Cake Spade

I’ve been here several times to purchase cake to go. The strawberry tofu cheesecake is a crowd favourite. I tried the speculoos cheesecake for the first time yesterday and it was delicious, though the taste of speculoos could be made a tad stronger. I find the cakes slightly pricey for the portion size, averaging 7 bucks a slice but obviously, it’s not deterring me from returning.
Only cash accepted. Seating is limited.

Chocolate Banana cake is excellent and so are their brownies. I saw a customer purchase a whole cake that was made up of a slice of each cake that they makie. Great idea.
Some picky reviews on here but this has got to be on a top ten cake list for Singapore. Yes, it is small but great things come in small packages. Great takeaway boxes.
Oh by the way we went in on a Friday night at 7pm and they close at 10pm. They had two or three cakes left to choose from as cake inventory had been snatched up by diners. This is the 3^rd time we visited around 7pm on Friday and Saturday and they are cleaned out.
Folks don’t sell out of the product if the product is no good. GO FOR IT!

Café rikiki mais choix grand comme ca de plein de choses avec du Nutella etc.
Idéal pour récupérer après le sport… ou pas ! Et tout est dé-​li-​cieux !

A very small place, nice staff with decent coffee.
The spiced carrot cake (S$ 5.90) was too creamy and sweet for my liking.
Hummingbird cake (S$ 5.90) is one of the hot seller, it’s moist and unique flavour of bananas, pineapples, coconut and a perfume of cloying sweetness. Sweet tooth lover, you’ll hum with delight in every bite!
The red velvet cheesecake was sold out so we op for the cupcake (S$ 3.80). The crimson-​hued treat is dense and not-​too-​sweet.
Strawberry tofu cheesecake (S$ 5.90) adorned with fresh strawberries encased in jelly was the perfect choice for me. Not too sweet, lighter texture and luscious.

I love cake. I love chocolate. So obviously I thought I would love the chocolate blackout cake this place had. Totally UNWORTHY of being called a cake. It was dry and overall something I could have gone without. Maybe we just had a bad experience. We did go at 8:30 so the cake could have been sitting their for awhile. Who knows? I may give it one more go around but for now 2 stars.

I’ve been meaning to give them a try for the longest time but every time it comes to my mind, they’re usually closed. So i was determined to buy some back when i passed by, even though i had no cake craving whatsoever. The 3 flavors featured here are (from top to bottom), the Strawberry Tofu Cheesecake, The Hummingbird and the Spiced Carrot Cake.
On the much raved about Strawberry Tofu Cheesecake ($ 5.90), i’d say it’s just the regular strawberry hearts from the traditional bakeries. There was a nice graham base but the rest of the cake (could i call it that?) was very gelatinous (think Jell-​O consistency). And that imo is not a good thing unless you’re 5.
I was surprised by the Hummingbird Cake ($ 5.90) because i didn’t expect to like it so much. It’s a banana cake with pineapples and coconut. It may sound really heavy but it wasn’t. In fact, it was a moist and light cake with a tinge of banana and a trace of pineapple. The coconut was simply the icing on top.
I liked the Spiced Carrot Cake too but not everyone would take to this really dense and flavor packed cake. Chunks of carrots with nuts and dense moist cake spiked with cinnamon. This tasted of Fall. Mummy thought it was more like a fruit cake though. The layers of vanilla cream cheese made this cake even more so addictive. Yums!
While the cakes did a great job, the brownies were just bleargh. The Oreo Cookie Brownie ($ 3.20) was really oily and bland. The brown paper bag that carried the brownie was soaked in no time and if you squeeze the slice a bit, you can see the oil oozing out. I only tasted sugar and fats in this one and the chocolate was sorely missing.
Cake Spade is really small so it quite made sense for takeaways. To locate it, well, it’s around the corner from the famous Keisuke Ramen (read review here) shop at Orchid Hotel. Cakes are sold by the whole too and are priced $ 52 onwards. Tarts are also available ($ 4.20) and they have a small selection of coffee and tea should you choose to dine in.

This shop conveniently located near Tanjong Pagar MRT (and my office) has been supplying my cake cravings over the months. I witnessed how the business grew over time, with crowds even during non-​peak hours.
The Strawberry Tofu Cheesecake $ 5.90 is the signature item as they have come up with 2 other flavours (peach/​mango). Though it was not as tangy as I would like, the cheese layer was refreshingly light and the digestive crust base did not succumb to moisture. It’s like a Jello cheesecake and no tofu used in case you are thinking that this is a healthier option.
Nutella Crumble $ 3.80 was not as crumbly as it sounds but had a decent biscuit base. I reheated it in the microwave as recommended but surprisingly it did not melt under heat. Better share this with others as it was very sweet, without the need for any ice cream.
I tend to shy away from stacked cream cakes as far as possible but I’m glad I tried the Hummingbird cake $ 5.90. A complicated cake layer made with pineapple, coconut, banana, sandwiched with decent amount of cream cheese. It was SO GOOD – very moist with a unique sticky texture (probably due to mashed bananas). Never mind that it leaked oil at the base of the box.
The Spiced Carrot Cake $ 5.90 must be the most orangey carrot cake I’ve seen. Despite the name, the cinnamon spice was not overpowering. Texture wise, this is similar to the Hummingbird cake. But flavour-​wise, the birdie cake wins.
Blackout cake $ 5.90 – Well, many places in Singapore serve this but the version here is not going to bomb you with layers of sponge and ganache. As I learnt from the baker-​owner lady, oreo cookies have been crushed and mixed into the cake. One cannot taste any crunch but rich, fudgy US-​style chocolate pudding (not tau hway ar!). So skip the Four/​Six/​Eight-​Layer Blackout Cake and try this one here.
Instead of going for a red velvet slice, I opted for their cupcake version $ 3.80. Consumed at room temperature, it was moist and with hints of cocoa instead of the buttermilk tang. Finally, this is one of the best places in Singapore for red velvet cakes.
The concept of cakes here may be conventional home-​bakes. But it works really well. I can’t pick an ace card from the pile, because there are two winners – the hummingbird and the red velvet.

Spiced carrot cake, tofu cheesecake, nutella crumbles. all are sooo good!!!