Best Cakes In Singapore

“Usual suspects on the dessert menu include toasted macadamia caramel cheesecake and dulce de leche torte”
— Roxanne Toh, online cakeshop owner

By Ronald Wan

LIFE is a piece of cake literally for Roxanne Toh. The sprightly girl loves her cakes and pastries so much she just had to make them herself and and share with the world.

Overdoughs (www.overdoughs.com), a gourmet baked goods online business, was set up by Roxanne and her mom Janet.

With years of trying out new recipes, butter and whipped cream under her belt (or waist), Roxanne definitely knows her cake (and eats it too). So we approached the lovely gal to recommend some of her favourite cakes and pastries.

Barracks (8D Dempsey Road Tel: 6475 7787):
Usual suspects on the dessert menu include toasted macadamia caramel cheesecake and dulce de leche torte. I love others like the chai chocolate cake. But my all-time favourite is their lemon tart served in a tin box and hidden under a generous mountain of crushed hazelnuts and crumbs.

PS Café (28 Harding Road Tel: 6479 3343):
It’s a fond reminder of the cafes that line Domain Road in Melbourne, where I spent some years in. I’m a recent Key Lime Pie convert. Feel your eyes widen when you bite into the lime-green custard cradled by a firm biscuit base!

Pasticceria da Valentino’s (7 Jalan Bingka Tel: 6462 2760):
Valentino’s history stretches across three whole generations (the restaurant is adjacent to the pastry shop). Their Chantilly Cream White Chocolate Cake wins my vote for being slightly alcoholic and very pretty.

Overdoughs (www.overdoughs.com):
Can I recommend mine? (Laughs) The lemon lavender loaf (aka Ella) and zucchini muffins (aka Frankie’s Waltz) are my favourite breakfast foods, taken with a hot soy latte!

Sweet Secrets (246D Upper Thomson Road Tel: 6455 2808):
Because you can never go wrong with it! The Chocolate Royal is a personal favourite, having had it at several birthday lunches in the office. Love eating the last bits of the hazelnut crunch base when there aren’t enough seconds to go around the table.

View original article on the Best Cakes in Singapore.