Raffles Cupcakes

We met up with the F&B manager today to try out the Raffles cupcakes and discuss the details of the day.


The cupcakes are very pretty, very wedding like, but came as a bit of a surprise because they were completely not what we expected - we'd sent pictures of what we were after before. They made three different flavours for us, sponge with strawberry jam (like Jammie Dodgers), chocolate, and pandan (screwpine leaves, local flavour). It was a little dry, and the marzipan a little sweet. So, that's going into the feedback and hopefully they might be able to do something. More fingers crossing.


We've also got flowers, soup, room layout, and music pretty much sorted, and asked about having a trial run of the whole walking down the aisle thing but he seems to think that it is strange. Huh? Shouldn't we time it somewhat? Now I feel silly. Was it really an odd request? He seems to think that things will fall in place as long as we get a good MC for the day. MC? eh? That sounds too formal for us. Well, that's something we got to work out for the day. Guess we have to first decide on the 'march in' song. Can't I just be beamed in, Scottie?

We've been C-Cupped!

We've been waiting for this for quite some time. We only managed to meet Melvin of C Cup last Saturday and he'd arranged for samples (free!!!! But they did surprise us with a bill for delivery! Oh well...) to be sent to us on Thursday! I waited, and waited, David came home, and we waited some more....Finally, just as we were about to give up hope, the doorbell rang and woohoo, the delivery man had arrived with our lovely lovely PINK box!

The delight I felt when I opened the box of cupcakes!!! David remains the sole witness to that mad dance and hop around the kitchen. I sound childish, girlish, and quite frankly, out of character BUT it's so pretty!!! I am sure the girls who view this blog will agree and, honestly, do that mad hop too.

We had 6 cupcakes delivered. 4 Tempt Me Nots, described as "an almost sinful dark chocolate cake filled with bursts of maraschino cherries, milk chocolate chunks and finished with pretty butter creme posies", and 2 Black Tie Events - "the perfect combination of smooth white chocolate and slivered almosts in a rich chocolate fudge base with a cream cheese frosting". They did the toppings in two different shades of pink, it looks a lil odd on the Black Tie Event but it tasted gorgeous.

C Cup, with their creative packaging, which incidently matches our colour theme (yes, we have a colour theme, despite my attempt at a laissez faire attitude), and wonderfully moist and scrumptious cupcakes are at the top of our list, but we're still waiting to hear from the Raffles pastry chef to see what he can do for us. More waiting...but i think we're nearly there.

Pine Gardens Cakes!

More cake tasting today, and it's FREE. Yipee!!!

We've finally got an appointment to see someone from Pine Gardens Bakery, located very very near us, in Ang Mo Kio. The girl, Petrina, was really nice and sat us through a short video presentation of the cakes they've previously made and, more importantly, produced 6 different cake samples for us to try! FREE! Now, that's service for you.


Clockwise from top left: Chocolate Brownie, Marble Cheesecake, Orange Zest Chocolate Cake, Lychee Martini Cake, Triple Chocolate Cake, and Rum Blackforst Gateau. Yum.



My favourite's the Lychee Martini. David likes the Orange Zest, it reminds me a lot of the Terry's Chocolate Orange that you buy in the UK which i am not a fan of but i must say this cake is delicious. Subtly orangey, very moist sponge, and a nice chocolate infusion.

After trying all that, it's a good thing we had to walk quite a bit to the bus stop to meet Jane for coffee (more added calories). But Pine Gardens is definately on the top of our list.

Choc-A-Lot & More Choc

Another day of indulgence.

We managed to get our hands on a couple of the Choc-A-Lot cake from Room for Dessert and Mmm...mmm...was it gorgeous. We probably wouldn't state that it's the best slice of chocolate cake we've ever had but, it was definately yummy and we think it would be rather delicious in a small cupcake size. Chocolatey wiithout being too rich.



Best thing about it was, we collected the cake around 6:30pm and tried it at 9ish and the chocolate fudge was still structurally sound!




Whilst waiting for Jane, we also came across a new cake concoction from the Beard Papa people (whose cream puffs we love). They've got a new chocolate cake with soft chocolate centre (the kind that oozes out liquid chocolate!), so we thought we SHOULD give it a try since it in a nice, suitable, size!



Yummy!!! Think Bakerzin's warm chocolate cake. It was nicely rich and when the chocolate oozed out - DIVINE! Ok, i might be going overboard but it was yummy and size and shape wise would look rather nice stacked up in the 'conventional' cupcake tray (whatever you call them).

Make Room for Dessert!

It was cake tasting day again yesterday!

We'd popped over to Waterloo Street to find a bakery called Room for Dessert to purchase a slice of their Choc-a-lot cake and their Summertime Carrot Cake, which they also create in cupcake shapes. Unfortunately for us, they'd run out of the choc-a-lot so we could only purchase the carrot cake. So, it was off to Starbucks (again) at Bugis for coffee and cake tasting.

Ok, before we do the review, we got to say that we've been spoilt. We (probably) have had the best carrot cake in the world (made by David's Nan) so this was a tough tough call!





Summertime Carrot Cake







But, we glad to say that the cake did not disappoint and was actually rather good. The cream was delicious without being too sweet and whilst the cake bit has been adulterated with raisins (which i dislike) and nuts, they've managed to keep it moist! All in all, very yummy...Mmmmm...

Their service was also very good. The staff was friendly, helpful and not pushy at all! The girl who served us happily left us to browse their catalogues and gave us options and information to work with. All in all, a great company.

So, now, all we have to do is return to try their choc-a-lot cake...what a tough assignment!

Cake Tasting

We've just started our search for the wedding cake and decided to order (and PAY!) for a couple of cupcake samples from this shop that seemed to know what it was doing on Sunday. It was featured in a few magazines and had good reviews from other brides in a bridal forum...so...

Yesterday we picked up our cupcake (1 vanilla and 1 chocolate chip) from Cake Avenue. They didn't seem prepared for us at all. The guy rushed around looking for our order but couldn't find it, had a quick chat with the girl in the shop who also didn't seem to know of it, and finally he came out and asked us what we meant by "plain" on the order and figured that we hadn't asked for it to be decorated - we only wanted to taste the cake. So, he rushed into the kitchen (which we could see into as it had a clear glass window), rolled out some fondant (marzipan), and stuck it onto our cupcakes. NICE!



We also decided to give their chocolate fudge cake a punt, which they said was delicious...Hmmm...

Looks good eh. The FUGDE was quite yummy but the cake bit rather disappointing.

So, our verdict? Bad Service. Can we trust them to actually make our cake on the day and deliver it? Dry cakes. I think no amount of liquid will moisten throats once you've consumed these cupcakes! So, onwards to the next bakery.