If you must give in
to your sweet tooth, there’s an affordable place to get your fix. Situated at the busy corner of Kamuning Road
and K-E Street, Remilly’s Yema Cake
offers dessert lovers this oh-so-familiar but not-so-traditional cake flavor --
obviously the Yema Cake!
Aside from their
best-selling product, Remilly’s playfully combines yema with conventional
flavors such as chocolate, mocha, mango, ube and caramel. Also, expect the unexpected with their sweet-spicy
and sweet-salty amalgamations: Yema-Chili Cake and Yema Salted Cream Cake. Another
product that may pique your interest is the Pastillas Cake.
A few weeks ago, we
needed a cake in a hurry for my mother-in-law’s impromptu birthday dinner. Goldilocks, Red Ribbon and Tinapayan Festival
Bakeshoppe were not only out of the way, but would require us to mow through Saturday traffic. Estrel’s Caramel Cake was out of the question because it required an advance order. So, we decided to throw caution out the window and make a quick pit stop at the most conveniently situated bake shop on our drive home---Remilly's!
Their sweet offerings
come in different sizes: single, rolls (half or whole), round (8”) and
rectangle (8”x12” or 10”x14”). If you can’t seem to decide on what flavor to
order, have a bite first of their single serving cakes priced at Php55.00-65.00
each.
We ordered a whole
roll (umm, it was actually more of rectangular than roll) of their star product
for Php320.00 plus extra Php10.00 for dedication in icing sugar. It was
beautifully packaged in a classy gold box perfect for gift-giving.
Remilly’s Yema Cake
is drenched with a thin layer of spreadable egg yolk custard frosting and a
shower of cheddar cheese gratings. Sweet and salty to tone down the sweetness
of liquid yema. Upon slicing the cake two layers of maybe sponge or chiffon is
revealed. Sandwiched between these soft and fluffy cake is a paper-thin layer
of white icing.
I got giddy with
excitement because I love the taste of decadent milky custard be it in the form
of Yema Candy, Leche Flan, Brazo de Mercedes, Chocolate Decadent Cake, Inipit or Dulce de Leche! If it has egg yolk
and condensed milk, I will probably love it!
My first bite
instantly revealed that Remilly’s certainly succeeded in bringing out the Yema
taste in a cake. Being a lifelong fan of Yema, that alone merits a big WOW!
However, subsequent bites revealed a hint of cloying sweetness (apparently, there
is such a thing as too sweet). This may have been because I took the one-side
generously smothered with yema frosting. Whatever it was, the “umay” factor quickly
subdued the initial “Wowness.”
So, I brewed myself a
cup of coffee… and soon discovered that the full-flavored bitterness of black
coffee does a good job of tempering the somewhat over-the-top sweetness. I
quickly concluded that Remilly's Yema Cake is best paired with black coffee. Think of it as the Yin-Yang of dessert enjoyment!
As of this writing,
Remilly’s reportedly has 15 branches in Metro Manila. If you are not familiar with it yet, why don't you give their Yema cake a try? ---Misis
That exactly how I was motivated to try Remilly's Yema Cake (RYC). I was enjoying my coffee (black, no sugar) at the newly opened McDonald's Kamias when I espied the also newly opened branch of RYC across the road. So I took it over and it went very well with my yema cake.
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