Bibingka, puto bumbong, sapin-sapin, leche flan… All these classic Pinoy kakanin and sweets are an intrinsic part of our holiday celebration. Bibingka and puto bumbong, in particular, are so closely associated with the Filipino Christmas festivities when stalls just pop up around churches in December to sell these delightful bites. Freshly cooked on a charcoal stone and loaded with lots of grated coconut and muscovado sugar, they look, smell, and taste like the Pinoy Christmas of yore, indeed!
But what if these beloved kakanin are presented in a different form and served cold, perhaps, like ice cream, for a change? If your answer is yes, then the Christmas 2022 Collection of Sebastian's Ice Cream will surely excite you, as it turns kakanin into ice cream cakes for everyone to enjoy this holiday season. The brand is bringing back the Bibingka Supreme Ice Cream Cake, a big hit during its debut last year. One mouthful, and you know you're in for a great treat. A combination of real bibingka and super premium ice cream, it consists of layers of keso ice cream, salted egg yolk ice cream (made with real salted duck eggs and not powder), and freshly cooked bibingka (made with rice flour and topped with salted duck eggs, cheese and grated coconut). Simply yum!
Even better news is that along with the comeback of the Bibingka Supreme Ice Cream Cake is the introduction of three new ice cream cakes — Puto Bumbong Deluxe, Sapin-sapin Special, and Leche Flan Torte.
Since puto bumbong is the perfect pair to go with bibingka, Ian Carandang of Sebastian's Ice Cream decided to create the Puto Bumbong Deluxe Ice Cream Cake, which is layers of puto bumbong kakanin ice cream, muscovado ice cream, and freshly baked puto bumbong cake (made with rice flour, margarine and muscovado sugar, topped with freshly grated coconut and chunks of muscovado toffee crisp).
Then there's Sapin Sapin Special, which consists of layers of freshly baked kutsinta cake flavored with pandan, Gata Kakanin Ice Cream, langka cake made with fresh langka, and Ube Kakanin Ice Cream, topped with crunchy latik and toasted niyog.
The fourth kakanin ice cream cake is Leche Flan Torte. It has a base layer of rich butter cake infused with fresh orange zest and diced almonds, a thick middle layer of leche flan ice cream made with real leche flan, and a crown of steamed leche flan.
All these kakanin-based ice cream cakes sell in slices and in whole cakes.
Also available this Christmas are Chocolate Crinkle Chilly Burgers (two moist chocolate crinkles filled with rich and creamy ice cream) in white chocolate crinkle, peppermint crinkles, and hazelnut crinkle variants; as well as Ube Crinkle Chilly Burgers in ube keso crinkle, ube buko crinkle, and ube leche flan crinkle variants. These chilly burgers are available per piece or as a five-piece gift box for Christmas via the online store at www.sebastiansicecream.com.
