List of Philippine desserts facts for kids
This is a list of Filipino desserts. Filipino cuisine consists of the food, preparation methods and eating customs found in the Philippines. The style of cooking and the food associated with it have evolved over many centuries from its Austronesian origins to a mixed cuisine of Malay, Spanish, Chinese, and American influences adapted to indigenous ingredients and the local palate.
Philippine desserts
- Alfajor - Dulce de Leche sandwich cookie
- Apas - Sugar crusted biscuits
- Bakpia - Bean paste filled moon cake
- Bananacue - Carmelised, fried plantain skewers
- Baye baye - Rolled pudding of coconut and rice or corn flour
- Belekoy - chewy candy strips dotted with sesame
- Bibingka - Christmas time coconut-rice cake
- Biko - Fudge like rice cake flavoured with caramel, ginger and coconut milk
- Bilo-bilo
- Binatog - A street food of boiled corn topped with grated coconut, sugar and butter
- Biskotso - Twice-baked bread slices coated with butter, sugar and sometimes garlic.
- Brazo de Mercedes - a rolled meringue cake filled with a custard
- Bukayo - coconut noodles cooked in caramel
- Buko pie – a traditional baked young-coconut (malauhog) custard pie
- Camote cue - Deep fried and caramelised skewers of camote (sweet potato) slices
- Cascaron
- Caycay
- Crema de fruta
- Cassava cake
- Donat Bai
- Dodol
- Espasol
- Ginanggang
- Ginataan
- Guinomis
- Gulaman
- Halo-halo
- Inipit
- Kalamay
- Kutsinta
- Latik
- Leche flan
- Maíz con hielo
- Maja blanca
- Mango float
- Maruya
- Nata de coco
- Otap
- Palitaw
- Pastillas
- Piaya
- Pitsi-pitsî
- Polvorón
- Roscas
- Sans rival
- Sapin-sapin
- Silvana
- Sorbetes – the traditional variation of ice cream made in the Philippines, it is uniquely made from coconut milk, unlike other iced desserts that are made from animal milk.
- Suman
- Taho
- Turón
- Ube ice cream
See also
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