Salt Bakes is a new bakery in Bukit Batok West Shopping Centre, located opposite Sheng Siong Supermarket. The modern bakery bakes cakes, buns and other pastries, such as tapioca kueh, muffins, tau sar peah (mung bean biscuit), etc. The good news is: other than reasonable price tags, their pastries are of low sweetness.
Aside from buying and taking-away the pastries, Salt Bakes also serves hot and iced drinks, including traditional kopi. Several tables inside the bakery allow customers to dine-in with hot coffee or other drinks.
Salt Bakes has two variants of Carrot Cake (萝卜蛋糕): one with a layer of cream cheese and the other without. The Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese (萝卜和奶油乳酪蛋糕) is the first cake that caught my attention and drew me into the shop. The moist cake is made with strips of carrot, walnuts, raisins, etc, and has a top layer of thick savoury cream cheese. The bottom cake is mild-sweet with the cream cheese adding savouriness to it. On the whole, the cake tastes nice and its low sweetness level is definitely a draw.
The Yuzu Cake (柚子蛋糕) is mild-sweet with a thin wavy layer on top that gives the cake its sweet yuzu flavour and aroma. The bottom cake has a tangy flavour and a texture that is similar to Malay brown sugar kueh (马来糕) but more crumbly. This is the first time I tried a yuzu-flavoured cake and it is nice.
The hot-selling Matcha Red Bean Cake (抹茶红豆蛋糕) has red beans on matcha-flavoured soft cake. The mild-sweet cake has nice matcha and red bean aromas that filled the nostrils when munched on. This is very nice indeed.
The Banana Cake (香蕉蛋糕) is moist, again mild-sweet and with a light banana aroma. The slices of banana embedded on top of the cake give out fresh banana aroma after baking. The low sweetness level is again a draw for me and the soft cake is nice too.
So far, the cakes that I picked randomly at Salt Bakes are of low sweetness levels and with nice tastes and aromas — and with different cake textures too. I believe the other cakes will not disappoint me too.
Other than cakes, I tried their tapioca kuehs and buns too. The Baked Tapioca Kueh has nice cassava flavour and texture. It is quite thick and satisfying to munch on. The Tapioca (Red Bean) Kueh is a unique creation with red beans added to cassava when making the Nyonya snack and covered with grated coconut. It has nice cassava flavour with faint taste of red bean.
The Polo Char Siew Bun (菠萝叉烧包) has a soft custard crust with sesame seeds. The char siew filling is drier without too much char siew sauce and the sweetness level is greatly reduced, thus the bun is not too sweet too. This is delicious too.
I will also love to have coffee in Salt Bakes someday as there are not many cafes in Bukit Batok West.
Address:
Bukit Batok West Shopping Centre
Blk 154 Bukit Batok Street 11, #01-310, Singapore 650154
Opening Hours:
7am to 9pm | Daily
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