Easy fudge buttercream frosting is rich, creamy and intensely chocolaty, and it couldn?t be easier to make! Plus, it?s the perfect topping for cakes, ...
No-Bake Strawberry Lasagna makes a fabulous spring and summer dessert and can feed a large crowd. Layers of pound cake, a creamy cream cheese mi ...
Double Stuffed Taco Potatoes are hearty and filling enough to eat as a main course. They are loaded with ground beef taco filling, onion, sour cream, ...
Crawfish Bread- French bread is stuffed with lots of crawfish, garlic, and cheese and baked until toasted. A New Orleans favorite! Gooey, chees ...
Sushi and toys always excite me. Put them together in a restaurant concept?and count me in! So when I received some Genki Sushi gift certificates for ...
Durian Days, When Excess Is Not Enough: Part 1 The plan is to eat durian multiple times a day for each day that I?m in Bangkok, and I discover that O ...
It all began with a pallid and tasteless pack of durian, a grossly off-season purchase made last June. The durian dud that it was thus ignited an insa ...
Rumor has it that Café Lidia?s cakes are the same cakes that a popular coffee chain serves. It?s either they supply the coffee chain or they source t ...
I’m a fiercely private person so you can understand why I’d be hesitant to publish this piece. But Ed knows me well and his questions we ...
Here at DCF, we live (and love!) to travel for food. This piece is about one of the desserts that enthralled one of our contributors during her recent ...
Chukagai Gate, the main gateway in to Yokohama?s Chinatown. It?s always exciting when two different cuisines come together. We?ve seen this in our ow ...
With the rise of third wave specialty coffee shops here in Manila, it?s not unlikely to encounter beans flown in from all over the world like Ethiopia ...
This article came to life when a long-time DCF reader asked me recently what I thought about the so-called “Tupperware bloggers†so preval ...
This website was built on featuring home bakers, and I’ve featured hundreds. It gives me great pleasure then to have DCF’s contributors ...
This is the first of our collaborations among the DCF contributors. It’s gotten off to a great start with these convenience store mash-ups. You ...
 This post was supposed to go up last Friday, August 11, but DCF was having technical issues. Better late than never so here I go with the last v ...
The DCF team is a boiling pot of talent and verve. I’m proud to present our first DCF collab featuring two of our contributors, Anson and Ed! T ...
Cover photo credit For the past three months, I?ve been going full throttle working harder than I?ve ever worked since recovering from cancer. I was ...
Serena’s article comes at just the right time: I seem to have a most ferocious craving for Korean food that can’t seem to be tamed. Kko ...
There aren’t too many good Thai restaurants in Manila and Marikina is lucky to have two of them. DCF contributor, Lee, tells the story of Krung ...
Image credit here. Note: This piece will make more sense if you’ve already read these two articles: Hoping Big And Still Holding On To My Dess ...
Ok, so I fell in love with the bulletproof coffee at Butter & Coffee, as you can see here. When I got back to Manila, I started looking at where else ...
Being a morning person, I am always looking for a new place to have my favorite meal of the day, breakfast. I’m taken by how DCF contributor, F ...
Like Kirt, I also have my own coffee list when I travel. I’ve been to some places on this list – Kirt’s recos are spot on as alwa ...
I featured Baker? a few years ago when it was still a home-based business. I’m beyond excited that RJ Galang and his mom now have their own pla ...
When Nicky Lozano first tasted Memz Chicharon, it was instantly love at first bite. The year was 2011, and his dad would go on numerous business trips ...
?Process is messy.? ? Austin Kleon, illustrator and writer I agree with the above quote and this one by Edgar Allan Poe who said it in 1846, ?Most wri ...
No, my expression here doesn’t reflect how I feel about these whoopie pies This video is somewhat sentimental for me because I featured Stanle ...
This article isn’t just about Spanish bread but also about Cheese Hopia, Pan de Coco, and all the other divinely doughy delights proffered at t ...
This is one of those articles that – like a good halo-halo – is thoughtfully composed bit by bit. Starting from its fascinating origins, ...
I am not a beer drinker, have never met a beer I liked. But Monica’s piece has me convinced that there’s hope for me yet. I bet her comp ...
It?s been years since I judged a cooking competition. I?ve had unpleasant experiences tasting mad scientist concoctions dreamed up by misguided culina ...
Here’s my recipe for cold brew coffee, but for those of you who don’t want to deal with the hassle, this is the next best solution. Yo ...
A good croissant makes a proper mess of mouth and mind, a thing of beauty indeed. In her debut piece for Dessert Comes First, contributor Lee Ibarra w ...
Ardent home cook/baker and writer, Serena, recounts her conversion from skeptic to believer in this deliciously sarcastic piece. – Lori I?ll p ...
They say that summer is officially over but in a tropical country like ours, it’s always iced coffee season. DCF coffee guru Kirt gives us yet ...
Fika is a Swedish custom where people commune over coffee and cake. It?s taken over the world and reading this piece from Sweden-based Therese, Filipi ...
