Have you ever had that dream where you're in a dessert shop and you could choose whichever cake you want to eat, and you could have one or two--or four? OK, neither have we, but we found ourselves living this fantasy one sunny Friday morning. The place: Fleur De Lys. Our victims for the day: The Next Best Thing (warm chocolate cake with a side of tiramisu ice cream), Copacabana-na (banana peanut butter cheesecake on a dark cookie crust), and Pavlova Picasso (strawberry walnut meringue with whipped cream and fresh fruits).

Opened October 2001, Fleur De Lys Patisserie is the brainchild of Jackie Ang, a cake-lover herself and a pastry chef. Aside from overseeing the actual production of each dessert that Fleur De Lys offers, she is also the one responsible for conceptualizing the recipes, and they're nothing if not deliciously unique. Jackie's secret is in the use of basic, good quality ingredients -- but with different and novel combinations. Her one-of-a-kind creations are tasty enough to not even require fancy nomenclature, but the quirky names of the patisserie's desserts add dimension -- and do justice -- to each concoction. If you pay a visit to Fleur De Lys, you'll find their cake display crammed with wonderfully-named creations like Tickle Me-Clair (chocolate eclair) and Nuts About You (macadamia nut tart with pistachio ice cream, one of their bestsellers).

With all the bakeshops and coffeeshops in town, what's Fleur De Lys's strategy for standing out?

"We offer different presentations of cakes," Jackie says. "We don't serve anything really exotic. But we put a twist on old favorites like cheesecakes, chocolate cakes, and tiramisu. And we don't scrimp on ingredients."

To add variety to their menu, Fleur De Lys also offers pasta dishes, salads, sandwiches, and a selection of fruit shakes and hot beverages. The patisserie is a perfect venue for dates ("One Sunday, we had a couple stay over till 12 midnight even if we close at 10," Jackie tells us), the all-important girlie get-togethers, and even brainstorming sessions. Even those slow days, on which you have no particular occasion to celebrate, can feel like red-letter days when punctuated with a heavenly treat courtesy of Fleur De Lys.