Raspberry Cheese Cake - Canele

check out the different layers in this cake!
i love Canele's paperbags too!!

i bought the raspberry cheesecake as well. i was attracted by the fresh raspberry and the pretty creamy topping so nicely curved and 'twirled' :)


however, the cake isn't for me. though that layer of raspberry thicken puree was nicely sour and i love it lots, not only coz i can taste the wonderful aroma of the raspberry after the sourish kick, it stays in my mouth for a prolonged moment. nice!


the cheesey layer is a tad too much and somehow, the chocolate sponge with nuts layer at the bottom doesn't exactly blends well overall. the cake becomes rather gelat for me after eating only half of it. it's not a very big cake as you can see, rather slim and long. but quite a feat for me to finish eating.


i still have one small portion (about 1/12) of it as i am completing my entry. too rich for my liking, sadly.

Finally, i bought Canele's BFC

so i headed to Canele this evening. Really really wanted to get the cake. I ended up buying 3 just so to charge to my credit card. not that they have any promos with the card i used. i thought it'd be more convenient.


anyway, my cakes suffered a 'drop' and thus BFC suffered 'injuries' by the time i got home. the rest were still in tact.


this is the first time i tabao the cakes back from Canele. Usually i'd have my fix there, but i wanted to go home early (but thanks to the lousy public transportation system i reached home quite late) and i found out something super about Canele's boxes which houses their cakes. this i will upload as another entry.


so, to my encounter with Canele's BFC. it's moussey and has lots of cherrys within the mousse and the cake. for that small cube, i ate about 5 cherries which i like but it's a bit bland for me. the texture of the mousse was good. thick and chocolatey a bit rich for me, but i'm not exactly a chocolate fan so, don't quote me.

Canele's Blackforest Cake

It's very nicely dusted with cocao powder. taking the cake and looking it from a far, it's very pretty how the powder coated the whole cube. in fact, it looks velvety! anyway, i was rather worried coz i usually get 'choked' by the powder. they somehow have a way of tickling my throat.


i like the crumbly bits on top of the cake. i can't figure out what it is. Almonds or hazelnut? It has some nutty flavour if i am not wrong. and i like that small cherry on top. with a little bit of gold foil decorating it and setting it apart from the rest of the browns. what's more, the cherry has got rum or was soaked in some liquor. when i ate it at first, it kinda reminded me of cough syrup, but the taste of the rum came on slightly later. pretty interesting!


hmm.. for a small 'cube' with such varied taste, i think it's not bad. am just wondering if they will come up with a citrus version?

Canele - revisited on 'impluse'

So last Saturday was super hot!! after visiting baby Ethen, i needed a refreshing drink badly. the first drink that popped into my mind (nope, not beer you evil people!) was the iced honey lemongrass from Canele since baby Ethen was at Mt E and was near Paragon, i headed there. was partially worried that there would not be any seats available, but i was lucky.

i always liked their logo. so classy

through the bottom of the glass

the drink that brought me there. doesn't look happening, but the refreshing taste of lemongrass cooled my fried brains for as long as the drink lasted..

they have an easter 'bundled' menu which ends 12 April

sat down and was contemplating between eating crepes or cakes. i wasn't hungry that day, so i decided against crepe since it's going to be damn filling, i opted for on 'over the counter' cakes. there were so many and i didn't know which to choose. wasn't in the mood for chocolate, so in the end, i took the tiramisu (well, bearing in mind on the same week on Thurs i had the same thing @ Pasta Inc) seriously, i don't know. i think i just wanted to compare.

the blah tiramisu

the conclusion? i preferred the one from Pasta Inc simply because it oozed coffee. the one from canele? nothing strong, nothing interesting, nothing facinating. was it even tiramisu i ate??


oh well, maybe it's the heat.. even when i asked the waitress if i could take photos using my SLR, she didn't understand what i wanted. coz instead of asking her a simple question like 'Can i take photo?' i asked her 'what do you think about people taking photos in here?'.. so duh right??


now you know what the hot hot sun does to me. i become senseless coz my brains were fried! :p