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Filipino-American cookbook author Abi Balingit presents her Adobo Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe

Her cookie recipe was featured in New York Times Cooking

Published Apr 12, 2023 03:39 am
When it comes to Filipino cuisine, people can always expect something new depending on where they dine. Restaurants always have a modern take on local eats, while home cooks have their special ways of preparing them through recipes that have been passed down to them by their loved ones. A perfect example of this is the adobo. The classic Filipino dish can be cooked in different ways with a myriad of ingredients. Some foodies like their adobo dry, while others prefer it with sauce. In some places, home cooks add other ingredients to the usual mix like coconut milk and annatto, and others explore different meats with their recipes. While these adobo dishes are unique from each other, they all provide that comfort food experience Filipinos, even foreign foodies, love. This time, the adobo is elevated to a cookie form, merging its savory taste with a touch of sweetness. 
Filipino-American blogger-turned-cookbook writer Abi Balingit reimagines the adobo as a baked good with her Adobo Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe. To make it, she steeps her butter with bay leaves, adds soy sauce and vinegar to her chocolate chip cookie batter, and sprinkles pink peppercorns on the cookies before baking them.

The Adobo Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe is part of her debut cookbook dubbed “Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed” cookbook. The recipe was also featured in the New York Times, which was adapted by NYT Cooking deputy editor Genevieve Ko. 
It was during the pandemic when Abi started documenting her culinary creations online, @theduskykitchen on Instagram and Twitter. After months of posting, a literary agent reached out to her on Twitter and proposed the idea of making a cookbook, as per [Vogue](https://www.vogue.com/article/abi-balingit-mayumu-cookbook-interview). 
“I’m so grateful that #MAYUMU came out exactly how I envisioned and then some,” she posted on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/CpNYCr7gEwG/?hl=en). “It is really an honor to be Asian, but a blessing to be Filipino. From my clothes, to my hair, to the music I listen to, I change so much of myself every day. But being Filipino has been a constant in my life that I would never change, even if I had the choice to. I hope this book lives on forever and that it’s small proof of how much joy it is to be Filipino-American. I hope you love the recipes and stories in it as much as I do.”
Discover how you can make your [Adobo Chocolate Chip Cookies here](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024097-adobo-chocolate-chip-cookies?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur). For more of Abi’s recipes, visit [theduskykitchen.com](https://theduskykitchen.com/) or order a copy of the [“Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed” cookbook here](https://theduskykitchen.com/mayumu/). 

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