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...
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Between cake and pie, I will always choose pie. These pies.Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . In the play Boston Marriage by David Mamet, there’s a quote that sums up why I love pie so passionately: “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” Pie to me, is pastry pleasure, a...
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Millet Soberano is a culinary magician who makes magical things with chocolate.They stare up at me like seashells floating on a plate of white. Brown, like the color of chocolate smoke and as deeply aromatic. They’re called madeleines, individual scallop shells of sponge cake that are “…so strictly pleated outside and so...
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This is my red velvet cake of choice. For now.Sonja was the one who first introduced red velvet cake to Manila in her eponymous bakeshop, and what ensued were initial shocks and frenzied murmurings of “It’s so red!” Then a wave of home bakers took her cue and therein resulted a rush of red available to consumers craving...
read moreIt’s an odd name for a baking business but it makes one of the best tarts I’ve eaten all year.I often bemoan Manila’s scarcity of pies and tarts – anything with a crust, really, but my grousing is temporarily alleviated by Dragonfly Desserts’ Walnut Tart. Described on the flyer as “Lemon sugar dough crust. Walnut...
read moreIt’s sugar rush with just one “r.”It’s the familiar story of two girls who meet in college: the shared discovery that they’ve been dabbling in the kitchen since childhood, the giddy willingness to taste just about anything, and most importantly, a shared fervor for the sweet. One girl, Rissa Cheng,...
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