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| from Cedele |
Trust me, it is hard, very, very hard to resist a cake like this. It is also very hard to have to share a single slice of a cake that is this with another person. You want to eat it up all by yourself. You want to go up to the shiny glass counter and order the whole cake and bring it home and eat it spoon by spoon by spoon until you're filled up and keep it in the fridge for afterward and then eat it the same way again.
But there you are, with just that one slice for two peeps and if you've got a cake companion who is more into the eating than the savoring, well, the cake eating time turns into a sort of fight with plate pulling and fork dodging just so you can have that one more morsel.
For all the cakes that Cedele offers- and they've got quite a good variety- this is the one that I tend to go for. I don't mind trying out their cheesecakes. I don't mind their chocolate cakes. I don't mind their sea salt caramel something cake. I've eaten that one before. Once. All their cakes are very, very good, and their flavors are remarkably creative. Right now they've got a lychee-infused one. :) (I like any thing that's got lychee flavor inside- sweets, ice cream, whatever...)
But because anything with gula melaka- and sea salt caramel- is also one of my favorites, and it is only in recent years that we've seen a surge of desserts made with gula melaka, what usually happens is that I go up to the shiny counter, gaze a while at all their cakes on display, oooh and aaah over a few new ones, and then point to this very one.
It is a good choice. It always is a good choice. :) You've got these cute, cute little gold balls on top- they remind me of the handheld game where you got to roll the little metal ball over the plastic slats to get the ball from the top to the bottom without going round and round and round. You've got richly flavored, totally aromatic pandan custard which makes the texture of the cake itself just right, neither too heavy nor too light. And you've got what I love most about the cake- the gula melaka cream cheese. It's so smooth. Slightly salty, slightly sweet, there's that distinct taste of palm sugar and that cheesy roundness that, together with the pandan part, make a solo mouthful a perfect blend of tastes and textures which are distinctly Asian.
Best part, it's made using organic, unrefined sugar with no artificial, processed ingredients so it's great for just about anyone and everyone at any age. They've got cakes suited for vegetarians, and they've got some eggless ones too. :)