Sweet Indulgence: Baked Leche Flan

If you ask any Filipino- what is your favorite native dessert? The answers might be halo-halo, maja blanca, ube... and definitely, leche flan will be part, if not on top, of the list.

I love leche flan. In fact, if I remember correctly, making leche flan was my very first attempt in cooking. I was still in high school then. I didn't have money to buy the ingredients, so I had to make do with what was in the house. Instead of evaporated milk, I used Nido Full Cream Milk. Instead of condensed milk, I used Nido Full Cream Milk with lots and lots and lots of white sugar.

I then steamed the concoction... it did form into a flan, but the taste was very far from the other yummy leche flans I'd tasted. At the end, whenever I wanted to make Nido leche flan, I would put in scoops of Ricoa cocoa powder... only then did my family say that it's good. But still, it was not the original leche flan I wanted to make.

After those several episodes, I didn't attempt to make leche flan for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was traumatized? :P Or maybe I just thought it was time to move on to other desserts.

But once in a while, I still get a craving for leche flan. And it's really expensive to buy leche flan in restaurants! A very small leche flan in Max's Restaurant (the least expensive one among those included in the Top 10 leche flan list) would cost around P50.

So I decided to give leche flan another try. But this time, I wanted it to place it in ramekins to make it more classy. So I googled if I can make leche flan via baking. And as it turned out, yes, I can! :)

Rice Crispies Treats

Kellogg's Rice Crispies Treats (Crispy Marshmallow Squares) with my name on it... literally! :)

I haven't eaten it as I'm saving it for a rainy day. Well, today is a rainy day! So should I eat it today? :) Let's see... :)

The packaging is just so cute! Written on the bottom part is "A wrapper you can write on!". So it's really designed to be written on and shared to others.

I'm just not sure if it's available here in the Philippines though as a friend of mine gave it to me from the US.

Have a safe rainy day, everyone!

Fried Oreos... Double The "Goodness" :)

Fried Oreos

Just two easy steps:
- dip Oreos (any flavor would do!) in pancake batter (vanilla flavor is better)
- deep fry

It's a quick and tasty dessert / snack!

Contributes to easy weight gain also! LOL! :)

No-Bake Dessert: Banoffee Pie

My First Banoffee Pie:

The Banoffee Pie is one of my fave desserts from Starbucks, but I never thought that it's so easy to make on my own... and so affordable, too! :)

A big thanks to my colleague, Katrin Erica, for teaching me how to do this! :)

Don't mind the presentation, though. I usually don't decorate the food I make as I'm just too excited to eat them. :P Hehe... just kidding! Food presentation is really something I need to learn more about. :)

The taste? Yummy! I can say that it almost tastes the same as Starbuck's. :)

How to make your own Banoffee Pie?