Chef Icon started in 2008 with the philosophy of using the finest and most natural ingredients to produce the best product. It started with the small shop at Kampong Bahru and now it has opened its 2nd bakery shop at 112 Katong.
Chef Icon's best 3 cakes include their signature and highly recommended Chocolate Travona Cake, Hokkaido Swiss rolls and New York Cheesecake. All of these cakes are baked with natural ingredients only.
The small cosy shop has only 5 tables and not much customers at all. The customers mainly opt for takeaway for their birthday cake. We ordered their BlackForest cake @ $42.80 as I’m not a pure chocolate lover. The cake was fluffy, not sweet and simply awesome in taste. The chocolate was so rich in flavour and we simply loved the cake.
For chocolate lovers, please try going for their Chocolate Travona cake. Though the cake can be a little pricey for the size, all of us unanimously still found it awesome with coffee or tea. Please remember to call and order at least 3 days in advance.
A summary of what we had:
BlackForest cake
My overall ratings:
Food: 4/5
Price: 3.8/5
Service: 3.8/5
Ambience: 4/5
You can locate them here:
Chef Icon
5 Kampong Bahru Rd, Singapore 169341
Happy Oven is an old school confectionary shop located at Beo Crescent near Havelock Road. The shop is just opposite the Beo Crescent market and hawker center which is currently closed for upgrading until Aug'17.
Happy Oven focuses mainly on cakes, with their pandan kaya cake being one of their Top 5 items. Others include pandan chiffon cake, banana cake, eclairs, apple tarts, swissrolls etc. Their bread variety also belongs to the old school kind, like the 4pcs red bean buns etc.
We focused on their cakes and so far tried their banana cake ($3), apple tarts ($0.90), pandan kaya cake ($1.80), cream puffs ($1) and eclairs ($1).
The pandan kaya cake so far has been one of the best.
With the soft fluffy sponge and rich coconut pandan layer, it definitely serves a good dessert after meal. We bought their pandan chiffon cake for breakfast this morning.
The cake's texture was soft, a little rough but very fluffy and bouncy. Taste wise was good but does not seem to be made of 100% pure pandan leaves. It tasted like there was some pandan extract. Priced at $5.80, the cake was value for money
Happy Oven is an old school confectionary shop worth a visit. Items to try: pandan kaya cake, banana cake, cream puffs, chocolate rice swissroll.
A summary of items ordered:
banana cake
apple tarts
pandan kaya cake
cream puffs
eclairs
My Overall Ratings:
Food: 4.2/5
Price: 4/5
Service: NA
Ambience: NA
You can locate them here:
Happy Oven
40 Beo Crescent, #01-08, Singapore 160040
