Translations:Filipino cuisine/106/en

Desserts

Main article: List of Philippine desserts

A suman with latik syrup

A woman selling puto bumbong at the Nagcarlan Public Market in Laguna province

Shakoy (also known as lubid-lubid), a doughnut variant from the Visayas

As the Philippines is a tropical country, many desserts are made from rice and coconuts. One often seen dessert is bibingka, a hot rice cake optionally topped with a pat of butter, slices of kesong puti (white cheese), itlog na maalat (salted duck eggs), and sometimes grated coconut. There are also glutinous rice sweets called biko made with sugar, butter, and coconut milk. In addition, there is a dessert known as bitsu-bitsu, also known as a Pinoy donut, made with fried rice flour which is then coated with muscovado sugar syrup. There is also karioka, made from glutinous rice flour, coconut, and coconut milk, fried and skewered and slathered with a brown sugar glaze. Another brown rice cake is kutsinta.