The Dessert Museum From Manila Is Now In S'pore. Here’s Your First Look At The Actual Pop-Up

Candy and desserts that only add colour to your Instagram feed, and not inches to your waist? Yes, please. Manila’s Dessert Museum has made its way to our shores, and this is the popular, kaleidoscopic tourist attraction’s inaugural overseas pop-up. It’s on from Oct 4 to 27 at Plaza Singapura, which is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a whole host of sweet activities, discounts, and giveaways.

With five fabulous rooms, The Dessert Museum pop-up here is sort of like a taster of The Dessert Museum in the Philippines (it has eight rooms), or the kiddy cousin to the OG dessert Insta heaven, New York’s massive Museum of Ice Cream.

But just because this is canape-sized doesn’t mean it skims on the fun. The interactive, larger-than-life saccharine installations over these five rooms aren’t merely good as backdrops for your Instagrams — the pastel-hued playground has slides, see-saws and more for that great Boomerang too. 8Days.sg got a preview and are happy to report that it’s not just the kiddos who’ll be having a blast — it’s very much kidult-friendly as well.

And if you’ve been piling on the calories with too many prata suppers, here’s some news: the Dessert Museum opens till 2am on Fridays and Saturdays, if you’re in need of a guiltless late-night snack.

This must be what heaven looks like to Homer Simpson. Your journey starts here as you slide into the first room.

Dodge hanging donuts, take a pic by the cute cart, or just snap an OOTD against a backdrop of donut plushies. Donut hold back.

Next up is the Candy Cane Room where you’ll find yourself in a mini maze of ginormous candy canes.

Grab a pal to go on the candy cane see-saw or take your pick on the Naughty or Nice swing (we know, it’s not even Christmas yet!).

Hello, giant cake pops! Caution: You may begin to get hungry at this point.

Perch yourself on these massive hanging cake pops with the whole gang and pretend you’re in a Miley Cyrus MV. The key word here is pretend, ’cos those cake pops don’t actually swing.

Welcome to your fourth stop, aka utopia for ice cream fiends.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to lie down on a giant Häagen-Dazs sweet treat, here’s your chance.

That’s no secret code: it stands for the Pretty Sweet 45, also the theme of Plaza Singapura’s mega sweet birthday bash. Take a breather, or an OOTD, on a giant churro bench while you’re here.

Dancing among freakishly large cupcakes and raining marshmallows is allowed here.

You’ll need to spend $45 in a single receipt at the mall to score a pair of entry tickets. Kids below the age of 3 enter for free. We’re told that the Dessert Museum can accommodate about 60 to 80 people at one time.

If that’s not enough of a sugar high for you, try your luck at the Dessert Carnival just outside the mall, where you can toss, spin and win giant plushies. Charges apply.

Fuel up at The Dessert Marketplace next to the mall’s main entrance. Stalls hawk everything from regular bubble tea and White Rabbit flavoured milk tea, to rosti and fried cheese sticks.

The Dessert Museum pop-up is on Oct 4-27 at Plaza Singapura Main Atrium, Level 1. Open Sun-Thu at 10am-10pm, Fri-Sat at 10am-2am. The Dessert Marketplace is open daily at 12pm-10pm. More info at https://www.capitaland.com/sg/malls/plazasingapura.

Photos: Jasmine Teo