Translations:Filipino cuisine/107/en

Puto is another well-known example of sweet steamed rice cakes prepared in many different sizes and colors. Sapin-sapin (sapin means layer) are three-layered, tri-colored sweets made with rice flour, purple yam, and coconut milk characterized by its gelatinous appearance. Palitaw are rice patties that are covered with sesame seeds, sugar, and coconut; and pitsi-pitsi are cassava patties coated with cheese or coconut. Tibok-tibok is based on carabao milk, being similar to maja blanca. As a snack, binatog is made with corn kernels with shredded coconut. Packaged snacks may be wrapped in banana or palm leaves then steamed. suman is made from sticky rice and steamed. For chilled desserts there is halo-halo, a dessert made with shaved ice, milk, and sugar, with additional ingredients like coconut, ube halaya (mashed purple yam) or ube ice cream, leche flan, plantains, jackfruit, red beans, tapioca and pinipig.