More Ice Cream and Cake

I feel like I should do a massive 'master list' of all the soft serve ice creams I've consumed this year. Even I have lost count how many soft serves I've eaten, but thank goodness for photos. I sort of couldn't resist trying more Aqua S, especially since they were in my fav colour, and the flavours were both new and sounded interesting.

 

Elderflower + blueberry, honey + lavender w/ wafer flower

You can taste a hint of elderflower in the blueberry one, however it was more on the icier side so it melted as soon as it came out. The honey in the lavender cut down the lavender flower. I prefer to have a stronger hit of lavender, even though it's a more potent flavour/acquired taste. Both flavours still worth a try though. Normally I don't get toppings for Aqua S since I feel like it's a waste of money, but these wafer flowers were so cute. It was $1.50 for 2 flowers, so decided to just have a flower for each cone, since not much point having 2 flowers in one cone. The ice cream purple colour turned out to be more murky in this batch, compared to previous photos and also their photo. Either they used a lot of editing or they just didn't add enough purple food colouring to these batches. 

When one cake it too mainstream, get 4. Finally had the chance to get individual cakes I've been meaning to try for a while for Mum's bday. Didn't get the chance for my bday since I was running on 4 hrs sleep and was dead/ceebs getting cake for myself...

Japanese Forest Cake-$10

Built to look like a divot of the forest floor, made with layers hojicha sponge, Choya confit ume fruits in umeshu infused cream, and garnished with matcha moss, leaves and bark of dark chocolate and confit whole ume

It does look like a forest. Would have preferred more hojicha flavour in the sponge. The cream was relatively light and could taste the slight umeshu (sort of Jap plum wine) in it. The confit ume had that weird sweet/sour taste, but it balanced nicely with the chocolate. I still prefer the strawberry watermelon cake. I think I was just expecting more from this one.

Lemon myrtle chiffon-$5

This was surprisingly delicious, and loved the myrtle flavour in it. Really light as well, hence the left side of the cake was slumping since there's no support from the other slices of cakes. The cream here with the desiccated coconut was light as well.

V8 Apple Pie-$11 (2 for $20)

Inside: Cinnamon almond dacquoise, cinnamon crumble crunch, apple crème, cinnamon chiffon, apple pie filling, apple jelly, apple crème diplomat finished with a green glaze and chocolate plaques.

You could definitely taste the flavours of the apple pie in this, and the crumble crunch gave the cake really good texture. Once you divide a serving into 4, it's quite hard to taste all 8 individual layers especially the chiffon, since the mousse (creme diplomat) surrounding it is relatively thick and becomes the majority of the cake. I found each layer quite thin compared to 2 years ago when I first had the V8 Vanilla. I think for these sort of cakes, better to find people and share the bigger cake size, so it's easier to taste more of the filling in the middle with less mousse/diplomat on the outside. Both the cakes were 'leaking' a bit though as if the water content in the glaze was seeping out...

V8 Tropical-$11

Inside: Coconut dacquoise, tropical crunch, passionfruit chiffon, tropical cremeux, tropical jelly, tropical crème diplomat finished with a yellow white chocolate glaze and yellow chocolate plaques.

The tropical one was also surprisingly delicious as it had the right amount of tang and sweetness from the tropical flavours. Again, you can see here the creme diplomat is quite thick, so less filling on the inside. Even my dad said the V8s were quite nice, and that's saying something since he normally doesn't appreciate any cakes/desserts (complete opposite of me, haha). Didn't bother trying other flavours since I feel like I can imagine what they taste like.