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A Not So Vanilla Life at Vanilla Cupcake Bakery, Kamiseta Hotel

Hearing the name “Vanilla Cupcake Bakery”, there’s a lot that went on in my mind about what kind of an eating place this would be. For the most part, I assumed it was a dessert spot … with a signature sweet offering = vanilla cupcakes.

Baguio Vanilla Cupcake Bakery at Kamiseta Hotel salted caramel cheesecake cupcake

Salted caramel cheesecake cupcake. What you lookin’ at, bear? =b

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Manna Garden Cafe, Revisited (an UPDATE)

A looong overdue update. *hihi Whew, would you believe, it’s been two years since  our last visit to Manna? … and don’t I know it, and don’t you know it, there’s been a ton of big changes in the garden cafe since then. (Hooray for growth and improvement!) (I’ll say again, a very dynamic industry. Meanwhile, there’s all these restos opening up in every other inch of Baguio that’s keeping me and my foodie lovies’ chompers real busy.)

2016-02-12 Baguio Manna Garden Cafe Kharis Cafe and Bakeshop buttercream cake bouquet with choco lace wall

My kind of bouquet. (“,) Moist chocolate cake so tasty, you could also eat it by itself, buttercream icing so buttery but not annoyingly so, and that momentary jolt of intense dark choco from fragments of the lace wall.

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