Kusina Maria

a Filipina’s food and cooking blog

Category : Desserts

A la Mode

Ala Mode

Kangaroo Choco Bread Pudding A La Mode

In French, “a la mode” means in current style or fashion. But when it comes to food, “a la mode” or “ala mode” means to serve with ice cream on the top or on the side.

This is a popular way of making yummy desserts and pastries even more yummy and interesting. Pies, brownies, and even cakes are warmed and served with chilled ice cream, usually vanilla.

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My Fresh Vanilla Beans Have Arrived

The Vanilla Company

Yesterday, I received a package that I have been waiting for a long time to arrive. It contains vanilla beans from The Vanilla Company in Tagaytay.

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Bake Me A Cake Contest Winner

Kusina Maria and Davao Foodie is proud to announce that the winner of our Bake Me A Cake Contest is Brendel Balaga and she wants me to bake her a Ssaeng Cream Cake.

The Cake of Brendel's Dreams

The Cake of Brendel's Dreams


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Baking Brownies and Butter Cake

For our second baking session with Doc Joanna (first session here), we decided to bake some brownies and some butter cake.

I have baked both before so it was a painless session.

Brownies

We chose this recipe and technique in making brownies since my cousin wanted fudgy, moist brownies. I think brownies are as good as the chocolate they’re made with. In this case we used imported cocoa powder from I forgot where. :P

Butter plus Chocolate


We made the brownies by melting butter and adding some cocoa powder.

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