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Handcrafted delights
Papa Diddi’s shares three scoops that can help you enjoy the holidays and celebrate this season with family and loved ones. First, the brand is bringing in two new Christmas flavors: Strawberry Cheesecake and Christmas Cocoa. The Strawberry Cheesecake is an ode to the classic celebration cake Filipinos love, while the Christmas Cocoa is a homage to the Filipino tsokolate, though available all year, now becoming an iconic Christmas drink.
Handcrafted by ice cream artisans and using the freshest carabao’s milk from local dairy farms, these two new flavors are a great addition to over 30 available offerings. For those who can’t seem to decide if it’s a cake or ice cream for this season, Papa Diddi’s is making things easy by introducing new ice cream cake flavors namely Brazo de Mercedes, Ube Brazo, and Choco Lovin’.
And lastly, in the spirit of sharing, Papa Diddi’s is introducing its Happy Tubs, 260ml-sized holiday tubs. It’s smaller than the usual pint but still big in flavor which one can send as a gift pack of three, six, or 12 pints to friends and family all over the metro. The Happy Tubs are delivered in a free insulated bag, along with your Christmas message.
To order, visit their website at www.papadiddis.net.
Family celebrations
Plana's Pantry is owned and operated by husband and wife team Jolly and Rachel Plana. It is all about family-inspired delightful food, and good relationships. The food venture started in their home, in the pantry, where the family's passion for delicious food took shape.
For the couple, it has always been their joy to share good food and wholesome experience, and now they hope to share to a larger group what they like to cook and eat themselves, and serve their customers with honest and simple dishes that satisfy.
This Christmas season, they offer packed meals and party trays for lunch and dinner to large groups and companies. Their showstoppers include Hickory BBQ Ribs, Chicken Teriyaki, Lengua, Pork Sisig, Java Chicken, and Mushroom Salpicao. For desserts, Plana’s Pantry delivers the sweetest culinary experience with its Gooey Choco Caramel and Midnight Chocolate cakes.
For orders, contact Plana’s Pantry via Facebook or Instagram.
Merry Flavors
To celebrate the Christmas season, Krispy Kreme offers the all-new Holiday Sprinkles, Santa, Holiday tree made with Kitka, Golden Carousel, Amazing Elephant, and Carnival Lion doughnuts. The Golden Carousel is dipped in red chocolate icing, designed with vanilla kreme, and golden horses to complete the look. Meanwhile, the Amazing Elephant is hand-dipped in gray-colored chocolate icing and designed with candy toppers.
Aside from these treats, they’re also making available Holiday-themed bites best for moments of sharing and gifting with its pre-assorted box of nine features white, red, and green doughnuts.
For deliveries, place your orders online via now.krispykreme.com.ph.
Mochi Buena
Introducing a perfect addition to every family’s “Mochi Buena” celebration this 2021, Singaporean brand Aice launches its mochi ice cream in the Philippines. The brand has perfected its mochi by using only the finest ingredients and pounding it thousands of times to make the chewiest mochi skin, ensuring that consumers will only enjoy the chewiest mochi ice cream dessert. The round shaped treat is available in a variety of flavors like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and durian.
“At Aice, we prioritize quality when developing the best line up of ice cream for Filipinos. Through innovation and our advanced cold chain networking, we ensure the best quality throughout our whole production process until our ice cream products are safely handed to consumers,” said Jason Liu, general manager, Brand Management Center, Aice Group. “In addition, we always strive to innovate. As Filipinos honor the Christmas tradition of sharing a meal on Dec. 24 and throughout the Yuletide season, our mochi ice cream is worthy of being the new centerpiece for a truly memorable and special ‘Mochi Buena’ celebration.”Filipino families can also find creative ways to enjoy their favorite flavors of the Aice mochi ice cream. Aice mochi can be used as filling in between cookies, wafers, and biscuits for a mochi ice cream sandwich and may even be wrapped in between two slices of bread, battered, and fried for a unique fried mochi ice cream.
For more information, follow Aice’s official Facebook and Instagram pages.