Ja Yule Cakes

The festive holidays at the end of the year often mean a few things: office parties, intimate family dinners, and fun gatherings at people’s houses. Hotels often have a bigger variety of cake options to offer on festive occasions under an overarching theme.

Ahead Of The Times (D9 Cakery, Hilton Singapore)

For Hilton Singapore’s D9 Cakery, their chefs are always on the edge of innovation while still remaining sweet, something which is firmly believed by their Executive Pastry Chef Cindy Khoo. This year’s Christmas offerings include an earl grey tea and mango passionfruit Yule log which, along with their other log cakes, is innovative. Chef Khoo has taken the opportunity to design three unique, geometric prints that she reproduced on a chocolate cylindrical shell that encases the outside of the cake. The inside of the chocolate shell is filled with layers of fresh mango slices, passionfruit and gingerbread spice, made using Chef Khoo’s own gingerbread recipe.

“I have two other log cakes that have different exterior geometric prints, and all three were done using 3-D printing,” says Chef Khoo excitedly as she shows us her creations. “It’s neat and clean, and thanks to the chocolate shell, it increases the durability of the cake in between the time the cake is bought, to the time the cake reaches its destination.”