1️⃣☕Twosome Place × Hennessy X.O: A Real Cognac-Infused Cake🥃🎂
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✔ Twosome Place has launched a limited-edition “Hennessy X.O Cake” in collaboration with the 250-year-old cognac house.
• The top features a chocolate objet shaped like a Hennessy X.O bottle with a cognac glaze, while the interior stacks vanilla cream, chocolate mousse, cinnamon pound cake, and dried fruits to create a structured “start–middle–finish” flavor experience.
• All sales are available only through pre-order on the app from Dec 4–10, with pickup from Dec 20–31 at designated stores. Following last year’s Johnnie Walker cake and this year’s V.S.O.P version, the brand continues to strengthen its “adult dessert” lineup, which resonates strongly with male customers.
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🧑🏻💬 As I reviewed this year’s cake lineups, this is honestly the one I most wanted to try… Would pairing Hennessy with a Hennessy cake taste incredible? Or dangerous?😮
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2️⃣🎄Starbucks Korea Unveils a Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream Cake🍪🍨
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✔ Starbucks has launched a premium ice cream cake made with Häagen-Dazs “Caramel Biscuit & Cream,” topped with Lotus cookie chunks and caramel syrup.
• A crisp texture from cream, caramel bits, and cookie crumble, plus a gingerbread-man topper and festive red-and-green packaging set the holiday mood.
• Every customer receives a limited-edition corduroy bag (random red/green).
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🧑🏻💬 Not going to lie—ice cream cakes don’t tempt me much… but I can imagine quite a few people buying it just for the corduroy bag🤔
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3️⃣💎The Shilla Hotel’s 500,000-won Truffle Cake🍄✨
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✔ The Shilla Seoul is offering five special year-end cakes for 40 days, including its ultra-premium “The Finest Luxury (500,000 KRW).”
• The 500,000-won Finest Luxury cake takes up to seven days to craft by hand and includes white truffle chocolate and fresh truffle shavings. Only three cakes will be sold per day.
• Additional options include the lighter-priced “Joyful Shilla Bear (350,000 KRW),” “Noir Truffle Mini (80,000 KRW),” “White Holiday (180,000 KRW),” and “Luminous Red (165,000 KRW).”
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🧑🏻💬 Truffle + three units per day + a 500k price tag… that’s the absolute pinnacle of premium dessert😳
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4️⃣🔥Sungsimdang’s Strawberry Siroo Returns and Instantly Goes Viral🍓🍞
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✔ On Dec 1, Sungsimdang reintroduced its signature “Strawberry Siroo (49,000 KRW),” packed with nearly a whole box of strawberries—instantly going viral again.
• Priced at less than half of hotel cakes (100k–200k KRW) yet praised for outstanding taste, it was so popular last year that people lined up for open-run sales and resales.
• Unlike other Christmas cakes, Strawberry Siroo is not sold online and cannot be pre-ordered. It is available only via in-store purchase at Cake Boutique HQ starting Dec 23.
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🧑🏻💬 This is less a strawberry cake and more like a cake made of strawberries”… I’m honestly curious what it tastes like!😮
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5️⃣🍰Chef Park Joon-woo’s Meringue Cakes Land on SSG.com🧁🐚
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✔ SSG.com has launched two French-style meringue cakes—“Merveilleux White” and “Merveilleux Dark”—in collaboration with Seochon dessert café O Petit Vert and Chef Park Joon-woo.
• A classic French build featuring crisp meringue cookies topped with whipped cream and cherry compote. Sold as a 2-piece individually packaged set for 11,980 KRW, emphasizing value and convenience.
• Designed for 1–2-person households with a “smaller size, more pieces” home-café dessert strategy.
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🧑🏻💬 They looked surprisingly affordable—then I realized they’re tiny, as true meringue cakes usually are😅 Not sure how well the texture carries over in mass production, but maybe the small size actually makes it even better…?
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