Snacks

Cassava cake recipe is a Filipino delicacy that is sweet, milky, creamy, and sticky yet delicious, perfect for snacks or dessert. The dish is made from grated cassava or manioc, mixed with sweaters, and baked until cooked through. The creamy custard topping makes it great-looking yet delicious. A lovely dessert to serve for special occasions. It’s usually eaten alone, but it's best to consume it with a cup of coffee or tea. Cassava cake making is very easy and worth trying a Filipino recipe.

Ampaw or Ampao (Filipino puffed rice), is a favorite Cebuano snack. A popular ampao in Cebu is the ampaw carcar; it's a bar-shaped puffed rice snack with peanuts. It’s puffy, crunchy, sweet, sticky, and simply delicious. Usually, the dish is made of left-over rice, sun-dried, and cooked until puffy. This snack gets  more popular and is now made commercially and sold locally or even abroad. 

This fun snack is a kid’s favorite, and even adults love and enjoy it. This is a must-try recipe; it is very easy to make.

Cassava suman or suman kamoteng kahoy is a delicious Filipino delicacy eaten as a dessert or snack. Making this recipe is very simple and easy.

Pork Pinakupsan Bites is a Visayan delicacy; it’s crispy and delicious. It's made of pork and cut into serving bites, seasoned with salt to taste, and fried with their own fats until crisp and golden. The dish is similar to the lechon kawali, but the lechon kawali needs an incredible amount of cooking oil for deep-frying the pork. The pork pinakupsan cooks only on its own rendered fat until crispy.

This Ube Jelly Buko Salad Recipe is perfect to serve on any occasion. The dessert dish is made of sweet young coconut combined with diced ube-flavored gelatine and cooked tapioca pearls, or sago. Then mix together with milk sweeteners and chill for a couple of hours to have a delicious cold desert. This Filipino cold dessert is often served at birthday parties and town fiestas. Try this dessert dish; it is really simple and quick to make.

This recipe of kalamay hati is so delicious; it is one of my favorite kakanin, a Filipino rice cake recipe. It tastes sweet and sticky; this rice cake dish is perfect as a dessert or a snack. The dish is made of glutinous rice along with coconut milk and sugar. It is constantly stirred while cooking until the mixture thickens and forms a smooth dough. After cooking, it is topped with latik, a coconut milk curd, or crushed peanuts. Try this straightforward kalamay hati recipe. Let us know what you think of this Filipino recipe.

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Masi, or peanut-stuffed sticky rice balls, is one of the best kakanin specialty foods in Cebu. The authentic Masi is made of “Tapul Pilit” glutinous rice; Bisaya means "purple." To make the Masi, the rice dough is formed into a small ball, filled with a peanut mixture, and cooked in boiling water. The dish is snack-bite -sized; it is delightful, soft, sweet, chewy, and nutty; it's perfect to consume for a hungry stomach. In this recipe, we use white glutinous rice with peanut mixture fillings. Try this authentic Cebuano recipe; it is quick and super easy to make, and in just less than 30 minutes, you have your "masi," or peanut-stuffed sticky rice balls. By the way, if you don’t like peanuts, substitute them with your prepared nuts if desired.

Kinupusan chicharon baboy recipe, bisaya style, is made for the pork skin with fats. The pork skin is boiled before being fried, and it turns into chicharon. These chicharon, also known as pork cracklings, are the perfect low-carb treat; they are crispy and delectable. It can be served alone or paired with a hot vinegar dip sauce or a sauce of your choice. It is best eaten as a snack or viand, and it is also perfect to pair with a liqueur drink as "pulutan". The dish can be kept for months in an airtight container.

This is a one-of-a-kind snack that holds a special place in Filipino culture, particularly among those living in the provinces and remote areas. Kamoteng Kahoy, commonly known as "cassava" or "tapioca plant" in English and "balanghoy" in Bisaya, is a versatile root crop that can be prepared in countless ways. In this recipe, we’ve chosen to boil it with coconut milk, creating a dish that’s rich, creamy, and bursting with flavor. The coconut milk not only enhances the natural sweetness of the cassava but also adds a delightful tropical aroma that makes this snack truly irresistible.