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Two Bakers - Eclair Ondeh Ondeh D

Éclair Ondeh Ondeh
TWO BAKERS
88 Horne Rd, tel: 6293-0329.
$6.80 each.

Two Baker’s French-style reinterpretation enrobes airy gula melaka cream within éclair choux pastry, capped with dainty green pandan glaze and desiccated coconut.

 

And All Things Delicious - gula melaka scones D

Gula Melaka Scones
AND ALL THINGS DELICIOUS
#01-61, 462 Crawford Lane, tel: 9382-4767.
$3 each.

Doubly indulgent, these crumbly morsels have palm sugar mixed right into the scone dough, and drizzled again with the sticky sauce.


Sinpopo Brand - Gula Melaka Cake D

Gula Melaka Cake
SINPOPO BRAND
458 Joo Chiat Rd, tel: 6345-5034.
$7 a slice, $28 for the whole cake (20cm).

The presentation may be deceptively simple, but this one is a real flavour bomb: a triple stack of fluffy, moist cake that is wedged with gula melaka icing, and burnished again with a deeply caramelised gula melaka glaze.


Seriously Ice Cream - Gula Melaka D

Miso Gula Melaka Ice Cream
SERIOUSLY ICE CREAM
#01-44, 4 Everton Park, tel: 9621-6889.
From $4 a scoop.

It’s pretty unorthodox, but adding white miso to gula melaka proves to be a brilliant stroke of genius, lending a savoury lilt to the complex molasses flavours.


Jacintha
THE FABULOUS BAKER BOY
#01-15 The Foothills, 70 River Valley Road, tel: 6694 8336
$8.50 a slice, $85 for the whole cake (9in).

Chef Juwanda Hassim bridges two icons from our dessert heritage – the ondeh ondeh and the old school butter cake –and gives it all a modern update with a svelte sweetness and lighter crumb. Gula melaka butter cream slathers the layers and cloaks this brightly-hued pandan butter sponge cake.