The moist chocolate cake slathered with chocolate ganache and filled with salted buttercream is the brand's bestselling item in their repertoire of cakes, tarts and brownies. Typically, the younger customers stick with what they know best - chocolate. ![]() In an urbanised twist, Yana and her mother have updated their old-style recipes: Chocolate ganache is poured over the marble cake, raspberry coulis is painted over the coconut butter cake and buttercream is prettily piped over the orange cake. ![]() 'Most people here are used to the fluffy, spongy textures but our butter cakes are really solid,' Yana says of the preferred cake texture at Sugar Rush. Like most butter cakes on Sugar Rush's cake counter, this one is immensely dense and buttery without a hint of neither dryness nor oiliness. On the counter, the marble cake too beckons our old souls. 'The sugee cake is very popular among our older customers,' Yana says. 'The recipes we use are about 50 to 60 years old,' Yana says.Ī testament to her grandmother's ways is Sugar Rush's sugee (semolina) cake filled with buttercream and studded with shaved almonds, it's a nostalgic rendition of a near obsolete treat. Being Penang-bred and an inherent of Nyonya roots, her grandmother often baked old-school cakes whose recipes were then passed down to Yana and her mother. 26-year-old Katyana Azman (aka Yana) and her mother, Za Merican, set up the label as a tribute to Yana's late grandmother. The dessert parlour is an extension of Sugar Rush's online brand under which cakes and baked goodies were whipped up in the home of a mother-daughter duo and delivered to loyal customers. After a visit on a quiet weekday morning, we can attest to one thing: If not the world, they're certainly making Section 16 a better place. Butter cake filled with cobbler and topped with cream cheese with a serving of peach cobbler on top. one ganache-topped, cream-filled, almond-coated, sugar-dusted butter cake at a time'. Sugar Rush's Facebook profile lays claim to a rather presumptuous motto: 'Making the world a better place.
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