• Autumn baking,  Baking Recipes,  Quickbreads & Loaves,  The Breakfast Bin

    Biscoff and autumn are a nifty combination

    I’ve sung this song a million times before, but it’s simply inevitable that I feel this way around this time of the year. I can’t help it! I can’t quite hold back the green-eyed monster when all the beautiful orange-hued photos with scarf-wearing people in them begin popping up everywhere. I can’t help wishing that I live in a place where I can take Instagram photos of my boots nestled beneath a mountain of crunchy orange leaves; a place where the breeze is crisp and cool all-day long once the -ber months hit. Well I could spend all my energies wishing for autumn to magically fall upon this country, but unless…

  • Foodie Life,  Frozen treats,  I scream for ice cream (I do),  My favourite things

    Inspired by Nestle Temptations Dutch Speculoos Ice Cream

    The other day, some folks from Nestle sent me their new Nestle Temptations Flavours of the World Dutch Speculoos ice cream. A mouthful, I know, but the only three words you really have to remember are ‘Nestle’ and ‘Dutch Speculoos’. And yes, it is as good as it sounds. And because I am always looking to recreate things I like eating, the Nestle Dutch Speculoos ice cream inspired me to attempt some Speculoos-flavoured ice cream right here at home! I know normal people would just run out to the store right now to buy pints of the Nestle Dutch Speculoos just like my cousin did when I shared a sneak…

  • Baking Recipes,  Brownies & Bars

    Cookie Butter madness, part 2

    Well, two of my younger brothers have officially converted into cookie butter lovers! And while I remain to be a solid peanut butter girl, I can’t deny I’ve rather enjoyed baking with cookie butter. It just has the most amazing smell once it is added to the batter, and I would keep making speculoos treats if only to get a whiff of that mouth-watering scent. Ironically I had given up on getting my hands on any Speculoos spread because of how popular they are right now, making them always sold out wherever I look. My passing curiosity wasn’t enough to fuel any sort of persistence on my part to keep…

  • Baking Recipes,  My favourite things,  Quickbreads & Loaves,  Reinventions of classics,  The Breakfast Bin

    My first Cookie Butter encounter

    I realize although I am technically a food blogger, I don’t tend to stay on top of the food trend. Sure I hear about some of them inevitably, but it isn’t my attitude to bandwagon. Of course unless it’s something I genuinely like. My ramen phase is understandable because I have a fierce love for Asian noodle soups and could probably live off them. But I was maybe a few months late in joining the rest of the Manila foodies in experiencing the ramen craze. You haven’t seen me raving or ranting about croughnuts even though the rest of Manila seems to be going crazy over it mostly because I’m…