Comments on: Pito’s Mom’s Mangosteen Cake

By: Onie

Onie — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:41:44 +0000

Just want to let everyone know that we’ve added another pick-up point for the coffee mangosteen cakes. You can now also pick up your order at Market Market, G floor @ Kaliq stall/kiosk. Thanks.

By: sister

sister — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:54:56 +0000

Fill a coffee flavoured sponge cake or butter cake layers with Damson plum jam and use a buttercream with cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon as a frosting. Easy on the spices.
You might also try filling linzer tarts with damson plum for an atrociously delicious cookie.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:03:03 +0000

I am eating the famed cake as I type this… and it is GOOOOOD. Good if you love the taste of coffee in cake which I so do. MM was spot on when he said that the cake is dense but light. It looks substantial and packed but I snorted a good slab in no time. From St. Francis, I crossed to Pollo Loco in Megamall for dinner with a box of this cake gem and nakupu, sinintensyahan ko na agad with my friends who bugged me to cut the stuff! YUMMY indeed. As sa totoo lang, parang masarap din their food which they were serving in the St. Francis food court like the rellenong bangus… I just don’t like that tiangge mall’s ambience. Yeah, I wish the jam was thicker. I’d ask for extra next time. Good stuff.

Thanks for this cake tip, MM! :)

By: Blaise

Blaise — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:37:37 +0000

Hello Onie,

I actually was able to taste this wonderful cake last Wednesday. I think it tastes great.. although I have to agree with MarketMan that the coffee flavor has a tendency to drown out the mangosteen jam flavor.. But I still believe that it is a well – flavored cake. I also like the fact that it not too dry nor too moist.. just right.. The cake is thick but I do admire that the sides or edges are not burnt, as I’ve encountered cakes in the past of the same size that has a tendency to get those nasty burns..

For what it’s worth, I’m gonna try this out again.. ;)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:05:57 +0000

CecileJ, I agree, they will have to settle on the “ideal” version and stick with that consistently over the months to come… sister, that suggestion sounds terrific, and seeing as how we are flush with jam at the moment, will have to try that soon… Maybe even one with damson plum jam with a chocolate icing???

By: CecileJ

CecileJ — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:18:40 +0000

My hubby, daughter and I totally enjoyed the cake and were so torn between finishing it in one fell swoop or making it last as long as we could! We like our one-a-day cup of coffee strong so we really enjoyed the coffee taste. The cake was dense yet moist and the icing was YUM!

Like the others, we are going to make the cake our “secret” when we bring it to family get togethers.

Just a thought, though: Pito and Pito’s Mom, people have varying tastes, likes and dislikes. You can’t please everyone and though it is really a nice gesture to “customize” your cakes to suit the individual buyers, your Mom might get too tired and frazzled making different mixes and frostings. Just try to aim for the happy medium and I am sure the customers will keep coming. It is a good, and unique, product, after all!

By: sister

sister — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:45:50 +0000

How about making thin layers of vanilla flavoured genoise or sponge cake and placing sieved mangosteen jam in between say 3-5 layers, then covering with a coffee and kahlua buttercream?

By: Mila

Mila — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:11:54 +0000

I bought the cake a few weeks ago, and as I mentioned to a few friends, forgot to take it out of the fridge for 3 days. According to Pito, it should keep for up to 3 days in the fridge, so I yanked it out and shared it on it’s 3rd and 4th day. I can’t tell you what it tastes like fresh, but I have to say that the cake stands up to refrigeration; doesn’t go dry at all. Definitely not as much mangosteen to the coffee, so think of it more as a coffee cake with a bit of the fruit (and yes, the seeds – floss after). I’ve passed out Pito’s phone number to a few other people, so I hope Onie and Pito’s mom doesn’t tire of baking the cake (and please don’t let the cake lose it’s essential moistness). Hmmm, maybe a swirl of the jam in the cake batter would bring it to a new level of mangosteen-ness!

By: solraya

solraya — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:56:51 +0000

Actually, it tasted better to me after it aged.

By: solraya

solraya — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:54:54 +0000

t_rex,

I noticed too the color of the icing, but then again might have been the camera.

I hope the standard recipe wasn’t altered. But again :), tastebuds are all different. I found too much mangosteen jam, and slightly too sweet and sort of running after my coffee flavour there.

As I am typing this…my frozen slice was brought out.