Chocolate + Pili = An Unusual Christmas Treat

Despite the fact that I prefer to bake my presents rather than buy them, there are some items that are so unusual that you can’t help but actually buy them either for yourself or for those you hold dear.

These chocolate-maple pili nuts from Heavenly Chocolates are such an example. Think buttery pili nuts from [...]

Food for Functions: Decadent Cups from Bake & Churn

A Decadent Cup, a Scoop-a-cake… It’s what the little cup of madness above is called at the shop that makes it, Bake & Churn.
 

These babies were served at a recent company affair that started with boxed lunches of boneless barbecued chicken and Java rice from Reyes Barbecue, followed by a fab Parmesan-crusted baked salmon [...]

Dezaato Pan (Part II of II): Two Chocolate Rolls

With the Nagasaki tea latte out of the way, my focus was automatically fixed on the pair of chocolate rolls I bought to go from Dezaato Pan.
The first one up was this Choco-Almond Bread, a pretty rectangular roll drizzled with semi-sweet chocolate and sprinkled with flaked almonds. As almond breads go, however, that was [...]

Sachi Black: The Darker Side of Nama

Nama. Since these gorgeous cocoa-dusted cubes of ganache first hit Philippine shores in mid-2008, die-hard chocoholics have been on the prowl for them, like hardened addicts seeking that powerful, mind-numbing, soul-shattering hit. On one hand, if you want to be “in”, you could always head over to either Kombini in Greenhills or the [...]

Blonde Bombshell: The Coffee Junkie’s Milkshake

I confess to doing something I really shouldn’t have done:

I went off the deep end one recent morning and brewed myself a cup of coffee.

Long-time readers of this blog know that I’m not supposed to have any coffee; the caffeine negates much of my mood stabilizer’s benefits. However, what’s a girl supposed to do [...]