‘Tis the season to indulge in decadent cakes and other pastries that taste and look like Christmas. Here are some of the sweet treats to complete the noche buena spread.
Max’s Corner Bakery’s premium holiday cakes
The house that fried chicken built offers three delectable holiday cakes, namely Pastillas, Chocolate Truffle, and Strawberry Chiffon.
Inspired by a popular Pinoy milky dessert, the Pastillas is made with a soft and fluffy chiffon base, and is covered in buttery caramel icing and finished off with cream frostings that look like Christmas trees.
Sinfully decadent, the new Chocolate Truffle boasts rich layers of moist chocolate cake enveloped in a silky, cocoa ganache frosting. Covered with chocolate shreds and topped with truffle balls, it is the perfect choice for those who like their dessert bittersweet.
Fresh and fruity come together in every slice of the Strawberry Chiffon. Another holiday contender, this classic vanilla-flavored cake is wrapped in whipped cream, dashed with strawberry glaze, and topped with large strawberry chunks.
These holiday cakes start at P550 each. They are available in select Max’s Restaurant branches nationwide for a limited time only.
Andrew Café’s mini lemon holiday cake
The flavors of caramel, lemon, and white chocolate come together in every sinfully sweet bite of Andrew Café’s Dainty Mini Lemon Holiday Chiffon Cake.
Freshly baked by resident chef Erna Canatoy, this cake features lavish caramel filling in between lemon hints and rich white chocolate ganache.
The Dainty Mini Lemon Holiday Chiffon Cake comes in 15 squares topped with festive frostings in customizable letters and messages, plus shapes of favorite iconic Christmas symbols in fondant. It is both perfect as dessert at reunions and affairs or for a quick hearty feast.
Andrew Café is located at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Taft Campus, Malate, Manila. It is open Mondays to Fridays from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and on Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.“‹
M Bakery’s special desserts
Dessert lovers are in for a sweet treat as hit bakeshop M Bakery offers a lineup of specially-themed flavors this month, perfect for season gatherings with friends and family.
“These new decadent flavors of our freshly baked classic American desserts will surely add a more jovial touch to this season’s celebrations and will complete any Christmas or New Year’s Eve spreads,” said M Bakery Pastry Chef Candy Lu.
Christmas season specials include Winter Spice cupcake, a spiced cake with maple meringue buttercream, Red Velvet cupcake that has whipped vanilla icing or cream cheese icing, Chocolate Peppermint cupcake made of chocolate cake with red and white peppermint buttercream, and Chocolate Dipped Strawberry cupcake a drool-worthy strawberry cake filled with strawberry meringue buttercream and glazed with chocolate ganache.
Other decadent flavors to look out for are Sno-cap (devil’s food cake with peaks of meringue icing and sprinkled with white nonpareils), Pistachio (pistachio cake with pistachio meringue buttercream), and Harvest Apple (a unique cupcake made with apples, cranberries, raisins, and pecans then topped with caramel meringue buttercream).
M Bakery’s well-loved banana pudding is available party bowl size good for eight to 10 people, available for advance order.
M Bakery is at Lower Ground, Unit #23 5th Avenue cor. 28th Street, One Bonifacio High Street Mall, Bonifacio Global City. Call (02) 847-9829 or 0917-633-1718 to order.“‹