Paid another visit to Chocolate Kiss along Roces Avenue in Quezon City. If you recall, my first few visits were a disaster. Lousy food and worst, lousy desserts. Blame my loyalty to my alma mater, but I just had to try the restaurant again.
The good news is, the Queso Chiffon and Dayap Cake are excellent. The Queso Chiffon has loads of quezo de bola shavings; IMHO, the perfect counterpoint to the sweet icing and dessert.
The Dayap Cake was a transformed beauty. I recall the first time I tried this cake, it had masses of boiled icing (the white, egg white icing of the birthday cakes of yore). The overzealous baker had overzested, adding the bitter pith into the icing. This version was nothing to write home about.
The new and improved Dayap Cake has dayap curd filling and the boiled icing is now a thin shell of its former self. I really liked this cake (although I think it would be better with a buttercream icing, instead of that infernal boiled icing).
The only disappointment was the Devil's Food Cake. Not only did the cake lack that dense, chocolate taste, the baker also apparently thought to transfer the masses of boiled icing to this forgettable dessert.
By the way, the coffee was swell.
