Cupplets (Ngee Ann Polytechnic)

This was supposed to be the highlight of my birthday party. Everyone oohed and ahhed over the exquisite buttercream flowers until we sliced it open and put it into our mouths. Grimaces all around the table. Overly dense, it was like eating elderflower flavoured kueh. Taste would've been great, but the kueh texture was absolutely horrendous, the worst of any cake I've ever eaten, even compared to any neighbourhood confectionery. It's like the baker could only decorate cakes but not actually bake them.

Just look at the photo, from the surface and cross section you can tell it's not spongey and even looks like kueh. Tell me you want your $80 cake to look and taste like this.

We couldnt finish it and had to throw the bottom half away because nobody wanted seconds. I kept it in the fridge and tried to have it for dessert the next couple days but the kueh texture seriously put me off.

4 months on and I still think about this failure of a cake every time I see whole cakes. It kind of ruined my milestone party. So I had to post this review as a warning to birthday peeps enamoured by the prettiness of the bakery's cakes like I was. Have seen good reviews by others so I'd say hit and miss, at your own risk, depending on if you prefer form over substance.

I'd give 5/5 for presentation and prettiness though, to be fair all their bakes are super duper pretty. I'd have uploaded a photo of the pretty exterior but burpple only allows me to upload 1 photo, and you can see all their pretty photos on the website anyway, quite true to life.

My constructive feedback is that perhaps the baker could go for a refresher course on how to bake cakes in order not to disappoint customers.

Just posting the truth. A bakery charging $80 for a cake should be able to bake a proper cake the first time round. No amount of refunds can make up for a cake with a kueh texture.

Gorgeous piece of art that looks great to eat. It's a bit on the sweeter side because it's a caramel based tart.The hazelnut and chocolate gave the layer of crunchiness and the tart base was buttery and crusty. Not bad but not wow.

They were closed but allowed takeaways, hence the weird table background haha. Cake is dense which I feel is quite sad as some pretty cakes are just like that... Cookie butter tart's tart base is good; crunchy and savoury. Cream is not bad too.

Elderflower & strawberry cake. Their tarts are also fantastic.

IMO this place is so underrated but maybe because it's in the middle of Ngee Ann Poly. I wish they'd open in a more accessible place!

Too pretty to eat, Cupplets’ box of mixed macarons comes in some unique and delectable flavours. Coffee Salted Caramel, Chocolate & Date, Lemon - Elderflower and Red Velvet. I just couldn’t resist ordering them just for their lovely shades and luckily these two-bite treats are not too sweet.

Too pretty to eat, Cupplets’ box of mixed macarons comes in some unique and delectable flavours. Coffee Salted Caramel, Chocolate & Date, Lemon - Elderflower and Red Velvet. I just couldn’t resist ordering them just for their lovely shades and luckily these two-bite treats are not too sweet.