85°C Bakery Café is a delightful place in Irvine Spectrum that we know you’re going to love. It’s superior compared to other places in the area! Originally from Taiwan, this chain has since become massively popular in the United States and has multiple branches across California. Make sure to come by early, this place is often filled with people, and their fresh bread often runs out quickly. Don’t worry too much though—their hardworking staff is always there to restock the shelves with fresh bread!
Planning a trip to 85°C Bakery Café in Irvine Spectrum but not sure what to order? We’ve come up with a list of our fifteen favorites just for you.
1. Choco Bun
Have you ever heard of the phrase, ‘death by chocolate’? You’re certainly going to experience that with this chocolatey pastry! Made with chocolate dough and filled with chocolate chips, this pastry is incredibly airy and not too sweet—perfect for pairing with coffee or tea.
2. 85°C Cream Puff
You can never go wrong with a traditional cream puff, and 85°C Bakery Café in Irvine Spectrum definitely knocks it out of the park! This soft, flaky pastry gives way to the most decadent sweet cream filling that melts in your mouth. You can’t just have one!
3. Sea Salt Coffee
This drink is what 85°C Bakery Café in Irvine Spectrum is really known for. And while you might be confused as to why anybody would add salt to their coffee, this combination surprisingly works very well. The sea salt enhances the coffee’s natural flavors, making the drink very well-balanced. It comes with a dollop of cream on top to tie everything together.
4. Pork Sung Bun
This pastry is a Taiwanese classic. Here, an incredibly soft bun is topped with a generous layer of special 85°C Bakery Café mayonnaise. Then, it’s topped with a good amount of pork floss—pork shoulder that has been cooked in soy sauce and sugar, shredded, then dried until it resembles cotton or wool. The texture will take a while to get used to, and you might even mistake it for brown sugar, but pretty soon you’ll be delighted to discover the joys of pork floss!
5. Red Velvet
Red velvet cake is a dish that’s beloved in almost any area of the world. It tastes a bit like traditional chocolate cake except that it uses far less cocoa powder for a milder chocolate taste and more buttermilk and vinegar for a more acidic and tangier taste. And of course, we can’t forget how red velvet cake is bright red and on your face!
6. Sea Salt Jasmine Green Tea
Keeping up with the sea salt drinks, 85°C Bakery Café’s Sea Salt Jasmine Green Tea is also a must-try. This jasmine green tea drink comes in both hot and iced versions and is still topped with their signature salt-infused whipped cream. Again, this is a combination you would never have thought of but wished you had!
7. Marble Taro
This pastry is made with mixed grains and wheat and filled to the brim with sweet, rich taro filling. A bun that’s mostly beige with gorgeous swirls of purple interspersed, the marble taro bun is one of the bakery’s top sellers!
If you had to make only one selection at 85°C Bakery Café in Irvine Spectrum, then it should undoubtedly be the marble taro. It would be hard to find something this pretty and tasty anywhere else, so make sure to reach for these first!
8. Classic Tiramisu
Tiramisu is a traditional Italian dessert that’s absolutely luxurious. It’s made with espresso-dipped lady fingers and mascarpone cheese before being dusted with fine layers of powdered sugar and cocoa powder. Incredibly rich and sweet by itself, their tiramisu is best paired with something light like tea to balance out the sweetness.
9. Fresh Strawberry Milk Tea
You can’t think of Taiwanese cuisine without thinking about its most iconic contribution to the culinary world—milk tea. True to its roots, 85°C Bakery Café has a ton of milk tea selections, but their Fresh Strawberry Milk Tea is our absolute favorite. It’s their specialty milk tea recipe infused with juicy strawberries—oh, so refreshing!
10. Mangotale
If you want to go loco over mango, the Mangotale is surely the pastry for you. This bun has been topped with sweet mango jam and filled inside with smooth cream cheese. You get a lot of flavors with every bite of this amazing bun!
85°C Bakery Café also has Berrytale, which is the same thing as Mangotale except with blueberries.
11. White Chocolate Strawberry Cup
This is probably the most dessert-y dish out of everything on this list. It has everything you want in a dessert and more. It’s a vanilla cake that has been layered with sweet white chocolate mousse. Then, it’s topped with strawberry jam, freshly-made cream, white chocolate shavings, and a whole strawberry to finish everything together.
This is a dessert you’d love to show off on Instagram.
12. Frozen Marble Taro
Remember that marble taro that we mentioned earlier? That soft, purple-swirled bun that’s been filled with sweet, root vegetable filling? Well, it also comes in frozen drink form, which is exactly what the frozen marble taro is!
This vivid lavender iced drink is a refreshing treat that’s perfect for the summer. Given how sweet it is, you won’t even need a dessert to come with it—it’s undoubtedly a dessert in itself already!
13. Cheese Dog
The Cheese Dog is the most popular savory item on the menu at 85°C Bakery Café in Irvine Spectrum. It’s like pigs in a blanket, except that the blanket is made of pastry and liberally topped with freshly-cracked black pepper, light mayonnaise, ketchup, mozzarella cheese, and dried parsley.
It’s clear that the bakery can do both sweet and savory very well.
14. Hokkaido Cheese Tart
A dish that originated in Japan but is popular throughout Asia, the Hokkaido Cheese Tart is a pastry that’s not to miss. The almond crust of the tart is crunchy yet flaky, and the inside is filled with a creamy, cheesecake-like filling that’s been baked to absolute perfection. Indeed, you won’t have to travel to Japan to get a taste of this luscious dessert anymore!
15. Vietnamese Coffee
Last but not least is Vietnamese coffee, which, if you haven’t tried it yet, is the best thing since sliced bread. Unlike other coffee recipes that use sugar, Vietnamese coffee uses condensed milk so the blend you get is milky, smooth, rich, and sweet. The condensed milk is so sweet, in fact, that you’ll barely notice that the coffee is medium to dark roast!
Vietnamese coffee is the perfect pick-me-up for busy students or workers.
