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Dark and Creamy White Chocolate Cake is an easy no-bake chocolate cake recipe that you can try. Perfect for homemade birthday cake especially during the quarantine days. Recipe: Dark and Creamy White Chocolate Cake Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time:  1 hour Total serving:  6 to 8 servings Ingredients: For Cake: 1 cup flour 1/3 cup white sugar  1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/3 cup cocoa 1/2 tsp salt 1/3 cup hot water 1 tsp instant coffee 1/2 cup full cream milk 2 eggs 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 tbsp white vinegar 1 tsp vanilla essence Frosting:   2 (150 grams) dark chocolate  1 (75 grams) creamy white chocolate (toppings) Procedure: Sift all the dry ingredients. Combine 1 cup of flour with 1 cup white sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/3 cup cocoa, and 1/2 tsp salt. Mix all together. In a separate container, combine 1/3 cup of hot water with instant coffee and 1/2 cup of full cream milk and mix well. Beat 2 eggs and add...

Puto Leche Flan also called steamed rice muffins with pudding-like toppings called Leche flan. A Filipino traditional dessert that is very familiar to every household in the country and also in some other parts of the world. If you haven't tried this recipe yet, here's a simple recipe guide for you to make your own Puto Leche Flan. Recipe: Puto Leche Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 25-30 minutes Total serving: 5-6 servings Ingredients: 2 egg yolks 130 ml condensed milk 1tsp  lemon or kalamansi juice extract 1 cup flour 1 tbsp baking powder 1/3 cup white sugar 3/4 cup water 1/4 cup evaporated milk 1 tbsp butter 1 tsp vanilla 1 egg Procedure: In a mixing bowl combine 1 cup flour with baking powder, 1 tbsp baking powder, 1/3 cup white sugar. Mix well. Then add all the liquid ingredients such as water, evaporated milk, and melted butter. Mix thoroughly until do not over mixed. In a separate bowl beat 1 egg until smooth with stiffed peaks.  Add the egg mixture into the ...

For all pasta lovers, here is another no-bake and easy to make pasta recipe. It's not just another pasta recipe, it"s ala baked mac and cheese but without using a conventional oven to bake it. In this recipe, we will cook only using pots and pans. I hope you find this recipe guide helpful and enjoy that cheesy and meaty taste that will surely make you eat more.  Recipe: No Oven Baked Penne Pasta ala Baked Mac Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 40-45 minutes Total Servings: 6 servings   Ingredients: Pasta: Salt  Oil 200 grams penne pasta(see packaging cooking instructions) Red sauce: 1 Medium sized onions 3 cloves Garlic 1/8 kilo Grounded beef/pork 4 pieces Hotdogs( cut into cubes) Mashrooms​ (optional) 250 grams Spaghetti sauce 200 grams Tomato sauce 1/2 cup Water Pinch of Salt  1/2 tsp Ground black Pepper 1/8 cup Condensed milk 1/4 cup White sugar White Sauce: 2 tbsp  butter 1/ 4 cup Evaporated milk 1/2 pack All purpose cream 1/2 pack Cheese ( Eden Melte...

Maja Blanca is a traditional Filipino dessert which is cooked originally with " gata" or what we call coconut milk in English. Gata is extracted from coconut meat and the milk extracted is use for the Maja Blanca with gata. But in this recipe gata will not be use, instead all purpose cream  will be use as substitute ingredient.  This dessert recipe is very easy to make and yet can truly satisfy your sugar cravings. Recipe: Maja Blanca Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 40-45 minutes Total Servings: 12 slices Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup cornstarch 4 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup powdered milk 1/4 cup butter 200g sweet kernel corn 1/2 can (185ml) evaporated milk 1/2 pack (125ml)  all purpose cream  1 cup white sugar 1/4 cup condensed milk (optional) Toppings: 40grams Dessicated coconut 2 tbsp butter Procedure: 1. Dissolve 1 1/2 cup cornstarch in 2 cups of water. 2. In a medium size thick deep pan, add the remaining water together with powdered milk, butter and kernel corn....

Chunky delicious churros recipe   is a dessert that we all can cook in our home It’s a   very popular goodie that’s very easy to prepare  and cook with only simple ingredients that we all can see inside our kitchen. So what are you waiting for? Indulge and treat yourself with this chocolatey goodie from time to time. For sure kids or even adults will surely love it.   Below is a complete guide for this churros recipe. I hope you find this  recipe guide helpful if so, enjoy this chocolatey treat! Recipe: CHURROS Preparation time: 10minutes Cooking time: 5 minutes Total Serving : 1  Ingredients : 1 cup maida/flour 2 tbsp brown sugar ¼ tsp salt 3 eggs ½ cup butter 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 cup water Coating: 1/3 cup sugar 3 tbsp. cinnamon powder Chocolate Dip: Chopped chocolate  1 cup hot milk Procedure: Add 1 cup of water in a pan and bring to boil. Add 2 tbsp. brown sugar, ¼ tsp salt, and ½ cup butter.  Stir while boiling to dissolve all the powder. ...

