The Cake Shop, Mandarin Oriental Jumeira

The Cake Shop at Mandarin Oriental Jumeira brought the group’s cake-counter tradition to Dubai: seasonal cakes, mooncakes in the autumn, chocolates, and a box with an ice pack for the drive home.

The counter by the lobby follows the model of the Mandarin Cake Shop in Hong Kong: the hotel’s pastry kitchen sells its cakes, tarts and chocolates by the piece, whole cakes to order and seasonal collections, from the Ramadan boxes to the mooncakes and the Christmas logs. The style is lighter and more fruit-led than the palace teas of the city, and the prices are the fairest among Dubai’s hotel counters.

It is the easiest way to take a Dubai palace kitchen home, and the ice pack is sized to the traffic.

What to buy

• The seasonal cakes
• The mooncakes in autumn
• The chocolates
• A whole cake to order