bread Story

This is another neighbourhood which I explored while I sent Little One for dance class. I stumbled upon this bakery because I wanted to get some bread for breakfast. I was pleasantly surprised to know that they sell the honeycomb cake! Both the white and brown version. Remembering that I had made white honeycomb cakes for Little One some years ago, so I bought the white version for her. (Just in case, she thought that the brown version looked weird  unfamiliar. ) To my surprise, she remembered it because I had not been making any since 2 years ago. We got to try the brown version a week later. I bought her into the shop to select personally. There wasn't any difference between the white and the brown but I do feel that the brown ones smell nicer! Ha~

They sell, too, some very nostalgic snacks Choi Ma Fa and Pig Ear Biscuit. What surprised me was that although we visited only once every week (it was only our 4th visit), the shop assistant recognized us and she knew we were there for the cake! 

The price is affordable. If you do not want to make honeycomb cake yourself, then head down when you in the vicinity. (There are quite a number of Chinese temples in that area) Shop address: Blk 78B, Telok Blangah Heights, #01-15.

Honeycomb cake

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Exploring Neighbourhood :Bukit Merah - The Bakery Chef

Christmas is coming soon! I had been traveling with Little One to explore various neighbourhoods. Although we had been to quite a few of them, I could not blog about them until now. That was because I was forced to have a rather long blog break. They were numerous factors, one leading to another, which kept me super busy over this one month and the most serious was ,of course, the laptop (which I kept my precious photo) crashed.

Exploring an old neighbourhood can be quite interesting, especially when you have not been to the neighbourhood for a long time. Then, on your next visit, new development appears. I had been eyeing on this little cafe tucked in a Blk 161 Bukit Merah Central, #01-3711, Singapore, 150161 because of its beautiful cakes. The name is The Bakery Cafe. I would pass by whenever I go to Bukit Merah Public Library.. This cafe is not really new. It started business in November 2013 but it took me almost 2 years before I finally step into it in late Oct this year. So, this review is only based on what we experience that day.

We were the only one dining outside the cafe. It was full house in the cafe.

We ordered a mini rainbow cake set which came with a macaroon of choice, pistachio in this case. The cake is soft and is perfect match with the cream which taste heavenly. Probably one of the best rainbow cake I have tasted. I like the macaroon too. It is not too sweet. The coffee was decent enough too. Verdict: We will be back for the cake! 

There is a review on this cafe by Daniel Food Diary. He also mentioned that there were 2 other cafes in the vicinity. This cafe is the nearest to the library.

You may want to visit their facebook page  or their  website to find out more what they have to offer.

Bon appetite!

Mooncakes from Bread Garden

I failed twice making the snow skin for my mooncake, so in the end I gave up. We bought some from the roadshow at J cube. We love to taste mooncakes when we go to these roadshow. We tried Bread Garden's mooncakes. Not overly sweet or oily.

Classy packaging

Fork and knife included.

We purchase 2 lotus paste with single yolk, pandan and lotus paste, cranberries snowskin  mooncake

They have plenty of other flavours such as durian snowskin, charcoal lotus mooncake to offer but we still prefer these.

Mooncakes are high in calories, fats and sugar. These are the main reason why mooncakes are not suited for diabetics. Howver, during this festive season, it is alright to consume just a little bit of it and control the intake of the sugar for the rest of the day.

I guess for the past 2 weeks, I have been eating lots of home made mooncakes, mainly because I had failed the snowskin. I have put on 2 kg. Time to do some work out soon.

Have you bought or made your own mooncakes?

Indulgence- try Fredo Galaxy

Ever since I learnt to steam cakes, I have been trying out and steaming a lot in the month of August. I have not lay my hands on a single store bought cakes. In fact, most of the cakes I made at home contains less sugar and oil. I have not tried making any creamy toppings or chocolate grazing. Any thing that I consider as fatty, I will opt not to include into my home made cake. In conclusion, I would say, most of the cakes I made are quite bland because I omitted a lot of sugar, but to clarify, those that I chose to post on my blog are sweet enough to my liking and they are nice enough for human consumption.

That day, I walked past one of my favourite bakery Fredo Galaxy. It's one of my favorite pastry store, I couldn't help but went into it. As usual, there is a wonderful display of cakes, pastries, tarts, biscuits. The aroma in it is enough to make you drool! I guess it's quite ok to indulge once in a while these creamy cakes and sugary tarts.