“It’s good that my son set up this stall for me, otherwise I may get dementia from sitting around at home,” said 73-year-old Liew Pick Choo, who makes everything from scratch herself at Mama Cakes at Golden Mile Food Centre.
Throngs of dessert lovers have been descending upon Golden Mile Food Centre lately, eager to get their hands on baked goods from Cat In The Hat, a new stall serving cafe-style pastries at hawker prices.
Liew added: “I was feeling bored at home and wanted to make something nice for people to eat. I just ‘play play’ lah . It’s good that my son set up this stall for me, otherwise I may get dementia from sitting around at home.” Her version is oven-baked, with a crushed lemon wafer base instead of the usual shortcrust or graham cracker base. “Lemon wafers are more fragrant,” she noted. The cheesecake is topped with a chunky blueberry compote .
Chia stressed: “We are not Polish people, so we don’t want to offend anyone by saying that we are selling [authentic] sernik.” Due to supply constraints, Mama Cakes’ cheesecake is not made with the traditional twaróg, a well-known Polish cow’s milk cheese that is characterised by its firm, curd-like texture and slightly tart flavour. The recipe that Liew got from her son’s friend replaced twaróg with another kind of “similar” cheese, which Chia has declined to reveal.
Unless you preorder a whole cake, what you get when you drop by the stall depends on what Liew makes that day. Her daily menu is random, as she bakes about three cakes a day to sell by the slice. “I just see what ingredients are available that day, like whether my bananas are ripened enough,” she explained.
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