Desserts
Biko Six Ways

The starting point for this biko guide is chewy glutinous rice folded into brown-sugar coconut syrup. Ube, buko pandan, mango, chocolate, and macapuno are alternative additions to that base, each changing the finished rice cake in its own way.

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Desserts
Classic Filipino Kakanin Sampler

A kakanin sampler is a collection of separate preparations, not a single batter divided into shapes. This guide brings together puto, biko-style rice, palitaw, sapin-sapin, suman, and cassava cake, with coconut and sweet rice connecting their different textures.

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Desserts
Pandan Filipino Desserts Six Ways

Pandan links this dessert guide through aroma, while sticky rice, rice-flour cakes, and jelly supply different textures. Think of it as a sampler-planning guide, not one batter to divide six ways. Coconut milk, grated coconut, and latik have distinct jobs across the separate preparations.

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Chocolate Peanut Suman Malagkit

Plain coconut rice and cocoa-colored rice sit side by side in these banana-leaf suman, with crushed roasted peanuts tucked into the middle. This version begins with cooked glutinous rice, so the final steaming settles the wrapped mixture rather than cooking dry grains from scratch.

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