Girl's sister and friend and Girl went out to a big hotel for ice-cream and cake one night. We were going to order lemongrass and ginger ice-cream but ended up getting a cake and tea combo instead...two slices of cake and a choice of either tea or coffee. We chose a slice of the cheesecake and black forest cake and a little pot of Turkish Apple tea and another pot of Berrylicious tea...
The cheesecake was definitely the better of the two cakes, although the topping was a little too sweet for Girl. The black forest cake, however, was a little disappointing for Girl, who cherishes in her memory the rememberance of a particular black forest gateau assembled with light sponge cake and soft, sweet cream studded with slightly sourish cherries. The ganache frosting on this particular cake seemed to be a little on the heavy side and the taste of which almost overpowered everything else...the "cream" layers looked to be a mousse-like concoction and the sponge cake seemed to be on the dry side. However, it was a decent enough chocolate-type cake and was eaten rapidly...as the pictures of the two ravaged slices show...
