In baking a pandan tres leche cake, she imagines a version of events in which Spanish colonization was not the only connector between Mexico and the Philippines, with the light sponge cake soaked ...

lavender chiffon and decadent frosting of ube-macapuno sponge cake marry the earthy quality of the root vegetable with the creamy texture of young coconut's gelatinous flesh; Ube halaya ...