Recipe: FUDGY BROWNIES Preparation time: 8-10minutes Cooking time: 35-45 minutes Ingredients : 200 grams bittersweet chocolate 1 stick of unsalted butter 1 1/2cup white or brown sugar ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa 3 medium eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract ¼ tsp coffee (optional) ½ cup+2tbsp cup all-purpose flour 1/4 tsp salt Mix-ins (chocolate chips/ roasted nuts) Procedure : Preheat oven to 350deg F or 180degC. Line a 8x8 aluminum pan molder with parchment paper. Melt chocolate in an improvised double boiler. In a separate large mixing bowl, pour melted butter. Whisk in sugar by hand until smooth. Add eggs, beat 1 egg at a time, add vanilla extract and whisk. Melt chocolate in an improvised double boiler. Whisk in melted chocolate until combined and smooth. Use a rubber spatula to stir in flour, cocoa powder, salt and coffee until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips or roasted nuts or whatever mix-ins you want to add. Mix it or make it as toppings. Pour the batter into prepared pan and smo...

Recipe: No Bake Glazed and Choco Butternut Donuts Preparation time: 1hour Cooking time: 1 hour Total output:   8 pcs choco glazed donuts 8 pcs choco butternut donuts Ingredients: 1 cup All purpose flour 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2  tsp salt 1/2 cup cocoa powder 2/3  cup sugar 1 tsp instant coffee 1/2 cup milk 1 medium size egg 1/2tsp vanilla essence 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 cup hot water Choco Glazed : 1 cup powdered sugar 1/4 cup cocoa 6 tbsp milk  Butternut powder coating : 1 cup all purpose flour 1/2 cup sugar 1 1/2 tbsp butter(melted) 1 tsp cocoa powder 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder 3 tbsp desicated coconut 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder 3 tbsp orange food color ( optional) Procedure: In a medium size bowl mix all dry ingredients. Mix 1 cup of all purpose flour with 1/4 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda,1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 cup cocoa, 2/3 cup sugar and 1 tsp coffee. Mix well. In a separate bowl, mix all liquid ingredients, 1/2 cup milk,  1 medium size...

Recipe:  Chocolate Cake Preparation time: 10minutes minutes Cooking time:1 hour and 10 minutes Ingredients: 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1/2  tbsp white vinegar 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 cup hot water 1 cup white sugar 1 cup all purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 cup cocoa powder 1/2 cup full cream milk 1/2  tsp salt 1/2 tsp coffee powder Combine white sugar with a cup hot water. Add  vegetable oil, and white vinegar. Mix them all together until sugar is dissolved. In separate bowl combine all purpose flour with baking soda, cocoa powder, powdered milk, salt  and instant coffee powder. Sift all the dry ingredients before mixing. Combine the liquid ingredients to the dry  ingredients. Mix thoroughly and add some vanilla essense. Grease the pan molder with oil or butter or use parchment paper and tap for several times to get rid of bubbles. Preheat the steamer with water. Cover the cake molder with aluminum foil. Place the cake molder inside the steamer and bring...

Leche Flan is very easy to prepare and cook. It has only 3 main ingredients milk, sugar and of course eggs. It's very sweet in taste and it melts in the mouth when you eat it. It resembles to  the Japanese version "egg pudding" but with different ingredients. Recipe: Leche Flan Preparation time:10-25 minutes Cooking time: 30-35 minutes Total output: 1 lanyera of leche  flan Ingredients: 10eggs 1 can condensed milk 1cup white sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 cup fresh milk or evaporated milk Procedure: Separate egg yolks from  the egg whites using your hands or any improvised equipment you can use to separate them. Beat the egg yolks using whisker untill it become smooth. Add the liquid ingredients, add 1 can of condensed milk and 1 cup of fresh milk or evaporated milk. Mix it thoroughly untill the color is smooth and uniform. Also add 1 tsp vanilla essence to add a sweet aroma to our leche flan. Procedure:  Prepare the caramel by adding 3 tbsp of sugar in the aluminum ...

Have you ever tried making your own favorite syrups at home? Here are some of home made syrups  which is worth making. Pretty and simple home made chocolate syrup, caramel syrup and even  home made condensed milk. It's so easy to prepare and with only simple ingredients needed. I hope this recipe blog can help you a lot and if it does please share and leave your feedbacks in the comment box  below. Enjoy adding these syrups to your sweets and goodies. Recipe: Chocolate Syrup Total cooking time: 8 minutes Ingredients: 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 6 tbsp cocoa Procedure: First add 1 cup water in a medium size sauce pan. Set the burner into medium to  high heat. Add 1 cup of sugar, mix thoroughly to dissolve all the sugar. Add 6 tbsp  full of unsweetened cocoa. Mix thoroughly untill it's desired consistency. Total  heating time 6-8 minutes. Recipe: Home made condensed milk Total cooking time: 8-10 minutes Total servings: 3-4 servings Ingredients: 2tbsp powdered ...

