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Cake decorated for ‘personal consumption’: The Icing Room clarifies online cake saga

Local cake and pastry shop The Icing Room - owned by BreadTalk Group - has clarified about a cake frosting incident after a photo surfaced on Facebook on Tuesday. (Facebook screengrab)

Local cake and pastry shop The Icing Room - owned by BreadTalk Group - has clarified about a cake frosting incident after a photo surfaced on Facebook on Tuesday.

The post, published on KakiNews Network’s Facebook page showed an image of The Icing Room staff spreading icing on what appears to be an Indonesian layered cake known as Kueh Lapis. The page claims that the cake was from another bakery, Bengawan Solo.

“We wish to clarify that this was an external cake purchase brought in by a staff member who had requested a co-worker to decorate the cake for personal consumption. This was clearly not a commercial transaction made with an external customer,” said the company in the comments section.

This comes after BreadTalk Singapore admitted on the same day to repackaging soya bean milk by another brand, Yeo Hiap Seng (Yeo’s), and selling them in bottles labeled “freshly prepared”.

“We would like to apologise for any misaligned presentation or wrong impressions created, and clarify that it is never our intention to mislead,” said BreadTalk Singapore on their Facebook page.

The company also said they will be selling the beverage with the Yeo’s brand clearly labeled “for consumer knowledge and confidence”.

<span style=line-height: 19.2000007629395px;>Local cake and&nbsp;pastry&nbsp;shop The Icing Room - owned by BreadTalk Group - has clarified about a&nbsp;cake frosting&nbsp;incident after a photo surfaced on Facebook on Tuesday. (Facebook screengrab)</span>
Local cake and pastry shop The Icing Room - owned by BreadTalk Group - has clarified about a cake frosting incident after a photo surfaced on Facebook on Tuesday. (Facebook screengrab)