American Cheesecake meets the Filipino Bibingka

Eat of the Week: A hybrid 'New York' dessert that marries Filipino and American cakes

by ClickTheCity
In this Filipino restaurant, the classic American cheesecake meets the Filipino bibingka, the dessert quickly becoming the must-order by customers to end their meal.

At Alab Restaurant, they showcase timeless classics, regional favorites, and modern elevated versions of Filipino food, and dessert lovers will enjoy their playful takes on panghimagas -- their selection of sweet endings alone have made customers return for more.

Filipino restaurants in Manila with fun Turon desserts

Top Banana: 9 Filipino restaurants in Manila with fun Turon desserts

by The Click List

Turon, your every day crispy and warm banana merienda, is amped up in flavors and presentation by some of our metro's Filipino restaurants. This typical mid-afternoon snack served in street carts, school canteens, carinderias--or lovingly prepared at home by your favorite lola for you to munch on when you get home from school--consists of sliced saba bananas wrapped like a lumpia (spring roll), coated in sugar, then deep fried until golden crisp. Oftentimes, slices of langka (jackfruit) finds themselves stuffed in these dessert spring rolls, and it has become common (and a favorite for summertime) to pair them with ice cream. Other popular local preparations of banana for snacking on are skewered banana cue (caramelized and deep fried), maruya (battered and deep fried), saba con hielo (served with crushed ice and milk), and of course--sliced and sweetend to be part of the many colorful ingredients in our beloved halo-halo.

6 Places to Get Your Frozen Treats this Summer

Cool Kids on the Block: 6 Places to Get Your Frozen Treats this Summer

by The Click List
Seriously good ice cream, handcrafted gelato, thirty layer pops, an award winning entry for Gelato World Tour 2015 -- we list six different and cool ways to soothe the summer heat in Manila, one delicious spoonful and lick at a time.

14 Places in Manila to Get Your Red Velvet Desserts

 Color it Red: 14 Places in Manila to Get Your Red Velvet Desserts

by The Click List
Dressed in that eye-catching ravishing red and finished off with a layer of cream cheese is what makes the Red Velvet Cake a sweet number, a flavor that's a perennial best-seller in the desserts category.

Nutella-Flavored Desserts Every Chocoholic Must Try

13 Nutella-Flavored Desserts Every Chocoholic Must Try

by The Click List

Happy World Nutella Day, fellow dessertarians and chocoholics! Today, we toss out our calorie counters and celebrate our collective love for this decadent hazelnut spread.

The earliest form of the Nutella spread was created in the 1940s by Mr. Pietro Ferrero, pastry maker and founder of the Ferrero company. During World War II, chocolate was scarce due to the low supply of cocoa. So in order to extend the supply of chocolate in the Piedmont region of Italy, Mr. Ferrero used hazelnuts, which was abundant in their region, and mixed it with sugar, palm oil, skim milk and a hint of cocoa to create the first version of what would become one of the world's most popular spreads. It was initially called pasta gianduja and was made in loaves, but Ferrero later on altered it into a paste and changed its name to supercrema gianduja which in 1964 was renamed Nutella.

 

Macaron Madness: 12 Places to Get These French Confections in Manila

by The Click List

First thing's first: Macaron and Macaroon are two different, delightful things to nibble on. While both are round, bite-sized sweets, they pertain to two different kinds of food, and are pronounced as spelled (macaron like 'macaroni' minus the i, and macaroon with its last syllable rhyming with 'noon'). Macaroons are coconut-based cookies that may or may not have almonds, and locally, you have probably enjoyed eating this by way of Goldilocks Bakeshop's chewy Butter Macaroons with desiccated coconut.

The Most Drool-Worthy Desserts in Manila

 

14 Mouthwatering Desserts in Manila

by The Click List

After giving you a list of the most sinful desserts in the metro, today we invite you, our fellow dessertarians to celebrate National Dessert Day with us by counting down the most drool-worthy desserts in Manila!

