Cupcake Luxury
Mar 22, 12 
New cupcake flavors from one of my favorite cupcake makers.
read moreSpooning on Valentine’s Day
Feb 09, 12 
Title caught your eye, didn’t it? This post is rated “XS” for Extra Sexy, the annual DCF Love Month sexy post.I’m distraught when I find out that chocolatier Benoit Nicolay has moved to Singapore. I’ve fallen hard for his Chocolate Spoons, one of his big-seller creations. The business has been taken over by his former...
read moreCookies & Lace
Dec 06, 11 
These are the thinnest cookies I may ever eat.These cookies are so thin that they’re probably not even a millimeter thick. It’s an astounding fact made even more so when I realize that there are two cookies that make up one whole. Yes, it’s a sandwich cookie. Karen Murphy makes these web-like wonders and she simply calls...
read moreChristmas Gift List Purveyor #14: Addie Wijangco
Nov 03, 11 
I think I must have been high when I shot these photos.Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . They say that a person eats with the eyes first but I could make an equally impassioned argument for people who eat with their noses first. Consider Addie Wijangco’s ensaymada. As I’m unwrapping and preparing these...
read moreChristmas Gift List Purveyor #4: Mara de la Rama-Poblete of Dessert du Jour
Oct 19, 11 
I dream of Mara’s crepe cake – all 20 layers of them.Manila’s dessert landscape sparkles with stars, one of which shines brighter. It’s the crepe cake, or properly referred to as the Gateau de Crepe (Vanilla) made by Mara de la Rama-Poblete. A simple cake it is, but one made entirely out of crepes, paper-thin and...
read moreSmall in Size, Big in Bang
Sep 02, 11 
These cupcakes challenge my notion of size and flavor.I’m deeply suspicious of miniature pastries, “mini me’s” of their more massively sized counterparts. For me, the allure of the undersized is in fooling oneself about the quantity consumed; before you know it, the box’s contents have been decimated. Which is why I’m...
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