♥ Day

I got this recipe off The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook. Magnolia Bakery is one of the popular cupcakery stores in NYC, it boast delicious old fashioned desserts. It only got more popular when Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City) was sceen holding/eating a cupcake. I barely remember that seen but years back I've read alot of good things about Magnolia Bakery itself and since I live so far away. The next best thing is try out their book, hopefully it would taste the same as what they sell onsite.

Malted Chocolate Cookies

I ♥ malted milk! When I was a kid discovering that malted milk powder added to ice cream and Milo was and still is one of my favorite dessert. Malt powder in itself doesn't taste much however added to cookies, brownies or drinks, it just adds that something that makes it more special. Its unfortunate that I can hardly find malted milk powder in the grocery when I do find some I hoard them like a crazed person! lol!

Piere Herme Lemon Loaf

I spend most of my free time during the week wondering around the 3 connected malls in Makati. From time to time, I use it by doing some window shopping most often though I have to drop by the bookstore, kitchen store and the supermarket. I'm always on a look out for new ingredients and recipes that I want to try out whenever I get home. As of the moment I'm obsess with lemons, yes they are simple ingredient nothing fancy but we don't use it often in cooking unlike cooks from other country. What Filipinos usually use is a kalamansi. It's a citrus fruit with a sweet sour taste to it, much smaller than ping pong ball, that's how small it is. Imagine how many kalamasi I have to juice just to make a 1/4 cup of it. Hence, I buy lemons when I'm craving something citrus.