Caramel Apples or toffy apple are created by dipping or rolling apples-on-a-stick in hot caramel, and sometimes rolling them in nuts or other small savories or confections, and allowing them to cool. They are the same sweet desserts one can find while walking through chilly Pier 39 in San Francisco and different amusement parks in the U.S. Now they are available in the Philippines from SanFo Treats.
Caramel Apples from SanFo Treats
Posted by Noemi | Under Uncategorized with 2,329 views Sunday Feb 17, 200818th Birthday Cakes From Marta’s Cakes
Posted by Lauren | Under Cakes, Pastries & Desserts with 29,220 views Friday Feb 15, 2008
Gone are the days when eighteenth birthday cakes were decorated with pink ruffles and candy flowers. Birthday cakes today are more like colorful culinary creations that look too yummy to eat, and Marta’s custom cakes are no exception. Ideal for femme fatales who want to spill over their love for all things girly onto their birthday decor, Marta’s cakes feature fashion items done in intricate detail.
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Tikoy for the Chinese New Year
Posted by Lauren | Under Uncategorized with 1,789 views Wednesday Feb 6, 2008
Tikoy is to Chinese New Year as fiesta ham is to Filipinos for Christmas. It’s difficult to imagine a Chinese New Year celebration without the sticky rice cakes being sold in shops and supermarkets everywhere. Even among Filipinos, it is customary to give colleagues and business partners a box or two of tikoy during this time of the year, even though we don’t exactly celebrate the Chinese New Year.
Upon purchase, you’ll see that the tikoy comes in a small, sticky, cake-like shape (some tikoys even come in unusual shapes, like the koi tikoy from the Mandarin Hotel). The way to prepare tikoy is to slice it into thin pieces (like luncheon meat), dip the tikoy pieces into a bowl of beaten eggs, and fry it in a small, non-stick pan with very little oil. Freshly-fried tikoy is best enjoyed with green tea but be warned – this is a very sticky, very chewy pastry!
Fished Shaped Tikoy (Nian Kao)
Posted by Lauren | Under Cakes, Pastries & Desserts with 2,161 views Friday Jan 25, 2008
Celebrate Chinese New Year in style with very realistic, koi-shaped tikoy (nian kao) from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Makati. Tikoy is a milky Chinese rice cake dipped in egg and fried, but Mandarin Oriental has the best tikoy among all those I’ve tried. Presentation-wise, it’s already quite a thing to behold, but what makes the koi-shaped tikoy so divine is that doesn’t absorb oil the way tikoy from the streets do. The result is a soft, chewy pastry that almost melts in your mouth and travels smoothly down your throat as you shiver in delight.
The Chinese believe that tikoy must be offered to the kitchen god a week before the Chinese new year so that the god can give them a favorable testimonial upon their death. According to their beliefs, the more tikoy you offer, the more the god’s mouth will be filled with the sticky sweet cake to say anything bad towards you. I’d really rather eat the tikoy myself, though!
Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake
Posted by Lauren | Under Cakes, Pastries & Desserts with 11,970 views Tuesday Jan 1, 2008
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