Mochified snowy mooncake~! @ Mochi Cream

After reading the review by FoodieWil, I just had to try for myself.
Totally agree with FoodieWil’s comment that it is a Japanese version of ChineseGoGo.

ChineseGoGo is a high-end version of the glutinous sweets with various fillings, and now top class Mochi has appeared.

There are 19 flavours: Apple pie, Chocolate banana, White chocolate, Mango, Peach Yoghurt, Bluebery Yoghurt, Sweet Potato, Darjeeling tea, honey cranberry, Café Au lait, Rum n Raisin, Chocolate, Green Tea, Black Sesame, Green Soybean, Red Sweet Potato and Sakura.

I am not really into Adzuki beans, or the conventional Japanese flavours such as green tea, sweet potatoes etc, so I chose six flavours APPLE PIE, PEACH YOGHURT, DARJEELING TEA, HONEY CRANBERRY, CARAMEL PUDDING, and RUM RAISIN.

I tried the APPLE PIE first, the texture was interesting, just like eating eggshells, like the sugar shells on the mini easter eggs, then oozing with apple sauce with bits of apple in it, and exploding with fluffy light whipped cream.

Then I tried the honey cranberry, also oozing with sweet cranberry liquid, this one contained bean paste, same with the Darjeeling Tea, packed with strong Tea flavour.
The Rum raisin one also surprised me with a strong Rum infusion with the cream.
I didn’t like the Peach Yoghurt one, because the Peach was a bit perfume like, not natural giving an aftertaste, I would assume the same for the blueberry one too.

However the Caramel Pudding was the best along with the Apple pie, it was thick smooth custard filling inside, with a strong bitter caramel syrup in the centre. The brown syrup tasting and looking EXACTLY like the real caramel puddings.

Anyway if your not a fan of Adzuki beans, then Apple pie or Caramel pudding would be the choice, its sweetness is different to the sweetness of the bean paste. Although both are as sweet as each other.
To me the ones with bean paste inside remind me of the Snowy moon cakes during moon cake festival, both full of bean paste. Maybe one day, they will have cheesecake flavours!

 

Cream cheese and apple bun @ A-1 bakery

Rum, apricot and walnut butter slice:
Rather tasteless, oily and dense, the oil could be seen on the packet.
There were not much nuts or apricot.

Cream cheese and apple bun:Crunchy milk top like the milk buns, hollow bun with slight apple pieces and cream cheese, not two sweet.

 

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.