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Ingredients

• ✓ muscovado sugar
• ✓ muscovado sugar
• banana leaf
• cooking spray
• sweet rice flour
• rice flour
• baking powder
• salt
• water
• coconut milk
• ube yam spread
• ube extract
• macapuno
• butter
• coconut

Instructions

1. 1 Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a 9x9-inch baking pan with banana leaves or parchment paper and coat with cooking spray.
2. 2 Whisk rice flours, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl, then stir in the water and coconut milk. Add ube spread and ube extract. Fold in macapuno and 1 tablespoon muscovado. Pour into the prepared pan.
3. 3 Bake in the preheated oven until top starts to crack and leaves turn brown, about 35 minutes. Brush top with 1 tablespoon butter, then bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 20 minutes more.
4. 4 Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir in 1/4 cup muscovado sugar; cook, stirring, until it starts to boil. Remove from heat and pour over warm mochi, covering evenly. Sprinkle with toasted coconut. Let cool, at least 30 minutes.
5. 5 Use banana leaves to lift mochi out of the pan. Cut into 25 small squares; cut squares diagonally into triangles.

By Yana Gilbuena

Ingredients

• ✓ muscovado sugar
• evaporated milk
• shortbread pie crust

Instructions

1. 1 Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
2. 2 In a large bowl, beat the evaporated milk and sugar with a whisk or electric mixer for 10 to 15 minutes, or until fluffy and mocha colored. Pour into the shortbread crust.
3. 3 Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven. The Gypsy Tart will have a sticky surface, and will not set completely until left to cool. Serve chilled.

By GARRY67