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 ...
Custards & Puddings
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 ...
Coconut custard pie
Imagine leche flan (steamed crème caramel) or crème brûlée without the hard topping. Imagine coconut flakes stirred into the custard. Now, imagine that ...
Peach and Custard Tart
What can I say about canned fruits and Christmas in the Philippines? One of the most popular sweet dishes served over the holiday season is fruit salad ...
Leche Flan (Steamed Crème Caramel)
There are many misconceptions about leche flan. One, that it is the Filipino version of crème brûlée. It is not, actually. Leche flan is the Filipino ...
Budino With Salted Caramel Sauce
When we hear and read about how the Philippines has the longest Christmas season in the world, we know it's no exaggeration. It isn't even Halloween yet ...
Apple and raisin bread pudding
Some people like to use whole slices of bread to make their pudding. They stack the bread in a pan, pour in the egg-and-milk mixture and bake everything ...
Chilled mango pudding
Based on the Vietnamese mango pudding of Kam Fook Restaurant in Sydney, as prepared in an episode of Food Safari, I made these cups of mango pudding ...
Crème brûlée
My family loves leche flan. They like the custard to be smooth and creamy but they're not very particular about the caramel syrup topping. So, I thought ...
Sweet Bread Pudding With Mango Jam
If you're wondering what I did with the bread crusts after I made my smoked tanigue (Spanish mackarel) and cream cheese sandwiches, let me assure you that ...
Black Sticky Rice Pudding
There's black sticky rice porridge and there's black sticky rice pudding. Despite some people's penchant for using the term pudding when they mean ...
Coconut custard
My most memorable leche flan experience was at a fiesta. The custard was made with duck eggs and coconut milk, according to the father of my husband's ...
Mango custard
This is my second attempt at making mango custard. The first one, a couple of months ago, was a total disaster and it took me a long time to muster the ...
Rice Pudding With Coconut Custard Topping
It isn't difficult to make rice pudding with coconut custard topping. But for someone like me who still cooks rice on a trial and error basis, it took ...