These days, you can never believe anything — what with all sorts of fake news constantly circulating the web. Even seeing is not believing, as in the case of Cake Avenue’s new diner-themed dessert menu.
Sure, at first glance, you may think it’s just a bunch of junk food — nothing that would look out of place in an American diner. But because it’s, well, a cake shop, all the burgers, corndogs, nachos and fries are actually desserts.
As in, they’re made of chocolate, ice cream, custard and other sugary stuff.
It’s not exactly a revolutionary concept. After all, Cake Avenue has baked birthday cakes that look like bak chor mee and anniversary cakes that look like branded handbags before. Non Entrée Desserts on Rangoon Road has also experimented what the whole “what you see isn’t what you get” idea.
So if you don’t have a sweet tooth, you should probably look away now. But if you’d like to try and fool your taste buds, check out the six new menu offerings below.
Think you’re sinking your teeth into a juicy, mini slider? Think again. Okay, so this dish ($15.90) doesn’t really look too much like burgers and fries once you go up close, but at least they tried.
The “buns” are made of vanilla butter cake, while the “patty” is actually dark chocolate ice cream, and the condiments are passionfruit purée “mustard” and raspberry purée “ketchup”. More vanilla cake comes in the form of “fries”.
Fans of actual corn chips may or may not like this sweet version — the Nachos Dulces ($12.90) plates up flatbread nachos served with chocolate mousse “refried beans”, strawberry compote “salsa”, julienned peach “cheese” and pistachio ice cream “guacamole”.
Then there’s the carnival favorite: The Great Con Dog ($8.90), made of sweet corn custard “sausage” coated in bread crumbs and served with a side of vanilla ice cream and strawberries.
Up next: Alphabet Soup ($8.90). Only instead of tomato broth, the bowl camouflages a lychee mousse studded with pieces of lychee and raspberry, topped with rose jelly and sweet milk agar “alphabets”.
Last but not least, the “meatball” Lava Pops ($8.90) offer warm bites of red velvet cake coated in a breaded exterior and filled with molten vanilla cream cheese.
If you’re like to wash all that saccharine sweetness down with gulps of sugary shakes, try the Unicorn range ($7.90) of colorful drinks with flavors like strawberry, matcha and mango.
Cake Avenue‘s new dessert menu will launch on Sept 1 at #01-01/02 Kilat Centre, 33 Lorong Kilat.
