Champorado [Chocolate Rice Porridge]

Champorado is a traditional rice porridge/pudding that is usually eaten during the cold season here in the Philippines. It is usually topped with either sweetened condensed milk or evaporated milk and eaten with salted dried fish. It's been raining a lot recently, so this will be a perfect dish to eat while staying cozy at home.

Pineapple Soda

Pineapple Soda is, most basically, a pineapple-flavored soda/carbonated drink. I discovered the world of fruit flavored soda, or any soda that isn't mainstream to be exact, when one fast food chain here in the Philippines offered Watermelon Soda. It was delicious and at that exact moment I envisioned myself making other flavors of soda, my own custom flavors, where I can control whatever ingredients are used to make it.

Leche Flan [Filipino Creme Caramel]

 

Leche Flan, a type of creme caramel, literally means "milk flan". It is very famous here in the Philippines, specially on special occasions such as fiestas and birthdays. It is a very creamy flan with a rich caramel topping.

Cassava Cake

A cassava cake is a type of cake here made from cassava roots, which is also called yuca or manioc. It cannot be actually classified as cake, as its consistency is far from than spongy consistency cakes have. I would classify it as more of a pudding, or at least of a pudding consistency. It is usually topped with a condensed milk and coconut milk mixture which is cooked and then baked on top of the cake/pudding until it browns.

Dark Chocolate Walnut Cupcakes

Dark chocolate cupcakes with dark chocolate ganache, topped with a roasted walnut and glazed with salted caramel sauce, what's not to like? Dark chocolate and walnuts were top two in last month's poll, in which the theme was "Nuts and Chocolate". These look like the "chocolate" cupcakes, but this time they are real chocolate cupcakes.