Just sharing these sauce recipes with you guys. I hope you like it when you try making  them in your own at home. Here are the procedures on how to make your own Jollibee style gravy, fish ball or kikiam sauce and your favorite siopao sauce. Enjoy these sauce recipes. Recipe: Jollibee Style Gravy Preparation  and cooking time: 10-13 minutes Ingredients: 1 small onion(minced) 1 clove garlic(minced) 360ml beef stock/ broth 150 ml whole milk / any milk 1/4 tsp ground black pepper  3 tbsp flour Pinch of salt Pinch of white ground pepper Procedure: Add 360ml of beef stock or beef broth in a sauce pan. In here I used 1 cube of knorr beef cubes dissolved in 360 ml of water.  Add 1/2 cup whole milk, minced onions and garlic, 1/4 tsp ground black pepper and pinch of ground white pepper. Bring to boil in a medium heat. When it's boiling add  3 tbsp of flour and 1 tsp soysauce. Stir and let it simmer while boiling. Stir continuously to dissolve the flour and impro...

Chicken Barbecue is commonly cook by roasting the chicken in  a grill with a direct fire or heat from burned charcoals. In this recipe the chicken will be cook using just a pan. The output and the taste will be the same as the grilled  version of this chicken barbecue recipe. Recipe: Chicken Barbecue in a Pan Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 36-40minutes Total servings: 6-8 servings Ingredients: 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper 1/2 tbsp salt 5 tbsp brown sugar 3 tbsp fish sauce 3 tbsp vinegar or lemon juice extract 40ml soysauce 100ml banana ketchup 1/2 medium size onion (minced) 4 pcs garlic (minced) 5 tbsp oil 1/2 kilo chicken (chopped) minced red chilli(optional) First add chicken on a medium size deep pan. Add 40ml of soysauce, 5 tbsp of sugar and 3 tbsp of fish sauce. Next add 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper, 1/2 tbsp of iodized salt, 4 cloves  garlic(minced) and 1/2 medium size onion(minced). Mixed it well, then set burner into low fire. Cook and cover  ...

Craving for  burger but you don't like eating meats? No need to worry, because you can still make patties out of vegetables. Banana blossoms is best known as the main ingredient for vegetable patties, but in this recipe we will be using carrots and squash as  the main ingredients for our patties. Why not try this vegetable patty recipe? Easy to prepare, budget friendly, and most of all it's totally  meatless. Best snack or meal for vegetarians. Ingredients consist of squash which are known to be riched in magnesium, vitamin B6, C, potassium, phosporous and vitamin A and carrots which is rich in potassium, biotin, vitamin K1, an antioxidant and with  beta carotene which are good for the eyesight. See below the ingredients you need and the instructions on how to make this vegetable patties. Ingredients  1 medium size onion(minced) 2 pieces garlic (minced) 1/4 small size squash(minced) 1 small size carrots(minced) 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper 1/2 tbsp salt 1/2 cup...

Chicken mechado is the perfect meal for children who loves the taste of ketchup in their food. This meal is also like chicken Tinola and chicken adobo that is served by Filipinos during lunch or dinner. This is usually cook with a twist like adding extra hotdogs and bell peppers to make that unique taste. This recipe is adopted during the Spanish era the reason why it was named as chicken "mechado". Mechado from the Spanish word "mecha"  which means wick or a beef stew in tomato sauce with pork strips.  Though it was named after that  Spanish word, the recipe is originally invented by Filipinos in the past. Below are the ingredients you need and the instructions on how to cook plain or basic chicken mechado  because we will not add hotdogs and bell peppers to it. Ingredients : 2tbsp vegetable oil 4 pieces chicken  1 medium size onion  2 pieces garlic  1 medium size carrots(cubes)  1 large size potatoes (cubes)  120ml papa banana ketchup ...

Chicken Tinola is also one of the most favorite Filipino meal of all time. People love this meal because of it's chicken broth that is gingery in taste. This meal can be cook using different vegetables as ingredients. Vegetables that can be use for this recipe are malungay, pechay,papaya, sayote and chilli leaves. It is best to combine malunggay leaves and papaya, malunggay and sayote, sayote and  chilli leaves, papaya and  chilli leaves or even pechay alone. The taste depends on what vegetables you add to it, but what important is the original Tinola taste of the broth. See below the ingredients you will need and the instructions on how to make this chicken tinola. Ingredients: 1/2 medium size onion 2 pcs garlic 3 grams ginger 4 pieces chicken 840ml water 1knorr chicken cubes 2 tbsp fish sauce chilli leaves salt to taste Preparation time: 5 mins Cooking time: 30-35 minutes Total serving: 4 servings Cooking instructions: Saute garlic, ginger then onion. Add chicken and cook ...