From truffle-stuffed buchi to a soup made entirely of chocolate, these 14 dessert creations definitely made our meals end on a glorious sugar high. So forget about counting calories today and give in to your sweet tooth!

11 Restaurants with Drool-Worthy Desserts Topped with Ice Cream

A la Mode Overload: 11 Restaurants with Drool-Worthy Desserts Topped with Ice Cream

by The Click List

For the sweet-toothed, a meal is not complete without ending it with dessert, and some of them are just extra delicious (and sinful!) when topped with a scoop of ice cream. There's something about ice cream that often brings out the kid in us; and having a cake, a cookie, a pastry, or anything sweet served à la mode presents an indulgent dessert for the sugar-craving palate. The French term 'a la mode' was originally used to describe something in style or in fashion, but it's now commonplace to find it printed on a restaurant's dessert menu as an item served with ice cream (usually it's a scoop of vanilla ice cream, but any flavor will do--we're not picky).

Where to Get Your Cheesecake Fix in Manila

There's a Cheescake for Everybody: Where to Get Your Cheesecake Fix in Manila

by The Click List

A velvety soft and creamy pale body held together by a crumbly dark crust, topped with an assortment of many delicious things like colorful fruits, crunchy nuts, sweet syrups--is what your Cheesecake is all about. This dessert has many interpretations: from baked to no-bake, loaded with crazy toppings or simply a clean and classic slice, using various kinds of crushed cookies or biscuits as base, and its main layer--the thick and soft body of cheese, sugar, and eggs--can even come in many different colors if laced with other ingredients that your homebaker and pastry chef may fancy (coffee, chocolate, matcha, berries, etc.).

Metros' Best Home Bakers - A Dessertarian's Guide

A Dessertarian's Guide to the Metro's Best Home Bakers

by The Click List

“'Tis the season to be chubby! Omnomnomnomnom Nomnomnomnom!”

Take your dessertarian friends on a journey to pastry heaven with a box of some incredibly good sweets this Christmas!

Here's a round up of some of Manila's most creative home bakers. Got a sweet discovery you want to share with us? Hit the comments section and tell us about your favorite home bakers!

Metro Manila's Unique Ice Cream Flavors

 Blue cheese ice cream topped with Palawan honey and walnuts

Lick Me!: Cool and Creative Ice Cream Flavors Around Metro Manila

by The Click List

Ice Cream is that frozen treat that often brings out the kid in us. From supermarket staples to gourmet and made-to-order, it's both easy and accessible to satiate one's ice cream cravings nowadays. For the sweet toothed folk who are seeking for more than the typical vanilla and chocolate flavors, the metro is now bursting with tastier and unique options--ice cream artisans are now stepping up in churning creative and one of a kind flavors to give your tastebuds something new to experience.

Find out where you can lick on some of the metro's unique ice cream flavors in this list!

Caffe Bene - A Taste of Korean Taste

 

Korean Dessert Culture at its Finest: Caffe Bene

by Cityzen | M.C. Jose

I first stumbled upon Caffe Bene during a night out while searching for a good place to have dessert. We had the strangest experience entering it from the second floor because we weren’t really sure about where we were. Most coffee shops don’t have such high ceilings or such huge floor spaces. But we headed down, anyway, and purchased two scoops of gelato: Cream Cheese and Green Tea. And that’s what started it all.

NIC's Gourmet Desserts

NIC’s Gourmet Desserts: Just a Little Sweeter

by Cityzen | M.C. Jose

 Once upon a time, NIC’s Gourmet Desserts was a commissary company that offered food and dessert items to coffee shops and restaurants. Owner Rina Go tailored the business to make use of quality-oriented, homemade family recipes in order to cater to clients who are always seeking something special. As a result, customers began to request for her to put up a store where they could easily purchase and pick up their orders. In 2011, their little San Juan shop—named after Go’s daughter, Nic—was born.