Christmas Tree Brownies Recipes

This holiday season, make brownies merry and bright!

Makes 8 to 10

2 cups caster sugar

1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups plus 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Christmas Cake Parfait Recipes

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Reinvent the traditional fruitcake by transforming it into this fruitcake trifle!Makes 4 to 6

1 4x4-inch fruitcake
3/4 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup cream
1/4 cup softened butter2 egg yolks
1/4 cup sugar2 egg whites
1/4 cup sugar

Christmas Fried Rice Recipes

For us Pinoys, no meal is ever complete without rice. If serving during the holidays, add a few vegetables to everyone's favorite mealtime staple to punch up the flavor and give the dish a welcome pop of  holiday hues.

Fruit Cake

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Fruit Cake 
This traditional cake is popular for its bittersweet taste. While it takes some time to acquire the taste for this dish, for members of the family who love fruit cake, it’s time to give them a little treat. Aside from baking a fruit cake for the family’s noche buena, you can also give them away as gifts. 

Hamon Recipe

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Hamon 
While one can always grab one in the supermarket, it’s always better to make it yourself. Preparing hamon, yourself will ensure that your food is free from any harmful preservatives. Also, you can season your hamon the way you and your family like it. 

Rellenong Manok Recipe (Stuffed deboned Chicken)

Estimated cooking time: 2 hours

Rellenong Manok Ingredients:

• [singlepic=69,240,180,,right]1 whole chicken, deboned with shape kept
• 2 tablespoons calamansi juice
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  

Filipino Paella Recipe

Filipino Paella Recipe, Paella is an internationally known Spanish rice dish originating in the Valencian region. Spaniards view it as one of their country’s national dishes. We Filipinos have created our own version paella and it differs from every region, here’s one from the Visayas region.

Bibingka Recipe

Traditionally eaten during the Christmas season in the Philippines, bibingka is a rice cake with a soft and spongy texture, round shape, and slightly sweet and salty flavor.

Caldereta Recipe

Caldereta Recipe. Learn how to make Caldereta(also spelled, Kaldereta) with this Filipino Recipe. Caldereta is a very popular Filipino Recipe. Caldereta is like a North American Beef Stew, but not runny and is served over rice.
Caldereta is really good and doesn’t take that much time to prepare and cook.

Maja Blanca

Maja Blanca Recipe. Learn how to make Maja Blanca with this Filipino Dessert Recipe. Maja Blanca is a Famous Filipino Dessert usually eaten as a snack.

Leche Flan Recipe

Leche Flan Recipe. Learn How To Make Leche Flan with this Filipino Dessert Recipe. Leche Flan is a Filipino Dessert similar to Flan and Creme Brulee. Leche Flan is an easy to make and has always been a crowd favorite at Filipino Parties.

Crispy Pata Recipe – How To Make Crispy Pata

Crispy Pata Recipe. Learn how to make Crispy Pata with this Filipino Recipe. Crispy Pata is fried pork legs (“Pata” means Pork Feet in spanish). This is probably the most popular Filipino Pork Recipe. Crispy Pata is easy to eat and although is high in cholesterol, the soya sauce, vinigar and diced garlic sauce makes it irresistible and keeps customers coming back for more.

Lumpia Recipe – How To Make Lumpia

Lumpia Recipe. Learn How To Make Lumpia with thisFilipino Style Spring Rolls Recipe. As an appetizer or even a small quick meal, Fired Lumpia is one of the most popular Filipino Appetizer Recipes.

Sisig Recipe

Sisig Recipe. Learn How To Make Sisig with this Filipino Recipe. Sisig is one of the most, if not the most, popular Filipino Pulutan Recipes (a dish typically consumed with beer such as San Miguel Beer). This Sisig Recipe is made with Fried pork sautéed in garlic and onions. It is best served with fresh egg on top, with kalamansi and some chili.

Chicken Adobo Recipe

Adobo refers to a common and very popular cooking process indigenous here in the Philippines. The most famous of all here in the Philippines is the chicken adobo.

Noche Buena Dish: Beef Pochero aka Cocido

What do we do with leftovers from Christmas dinner? Most especially scrap ham. My favorite is Majestic Ham. The solution….Pochero or cocido. I prefer to call it Pochero as it is a very common dish in my hometown Cebu.

Pochero (Spanish spelling , Puchero) with its bounty of meats, sausages and vegetables is known as the “real national dish of Spain. Brought to the shores through the Spanish conquistadores, it is a favorite dish at Filipino festive

Kare Kare

Kare kare (kari-kari as others called it) is one of my favorite Filipino foods. Every Filipino family do have their own version of Kare-kare, wheter its kare kareng baka, kare kareng baboy or kare kareng manok (beef, pork and chicken Kare kare).

Lengua Estofado

lengua estofado is originally from Spanish that has become very popular in Filipino cuisine. Lengua estofada is a stewed ox tongue cooked in tomato sauce then serve with fried potatoes.