La Pasteleria

My third time back at La Pasteleria to try the different flavours of brownies! Tried the speculous brownie ($5.5) this time round! And as the name suggests, it is speculous flavoured. There were some speculous bits on top and in the middle of the brownies. However, I felt that the speculous taste was barely there. All I could taste was brownie brownie brownie and maybe only 1% of speculous flavours. So between the three that I have tried so far, the salted caramel one is still my number 1 favourite and this ranks the last now.

My second time trying out the brownies from La Pasteleria!🤗 (Because it is situated at a convenient location near MRT plus there are no long snaking queue). Tried Wally brownie ($5) this time round! And as the name suggests, Wally stands for walnut! The brownie had 4-5 walnut bits in it! There wasn't any flowy sauce in the middle of the brownie for this though (unlike the salted caramel one I tried earlier). Do note that if you are ordering through grabfood, there is an additional 50 cents charge for "packaging". (Which I found weird because it was the same packaging for takeaway and no additional 50 cents was charged for walk in takeaway. So it is like a 50 cents surcharge for using grabfood, which is a similar situation for all other grabfood merchants where a higher marked up price is listed on the grabfood app on top of delivery fee which you have to pay if you are not doing self pick up).But since I used a grabfood voucher for the purchase, the price differential was of a smaller issue to me 😅

Read about La Pasteleria's new opening in novena and it was at the top of my list when I returned to the novena neighbourhood earlier this week. Took me quite some time to locate them. They aren't inside royal square novena but outside near courtyard Marriott's entrance and near twomenbagelhouse (I walked past twomenbagelhouse and was shockedddd by the long queue of youngsters, like 15+ ppl? Haha twomenbagelhouse is the next food on my list to try when I'm back in novena!)

Visited the place at around 1+pm on weekday afternoon and the brownies was still available! Got the seasalt brownies ($5.5) to try! Just to note, the caramel core wasn't the flowy kind even though I heated it up to eat the next day. But I thought the caramel and sea salt went super well! I super love the salty taste of the seasalt, complementing with the sweet caramel and less sweet brownie. The only problem I had was trying to apportion out the seasalt sprinkles and caramel to the whole brownie (and it kind of got too salty in the end as I was eating from around the square inwards lol). May be back again to try the other brownie flavours! But $5.5 was slightly expensive imo (but the normal price of most bakeries and homemakers now), so it shall be once in a few months indulgence?

🆕HOMEBAKER TURNED CAFE🆕I see a trend coming😂👍💕 I was in the hood hence, decided to pop by this new takeaway/mini dine-in store at #royalsquarenovena located in between #courtyardmarriott and #twomenbagelhouse 😉✨very well-positioned✨ spotted them on @mothershipsg 💕 I got their signature #basqueburntcheesecake with lemon cream 🍋 ($8) and it is the creamiest cheesecake I had to a point of gooey!😋 I like that it’s not overly sweet and “gelat”/rich hence it’s actually very manageable for one per slice😏the citrusy lemon helps to balanced out the whipped cream and overwhelming cheese flavor giving it a refreshing aftertaste which is good👍 I also got their mango tango smoothie ($6.5) which I find can have a stronger fruity taste ( mango, banana and orange) - too much of the coconut ice cream which doesn’t work that perfectly I feel - will prefer it to be sweeter (personal perference!) overrall, it’s pretty decent priced!⭐️and worth a try! Consider grab&go after getting a bagel next door😂👍