List of Philippine desserts

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.^[1]

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
Food for the gods
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,^{[citation needed]} it is uniquely made from coconut milk, unlike other iced desserts that are made from animal milk.
Suman
Taho
Turón
Ube ice cream

References

^ Alejandro, Reynaldo (1985). The Filippino cookbook. New York, New York: Penguin. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-0-399-51144-8. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
Civitello, Linda (2011). Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People. John Wiley and Sons. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-118-09875-2. Retrieved June 30, 2011. Just as Filipino people are part Malay, Chinese and Spanish, so is the cuisine of their seven-thousand-island nation
Philippines Country Study Guide. Int'l Business Publications. 2007. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-4330-3970-6. Retrieved June 30, 2011. Throughout the centuries, the islands have incorporated the cuisine of the early Malay settlers, Arab and Chinese traders, and Spanish and American colonizers along with other Oriental and Occidental accent and flavors.
"Philippine Cuisine." Archived June 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Balitapinoy.net Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed July 2011.
Morgolis, Jason (February 6, 2014). "Why is it so hard to find a good Filipino restaurant?". Public Radio International. Retrieved December 17, 2014. Philippine food has Chinese, Malaysian, Spanish and American influences — all cultures that have shaped the Philippines.