ROCCA bakery part 2: Johnston Road

Discovered Rocca in the middle of a market. On the way leaving the market, I saw some cakes being brought over to Rocca, so there must be another cake shop nearby, it turned out to be another Rocca branch.

Basically the range is the same as the other branch, except the shop is slightly smaller, they had mini ring donuts topped with colourful icing, but they were sold out the next day.
As well as sweet items, they also do local bakery too at an affordable price.

I just got the chocolate cup, mini muffins and a piece of chocolate fudge.

The chocolate cup was basically blackforest in a cup, layers of chocolate mousse, jelly, crunchy chocolate, and a cherry on top with a piece of edible gold flake.
The cherry on top was heavily soaked in alcohol, liquor like.

The mini muffins were cute too, there were three flavours, chocolate chip, blueberry and wheat.
There are normal size versions too, but the mini ones cost 3.5 each.
The wheat one has a strong taste of cinnamon.

As for the chocolate fudge, it costs $9 and for the one with nuts it costs $10, I chose the plain one to try, the woman at Rocca kept saying the texture was like praline, that melts in your mouth.
It was slightly like that, and the best thing was that it was not too sweet, however its texture reminded me of the vegetarian cakes that do not contain egg.
The chocolate fudges were individually wrapped in opaque crisp packet, so it was like unwrapping a gift.

The shop is decorated quite nice, as good as C Bakery opposite, but the bakery products are not as expensive. Along the Johnston Road area, there is quite a wide range for bakery lately with C bakery and Pomme, and now the addition of Rocca and Ginger Bakery.

 

 

 

 

Taro chestnut cake @ Saint Honore Bakery

Got this taro cake for $13 which is considered affordable compared with other cakes priced at >$30 per cake at other prestige places such as the Pantry, Sift etc.

This cake is considered as a higher end product at Saint Honore, but the service and packaging was treated just the same as their ordinary bakery products.

Despite it was a delicate cake, there was no box provided unless two were bought, which was a bit pathetic since you are paying for an expensive cake, and the cake was stuffed in their plastic bag making it hard to carry around.
Luckily, it was still intact when I took it out.

Taro chestnut cake:
It takes the form of a round cake with a sponge base, topped with taro mousse with sponge layers inside.
The taste of the taro was so faint, but luckily it wasnt over sweet.
As for decoration there was a tiny crunchy chocolate ball on top, and chestnut paste on top.
To my surprise, I found white cream inside the chestnut paste.
Fun to eat, but didnt really taste of taro which was dissappointing.
The spongecake base tasted like their usual sponge cake products

 

Lucullus cakes sticks

After trying the cake slices, I wanted to try the other cakes, the ones I got this time were called STICKS!
They reminded me of the thin slices of cake sold at Stick Stick's

Photos of cake sticks @ Stick Stick'S
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2095395

The ones sold here looked more like rectangle slices.
Anyway, the stick's tasted better than the slices.
The whole thing was much lighter, and there was no heavy dense chocolate mousse base at the bottom.
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Rocky chocolate stick

 

Rocky chocolate stick:
This was topped with marshmallows and drizzled with chocolate which had solidified.
The marshmallows that was in the filling was lovely and soft.
Not too sweet but chocolatey enough.
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Hazelnut stick

 

Hazelnut stick
This was my favourite, the hazelnut mousse actually had a strong hazelnut taste.
Much better than the Hazelnut mousse I had at Sweet Lodge.
It would be good if there was crushed hazelnut mixed in the mousse.
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Overall, the sticks were really good, but I would of preferred the cake to be softer.

Black forestThe cake and cream was dry, especially the cream, it was so dehydrated that it felt crumbly.
It was lacking cherries and the wine taste.

black forest cake

 

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Chocolate cake wtih berries
I was expecting the blackforest to taste better, but actually this one tasted better.
It had more berries but the chocolate was stronger.

chocolate and berry cake

 

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Overall, the chocolate cakes have a heavy chocolate base which gives it weight and stability when it is being transported.
Then the top part of the cake is sponge and the cream.
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2011 Christmas series part 1 at Starbucks

Glad it is Christmas again, especially for food there is lots more variety and new items.
To start off this year, I tried Starbucks Christmas Black Forest cake.
Next I am going to try the cranberry and blueberry Danish and the savoury wraps if they are not sold out yet.

I was attracted to the cake because of the whiteness of the cream and the cake was made up of other pieces of cake shaped together like the Battenberg or a brick wall but not as regular as the squares in that cake.

 

 

It tasted really nice, because the cake was made up of cake, mousse, cream, and pieces of jelly, which can be seen on the side.
But it was visually not as good as their product shot which attracted me in the first place.

Product shot

 

There was only one piece of jelly, I would have preferred more.
I could taste some slight alcohol in the chocolate mousse.
It tasted mainly of chocolate and no taste of cherry whatsoever.