Starbucks Chocolate and Hazelnut Parfait

Alternate layers of chocolate cake and hazelnut cream. 

This was good, though sometimes the hazelnut cream tends to be too cloying. 

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Red Ribbon Red Velvet Cake

Alternating layers of red-hued chocolate cake and rice crispies with vanilla butter cream and raspberry filling, crowned with white chocolate curls.


The one I had was dry and dense with a slightly bland icing. It lacked sweetness and moistness and was like a confused cake. It was hard on my part to make sense of it. I tried to compensate the dryness of the cake with the icing to no avail. The icing was whipped, so it was light and airy. The cake was clumpy too.


I’m sorry that I don’t have anything good to write about the cake, except maybe for the delicious white chocolate curls.


I hope this was just a random thing ‘coz I really like Red Ribbon.

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SMORES and SWISS

Two other cupcakes from Frostings are the Smores Choco Caramel P40(regular) and Swiss Chocolate P55(premium).


Smores Choco Caramel has a chocolate cake base with caramel filling, topped with marshmallow icing and drizzled with chocolate.


I love that it’s moist and not too sweet. I also love the caramel filling and hoped that it (smores) has more of it inside.


The Swiss Chocolate also has a chocolate cake base with meringue butter cream and milk chocolate icing, topped with Toblerone peaks.


This I also love. Since I noticed that all the cupcakes I purchased from Frostings has fillings, I was excited to find out what’s inside this cupcake. I was a little disappointed that it has none. Still, it was good, from the cake base to the icing and especially the Toblerone peaks.



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FROSTINGS

I have tried one of their best sellers, the Belgian several months ago and I wasn’t that impressed. But a couple of months back my sister and niece bought a couple to try and liked it. I then decided to give them another chance with their other flavours.


I bought Brazo de Mercedes, Lemon Meringue, Choco Lava and Double Dutch at P40 each.



Brazo de Mercedes is butter cake topped and filled with custard and iced with boiled/marshmallow icing and custard rosette.


This is my favourite from the four cupcakes, sweetened just right. Unlike the traditional Brazo, this has butter cake that cuts the cloying effect that a Brazo often gives.


I also think that this should be eaten right away or after a couple of minutes outside the chiller. The icing melts and deflates easily and the custard hardens when chilled.



The Double Dutch is marble cake with double dutch icing and chocolate fudge filling.




The fudge and icing were good though it would have been better if it’s chocolate cake instead of marble.


The Choco Lava is chocolate cake with choco fudge center, topped with marshmallow icing and a chocolate block.


I like the moist cake and the fudge, but I don’t like the airiness of the icing.



The Lemon Meringue is lemon-butter cake with lemon curd filling, topped with lemon-flavored meringue icing.



Though this was also good, I found the lemon curd to tangy for my taste.



From my recent purchases, I am now impressed with their cupcakes and am planning to try more soon. I have also observed that all the cupcakes I bought have fillings.

Happy Eating!

FROSTINGS-Mall of Asia
-Food Choices, Glorietta