5 unusual gula melaka desserts to try

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.

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.

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.

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.