BREAD

Step inside Panaderia de Molo in Iloilo City and you will be greeted by shelves of biscuits and pastries—galletas, biscocho, broas, toasted mamon, and more. You can also buy pre-made molo soup, everything in it made from scratch (even the molo wrapper ...

GOOD FOOD ALERT! Did you know that Pateros was once known as the Philippines’ “balut sa puti” capital? According to the Philippine News Agency, this municipality once housed numerous duck farms and balut houses that practiced the traditional method of incubating the eggs. ...

A viral video made rounds all over social media platforms showing a Gardenia delivery personnel opening packed slices of Gardenia bread and stealing slices of bread from each pack. The Gardenia delivery personnel then proceeded to re-close each bag and return it ...

You can’t go wrong with fluffy, tasty, freshly-baked sponge cakes. These cakes are delicious, melts in the mouth, and make for a good merienda you can share with your friends and family (or all for yourself!—no judgment!). This is probably why there ...

We all love the smell of freshly-baked bread and thankfully, some grocery items recreate that feel-good fresh-from-the-bakery smell. Fuwa Fuwa, which means fluffy in Japanese, offers a line of fragrant and soft Japanese bread that are now available in supermarkets.As soon as you ...

Breadcrumbs are a fantastic ingredient. They’re a versatile ingredient used to coat all sorts of food for a crunchy crust. Plus, you can use it to top mac and cheese, to bind burgers, and to even add bulk to your meatloaves or ...

We all have memories of the delicious scent from panaderias, where butter, flour, eggs, and sugar combine to make magical pastries. Your neighborhood bakery doesn’t just cook up flavors of your favorite Filipino bread, but they do cook up memories. Who doesn’t ...

You know you're going to have a fantastic day when you wake up to the amazing aroma of baking bread. The smells that waft from the oven is really indescribable; you have to smell it to understand why the yeasty, warm aromas are so ...

You know it's a very good bread recipe when you can down one of these down in less than a minute. You'll only understand how we could not help ourselves when you make this easy yet highly addicting cheese bread rolls recipe. The recipe starts off ...

One of the simplest joys in life is choosing all your go-to tasty merienda or baon at your favorite bakeshop. Red Ribbon is a bakeshop that has most of our childhood favorites, from mamon, ensaymada, banana bread, empanada, to taisan loaves.It’s been a ...

Monay is also known as Pan de Monja and is a popular dense bread roll commonly found in most small bakeries in the Philippines. It has a distinct indentation on the middle of the bread, dividing the bread into halves. This easy ...

Kalihim is a Filipino bread that's also known as Pan de Regla, Pan de Pula, or Kabukiran. It's a soft bread commonly found in most Pinoy bakeries and has pockets stuffed with a red-colored pudding made with flour (or stale bread), milk, ...

Great news for health buffs and people looking to have healthier food choices, Pinterest just released a list of food trends that could dominate the food and restaurant scene this 2019. From mushrooms, oat milk, oxtail, to Pegan (vegan and paleo) diets–these ...

Have you tried malunggay pandesal? Malunggay leaves (moringa) is packed with vitamin C, vitamin A, and calcium—making it a super-healthy ingredient that's usually used in soupy dishes and stews. You can also add malunggay leaves to homemade pandesal. These soft buns are ...

Ensaymada (or ensaimada) is a well-loved sweet Filipino coiled bread. It's usually topped with butter, sugar, and grated salty cheese. The ones from your neighborhood bakery (the ones you might remember from your childhood merienda) might be slathered with margarine and topped ...

It’s not hard to find desserts that resonate with Filipinos After all, we love anything sweet and our desserts are a testament to that. But what we love just as much are the flavor combinations of sweet and salty. Take the ensaymada: it’s a ...

These soft, buttery, sweet cheese rolls are bound to be a crowd favorite! It takes a bit of effort to make but it is worth your time. Cheese RollsMakes 10 (5-inch) rolls Prep Time 3 hoursBaking Time 25 minutes1 tablespoon dry active yeast1 ...

Bicho-bicho is a Filipino doughnut, which is fried and coated in cinnamon sugar. These are best eaten when fresh off the stove— soft, fluffy, and so good!Bicho-BichoMakes 8 (6-inch) piecesPrep Time 2 hoursCooking Time 5 minutes3 cups all-purpose flour1 teaspoon salt2 teaspoons caster ...

When Aurelio Pantoja put up his little neighborhood panaderia in Batangas back in the ’50s, it was almost as if it was on a whim. “It all actually started with my lolo,” says Panaderia Pantoja president Anthony Pantoja. “He started it with ...