Recipe: Paksiw na Tilapia with Fried Tilapia Total cooking time: 20 minutes Total serving: 2-4 servings Tilapia is the famous fish use for Filipino meals. It's is best for "paksiw"  and bangus is best for "sinigang". Many people are confused with how they are cooked. The difference in how to cook paksiw and sinigang is that paksiw is cook in a slower process, it is  cook in low to medium fire without much water added to it, while sinigang is cook with more water and without oil added to it. And traditionally it is cook using clay pots with banana leaves and using bagoong as the fish sauce. Ingredients: Paksiw: 2 tbsp oil 3 tbsp fish sauce 3 tbsp vinegar 1/2 medium-size onion 2 cloves garlic 3grams ginger 2 pcs medium tomatoes 2 pieces of small size fish 6 pcs green peppers  Kangkong stalks 1/4 tsp ground black pepper 1/8 tsp salt  1/2 tbsp  sampaloc mix with gabi Procedure: Add 2 tbsp oil into a deep pan.  Add 3 tbsp vinegar,  add 3 tbsp fi...

Filipino spaghetti style is known to be sweeter and cheesier. Unlike italian spaghetti which is a bit sour in taste because mostly the main ingredient for the sauce are tomatoes. Filipinos especially the kids, like that sweet version of spaghetti like the one you see from Jollibee which happens to be the most famous fast food in the country. If you've not tried eating at Jollibee before, I'll tell you it's just around the corner. You can see Jollibee around the streets here in the Philippines. Filipino Sweet Style Spaghetti- Plain spaghetti(no ground pork, beef,chicken, mashrooms,hotdogs). This is how to cook plain spaghetti. For the low income families who received spaghetti pack as their relief goods these quarantine days.This is how to cook it simply.Enjoy! Ingredients: For the sauce: 2tbsp oil 1 small size onion(minced) 6 pieces  garlic (minced) 1 can of corned beef or corned chicken 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper Salt to taste  500 grams sphagetti sauce For past...

     Chicken Adobo is the most famous Filipino meal known by other people around the world. It's one of the traditional foods Filipino people serve during get together parties, and the most favorite food of every Filipino especially if they want to eat more rice. It is also a typical meal that Filipino people cook for their lunch and dinner. This is also good as "baon" or the most known food to be kept in a lunch  box to bring during Christmas parties or and even when you go hiking because adobo can last for how many days and still taste the  same.This kind of meal can be cook salty by adding more soysauce and salt, it is usually hot and salty in taste. If you like to add a little sweetness to it,  you can add pineapples chunks or bits which makes this meal liked by more kids. Ingredients: 6 pcs of boiled chickens 2 medium size potatoes 1 pack of pineapple tidbits 1/3 tbsp ground black pepper 50 ml soysauce 360ml water Pinch of salt Preparation time: 10minu...

  Chicken arroz caldo also called "kaning lugaw" in Tagalog or "rice porridge" in English.  It is a budget friendly meal where it is one of the basic meals served during the feeding programs for the poor and homeless people. It is also serve in evacuation centers at times of calamities and a perfect meal to serve for sick people. This is also serve when the  weather is cold especially during Ber months, this is good for people living in places with winter season. This recipe is also slightly the same as gotto but the difference is it's added with more rice and chicken and also it's not yellow in color. All  people can cook it because it's very  easy. When cooking rice  porridge glutinous  rice  is always best to use as the main ingredient  but in this recipe  we will use cooked cold rice or "kaning lamig" in tagalog, this is to minimize leftovers and avoid wasting our foods. Ingredients: 2 cloves of garlic 1 medium size onion 3 grams gin...

   Escabeche is  an  adopted meal  from the Spanish culture because  Philippines was influenced by the Spaniards for 333 years long before the Philippines became independent from the Spanish colony. Escabeche is  a meal that is common in Spain and Portugal,  it   is a meal where fish is marinaded using vinegar and spices and is being fried. Escabeche in the Philippines is a type of meal that you can cook simply by combining fish with tomatoes and extra sauce with carrots or even bell peppers.  It's budget friendly and  also good for people who don't have much appetite to eat. Perfect  light meal for lunch or even for dinner. It is best to combine with rice.See below the ingredients you need and the cooking instructions on how to make this plain escabeche recipe. Ingredients: 4 pieces galunggong fish 50 ml soysauce(for marinade process) 1/2tbsp salt(for marinade process) Cornstarch as breading 2 pieces kalamansi to be ex...