Showing posts with label Red bean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red bean. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

POLKA DOT rainbows in six flavours @ A-1 Bakery


 
Saw the colourful advert for these POLKA DOT cakes, my first thought was colourful donuts, however on a closer look they were donut shaped cakes with a hole in the middle.
I cannot quite correlate why they were advertised as Polka dots because the definition of polka dots is: a pattern consisting of an array of filled circles, generally equally sized and spaced relatively closely in relation to their diameters.
Nevertheless I was excited to try them because there were six fun flavours:
1)Earl grey and apple [refreshing earl grey with moist apple slices]
2)Swiss choco rum-raisin [rich chocolate flavour with rum-raisins]
3)Pistachio dark cherry [An aromatic pairing of pistachio and cherries]
4)Choco-chip very berry [Lightly sweetened with strawberry, raspberry and chocolate goodness]
5)Mango madness [An exotic flavour with mango puree and dried mangos]
6)Matcha azuki bean [flavored with Japanese dark matcha paste with sweet azuki beans]

I got all of them except for mango and matcha because I hate azuki beans and mango.
When I opened them, I was slightly disappointed because they were steamed cakes and not baked.
It ruined the taste slightly because the texture of these steamed cakes were too mushy and soggy. If they had been baked, they would have been more fragrant.

Although they could have tasted better, I was really pleased that A1 Bakery were adventurous with the flavours they came up with especially with the use of earl grey, rum raisins, and darks cherries for an Asian bakery.
Earl grey and apple:
The cake was very soggy and sticky and with the moist apple slices it was even more soggy.
The apple was pieces of sliced quarters, and in the cake were bits of earl grey.
The earl grey and apple flavour was too sweet.

Swiss choco rum-raisin:
This was quite nice especially with the rum-raisins.
Again it was too moist.

Choco-chip very berry:
Although the strawberry flavouring was a bit fake, the chocolate chips were slightly melted in the cake, which tasted nice together with the cake.
The cake itself was light pink.

Pistachio dark cherry:
This was my favorite out of the four. When I was picking them I assumed this was matcha because of the green colour.
There was generous dark cherry halves in the cake, and the pistachio flavouring was quite prominent in the cake.

A green 缽仔糕!!!!!! A real head turner @ Macau Soya Bean

I hardly ever buy from this place, because all the products are too Chinesey such as glutinous desserts, silky tofu, etc. There were a few green items I wanted to get, but to my dismay they told me it was Green Tea and not Pandan.

Despite the fact I do not like Chinesey green tea combinations such as green tea and red bean.
I got this mint green 缽仔糕 expecting it would be green tea and red bean! The usual boring combination.
To be honest I never eat 缽仔糕, they are usually too sweet and I hate red beans.

To my surprise when I was taking the photo I could smell coconut, a good sign!
The pudding was firm, and the beans were nice and hard, not too starchy.
The sweetness was just right and the texture was like dense jelly.

As I am not really a red bean lover, it would be cool if it the red beans were chocolate chips.
They should be more adventurous and make more flavours!!!

Flavours I think they should make:
Mint with chocolate chips, Strawberry with strawberry pieces, Chocolate with crushed peanut, coffee.
The list could be endless.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Maxim's $10 cakes

The cakes in the cabinet looked inviting and they cost $10 per slice.
I bought three different cakes to try: blackforest, red bean and taro and dark chocolate.
Left: Black Forest, Middle: Red bean and taro, Right: Dark Chocolate
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Black forest cake slice
This was quite disappointing, the cake was made the Chinese way, with Chinese cream in the middle.
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Dark chocolate cake slice:
The taste of this one was not bad, at least it did not have Chinese chocolate cream that tastes like salted butter cream.
It actually tasted like Sara Lee’s double layer chocolate cake.
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Red bean and taro cake slice:
I did not think I would like it because I don’t like red beans anyway.
But the cake was made of two layers, red bean cake on top and taro cake on the bottom.
The sweetness was too sweet which ruined it.
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