Of cupcakes and dragons

*crickets*

Yeah yeah I've been neglecting this sorry piece of shit blog for a while again. What can I say, I'm kinda lazy when it comes to food blogging. But today I drag myself out of my usual work routine and do a post on.. cupcakes.

Indeed, cupcakes. Cupcakes are lovely and delicious and dainty but also quite deceiving. How many times have you come across this pretty little thing, beautifully iced with frosted sugar petals and said to yourself oh golly gee I gotta get me one of those. And you do. And now you hold this delicate little cake in your hands and you smell it and by george it smells amazing. Then you sink your teeth into your confection and then.. dear god. It tastes nothing like what it looks. It's dry and chalky and the icing feels like a thick disgusting gunk of moldy cheese and your face crinkles up into utter disappointment but you find yourself forced to continue eating the abomination because what the hey you spent good money on that cake and you're damn well gonna eat it.

These cupcakes are not like those. These cupcakes are moist and flavourful and the icing absolutely delicious and more-ish. Welcome to Twelve Cupcakes, located at Millenia Walk and at United Square. Bless their little sugary souls, they do them cupcakes right.

Aren't they lovely. So I had the Red Velvet cupcake on the spot for $3 and it was wonderful. The cream cheese frosting was just the right consistency and the velvet chocolate flavour was just right and I think what I liked most was the fact that it wasn't a flaming red. A lot of the red velvet cakes I see in Singapore are a strange sort of blazing bright red and it's kinda off putting to stick that in my mouth. This one is dark and rich and just lovely. My only regret is that it's kinda small and I wallopped it pretty fast.

I liked them so much I brought some home. Oh lookit them.

So that's the red velvet on the left, the icing was starting to fall off, taking the little candy heart with it. Then there's oreo in the middle with an oreo cream cheese frosting. And the last one is a strawberry chocolate with strawberry cream cheese frosting. I ate half of each cupcake and gave my parents the rest but I think it sent me into a wild sugar rush that night, didn't sleep till 4 in the morning. Eep.

So $3 per cupcake, a half dozen for $17 and $33 for a dozen. I did warn you about the prices but they are so delicious that I think they're well worth it. They even do customized cupcakes for special events and weddings. I'd like little sugar dragons on mine I think.

Check them out here for more details.

Prologue : It's not just about books!

Just last weekend, I met up with a girlfriend of mine, Lixx to talk nonsense and discuss the silliness of boys and men. We like to find new places to eat and there was this one place I had been wanting to visit but not yet had the opportunity to do so.

Down at Orchard Ion, there is a pimped up version of popular bookstore called Prologue. It's pretty upmarketish and has it's own floor dedicated to lovely stationary and they sell a fairly wide range of comics. Love the fact that they stock indie titles. :3

Inside Prologue is a cafe called Jams. I have passed by Jams several times but nork always pulls me away. I think he worries I'll eat everything on the menu and trust me it's very hard not to! Sadly I have no menu shots for this place but I'll put down what I can remember.





These lovely tins of cookies await you as you enter the cafe. It's more a dessert place really, or a tea time place. I wouldn't come here for lunch but tea and high tea are a certain must. They serve things like Eton Mess and blueberry scones and giant ice cream cookie sandwiches and apple cobbler. 'tis delightful!

Lixx was hungry though, so we looked through the savories. They have a couple of sandwiches and pasta but I wasn't too interested. The only thing which caught my eye and my nose were the wafting smells coming from the soup pot; CLAM CHOWDER. It's just a pity I wasn't hungry enough or I'd have ordered that in a heartbeat.




QUICHE. Uber delicious combination of egg, onions, ham and crumbly pastry. I took a nibble and was socked by the herby egg flavour and I'd have taken more than a nibble if I didn't stop myself. Definitely recommending this for a tea time snack. And soup. Mmm soup.

As for me, I like scones!



A blueberry scone! No cream but that's ok, these things are tasty enough to eat on their own. They did have a scone set that came with cream and jam but it was $8.50. Wasn't so keen on spending that much on scones that day.

Then drinks. I was up to my armpits trying to figure out what to order. They had milkshakes AND hot chocolate and not just any hot chocolate, this was Couverture chocolate, chocolate drops that dissolve nicely in hot milk and cream. I fought with myself and eventually succumbed to the hot chocolate. On my next visit though, I am definitely having the cookies and cream shake and the salted caramel shake.



Yay. Mine is on the left, Lixx on the right. She ordered the black and white which is really just dark and white chocolate buttons. I had the house chocolate which was just dark buttons. Whisk the buttons into the milk and they break up and kinda dissolve into the milk. Let it sit a while and it becomes a wonderfully rich but not overpowering chocolate concoction.

I forgot to add that they serve cakes and cupcakes here too. Lixx and I couldn't decide which one to get and I was too busy thinking about dinner to bother. Isn't this terrible. Thinking of the next meal when you're not even done with the current meal. Tsk.



This is a lemon banana cupcake. I think that's a macaron on top. The cream whip is cream cheese I think, infused with lemon and the cupcake itself was stuffed with banana which is great. I don't like fruit cupcakes which have smidgens and specks of the supposed fruit in it.

Overall I love this place. There is an awesome view of the city from the cafe and you're in a book shop; great for book lovers out there. Service is awesome and the staff are really helpful with giving recommendations as to what to order. Prices are reasonable too! All the desserts are under $10 and hot chocolate is $7.50; some might find this a bit steep but it's not powdered chocolate they're using here! Milkshakes run at $6.50.

There's also a promo at the moment now, if you order a dessert, your drink gets a dollar off.

I'd put it about $15 per head, for dessert/food and a drink. Coming back here again! There are more desserts to be had! :D