Cassava Cake with Custard Topping

As a Filipino in the U.S. without complete access to ingredients indigenous to the Philippines, I, often times, have to substitute this for that and that for this in recreating the dishes Read more

Baking a Cake can be a Piece of Cake

Baking is, indeed, a little bit more exacting and a little less forgiving than cooking, wherein one has more room for error. Still, with this list of tips and tricks I collected over the years from books, magazines, the web and experience, Read more

Palitaw

Palitaw is customarily made with glutinous rice soaked overnight in water and which is then processed into a soft dough via grinding. The availability of commercial sweet rice flour in most stores here in the Read more

Cheese Cake Pie

I have never been good in Math. Add to my have never been good in Math my have not taken a Math subject for almost twenty years and what do I get? Read more

Chocolate Velvet Cake with Crunchy Coconut Topping

When I had a fiasco with my cupcakes, I searched and found a wealth of knowledge available over the world wide web to remedy this. This recipe validates one tip~adding mayonnaise to the batter. I found this rich chocolate velvet cake recipe on a late 1970’s magazine clipping of a Best Foods’ advertisement. The mayonnaise in the batter, indeed, resulted to the moistest, softest cake I’ve ever tasted! Read more