Dapur Coklat (Chocolate Kitchen)

There is a new cake shop open in Surabaya "Dapur Cokelar" or Chocolate Kitchen in Jl. Biliton (Biliton street), the shop is very easy to be found and I forgot to write down the number so I cannot write it here. Anyway just drive along the way at Biliton street and you'll see Dapur Cokelat because sometimes the cars which park at Dapur Cokelat is the cause of the traffic there. Btw Dapur Cokelat is a branch and the owner is from Jakarta(the capital city of Indonesia).

Me and my friend went to Dapur Cokelat finally out of my curiosity. Inside we found that Dapur Cokelat is not that amazing the cake varieties are not many and the varieties of the chocolates just ordinary and not amazing. Instead of putting the chocolates inside glass display its displayed outside and I didn't feel to buy it since it looked like not interesting at all. I bought a few cakes with my friend to go because the atmosphere of eating there was really not into my liking, the shop is an old house from ancient period.

This special cake was a recommendation from the waitress there. The price is IDR17,500 or SGD$2.50 or US$2. I turned out to be not a good cake it's too sweet while I said that I don't want too sweet cake. It's ok when I heat it up (picture on the left) with microwave, the chocolate melted it and it's more edible to eat than before.

The yellow one in "Mango Cassata Indonesia" a nice mango flavour cool cake, the price is IDR13,500 (SGD$2 or US$1.5). The mango mouse is not too sweet with a bit of sour taste and it has the smell of mango. I just didn't feel like to eat the chocolate cake layer of the cake since as I said before their chocolate cake is not that great and usually it's too sweet. After all this cake is good.

The red cake is "Raspberry Truffle Slice", not so awesome raspberry cake but still ok to try for once. The price is IDR13,500 (SGD$2 or US$1.5). The raspberry mouse is not full raspberry flavor but it still ok.

On the right side is "Java Chcocolate cake Indonesia" price is IDR13,500 (SGD$2 or US$1.5), not so good cake. The chocolate layer is too sweet and overall it's not so good cake. The left side is "Dapur Cokelat's choco Indonesia", not my favorite either, the price is IDR12,500 (SGD$1.9 or US$1.4). The chocolate mouse is too sweet unlike the taste of the chocolate at all.

My best choice is Mango cassata Indonesia since it tasted well and better than other cakes that I've tried, too bad that almost all the cakes are too sweet.

Cake 5 (Strawberry Chocolate Shot)

This cake was bought in a rush by me for my sister's birthday, why in a rush because I didn't want her to know that I bought her a birthday cake so in turn I just bought it in last minute when the "Komugi" (a Japanese famous bakery in my hometown) almost close, and this cake was the only left. The price is about IDR 160.000 or US$16 or SGD$ 23.
















After tried a slice of the cake it turned out to be a really good chocolate mousse cake, the chocolate mousse is indeed sweet however the layer of chocolate cake is not sweet at all. On top of that could taste a bit taste of wine but not too strong alcohol like rum or sherry from this cake, the first layer of the cake top with chocolate mousse with strawberry fruit then put in the second layer of the cake. A really nice chocolate strawberry cake.

Cake 3 (another chocolate indulgence)

I know the chocolate cake looks really simple, but to tell you the truth it's not just a common chocolate cake it's a liquor chocolate cake. The power of the liquor was just too strong until I couldn't feel the taste of the chocolate just could taste the sweetness only. However when I tried to warmed it up in the microwave the chocolate turned out to be liquid. That's unusual chocolate cake for me. Not to enjoy it when it's warm but really enjoy it when eating it cool.

Cake 1 (Chocolate indulgence)

This is a birthday cake for my mom's birthday on June. My brother and sister bought it together and it turned out to be too sweet good cake, they bought it from "Breadtalk" Indonesia for about IDR 130.000 ( US $13 / SGD $19) pretty cheap cake, but in Singapore I don't think there is this type of chocolate cake. Anyway when I ate the cake at first it's too sweet and common but when I warmed it up for about 1 minute in microwave it turned out like the "mud cake" from "coffee bean and tea leaves" in Singapore, really fantastic taste the chocolate just simply stay in my mouth and the indulgence turned out to be longer than I expected. This cake is perfect to just feel the happiness of eating a cake.