Hands up if you have a sweet tooth? 🤚

My sweet tooth is terrible. Sometimes it takes over my whole mouth and I just need sugar especially after dinner. I always need to have dessert. Don't know why, I just do.

Last night was no different but the problem was we only had ice cream.

I considered making a berry vanilla delight ~ which is strawberry sauce, creamy vanilla ice cream, more sauce, frozen blueberries and granola mix for crunch. It was a solid after dinner dessert but way too cold for last night.

So I scrolled through Pinterest and found...

POLVORON!!!

A polvorón (From polvo, the Spanish word for powder, or dust; Cebuano: polboron; Tagalog: pulburón) is a type of heavy, soft, and very crumbly Spanish shortbread made of flour, sugar, milk, and nuts (especially almonds).
Wikipedia

Polvoron was one of my childhood favourites in the Philippines and since moving to Australia, it's become a special treat since it was so hard to find back in the day.

It was sweet, and powdery and milky and sweet... There's the original version (what I made) and then there's other flavours with various nuts. All of them delicious.

My favourite polvorons are made by Goldilocks a very famous and well loved bakery/food chain in the Philippines. Although other companies make them, I always thought Goldilocks did a better job than the rest.

Source

These days one would be able to buy polvoron at any Asian supermarket, unfortunately for me being up in the mountains, with my specific tastes ~ if I wanted something Filipino I'd have to make it myself.

Yes we have a couple of small Asian Marts around but they don't have the droids stuff I'm looking for..

So last night when I was looking for dessert recipes and found that I had everything I needed to make polvoron I was over the moon and got cracking immediately.

Before I lay it all down. I need to say I found this recipe and modified it because 6 cups of flour is a hell of a lot of polvorons for one person. But because I modified it I had to guesstimate quantities and keep tasting until I got the mix right according to my taste buds.

Now that my "disclaimer" is out of the way...

Ingredients

Prep time: 10 | Cook time: 15
Half cup all purpose flour
25g white sugar (to taste!)
10g cup milk powder (I used coffee whitener ~ to taste!)
25g melted butter

1... Cook the flour. Don't put oil in.
You just want to cook the flour until it starts turning brown. I used a wok but perhaps I should have used a normal pan to even out the cook.

2... Strain the cooked flour, milk powder and sugar to remove lumps.

3... Add melted butter in little by little and mix well.

4... If it needs more whitener or sugar for taste and consistency add it until it taste right to you.

5... Once done press the mixture in a mold.
I used an ice tray. And I was able to get 12 "cubes". If you followed the original recipe you should get about 65+ depending on the size of your molds.

6... Leave for as long as you have self control so it can set in the mold. I only had about 5 minutes of self control, but I chucked it in the fridge while it set and that's it, you're all done!

How easy was that?

25 minutes of your life, with ingredients you probably already have in your pantry and you've got yourself a well loved Filipino treat.

Perspective

Total cost of this recipe would be maybe $1? $2 max? I did only use a fraction of everything.

To buy the real deal in the Philippines would be P177 which is AUD$4.45.

To buy the real deal online in Australia it's AUD$11.99 plus shipping.

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Geesh we get ripped down under! AND would you believe at $11.99 per box, it's currently out of stock.

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That goes to show how crazy Filipinos are over polvoron. I for one am very glad I gave this recipe a go. Not only is it cheaper but because it's homemade I know exactly what went in it and that's always a good thing.

Do you have any easy dessert recipes like this? Share the love and post the link or recipe in the comments!

Happy Wednesday Steemit!

❤ Arly