Wildflour Café + Bakery has several must-try desserts and pastries on its menu, from the Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake, Salted Chocolate Cake, Coconut Pie, Bomboloni, and bottled Polvoron. But if you want to try something new for your next brunch at the restaurant, you should try their ...

You may find many recipes that may claim to be no-fail and easy but the truth of the matter is that while an ensaymada recipe as written may be fool-proof, nobody is perfect. When working with yeast, you can make common mistakes. You may ...

The ensaymada is always a crowd favorite. It's a sweet bread that is made with an enriched dough, meaning that there is more added to the bread that just yeast, water, and flour. That might mean eggs and butter were added and some ...

There's something special about sitting down to enjoy a piece of ensaymada, especially during this time of the year. This bread of Hispanic origins is a favorite among Filipinos of all ages; and no wonder, because how can you go wrong with ...

Cheese in desserts is a no-fail combo that takes on many forms from the tangy touch of cream cheese frosting on pastries like red velvet cupcakes and cinnamon rolls to the salty-meets-sweet mix of treats like ube cheese pandesal. If you can't ...

Leche flan fans, this just might be the quickest, easiest, and most affordable way to satisfy your leche flan cravings. On your next grocery run, make sure to pass by the snack section and look for Tiger Biscuits’ new leche flan-flavored biscuits.For ...

We all have our trusty coffee order in Starbucks. But did you know there are gems on the food menu, too? On your next coffee run, make sure to try the Triple Cheese Ensaymada (P95). If you don’t know about this ensaymada, it has been on ...

We all know Kuya J as a restaurant that serves delicious Filipino food, but now they've expanded their menu to the coffee and merienda crowd with the recent opening of the first-ever Kuya J Cafe in Park Square, Makati City.The Kuya J Cafe will ...

One of the best versions of ensaymada in the Philippines isn’t available in Manila—at least not all year round. For a limited time, however, Felicia’s Pastry Shop of Bacolod will be selling their highly coveted giant ensaymada (P150/pc) at the Artefino fair in Power Plant—so you can stock up ...

Filipinos love breakfast freshly-baked bread. Besides the panaderia pandesal, the buttery and sugar-sprinkled ensaymada is also considered a merienda staple. Must Be Mom’s, known for its fluffy ensaymada, offers a different version.If you haven’t tried a crunchy version of ensaymada, Must Be Mom’s takes ...

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 ...

It’s the ubiquitous Filipino sweet bread enjoyed all year round—as merienda after school or as a special treat during Christmas Noche Buena. It’s available everywhere, too, from the humble panaderia in a street corner to specialty bakeshops inside malls. It’s the ensaymada, ...

Some of our favorite Filipino breads include pandesal and ensaymada. What are some of your favorites?  ...

The ensaymada we enjoy today has a long-storied past, making a journey from an island in Spain towards Philippine shores. As time went by, it became more Filipino than its roots as our bakers adapted it to local tastes. Many homebakers have ...