Sweet Friday...Having Cake and Eating Two!

Friday was an evil evil day because, apart from the fact that I ate meat (and lots of it!), I ended up eating two different kinds of rich, sinful cake.

Had a home shoot in Salcedo Village and the homeowner had a major sweet tooth (and yet, was still so skinny. Life is not fair). She introduced us to Aritstocrat's best-kept secret--the Mucha Leche. It's P300 for the whole cake, and it isn't sold by the slice; I discovered why after our hostess sliced into it. It's a deliciously milky cake (covered in white chocolate shavings) that's so incredibly moist that it practically melts once it's sliced into. I'm drooling just thinking about it.

Next, she served what she called "the best homemade chocolate chip cookie." It's a P65 cookie from the Westin Philippine Plaza. Couldn't have a bite but once Miguel snapped off a bit, the cookie released a potent smell of chocolate. I looked at it and saw that the inside was 5% cookie dough and 95% chocolate chip goo. Aaah.

That evening, at Joseph's surprise party, I couldn't get enough of this cake from Cuerva's. Or perhaps it was a mango cream pie. It was about 12 or 14 inches in diameter and only about an inch-and-a-half high. It had a fairly thin crust--which meant oodles of cream--and had loads of little round pieces of ripe mango on top. I was stationed right beside it, and it took quite a bit of willpower to keep myself from constantly opening the box and helping myself. (And just to illustrate how yummy it was, I ended up eating about three slices--and I was holding myself back already! They were small slices, I swear!)

To ease my conscience, let's just say that this was all in the name of research... for this blog, and for the sake of future potluck parties, when I have absolutely no time to make that triple chocolate bundt cake. Excuses, excuses.