Comments on: Butter Cake Biscocho https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Thu, 07 May 2009 18:58:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: sherriffsleuth https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho#comment-180969 Thu, 07 May 2009 18:58:26 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=310#comment-180969 FERNA PIYAYA

BASE(Iniside layer)
Ingredients Quantity
Water 150 grams
Bread flour 350 grams
Shortening 150grams

PROCEDURE
1. Mix all ingredients by hand and form into dough.
2. Cut dough into 10 grams portions and form into balls. Set aside.

FILLING
Ingredients Quantity
White sugar 180 grams
Bread flour 60 grams
Water 40 grams
FERNA PRIMERA CHEESE FLAVOR 10 grams

PROCEDURE
1. Combine all ingredients until smooth. Cut into 10 grams portions. Set aside.

TO ASSEMBLE
1. Flatten the base dough, put 10 grams filling and seal.
2. Generously dust flour over the working table and flatten the dough until it reaches 1/8-inch thickness.
3. Preheat the griller over the stove. Grill the piyaya until slightly golden brown. Note: Both sides must be slightly golden brown.
4. Serve cool.

Yield: 68 pieces

]]> By: ana5678 https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho#comment-2036 Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:23:32 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=310#comment-2036 The word “biscocho”, albeit prefixed by the venerable name of Vargas, seems entirely too mundane and prosaic for the most heavenly, burgeoning-with-butter experience ever to emanate from that ubiquitous plastic “garapon”. Might I humbly suggest they call it “BEST-COCHO” instead so that all may know the promise of things to come! Or how about “MA-MON DIEU! Tostado”?

]]> By: Marketman https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho#comment-2020 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:31:40 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=310#comment-2020 Grace, I have to return to the Sunday market soon to try some of those chocolate delicacies you describe!

]]> By: Grace A https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho#comment-2014 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:47:52 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=310#comment-2014 The Vargas butter cake is the absolute best in butter cakes but I have yet to try their biscocho. Also heard that they have sinful brazos de mercedes.
Tried the Pampanga ensaimada at the Salcedo market and it was good. But I found one that was better at the Legaspi market sold by Cocoa Loco. Their quezo de bola ensaimadas, made the old fashioned (Pampanga) way, were large, soft, moist, rich and oh so yummy. Comes with white or milk chocolate fondue. Tried their nutella ensaimada which was also delectable, a treat for chocoholics like myself.
Also tried their chocolate cheesecake and mud pies. Chocolate lovers heaven! The cheesecake was light and it came topped with a chocolate bar of my choice (Toblerone yum!). My daughter went for the mud pie and finished it off in no time.

]]> By: Marketman https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho#comment-1990 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:05:53 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=310#comment-1990 Apicio, will put the endaimada on in a few days…

]]> By: Apicio https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho#comment-1983 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:19:04 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=310#comment-1983 But please please Marketman, tell us more about the old-fashioned ensaimada. Inquiring minds want to know.

]]> By: Marketman https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho#comment-1978 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:40:40 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=310#comment-1978 wysgal, I do like the Amazing Race as well. I normally don’t watch much TV but we are glued to the TV on Wednesdays with my family. We even went to El Nido after my daughter saw it in last year’s race! And no, I have not told the Vargases that I have plugged their stuff but I order from them 2x a month now…

]]> By: wysgal https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho#comment-1977 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:33:04 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=310#comment-1977 Wow, do the Vargases know how much you love their stuff? I’m friends with one of them, I should email them all your impassioned write-ups. =)

PS — I rather like the Amazing Race although this season’s family edition is somewhat lackluster. I think the whole race is set to take place in continental United States. Boo.

]]> By: Gigi https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/butter-cake-biscocho#comment-1971 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:42:03 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=310#comment-1971 My current Vargas obsession is their delightful bibingka cassava. It sells for a whopping P30 for a diameter that’s about the circumference of a half-used toilet paper roll — quite small but hey, packed with rich cheese and cream goodness. The flair is in the smokey flavor lent by the way it is cooked and also the banana leaf that it is encased in. I pair it with my favorite Tropical Passion tea latte which I buy from the Coffee Bean nearby.

I’ll definitely buy a jar of the biscocho this Saturday. Since we’re in the subject of gastronomic debauchery, lemme just say that I used to eat biscocho (the one from Iloilo) by filling the hollow groove with leche flan. Well, that was 20-something years ago and that biscocho and leche flan has taken residence on my waist and butt…. Oh well. A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.

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