Before you tuck into this piece, ensure that you have a full stomach. Spanky Enriquez describes the lush lubrication and savory intensity of roast goo ...
L-R back row: Edward Bugia (Dude Food columnist); Kirt Uy de Baron (coffee guru); Aldwin Aspillera (photo instructor for the day); Anson Yu (features ...
Writer and professional photographer Monica Savellano gets industry experts to spill their go-to tips and tricks on photographing food, and we?re not ...
Just because it’s hot doesn’t mean we forego dessert. But the weather demands something cooling, which is what Dimpy’s Frozen Bra ...
Sometimes an unexpected detour leads to some memorable food finds, as Faith proves in this short summer piece. – Lori Planned trips are great ...
In the pintxos paradise that is San Sebastian, Spain, La Viña is probably the only tapas bar that?s more famous for its dessert. To be clear, there a ...
We love books here at DCF, and food-themed novels are some of the best. Game of Thrones is one such example, boasting ardent fans of the medieval fant ...
Traveling for food is something we do a lot here at DCF, as evidenced by the entire category we have on Food Travels. If you adore the trinity of book ...
Kirt is truly DCF’s resident coffee guru. Last weekend, I found myself in White Plains and went to the two coffee shops in the area that she ha ...
Photo credit here It?s unbelievable to me that another six years have passed since that blowout bash I had to celebrate DCF?s 6th anniversary way bac ...
If there?s one thing I hate, it?s mess. And clutter. So, while weeding out photos that had accumulated in my phone, I came across some restaurants tha ...
Of all the restaurants that I’ve been to this year, it is 210° Kitchen+Drinkery that’s most unforgettable to me. Every dish sent out by ...
The desserts of food stylist and home baker, Tina Diaz, are very distinctive because of two things. First, her sweets are a showcase of local ingredie ...
Sweden is a country far away from the Philippines but we Filipinos are more than familiar with IKEA, H&M, and hey, isn’t the 90s band, Roxette ...
Last night, a quartet of chefs held what they called a Dessert Dialogue. Partners and local chef-legends Miko Aspiras and Kristine Lotilla invited fel ...
Just in time for Holy Week is this gem of a Japanese restaurant along one of Manila’s most distinctive eating streets. – Lori It’ ...
There?s nothing better than a co-working space that?s comfortable and has lightning-fast wifi. Unless of course, it?s a co-working space that also ser ...
In a city seemingly encompassed with concrete, DCF writer, Faith, seeks out a group of small, special places providing some much needed green and swee ...
At a dinner party once, a guy came up to me and said, ?I wish there was a food blog that catered to the single guy who lives alone and has limited coo ...
So the good news is that you can cut down your meat intake and be happy about it. Here’s an interesting look at one girl’s view on being ...
Home bakers are a cornerstone of the content generated on this site, and I’ve featured over a hundred home bakers in the 12 years since I began ...
Kirt Uy de Baron knows her coffee. I am quite the coffee aficionado myself but I tire of going to the same places. When that happens, I ask for Kirt?s ...
This article is a ?first? for several reasons: First, (ahem) it?s written by Richie Ramos, a former colleague of mine who I used to work with at onlin ...
My trusty KitchenAid mixer is 40+ years old (on right side in photo below), a hand me down from my mom. Shipped from the United States, it hews to tha ...
Note: This piece is part of our Long-form series, longer articles dedicated to more in-depth exploration of various topics. When I was a kid, I thoug ...
I?m looking to form a team of writers for Dessert Comes First. Yes, that?s right ? this blog is getting bigger and I?d like you to be a part of it. I ...
Previously: Part 1: Following The Pintxos Trail Part 2: San Sebastian Foodie Favorites & A Great, Big Steak Part 3: Barcelona, Spain: ?Angry? Eggs, G ...
Previously: Part 1: Following The Pintxos Trail Part 2: San Sebastian Foodie Favorites & A Great, Big Steak Part 3: Barcelona, Spain: ?Angry? Eggs, G ...
Previously: Part 1: Following The Pintxos Trail Part 2: San Sebastian Foodie Favorites & A Great, Big Steak My Bin?s and my first meal in Barcelona i ...
Previously: Part 1: Following The Pintxos Trail *plus see more tapas recommendations at the end of this post Donostia ? San Sebastian really grows on ...
Our first view of San Sebastian is darkness. Having arrived after a 5-hour train ride from Barcelona, the only thing on our minds is dinner. Across t ...
In this series: Part 1: A Fairytale Christmas Part 2: A Winter Day In The City Part 3: Heidelberg, Germany ? Beyond Magical Everything about Frankfurt ...
In this series: Part 1: A Fairytale Christmas Part 2 : A Winter Day in the City Part 3: Heidelberg, Germany: Beyond Magical Today, my Bin and I are ...
Previously in this series: Part 1: A Fairytale Christmas No matter where I am in Frankfurt, it feels like the Dom, the city?s Cathedral, looms over m ...
Being in Germany at this time of year is like living a holiday fairytale. The biting cold, the pungency of cinnamon and spice wafting in the air, roa ...
