Category: coconut

• bibingka

  

  “Just eat it, otherwise they’ll feel bad.” That’s what a nun told me when I was offered some bibingka. I was about 8 years old. And that phrase stuck with me all these years whenever I see or think of bibingka. Even though I no longer have an aversion to it. I was an altar […]

  Dave G

  December 5, 2021

  baked goods, baking, buns, christmas, coconut, dessert, filipino food, food blogging, gluten-free, island food, quick bread, snack, sweets

  bibingka, bibingka espesyal, bibingkang, bibingkang galapong, coconut rice cakes, filipino rice cake, sweet and salty

• lime coconut cassava snack cake

  

  This is an uncomplicated cake with subtle flavoring. If you want, you can make decorative swirls of lime zest or even a thin lime slice or wedge to top each square of cake. If you want more lime flavor, you can add more lime zest to the cake batter and just use more lime juice […]

  Dave G

  June 28, 2020

  baked goods, baking, cakes, coconut, dairy free, dairy-free, dessert, food blogging, gluten-free, snack, snack cakes, teacake

  cassava cake, grated cassava, lime coconut cassava cake, lime coconut icing, macapuno, macapuno coconut, snack cake, snack cakes, yucca

• black sesame cookies

  

  Happy Autumn! I was hoping to be making something a little more autumnal, like something with apples, pears, and/or pumpkin spice, but I sort of ran out of steam, and out of fresh ideas. Plus I made a drier more crumbly version of these last week, which I didn’t like, so I felt I needed […]

  Dave G

  October 14, 2017

  baked goods, baking, biscuits, coconut, cookies, dairy-free, egg-free, Uncategorized, vegan, vegetarian, whole wheat

  black sesame cookies, black sesame seeds, chopped dates, tahini

• tamarind coconut streusel cake loaf

  

  Have you ever worked on something so much that you got weary of working on it, but you didn’t want to take a break, because you wanted to get it done and be done with it? That’s me today with this cake streusel thing for this here blog post. I spent the good part of […]

  Dave G

  September 9, 2017

  baked goods, baking, cakes, coconut, coffee cake, dairy-free, dessert, food blogging, quick bread, snack, tamarind, teacake

  cake loaf, coconut, coffee cake, streusel, streusel cake, tamarind cake, tamarind coconut cake loaf, tamarind coconut streusel cake loaf

• almond joy scones

  

  Remember this little ditty? This commercial jingle for Almond Joy and Mounds candy bars from the 70s and 80s? If you were what was called a latchkey kid, meaning you had to spend long hours home alone after school because your parent(s) worked, you were sure to have had this jingle etched into your brain, if not […]

  Dave G

  July 1, 2017

  almond flour, almond meal, almonds, baked goods, baking, biscuits, coconut, dairy-free, egg-free, food blogging, quick bread, snack, vegan, whole wheat

  almond joy scones, almonds, chocolate, coconut, dairy-free, egg-free, scones