Buttery cupcakes
If you’re wondering what I’m doing blogging at 3.00 a.m… well, my 12-year-old daughter Alex had to be in school at 2.30 a.m. for a star-gazing activity. Instead of going to bed early, I baked some cupcakes and I decided to post the recipe before I go to bed.
The girls have been asking me to [...]
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Chocolate cheesecake
I’ve been dying to make this chocolate cheesecake since I saw Nigella Lawson make one in her TV cooking show. In fact, I was planning on baking the cheesecake on Valentine’s Day but the first three days of the week are always tight. I finally did it yesterday and… it’s just great. Just great! So [...]
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Chocolate crinkles
I promised to post this yesterday but my DSL connection had been going bananas. According to customer service, the repairs following the Taiwan earthquake have not yet been completed. Talk about slow service. Slow repairs, slow internet connection.
Anyway, I baked these chocolate crinkle cookies the other day. See, my kids love chocolate crinkles. When we [...]
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(Something like) tiramisu, version 2
As far as I can recall, it was at Gene Gonzalez’ The Smiling Chef where I tasted my first tiramisu, oh, around twelve years ago. Along with the crostata di ricotta, the tiramisu was my favorite cake from The Smiling Chef.
It was from Biba Caggiano’s now defunct TV cooking show Biba’s Italian Kitchen that I [...]
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Corn muffins
UPDATE on December 11, 2007: Click here for a much, much, much better recipe for corn muffins.
I have this still unopened pack of paper cups that was gathering dust at the back of one of the kitchen cabinets. I discovered it as I was reaching for a mixing bowl. On the backside of the package [...]
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Mango cheese pie
First of all, I apologize for the disappearance of Pinoy Cook from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. today, Manila time. I exceeded my bandwidth allocation and I did not find out until late in the afternoon.
I had to do the house chores before turning on my computer. Bad decision especially considering that I normally turn [...]
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My first apple pie
Whenever I had a craving for apple pie in the past, I knew of only one place where I could have the real thing — Hizon’s in Manila. Of course, today, there are a lot of delis that sell apple pie but Hizon’s is still the pie place for me (not McDonald’s, for goodness’ sakes). [...]
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Mixed berries muffins
We — meaning, my kids and I — used to bake muffins using prepared mixes. In fact, their absolute favorite is Betty Crocker’s blueberry muffin mix. But it’s darn expensive. A pouch that costs almost a hundred pesos only yields six muffins and it just isn’t fair.
We tried baking blueberry muffins from scratch using canned [...]
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