This recipe was loosely inspired by a Nanaimo bar, which is a Canadian dessert featuring a chocolate-nuts-coconut water base, a custard layer, and a chocolate layer, all set into neat little chocolate bars. They are very rich, but they kind of remind me of like a Boston cream pie conceptually(at least in the sense of…
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Dreamy Hummingbird Cake
Hummingbird cake is something that I really fell in love with making in 2024, when I made this really tall one featuring a ginger cream cheese namelaka and a miso caramel. Generally speaking, a hummingbird cake consists of a lightly cinnamon-spiced banana cake that may or may not have pineapple, pecans, and coconut in it,…
Stuffed German Chocolate Cookies
So these cookies are like the German chocolate cake-flavored cousin to the cranberry bliss bar snowballs I made a while ago. I just fell in love with the idea of making a super soft cream cheese cookie dough, stuffing it with a gooey filling, and rolling the whole thing in coconut to the point where…
Dadar gulung mille crepe(pandan and coconut)
So a lot of Asians grew up on pandan, but truthfully, I never did. I always hear people saying that it’s the “vanilla of Asia”, which I might call blatant B.S. to, because I did not grow up on anything with pandan at all. And before the pandemic, I never even had anything with pandan…
Freddy's Harajuku 