Bigby's

the yummiest cheesecake...

Whenever I am out at night its either I'm in a bar or you can surely catch me at any Starbucks in Manila. I love Starbucks! But I believe in some countries particularly in the USA, hates Starbucks. Maybe because the lines in Starbucks are very long and people stay their for meet ups and gatherings and etc. For them Starbucks is like Philippines' "kape sa tabi tabi!" that's probably why they hate it so much.

Well here in the Philippines when you think Starbucks its like "sosyal" and expensive. Which is true because about 55 % of the Population in the Philippines can't afford a coffee which is worth 150PhP per cup. Or maybe they have 150Php but won't buy a cup of Starbucks because there's tons of good coffee which only costs 5Php per sachet meaning you can have more coffee for a day rather than one coffee a day from Starbucks.

Anyways.. I LOVE STARBUCKS. I went one night with my sisters.

these are my pretty sisters robi and jheii... enjoying their Toffee Nut Frappe (this is one of my favorite drinks, you can have it cold or hot, I like the cold drink rather than the hot. but anything goes. they only offer it during the Christmas Season starting November til February then they give those cards where you complete the stickers then they give you a free planner once you complete them) and White Chocolate Mocha espresso (i discovered this drink when i was drunk.lol. me and my friends had a few drinks at harbor square near ccp complex in some bar called COAL. then right after we all went for coffee to fade our tipsy feeling so while ordering the lady mistakenly heard me wrong, so she gave me this drink rather that hot chocolate... anyways it was amazing..! i fell in love with it!)

this is a ginger bread cookie which i have no clue what it tastes like because i really never bought one. so i figured since we're here and seems like everyone at that time had one. so i figured to buy one as well. at first it was so hard. you can't bite it because the cookie was like a hard rock. the taste was ok. it goes very well with the hot white choco mocha. you can taste the sweet ginger syrup, the cinnamon, the powdered sugar.

!!and for the finale! Almond Roca Cheesecake. The best cheesecake ever! You got to have one when you visit Starbucks! a slice costs 110Php and a whole cake is about 1200Php or more. its like a bread pudding with ricotta cheese and almonds. i was nervous it might have raisins in it but it was amazing! once you have a spoon full of it, the cheese melts in your mouth the nuts are crunchy and the chocolate was enough to sweetened it up. YUMMY!!!!!!!

These are my Starbucks obsessions...
Happy New Year!!!
Enjoy!
Eat Happy Everyone!

Fat Girl's Recipe : Chocolate Cake

Dear Zizilia,

i am still trying to figure out what to call my cake. it's for father's day although i can't be with my love, i know he's spending a quality time with his family specially with his daughter. hope he's having fun. while he does that.. i will be baking a cake. a mix of chocolate and coffee. me and my sisters love chocolate and my dad loves coffee so i guess you get what i am trying to say. anyways.. beside the fact its my own creation.. its also for my love and my dad. both of them are great dads to their daughters... if only they could taste it.

anyways.. wish me luck...
be back...

after an hour...

Father's Day Cake

ingredients:
3 and 1/2 cups cake flour
6 tbsp cocoa powder
1 1/2 tbsp coffee
1 tbsp cinnamon
2 cups sugar
250 g. butter melted
50 ml oil
3 eggs
2 cups water (depends)
30 g. baking powder
10 g. baking soda

procedure:
1. Preheat Oven. 370 degrees. if you're using a small oven like me, that the highest degrees is only about 250 degrees that's fine. Preheat for about 20 minutes.
2. Mix all dry ingredients in you're mixing bowl.
3. Add butter in your dry ingredients make sure it crumbles all together.
4. Add the eggs. Then your oil.
5. Water is optional if you think its really sticky and the texture is thick that you can't mix easily you can add the water.
5. Don't forget to grease you baking pan and put a baking sheet or if you don't have one, bond paper is ok.
6. bake for 45 minutes and you're DONE!

Bon Appetit!


i love it!
it was perfect!
happy father's day my love!

Love,Z