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Cake shop, Jalan Mojopahit, Medan

The same glass cabinet since 1994

Tap any cake behind the glass and its tag turns over to tell you what is inside: the size, what it is made of and how many days it keeps. The strip under the top glass is lit while the shop is open.

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Ovens on at 04:00No preservativesClosed Mondays

What is in the cabinet, with its price

Cheese roll cakeMost asked for

Rp68,000

One 22 cm roll filled with butter cream and grated cheddar. Baked at four in the morning, keeps three days at room temperature and six in the fridge.

Pandan srikaya roll cake

Rp72,000

A sponge made from pandan leaves we blend ourselves, not paste, rolled with our own srikaya. The green is pale, and that is how it should be.

Pandan bika ambon

Rp95,000

A 20 by 20 cm tin, twenty pieces. We do not send it outside Medan: after twenty four hours the honeycomb sinks.

Original lapis legitOrder 2 days ahead

Rp265,000

Eighteen layers, 18 by 18 cm, baked one layer at a time for nearly three hours. Order at least two days ahead.

Nastar cookies

Rp185,000

A 500 gram jar, about 55 pieces. The pineapple jam is cooked six hours until dry. Bring the glass jar back for Rp5,000 off.

Kastengel cheese sticks

Rp175,000

A 500 gram jar, edam and cheddar, more cheese grated on top. Salted just right, and they do not crumble on the road.

Srikaya jam

Rp42,000

A 250 gram glass jar. Egg, coconut milk, palm sugar and pandan, stirred for two hours over a low flame. Keep it in the fridge and finish it in two weeks.

Andaliman sambal

Rp48,000

200 grams, the numbing heat of andaliman from Tapanuli. Not a cake, but our customers keep asking, so we make it every Thursday.

Baked brownies

Rp85,000

A 20 by 10 cm tin, 58 percent chocolate, a thin crackled top. Best on the second day.

Chocolate cake, 18 cm

from Rp210,000

Three layers of chocolate sponge with ganache. Writing on the cake is free, up to twenty letters. Order two days ahead.

1994 the year this cabinet first stood on Mojopahit04.00 the first oven goes on, every day except Monday3 days a roll cake keeps at room temperature18 layers in every lapis legit, counted one by one

Why our bika ambon never leaves Medan

A good bika ambon has strands like a honeycomb, and the strands last one day. After twenty four hours they sink and the cake turns dense. In 2019 we sent twenty tins to Jakarta for a family gathering, and seventeen of them arrived in a state we would not sell from our own cabinet.

Since then bika ambon is sold in the shop and delivered within Medan only, by late afternoon on the day it was baked. For gifts going out of town we suggest lapis legit or a roll cake, which keep three days and do not change on the road.

We know plenty of shops send bika ambon all over Indonesia. We are not saying they are wrong. We just do not want to sell something we would not eat ourselves.

Ordering a lapis legit, from message to pickup

  1. Order at least two days ahead

    A lapis legit is baked one layer at a time, eighteen times over, and one oven fits four tins. Orders that arrive after 15:00 count from the next day.

  2. Pay half as a deposit

    By bank transfer or QRIS. Without a deposit we have not written the order down, because the eggs and butter for lapis legit are bought for each order.

  3. Baked on the morning of pickup

    The oven goes on at four. The lapis legit comes out around seven and rests two hours before it is cut or boxed.

  4. Collected from 10:00

    In the shop, in a card box lined with baking paper. For delivery within Medan we use an app courier, and the fare is paid by the buyer as the app shows it.

I have ordered lapis legit for Chinese New Year three years running. Last year it had seventeen layers instead of eighteen, and they told me themselves and took money off the price. That is why I keep coming back.Lina Tanoto, Petisah
The cheese roll cake is always gone before ten on Saturdays. Now I order on WhatsApp the night before and just pick it up.Rizky Nasution, Medan Baru
I asked them to send bika ambon to Pekanbaru and they politely said no, and explained why. I took a lapis legit instead, and the family there would not stop asking where the shop is.Dewi Simanjuntak, a customer since 2016

Asked most often at the counter

Are the cakes made every day

Every day except Monday. Roll cakes and bika ambon are baked that same morning. Lapis legit and decorated cakes are only made to order.

How long do they keep

Roll cakes three days at room temperature and six in the fridge. Bika ambon one day. Lapis legit a week at room temperature. Nastar and kastengel a month while the jar stays tightly closed.

Can you send outside Medan

Lapis legit, nastar, kastengel and srikaya jam travel by courier anywhere in Indonesia. Bika ambon and roll cakes do not, because they do not survive the road.

Is anything egg free or sugar free

Not yet. All our cakes use eggs, butter and sugar, and we will not sell a substitute version we have not tested ourselves.

How can I pay

Cash, bank transfer or QRIS at the till. For orders, the half deposit goes by transfer or QRIS.

Order before 15:00, collect the next morning

Jalan Mojopahit 24, Petisah Tengah, Medan

Tuesday to Sunday 07:00 to 21:00, closed on Monday