SWEET TREATS FOR MOM

T he best — and the sweetest! — moms in the world deserve the sweetest treats on Mother’s Day. And so loving husbands and kids always lavish that superwoman in their lives with great treats, including a not-to-be-missed Mother’s Day cake. It has become a must — on top of everything else they can think of. It is a constant reminder to Mom that she is dearly loved and appreciated for everything that she does for the family the whole year through. And so these beautiful and delicious Mother’s Day cakes, crafted and designed specifically for the purpose, may just be the ultimate sweet present that she so rightfully deserves.

INFINITE ROSES FOR INFINITE LOVE

Flour Pot Philippines’ Mother’s Day cake for 2025 is called Infinite Roses. Capturing the luxurious roses of Grasse, Provence, this expression of infinite love for moms is a limited-edition butter cake with a blend of TWG Bain de Rose tea, Vanilla, Lychee Custard, Tonka White Chocolate Buttercream and Moroccan Rose Buds. It comes adorned with fresh Benguet strawberries, as well as local and Moroccan roses.

It is available in nine-inch round cakes at P3,950 per cake. Orders may be placed at www.flourpot.ph.

DECADENT CROISSANTS

For Pampanga resident who are looking for unique Mother’s Day treats that still stay on the sweet side, Bakers’ Champ offers its new and exciting collab products with Elle Vire — Ube Mascarpone Croissant, a huge croissant with a generous ube mascarpone filling and a coating of ube cake crumbs; Guava Cheese Cake Croissant, a round croissant with cheese cake filling and a mini pool of guava gel at the center; and Blueberry Lemon Croissant, a multi-colored, “wrapped-style” square croissant that bursts with lemon cream and blueberry filling.

They are sold individually at P170 per piece, but a box of 6 at P1,020 should be the perfect gift for Mother’s Day. To order, visit Bakers’ Champ’s main store at S8 Mall, New Public Market, Brgy. Del Pilar, City of San Fernando, Pampanga, or its ranch at SM Pampanga, or message Bakers’ Champ on Facebook.

CLASSIC CHOICES

For classic cakes that never go out of season, consider the Classic Ube Cake and Divine Mocha Cake of OverEasy Brews & Chews located at G&W Terrazza, Gil Fernando Ave., Marikina City.

Classic Ube Cake is ube chiffon layered and filled with pure ube halaya and ube custard then frosted with light ube whipped cream, and covered with ube crumbs; while Divine Mocha Cake is mocha chiffon layered and frosted with creamy mocha buttercream and honey crunch candies. Both are available in eight-inch round cakes and four-inch round baby cakes.

To order, call 0917-1394800 or message OverEasy’s FB and IG accounts.

HAND-PIPED FLOWERS GALORE

For special occasions such as Mother’s Day, Marlene Monfort commands a strong following because her cakes are different. The flowers are hand-piped, so no two cakes are exactly alike. She make one- to four-layer cakes, can make the entire height look like a woven basket, and make it brim with bouquets of edible flowers in different sizes and colors. She has mastered the art of hand-piping roses but she also does mums, daisies, sunflowers and what-have-yous. It’s your choice to go seven to nine inches and to have burnt butter cake, carrot cake, red velvet cake or chocolate cake as base.

To order, message her on her IG account.

LOADED WITH MILK

For Mother’s Day 2025, Dorothy Ferreria has come up with Quatro Leches Bundt Cake, which is a buttery cake baked in a fancy Bundt pan and is served with a separate Quatro Leches cake sauce. As its name implies, the sauce is made of four kinds of milk, with a touch of premium rum to give the cake a nice milky and boozy flavor. It comes packaged in a lipstick red cake box for P1,500.

To order, send a message to her FB account.

SOFT, SWEET AND COMFORTING

Looking for something soft, sweet and comforting — just like Mom?

Honeybon has unveiled its newest mango masterpiece called Mango Brazo de Mercedes. It is a soft and pillowy dessert of delicate meringue filled with rich, velvety custard and packs in the natural sweetness of ripe mangoes. The latest addition to Honeybon’s growing Mango Cake collection, which already counts Mango Royale (layers of buttercream, fluffy meringue and chopped nuts) and Mango Cheesecake (mangoes on creamy mousse over a smooth cheesecake base) in, the new Mango Brazo de Mercedes is available for a limited time in Honeybon stores located in SM City North Edsa, SM Megamall and Festival Mall.

You can also order online for delivery at www.honeybonph or message its FB and IG accounts. Honeybon’s growing Mango Collection.