Ensogo Deal: Deep Dark Chocolate Cake from Chocolat

Featured in Spot.ph's Top 10 Chocolate Cakes in Manila, Chocolat has surely won thousands of chocolate and cake lovers out there. So when Ensogo offered a 50% off deal on Chocolat's chocolate cake, it was surely tempting for my sweet tooth prompting me to immediately click the buy button. Bought the deal last year and it was just this week where I got to finally redeem Chocolat's 6 inch Round Classic Deep Dark Chocolate Cake.

To tell you honestly, their ad picture was enough to make me click that "buy" button which I planned to redeem at their SM Mall of Asia branch. Php305 value which I purchased for only Php150. The cake needs to be reserved 3 days prior to redemption. I have tried their red velvet cupcake before so I have high hopes for their signature chocolate cake.

As expected, Chocolat delivered to the voucher's promise. It was moist chocolate cake thickly draped with satiny fudge frosting. Simplicity has its classic way of proving that less is more.  

moist slice of their classic dark chocolate cake 

(photo from their Facebook page)

Thanks Ensogo and Chocolat for bringing us this tempting treat.

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Recipe: Dates Cake with Walnuts

I've written about dates before, the kind of fruit abundant in Middle Eastern countries. Dad, being an OFW in Qatar would usually bring home boxes of dates for personal consumption. However, we never really get to appreciate its taste. Dates looks quite similar to prunes and even smell like one - but they're too dry, unlike prunes (which I really like) and not really that tasty.

TESDA: Homemade Chocolate Cake

Homemade Chocolate Cake

After our Elba gas range purchase last year, it took us months before we could actually use the oven part with mom baking her first homemade banana cake. Now, we're trying to experiment with yet another favorite cake - chocolate cake, what else!

We enrolled Jing, our ever skillful househelper, to one of TESDA's course - Pastry Baking. I'll be sharing more recipes we are currently trying from our simple kitchen. So stay tune for more TESDA recipes. She even baked one for my birthday and I'm so loving it - especially the frosting. I use the extra chocolate frosting and place it inside the ref and scoop up once in a while when the chocolate craving sets in. It's so easy and so cheap!   

Red Ribbon Mango Cake

Right after a sumptuous lunch at Shakey's and a fun afternoon of watching the movie Praybeyt Benjamin, we went home to prepare a simple dinner celebration. Making a Nut Pesto was my first choice for a pasta dish since we find it the most affordable, the easiest and fastest pasta dish to prepare but then when you have all the big boys who just never grew tired of eating a Filipino style spaghetti, you simply give in to the demand. In exchange, I asked one of them to bring home a Red Ribbon Cake for Mom, surprise us with something we've never tried as we always buy our all time favorite Coffee Crunch Cake for just every birthday celebration.

Making Korea's Egg Cake

After attending the recent Manila Food and Beverage Expo, I want to share this one cool food discovery from the said event - Korea's Egg Cake.

This is one of the booths that caught my curiosity as I saw groups of people watching this Korean man. What could he be cooking? After watching him for a minute and having read what was posted below, I realized he was making an Egg Cake. I find the process quite amazing, reminding me of mooncakes. Simple, really, but since it's something beyond the usual cooking method that most of us do back home and in fact something I haven't seen even on TV before, this Egg Cake is pretty much surprising!

Red Ribbon's Newest Offering - Mocha Choco Crumble

Last Valentine's Day I bought home a box of Red Ribbon's newest cake offering, the Mocha Choco Crumble. Every one of us wanted to try how this cake tastes like, it looks mouthwatering. "Heavenly mocha chiffon layers bursting with rich mocha cream, layered and topped with crunchy chocolate crumble." Both the tv and print ad are just irresistible, perfect indulgence for the sweetest day of the year...or so I thought...

Coffee Crunch Cake - My Favorite Red Ribbon Birthday Cake!

This Coffee Crunch Cake from Red Ribbon is one of our family's all time favorite cake flavors. Tempting layers of cream cake with delightful coffee crunch in between and topped with delicious honeycomb crunch. I like eating it alongside their palabok meal. Furthermore, this cake has always been a familiar treat for every family member's birthday. Last January 18 was my sister's birthday, she's now 20. A special child of God like her with special needs deserved to be gifted with a special treat.

Coffee Crunch cake is priced at Php340 (Junior) - Php540 (Regular) and can serve 6-8 persons.

Truly whatever the celebration, it's more beautiful with a Red Ribbon!

Dine in: Red Ribbon Cakes and Palabok Meal

Mom and I has always been a Red Ribbon fan. We love their cakes because of their richness and moisture which I really prefer compared to Goldilocks. When the cravings sets in, I know very much what to order.