3 Inch Sin: Best Chocolate Lava Cake Singapore

September 25, 2010 | 19 Comments

3 Inch Sin

Stepping into 3 inch sin at Cluny Court, I could feel something stirring inside me.

It was a feeling that I never had before, I actually felt sexually aroused by the aromatic scent and the food I saw in the shop. I could almost hear the little imp that’s sitting on the left side of my shoulder whispering: “Go on, succumb to your wildest imagination and tempt fate. You know you want the molten chocolate lava cake!”

During my first visit to 3 Inch Sin at Cluny Court, we ordered the Mini Molten Flavors ($7 for selection of 3 mini cakes). The flavors for 3 inch sin’s molten chocolate lava cake include: Original, mint, bitter orange, coffee, hazelnut, raspberry, peanut butter, white chocolate, lemon and cherries jubilee.

Chocolate Lava Cake

Half-wishing that we could try everything on the menu, the two of us chose the original, hazelnut, and raspberry. Among the three flavors that we sampled, I liked the Raspberry molten chocolate cake the least. While the slightly sourish berry flavor provided a good counterbalance to the sweet chocolate cake; I’m sorry but (molten) chocolate lava cakes are meant to be (sweet) sweet.

I have always been a big fan of hazelnut (everything and anything should be hazelnut). Needless to say, the Hazelnut molten lava cake was excellent — the timeless classic combination of hazelnut and chocolate never fails to deliver.

The Original Chocolate lava cake was all about chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate. Come, sing with me: warm molten chocolate in a chocolate-y chocolate cake, warm molten chocolate in a chocolate-y chocolate cake…

Molten Chocolate Lava Cake

If you are going down to 3 inch sin after looking at this blog post, I’d recommend you to order their normal size (3 inch) warm chocolate cake ($6 + $3 for a scoop of ice cream) instead of having the 3 Mini molten flavors. While the mini molten lava cakes offer variety in terms of flavor, it does not have a melty center (in short: the chocolate lava cake doesn’t flow) as the cake is too small.

Two weeks after my first visit, I went back to 3 inch sin at Cluny court again. This time, I had the original chocolate lava cake in the normal 3″ size. It was more than good, it was beyond-the-description-of-any-word.

The molten chocolate cake concealed a melty center, with lots of chocolate that’s incredibly sweet and lovely. Paired with a scoop of the cold, chilling vanilla ice cream; nobody, I repeat, no body can resist the warm chocolate cake.

Happiness is when your molten chocolate lava cake flows.

Are you looking for the best chocolate souffle or warm chocolate lava cake or whatever you call the chocolate dessert that has a melty center? At the second level of Cluny Court (beside Island creamery at Serene centre), there is this new dessert place which serves one of the best warm chocolate lava cake in Singapore — they are called 3 inch sin.

3 Inch Sin Singapore

Sorry Max Brenner, I still love you. But now, I love 3 inch sin more.

Restaurant Review
3 Inch Sin
501 Bukit Timah Road #02-27
Cluny Court Singapore
Tel: +65 6314 1217

Comments

19 Responses to “3 Inch Sin: Best Chocolate Lava Cake Singapore”

Life for Beginners
September 25th, 2010 @ 4:15 pm

“Happiness is when your molten chocolate lava cake flows.”

Hee hee. You got it, bro.
danghl
September 25th, 2010 @ 4:37 pm

Oh my, sounds like heaven! I think I’ve gained weight ever since I started reading LIC haha!
LT
September 25th, 2010 @ 9:47 pm

They’ve been around for some time! I love their peanut butter version, it’s chunky! =)
thatssoron
September 26th, 2010 @ 8:39 am

mmmm… chocholate!!!!
arhnana
September 26th, 2010 @ 11:04 am

oooooohh, to drop in 3 inch for the lava cake & island creamery for ice cream!!! how wonderful ya!
Liz from Simple Italian Cooking
September 26th, 2010 @ 11:26 am

Yeah, these types of desserts are definitely hard to resist. Just like death by chocolate, this is sin by chocolate!
Mark
September 26th, 2010 @ 4:12 pm

Well written review. Really nice pictures, keep up the nice work! Your passion for food is shared across Singapore (including me). Keep the hunt and reviews for new places going!

