7 Places to Order Your Flavored Ensaymada in Manila
A Filipino classic fluffy and buttery pastry is reinvented by our local bakeshops and homebakers with flavors to please the modern appetite always wanting to try something a little bit different.
Ensaymada (or ensaimada), a Christmas
staple for Filipino households, was introduced to our palate during
Spanish colonization, just like many of our favorite delicacies and
dishes. This sweet brioche, with its trademark swirly bun and golden
body, is commonly flecked with grated cheese and sugar, a combination of
salty sweet in every soft bite of the pastry. Another popular way to
consume ensaymada, aside from serving it freshly baked and paired with a
hot drink like coffee or tsokolate, is to toast it and flatten it a
bit, the bread warm and slightly burnt on the edges, with butter, sugar,
and cheese melding and melting
