April is rice month at About Southeast Asian Food. After posting my recipe for Vietnamese pandan sticky rice balls, I'm following it up with a non-Asian ...
Recipes For Sweets & Desserts
Sweet snacks and sweet meal enders. Includes recipes for cakes, cupcakes, cookies, cookie bars, puddings and ice cream.
Red velvet cheesecake
Baked at Sam's request. It took a day and a half to make this because the cheesecake layer had to be frozen overnight in order to assemble the layers. ...
Fried Suman and Fresh Mangoes
It's been a long time since I had breakfast at the traditional breakfast hour. Although I've been getting up before noon these past couple of weeks, my ...
Butterscotch and chocolate fudge combo brownies
I first published my butterscotch and chocolate fudge combo brownies recipe in October 8, 2007. Seven years later, I've revised the recipe. I made two ...
Stacking chocolate chip cookies to make a 3D Christmas tree
Sam is in the process of creating a portfolio and she's been diligently taking photos every weekend. Food photos. Last week, she saw a Betty Crocker 3D ...
Churros-inspired cupcakes with chocolate fudge frosting
The idea for these churros-inspired cupcakes with chocolate fudge frosting is "churros cupcakes". What gave birth to the term "churro cupcake", I have no ...
Sweet corn and tapioca pearls pudding
It's a Vietnamese sweet called che bap. In the Western world, it is categorized as a dessert pudding but it isn't exactly that. In the first place, dessert ...
Floating island (île flottante)
The dessert derives its name from its appearance -- a mass of meringue, the island, floating in a sea of crème anglaise, a light vanilla custard of pouring ...
Fresh sliced bananas with honey-yogurt dressing and toasted coconut
Sam had been bugging me to bake dessert but, as much as I want to humor her, I'd rather not in this heat. I've baked a batch of granola bars for her a few ...
Frozen yogurt: more pricey than homemade ice cream but easier to make
When frozen yogurt became fashionable a few years back, frozen yogurt parlors started mushrooming in malls and shopping centers. Most of them sold plain ...
No-bake Nutella and cream cheese dessert
It's like tiramisu with less coffee taste but with the addition of chocolate with hazelnut undertones (Nutella, what else?). No baking nor cooking required ...
Vanilla leche flan ice cream
The original plan was to bake brownie shells and serve the ice cream in them. So, I told Dexie, the feisty cook who also made ice cream over the holidays. ...
Yema balls
When I met with girl friends from law school for our annual Christmas get-together one night last week, we exchanged gifts and each of them got a container ...
Coconut pandan cake balls
Along with the nut-crusted mocha-cinnamon cake balls, I brought these very tropical morsels to a party with friends from the U.P. WILOCI. Why coconut and ...