Cheers
Jules
September 27th, 2010 @ 11:57 am

WOOHOO! so glad you liked it! i LOVE this place too!
Mike
September 27th, 2010 @ 8:00 pm

We will see what Singapore’s ultimate lava cake judge Kia has to say about this…
zee
September 27th, 2010 @ 8:42 pm

there’s a big difference between chocolate souffle and warm chocolate lava cake. do look it up.
joyce
September 28th, 2010 @ 11:30 pm

Hmm, I frequent Island Creamery at Serene but didn’t realise this little gem, will pay them a visit. I do love the lava cake at Morton’s of Chicago…
ymarra
October 1st, 2010 @ 3:58 am

went to try 3 inch sin after reading your post but was quite disappointed. morton’s is still the best.
ladyironchef - Singapore Food Blog
October 2nd, 2010 @ 11:46 am

LFB: Double happiness is when you are having a molten chocolate lava cake that flows, with your love one : D

danghl: AWWW! that’s the highest compliment I can get! thanks!

LT: Yea they have been there for a couple of months. Oh really peanut is good? I was wondering how it will taste like when combined with chocolate

thatssoron: go and have your chocolate lava cake my friend

arhnana: hahaha that’s a great idea. but you must have ice cream when you are having the warm chocolate lava cake, otherwise it won’t taste as good

Liz: Sin by chocolate? that’s a very fine tagline!

mark: wow dude, thanks for your encouragement. I will keep blogging to make all of you hungry!

jules: hahaha now the secret is out of the bag. oops!

mike: Yes please. I am curious to know if she like the chocolate lava cake here

zee: yeah i know there’s a big difference between the chocolate souffle and warm chocolate lava cake. But to me, it isn’t really that important since I enjoy both of them. A mouthful and they are gone! : )

joyce: yeah please drop by when you are in the area next time!

ymarra: Hello, so sorry if my review hype up your expectations of it. Yeah I heard a lot about the morton’s chocolate lava cake, but if i am not mistaken, they sell if for $25 bucks. And that’s a lot of money for a molten chocolate cake. This is only $6, so relatively, i think it isn’t very fair to compare it directly? haha which other places have you tried for their chocolate lava cake?
ymarra
October 3rd, 2010 @ 12:43 pm

yeah..it’s about $27 for the morton’s cake if u have it at the bar..i think it’s slightly cheaper if u eat at the restaurant though.

hmm i’ve tried the choc cake at max brenner’s, forlino’s, gordon’s grill, taste matters (very near 3 inch sin), bakerzin, au petit salut. at some restaurants the price is pretty close to morton’s but none come close in terms of taste..looking forward to your review of morton’s!
Mike
October 4th, 2010 @ 11:14 am

I didn’t find the Morton’s cake all that impressive – especially considering what they charge. Laurent’s and Double Bay in my opinion where both better… and my wife still swears that Dark Devotion at TCC is the best you can find in Singapore… but I have yet to try 3 inch sin
ladyironchef - Singapore Food Blog
October 12th, 2010 @ 8:02 pm

ymarra: 27 bucks for a dessert is a little too much to pay. but i guess if it makes us happy (even for a short while), it’s worth the money! hehe wow seems like you are a chocolate lava cake lover!

mike: All right, i need to check out the TCC one that Kia has been raving about!
juliustruffles
October 13th, 2010 @ 9:57 pm

wow. when did this open, maybe im super slow but it does look super sinful. cant wait to try it.

ive always wanted to make these little molten cakes. but ah well, leave it to the experts hehe.
IceCreamHolic
November 17th, 2010 @ 1:47 am

It used 2 be $5 for 3 mini molten cakes but now it increased to $7 n there isn’t service charge last time but now there is! D:
Diana
December 3rd, 2011 @ 12:32 pm

i love anything hazelnut too… wah i wanna go alr..