Include these on your kakanin bucketlist!
Kakanin or glutinous rice cakes have long been embedded in the Filipino culture. It usually uses glutinous rice and coconut milk on most instances, but a lot of regional kakanin vary in ingredients and have their own take on the traditional Filipino meryenda.
Also Read: Where to Get Bibingka Cravings Satisfied
Some restaurants and food brands have even reinvented the kakanin and put their own little twists to it. Here are unique kakanin desserts all adventurous foodies need to try.
Bibingka Cheesecake — Max’s Restaurant
Bibingka has always been a Filipino favorite especially during the holiday season. What if you could serve bibingka cheesecake this noche buena? It’s possible with Max’s Restaurant’s bibingka cheesecake, made out of chiffon, cream cheese, and salted egg bits.
Available for: In-house delivery, or via GrabFood, LalaFood, or Foodpanda.
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Fried Suman with Mangoes — Sentro 1771
The traditional sumang malagkit is usually served boiled, but Sentro 1771 has decided to take it to the next level by frying them. Eat it with a slice of fresh mango and you’re good to go!
Available for: Dine in, take out, and delivery.
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Iday — Crisostomo
Have you ever had sumang malagkit dipped in Batangas chocolate? Crisostomo serves them on these cute, little glasses! Each piece of suman or Iday are attached to these palm leaf sticks for easy dipping and eating.
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Bibingka de Leche — Manam
Put a twist to your favorite Christmas kakanin with Manam’s Bibingka de Leche! The bibingka has been topped with a huge serving of creamy leche flan, sprinkled with niyog and salted egg bits. Like all our other Manam faves, this one comes in three sizes small for yourself, medium to share with someone, and large for the whole family and barkada!
Available for: In-house delivery, or via Grabfood, and Food Panda.
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Sapin Sapin Leche Flan Torte — Sebastian’s Ice Cream
Sebastian’s brings sapin sapin to new heights as it launched its torte version last August. The crust is made out of crunchy latik cookie, followed by sumptuous layers of real ube halaya and jackfruit. On one pf the layers is kutsinta ice cream, which uses blended malagkit rice and pandan. The top-most part, the leche flan, is made out coconut cream instead of condensed milk to highlight the cake’s kakanin roots.
You may also want to check out their original Pinoy ice cream flavors like mangga’t suman and champorado and dilis.
Available for: Pickup, delivery and takeout. Pick-ups are from Monday to Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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Batangas’ Pinoy Fondue — Pamana
With so many kakanin options to choose from, sometimes you just want to get a little bit of everything, you know? Good thing Pamana has what they call a Batangas’ Pinoy Fondue, which consists of three kakanins in one serving. Grab a stick or fork, choose from bite-sized pieces of puto, suman, or kutsinta, and dip it in hot chocolate.
Available for: Delivery. They have branches in Tagaytay, Baguio, Makati, and Boracay.
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Maja Blanca Cheesecake — Ted’s Kitchen
We love maja blanca for its creamy, coconutty flavor paired with its gelatinous texture, and we’re pretty sure we’ll love it even more in it’s cheesecake form! It’s one of Ted’s bestselling cakes from their kakanin series, and it’s best consumed with a cup of Kapeng Laguna.
Available for: Pickup, dine in, and delivery. They are open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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National Highway, Santa Cruz, Laguna, 4009, Philippines
Puto Bumbong with Buko Jelly and Toasted Coconut — Neil’s Kitchen
Level up your puto bumbong snack with Neil’s Kitchen! The purple rice cake has been topped with a block of soft buko jelly and brown toasted coconut. That’s three layers of Christmas goodness!
Available for: Limited dine-in, pick-up, takeout, and delivery via LalaMove or Grab Express. They are open Friday to Sunday for dine in from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Lot C701-704 Westgate Filinvest, Alabang, Muntinlupa
(02) 8810 5017; (0998) 976-3457
Pandan Pichi Pichi – Victorino’s Restaurant
How would you like to have a combination of cassava, fresh buko, pandan, and TONS of grated cheese? Sounds like our typical Pinoy merienda, made more special! It comes in a huge tray at ₱375 for 30 pieces. You may also opt for their cheese pichi pichi with premium quezo de bola, an ideal handa this Christmas.
Available for: Dine in, take out, and delivery. They are open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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Tomas Morato, Diliman, Quezon City
(02) 8922-8558; (02) 3414-7465
Nilupak with Sea Urchin — Toyo Eatery
Nilupak is any starchy ingredient (like cassava, sweet potato, or ube) mashed and mixed together with sugar and gata (coconut milk). Toyo Eatery’s take on this Filipino classic includes mashed sweet potato, sea urchin, nata de coco, dalandan, and grated cashew nuts enclosed in a cassava crisp. It’s topped with an edible blue ternate petal for an earthy finish.
Available for: Dine in. They are open from Tuesdays to Saturdays, 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Send them a message for reservations.
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Makati, Makati, Makati
(0917) 720-8630
Kakanin Doughnuts — Poison Coffee & Doughnuts
“Para sa mga nanlalagkit ang tingin”
Poison Coffee & Doughnuts launched an all-kakanin doughnut collection last August to celebrate Buwan ng Wika. They have three unique kakanin flavors: mangga’t suman, maja blanca, and macapuno, all in doughnut form!
Available for: Dine in, takeout, and delivery via GrabFood and FoodPanda. They are open Mondays to Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Fridays to Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
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Makati, Makati, Makati
(02) 7752-0327
Salted Egg Suman — The Suman Sisters
Known for their traditional suman with unique fillings, The Suman Sisters is the pioneer when it comes to the salted egg suman. They claim that it has the right amount of sweetness and is made up of only quality rice so you get what you’re paying for.
Available for: Delivery. Hit them up on their Viber at (0956) 248-9966 or (0966) 879-2962.
Burnt Bibingka Cheesecake — Tailored Sweets PH
Basque burnt cheesecakes were all the rage a few months ago, even surprising us with outstanding flavors like boba, ube, and Earl Grey. If you’re a huge fan of these exotic flavors, you better add Tailored Sweets PH’s Burnt Bibingka Cheesecake on your bucketlist! It’s a 7-inch cake topped with lots of cheese for only ₱750.
Available for: Pick up and delivery. Send them a DM on their Instagram account to place an order.
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(0917) 134-7194
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