The Best Cakes Money Can Buy

The Best Cakes Money Can Buy in Ho Chi Minh City

Whether you are a die-hard sweet tooth, or you only eat cake on birthdays, it’s hard not to love cake. While for some cake is a frequent guilty pleasure, occasional cake-eaters may take some convincing to spend their hard earned cash on a cake. Rest assured, these cakes are the best money can buy. 

IVOIRE

Delicate, refined, and bursting with creativity, IVOIRE is a purveyor of luxury patisseries that will blow your mind. These exquisite cakes are curated to extraordinary levels of innovation, in a passionate display of hard work and skill. 

The pastry boutique is brimming with inspired treats, from avant-garde miniature cakes to golden brown stuffed pastries. Experience flavours you’ve never tasted before, like the Persian-Mon Danish, injected with pistachio pastry cream, rose, saffron and persimmon crémeux, persimmon marmalade and roasted Dalat persimmon. 

A chocoholic will be impressed by their chocolate-tempered masterpieces, like the Macadamia, handcrafted with macadamia chiboust, macadamia dacquoise, cognac caramel and macadamia crémeux. You might not even want to share!

Address: 28 Cao Ba Quat, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Tel: +84 966 595 857.

Palais des Douceurs

The ornate offerings at Palais des Douceurs could hold their head up high anywhere in Paris. Meticulously crafted, you’ll find these cakes have perfectly rounded edges, layers of intricacy, and show stopping execution. 

Trust Palais des Douceurs to come up with their limited edition masterpieces, like Mr Pringles, reimagined in the form of a dessert you’re almost reluctant to break into with your spoon. A tempered-chocolate hat, flourless chocolate cake, layers of valrhona almond mousse, banana cream and almond brittles. 

You’ll be amazed at the symphony of flavours in the cakes from their Entremets menu, ranging from an elevated classic Tiramisu, to boozy creations like the Rhum Raisins, to original inventions such as the Manille, combining Pandan mousse and sponge, buttered corn, corn milk and Opalys coconut cream. 

Address: 87 Nguyen Trai, Pham Ngu Lao Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Tel: +84 283 925 2779.

The Dreamers 

If any cake can put you in a dream state, it’s the ones you can find at The Dreamers dessert bar. Here, daydreams of cake are manifested with talent and skill to serve bold and bright sweet treats that will have you believing you’re in Candyland itself. 

Divine flavours of TWG red balloon tea, vanilla and pistachio chiffon, mixed nut crumble and raspberry sorbet come together to create the vibrant pink JoyMagma dessert, perfectly balanced and topped with a cotton candy cloud. 

Their monochrome inventions, the Black and White JoyCubes, are equally stunning, presented as a rounded rubix cube of spheres, seamlessly moulded together in one perfect shape.

Check out their ‘Enchanted Delight’ gift boxes, which are also truly something special, containing little drawers of chocolates and chiffon cake, and adorned with a glass-encased black rose.

Address: 15 Han Thuyen, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Tel: +84 985 033 333.