Woodlands Sourdough

We’ve always been curious about babkas, especially after watching vids of beautifully braided babkas in the past. This was their new babka flavour and we were stoked since it was matcha and black sesame <3! Unfortunately, the matcha flavours were overshadowed by the sourdough base and we wouldn’t have known it was matcha if not for the colour. The black sesame swirl however, was pleasantly nutty and sweet, a breakthrough from just eating sourdough bread, but we do wish they were more generous with it.

We fell so thoroughly inlove with this bundt cake. The lemon flavour was a sour punch and cut through the sweetness of a bundt cake PERFECTLY. They use spelt flour which gave it an additional nutty oaty flavour which we really really liked. We even fought over the last bite of this!

We were brimming with excitement when we got this because the SMELLS, the smell of cream cheese was absolutely heavenly, and the way it was a giant dollop on top? Irresistible.The cream cheese was rich and fragrant from the herbs. The only thing is that this is prob best eaten on the spot, because heating it up would melt the CC :(

Can’t leave a bakery without getting their PAC! TBH it was our first ever sourdough based viennoiserie and we weren’t expecting the texture to be so bread like (instead of butter and flaky). The use of natural yeast definitely developed a deeper and tangy flavour for the pastries but it probably wasn’t really our thing :”)
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We’ve had and loved our fair share of sourdough cakes (buttertown!) and loaves before, and it was interesting to try sourdough viennoiseries, but it probably isn’t for us 🫠 guess we’ll have to pass on the health benefits too…🤧 More misses than hits but we forsee ourselves coming back for their bundt cake and sourdough loaves in the future

There is a hit and then there is a miss! This one falls into the latter category. The bialy supposed to be the healthier version of bagel with its lighter texture. Somehow it's quite chewy and greasy at the base. It could have had more desirable texture to have this bialy fresh out of the oven. However, when checking its oily base, I am not too keen to reheat and dispel it. The generous amount of sliced potato, onion & poppyseed gives a soft pat on my shoulder, maybe it's not my bialy day. 🤔

At 8:30 am sharp, people are already lining up to buy #woodlandssd freshly baked goods. So many sourdough choices to pick from. SD almond croissant is unlike anywhere else croissants. With denser texture, it tastes more like kouign-amann covered with crunchy sliced almonds. Just take a mouthful of this with your cuppa, the slightly sour full body of 🥐 goes so well with sweet almond paste. 😍