Iyon’s

PURE INDULGENT CHEESECAKE

This is my personal favorite—the kind of cake I return to when I want to remember.
Luxuriously creamy and deeply satisfying, made slow and unhurried, much like the days that inspired it.

Weight: 2.5 kgs

PREMIUM CASSAVA CAKE

2 kilo-pan of rich, creamy and indulgent Filipino bite.
A true crowd favorite, every time. 🎄🥰🎉

Merry Christmas, Nurse Archie! Glad you liked our special cassava. 💗🎄

Your cravings for the month of May did help our furfriends from Street Paws Naga! 👏🏻🐶💗

Kakanin was very much a part of my childhood. Biko, suman, biniribid, ibos, palitaw, and kutsinta were just some of the delicious goodies I enjoyed at my grandma’s house during summer breaks.

An hour past 1 in the afternoon, Inay Iyon would lovingly make our snacks in the wooden kitchen that Itay Vito had built. There’s no oven nor stove, only the ever-reliable dapug and talayop (old-fashioned way of cookery using wood, rice husks, and hollow bamboo). It was mesmerizing and such a quiet joy to observe Inay Iyon prepare the ingredients, taking her time as if kakanin was a non-laborious dish. She manually removed the coconut husks using a sharp palaw, expertly cut the coconut shell in one strike, and used the kudkudan to shred it. All other ingredients, she gets from the many plants and fruit-bearing trees in the backyard. Eggs are easy to access too since she raised a few roaming chickens and ducks. Not to forget the turkeys and pigs whom Inay named and greeted every day. (What she cooks using those will be for another post.)

Having snacks with my older cousins was such a joy. And because there were quite a few of us, we would patiently line up to have our coconut leaf make-shift spoons that Itay Vito personally handmade before getting our portion of Inay’s well-prepared merienda. We would sit around this big wooden table, and have our fill while giddily chatting about nothing and everything.

The Cassava Bites is an ode to the childhood season I had the privilege of experiencing. Taking the ingredients and procedure in baking the cassava a higher notch is equivalent to all the simple yet meaningful moments during those sweet summer days.

How about you? What happy memories do you have with your grandparents? 💗

A few months back, I was gifted with a couple of authentic pure maple syrup. Those that come in thick and heavy bottles. Those that have robusté, fonce, and superieur labels on it.
Hah! Precious that it can’t just be for pancakes,
I said.

So, meet my version of CHOCOLATE MUFFINS. 🍁
Dark. Rich. Healthy.
Flours are removed and so is sugar.
Walnuts are added and so are dark chocolate morsels.
Addictive and so is guilt-free.

This is my Mama’s favorite.

Weight: 135 grams to 145 grams each

Not so long ago but far, far away, when I first baked this. It was winter and a beautiful day, one that was perfect for hot tea, luscious cake, and many laughs. I remember how relaxed we were that sweet afternoon, such a rare perfect treat in a work-oriented world.

For me, love language is still old-fashioned baking on slow mornings which I get to enjoy now. Doing it all by hand in an unhurried way. So allow me to whip up this lovely indulgence for you, and know why Pure Cheesecake is my personal favorite.

Pure Cheesecake
Weight: 2.5 kgs
Size: 9 inches

1st day of March to start a pawsome adventure with Street Paws Naga! Join us as we show support to this well-loved community. As they say, in a perfect world, every home would have a dog and every dog would have a home. 🐶💗