Ube Biko

Description:
We brought home some ube or purple yam from our recent trip to Tagaytay, and after an afternoon of ginataan, I wanted to make an ube-based kakanin. This recipe is from pinoyrecipe.net. I found the ube biko to be sweet enough on its own so we didn't put any toppings, but I think macapuno would be great with this.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups ube, boiled and mashed (I used the water from boiling the ube in cooking the malagkit rice.)
3/4 cup condensed milk
1/2 cup fresh milk
1/4 kilo malagkit rice, cooked
Crushed panutsa and grated cheese for topping

(You may opt to put a teaspoon of ube flavoring to make the ube flavor more pronounced.)



Directions:
Combine ube, condensed milk, and fresh milk in a thick saucepan.
Cook, stirring constantly until slightly thick.
Add in malagkit and cook until thick.
Spread onto a banana leaf-lined bilao or tray.
Cut into squares when cool.

Kakanin Craze

I just found out that Trixie loves kakanin when we got a box of Dolor's Kakanin over the holidays. She just loves it. So when we go to my store, I usually buy her a piece. Yesterday, I decided to give making homemade kakanin a shot and we loved it. Here's my version of Bibingkang Malagkit (aka Rice Cake), recipe from Annie Pascual Guerrero's Cooking with Coconut Cookbook. One good thing about making your own desserts is that you have control over the amount of sugar you put in, so I tweaked her recipe a bit and even added langka in the topping to make it more flavorful :) More kakanin recipes coming because I'm hooked!