[CLOSED] Ugly Cake Shop

Big Daddy Cake - Super Chocolatey with Nutella and Valrhona

1 of My favourite chocolate cakes, instantly, and this is my first time ordering and eating a cake from here.

The cake was moist and solid, not those airy type of cakes. Every bite was so decadent-ally good.

So rich and moist. The best combination for a chocolate cake.

Best to be eaten within 3 days.

Between the Nicholas Bittersweet Chocolate Cake, pictured at the top (4inch @ $32) and the Big Daddy Cupcake ($3.80), the cake & muffin were both of the same chocolate cake base.

Taste-wise:
- Big Daddy has a predominant Nutella taste
- Nicholas Cake is taste more chocolate and less sweet

If you like your cakes/cupcake moist, this is an acceptable cake. The shop also advertises that part of their proceeds goes toward a good cause.

Love them! It's really sweet (totally up my lane) but maybe too sweet for some. Love the chocolate the most, followed by salted caramel. Service could be a tad better though.

Thanks @twytang for your 爱心 cupcake 💗 Lucky me!! 😄😄😄 Earl Grey cupcake with Orange Blossom frosting from Ugly Cake Shop

They named themselves the Ugly Cake Shop because their cakes does not contain any artificial ingredients​ and using buttercream instead of fondant. Hence, losing out on the beautifully looking cake that are usually full of sugar frosting and dyes.
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Visited them with the main purpose to try their Sally (Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate) cupcakes but they're unavailable during our visit 😭 Still, we decided to try the remaining available flavours.

Unfortunately while transporting them back, Big Daddy went for a 🎢 ride which turns out too ugly for a 📷 but that was also my favourite flavour among those three. I would say that their 🍰 are really moist and fluffy and not too 🍬, good enough for the young and old 👪.

Nicholas
- Bittersweet Chocolate

Trisha
- Vanilla with a Kiss of Lemon

Big Daddy
- Super Chocolatey with Nutella & Valrhona

I also got to learn about other social initiatives in Singapore such as RunningHour (my friend tried walking blindfolded through a short obstacle course) and I'm Soul Inc, who uses a motion sensor music-making device Soundbeam to engage the elderly and disabled to create their own music. I tried it out - it's like having an invisible drum set, and the sounds/beats are formed by passing my hands over the sensors and tapping feet on the pedals, quite tough but intriguing for psychomotor-challenged me 😝
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There was also a pop-up market, where I got to meet the folks from Ugly Cake Shop again! They've been sponsoring the nutrition fund of a school in Timor Leste since the start of their business, feeding the malnourished kids. What started as a small class with a handful of students has grown to a school of over 300 youths, hence a growing fund as well.
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The festival may have ended, but the festivities for #DineForGood continue the rest of August. Ugly Cake Shop is offering 10% off all available cupcakes in store (except the 6pc box price)! Featured in the pic are Vicki (salted egg yolk custard), Jamie (earl grey with orange blossom whipped cream), and my favourite Carmen (lemon coconut meringue) cuz I'm a sucker for tart and sweet notes. Yes, Vicki comes with a flowing centre, heated before serving. But how are these prettily piped cupcakes 'ugly'? Well, there aren't any artificial colouring or fondant used in the cupcakes for "beautification", hence the contradictory name. Nah, give me natural and quality flavouring any time!
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Thanks @Burpple for the invite, and @raiSEsg and @uglycakeshop for hosting the tasting! #Burpple