The province of Negros Occidental is the Sugar Bowl of the Philippines, and while growing up here, I had the best desserts -- from the home-made Brazo de Mercedes, chocolate cakes with custard fillings and Sans Rival, to the native moasi, suman latik, bayi-bayi, otso-otso, kalamay-hati and my all time favorite, mazapan de leche! (I think those delicacies deserve a separate blog!).
And every time I come home, I always visit my favorite cake shops and bring a whole cake home! (And sometimes two! Ha-ha-ha!)
And this Christmas, the loyal customers (like me) of the most popular cake shops in Bacolod like Calea, Bob's, and Ann Co Pastries swarm the shops or pre-order (like I did!) their favorite cakes to bring home for noche buena desserts. I pre-ordered my Ann Co Sans Rival while I was still in Seoul as they always run out of this buttered wafer delight. And luckily, when I swung by Calea a few days before Christmas, there was one last chocolate cake available; they stopped accepting orders by mid-December. The law of supply and demand also applies to cakes! Ha-ha-ha!
I am very happy I was able to enjoy these delightful pastries. I guess I have been a good boy this year to deserve my cakes...from Bacolod!
Burp!
the pictures of the cake made my mouth water....our cakes are definitely worth it...compared to the lame cakes that we buy in korea...kkkkk
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