flan

Each illustrated chapter is dedicated to individual ingredients from vegetables, fruit, herbs, spices and nuts, to a handful of cooked foods such as waffles, leche flan and lumpia.

Her pastries rest in the center of the comforting/interesting axis, ranging from tiramisu, opera cake and flan to puddings and croissants in seasonal flavors.

The flan is a sturdy round, better for the ring of strawberry sauce that circles it and the passion fruit sauce on top that lends pucker.

“Being famous is like eating the best flan in the world. It’s so good, you can never get enough of it. Trust me, you’re going to love being in the spotlight.”

When Marcus Magsayo, 20, a Filipino American college student, put together a large cultural event with Filipino leche flan, he learned that his Latino friends also eat a version of the caramel dessert.