La Vanille Pastry @ Hutton Lane

La Vanilla is a small pastry place for all things sweet and cute. It's located along Hutton Lane. And there's a reason why Hutton lane is called a lane and not a road. Hutton lane is super narrow what with parking on both sides of the road. Thus, parking in this area is super super crazy!! Hate the parking. Unfortunately, this lovely shop is situated here. And it was in April that we went to pay them a visit...

 As I've said before, La Vanille seem to have everything sweet, cutesy, and pastel... It reminds me very much of a country home but without roses... I love their tiffany blue theme colour with the little bunny...

They sell cakes, cupcakes, biscuits, macaroons and also serve light lunches too! It's a very cozy  affair when it comes to La Vanille.

Like stated in their own webpage, La Vanille stands for The Vanilla in French as the owner herself loves vanilla.

More menu items were written on an overhead board above the counter. I couldn't read all and just ordered what I could see over their display counter. It seems that they also sell lunch and coffee, which was what I found out later... having read through the boards overhead.

Menu on a black board...

They also cater for weddings, and functions... their famous cupcake tier... sits in the display window as you enter their shop...

 Enough of the simple yet effective décor... Now it's down to their food.
I only went there after lunch, so I was mainly having desserts...
We ordered the blue berry cheese cake RM8.90

This was a really solid dense slice of cheese cake. It was superbly cheesy! The jam on top was abit scarce, Would have loved to have more jam... But the body of the cake, with the dense cheese, was really worth every penny! :)
The base was made of I think it was oreo biscuits... nice!

We next ordered macaroons.. which seem to be an on-going trend these days...
They were selling for RM4 per piece and RM11 for 3 pieces.

The flavours that were left that day was only 4 types: green tea, hazelnut, pandan and jasmine
Too bad they didn't have the other flavours...
Anyway, I chose all except for pandan.

As it turns out, I liked the hazelnut one! No surprise there.. hehe
But the jasmine flavoured one was a real surprise! The filling was chocolate , so that made it even better than the hazelnut.

Kuala Lumpur (DAY 2)

Today after work, I headed off to KLCC for shopping and dinner.

As usual, the parking in KL is typically 'crazy'! Found a spot here, luckily, near to Isetan! Apparantly, Suria KLCC is undergoing some renovations, so certain places are blocked off temporarily.

Isetan!! er, carpark area .. hehe

Most complicated car-park so far encountered! KLCC

Passed throught Isetan KLCC and came across delightful-looking cakes, sweets & pastries!! They all looked soooo YUMMY! I could practically hear them calling me to the display window. Naturally, out came my Canon S90. This is what i managed to *snap*, *snap* :)

cakes...

more cakes...

even more cakes....!!!

so many choices!

M-A-C-A-R-O-O-N-S!

Finally after having been spoilt for choices, I decided to go for the lovely cakes! I picked two. The White Chocolate Strawberry and the Marjolaine, from Bites Quickie @ Shimbo Katsunori.

Marjoaine on right, White Chocolate Strawberry on left

The carrier box is as cute as the cakes! See bunny ears (circled). The box is actually a CAT!

White Chocolate Strawberry cake

The White Chocolate Strawberry cake was really good! The sourness of the strawberries was not too overpowering thanks to the sweet almost creamy white chocolate!

The Marjolaine cake was equally delicious! It's like a layered cake, only layered with chocolate and cream! sooo good! :)

I went to Kinokinuya KLCC too!
My good self managed to stay away from buying any Mooks this time around, as promised to myself. Well, in all honestly, I really didn't find any mooks offering freebies that took my fancy. I was alittle drawn to the Snoopy mook & bag, though. It did have a zipper to the bag, but in the end, self-control triumphed over over-indulgence. (yay!)

Freebies from Japanese Mooks (right)

I did however, came across magazines that I did understand with cool freebies at super affordable prices.

Her World's (RM7.00) October issue comes with a free 'herworld' shopping bag. I've been collecting shopping bags lately.. consciously and unconsciously :) It comes in handy when back in Penang, it's 'No Plastic' day everyday! Three cheers for being 'Eco-friendsly'!

Finally, the reason of this actual post is this! NuYou's (RM8.00) October issue freebie - Chloe perfume. It's so cute! The bottle comes with a nozzle head to spray-spray* the 1.2ml sample. Smells good too!

Up-close pic of the Nozzle spray (cool!)

Such a cute bottle 1.2ml Chloe perfume

Free with NUYOU oct issuse

NUYOU also comes with FREE shampoo & sanitary pad

Get it quick before it's all gone... err, well when i went today, the counter lady had like 10 plus more samples la... (ok, no rush..heh)

After flipping through the mag, which is super thick by the way, there were also FREE samples from Head&Shoulders (shampoo) and Laurier (sanitary pad). This mag seems to be loaded for only just RM8! *smiles*