Caramel Ice cream Crepes at Canele

YESTERDAY WAS FRIDAY!!! Love fridays. =) they mean the start of the weekend OH YEAH! so to cellebrate (see what I did there.. celle-abrate), the after dinner dessert treat was French Crepes at Canele Patisserie pronounced in thick, French, i-love-desserts kinda accent =) at Raffles City.

Flower of the sea Crepe

The delectable treat begins with a sweet crepe base, hot and crispy on the surface and soft, chewy and sweet in the middle, sandwiching a thick warm chocolate hazelnut filling, like Nutella, but thicker, possibly from being heated. The texture of the crepe is thick, yet light, and oozes with the hazelnut filling, drizzled with a caramel sauce that gives a burnt toffee flavor, topped with 'Creme de Chantilly' if i remember right from the menu, which is a light whipped cream. 

It is decorated with large fins of caramelised filo, like that of a sailboat, sailing your tastebuds into a sweet treat! the caramelised filo is crisp, like the crumbly pastry of an apple strudel, yet is extremely brittle from being candied by the caramel. It's very thin, light, crispy and the sweetness of that pastry flake mixes with the sugary goodness of the glaze. oh yes, and this hot crepe is topped with chocolate praline icecream, that was very chocolaty and smooth, and tasted bittersweet, like dark chocolate.

What takes the  cake crepe, is that the varying types of sweetness subtly contrast each other to create a myriad of sweetness, each type of 'sweet' emphasizing the other. 

Overall the dessert isin't heavy at all, and wasen't too sweet although the description in the menu has a galore of chocolate and caramel. Even after dinner! On the contrary, it was rather light, and satisfied my sweet tooth =) Delicieux! 

Random Facts : 'Fleur de Sel' means 'flower of the ocean' and is a gourmet, kosher, hand harvested French salt while 'Flor de la Mar' (flower of the sea) was a Portuguese ship that sailed around the Indian Ocean till it sank "(>_<)

MY EVIL FACE BEFORE I KILL IT WITH MY KNIFE! *teehee

The ambience is pretty modern, with maroons and whites! And the bustling crowd constantly rushing past, time seems to stand still in this cafe in the middle, decorated with lush cushions, comfy after walking around all evening!

The portion's good for two to share. slightly pricey! but good decadence for two! at about $15++ But the service was a little slow and it was a lil' difficult to get their attention because they had a full house, and a long waitlist too. They also close at 10pm so be sure to go earlier or you'll be shooed away!!

Californian dessert PIE!!

Marie Callender's pies are something i grew up on! They're sweet, decadent, made fresh everyday, and have really nice pie crust bases that just crumble in your mouth. Unlike outlets in Singapore, the outlets in California price the same thing differently at different places, so here was the cheapest place to get the pies (my dad had paid five bucks more somewhere else). It was already night time, and the streets were dark, but the little cottage looked warm and inviting! not to mention the smell of pie in the cold air!

almost got the pecan but the ENTIRE PIE WAS filled with PECAN AND TOFFEE! looked more like diabetes in a pie. very yummy, diabetes.  there were also huge muffins, as big as my outstretched hand!

PIE FOR CHOICE: custard pie!!

This reminds me of the egg tarts from Hong Kong, because there is a slightly egg-ish taste but the texture of the custard was smooth, light, a little like jelly ( like the 'lao-ban' soya bean jelly) and wasn't thick, yet still achieved that creamy softness that filled my mouth with yummy creamy goodness! the base was soft and homey tasting. 

No wonder I grew up on this, and no wonder I was a chubby kid. Well worth the calories, which Americans are super conscious about. The waitress was like "the pecan has xxx calories and the pumpkin pie has xxx..." which made no sense to me other than that the pecan > custard in terms of fatness index BUT who goes to eat pie if they are on a diet? glad to know I'm eating less calories but, really. it's pie. no one who is on a diet eats pie. Pie is their mortal enemy. HAHA! but for today, and for now, probably for always, this pie is my tummy's best friend! BUT WAIT! that's not all folks! This was accompanied with a post-dessert-dessert: ice cream! 

Caramel icecream with thick generous swirls of sea salt caramel. The salt isn't strong enough to be tasted but the caramel had that burnt sugar tinge that was toffee-ish and not just sweet like sugar had spammed. The icecream was soft like gelato, but not melty, and had a very creamy consistency. Salted caramel chunks coated in chocolate were folded into the icecream and complemented the flavours well by adding occasional oomphs of flavour to the already deliciously decadent creamy mixture.