Best Bakes

It is a small neighborhood bakery just behind the bus stop, making it very convenient for commuters to stop and buy bread, pastries or buns on their way to work/​home.
The selection is typical of any other bakeries in a neighborhood setting. You don’t come here looking for delicately piped and baked cakes. You get your basic kaya puff, hotdog bun, egg tarts, otah bun etc. Besides marble cake, chocolate swiss rolls, pandan roll… you can also get your traditional sponge cake with cream, chocolate rice or runny jelly jam topping. They are so hard to find now.
I bought the surabaya sliced cake and cheese cake to try. The cheese cake is so-​so, a bit on the dry side and with a hint of cheese. Not as soft or fluffy as the Japanese style.
The surabaya cake is pure heaven. I am not a connoisseur of surabaya cake but this totally blew the mind. My experience with surabaya cake has been of the usual chain bakeries’ versions and they are frankly quite blah. Nice but just normal sponge cake.
This version is like what I have read of how surabaya cake actually is. Layered sponge cake (just 3 instead of the many layers of kueh lapis) with a thin layer of jam (usually strawberry) between the layers to hold the cake together. The cake is moist and soft and the jam (no idea what it is) has a gooey sticky consistency which actually pulled away when you bite off a bit of the cake, so you see a thin strand of goo like mozzarella strand in pizza. It is just perfect for an afternoon snack with a cup of earl grey.
I will go back to buy surabaya cake and to try the other sponge cakes and maybe the kaya puff.

This shop is one of the few places where I still continue to purchase Kaya Waffles ($ 1.30) from, partly due to the fact that it is a typical 5 – 10 minutes wait for the waffle here to be completely ready. Always served piping hot with lots of kaya slathered on it, the main difference between the waffles here and those sold around Singapore is it much more well cooked than others. The long waiting time is resultant of having to wait for the machine to be heated up before the cooking can commence, and it might be because of this that the waffle takes longer than usual to be cooked, and the end product thus is neither too not dry nor horribly burnt. This shop sells an array of pastries, cakes and bread, and their newest product is the Korean Bread ($ 0.50). Chewy, cheap and hollow inside, it serves as a good snack prior to meals. Located conveniently near Exit A of Commonwealth MRT Station, office workers can be seen patronizing the shop before rushing to the office, as well as stocking up for tomorrow’s breakfast towards the end of the day. Opening hours: 6am-10.45pm.