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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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...
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“And is this Park Avenue in New York?” I ask.“No, Park Avenue in Pasay,” Buddy says with such a straight face, so used to ignoramuses like myself who don’t even know that such a street exists in Manila. It’s on that Park Avenue where Buddy grew up and learned how to bake by watching his mom, an accomplished baker...
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This post – more than any other I believe – will demonstrate just how seriously I take DCF readers’ recommendations. And it will also show (embarrassingly enough) how many slices of cake I can polish off single-handedly.By now, you know about my failed first attempt at getting to Cake Planet. DCF tipster RJ’s email to me...
read moreBaby, because I love you and you love Banapple…Note:All photos in this post are courtesy of Banapple, except for Banoffee Pie. It’s all about LOVE all this month on Dessert Comes First, a no holds barred, straight out, and straight up show of sweetness and cheesiness. I love February and I love Valentine’s Day so I’m...
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