Cascaron are small, round, deep-fried rice balls — glutinous rice flour mixed with grated coconut, coconut milk, and sugar, rolled into golf ball-sized spheres and fried until the outside is crunchy and caramelized, while the interior stays dense and chewy in the way that glutinous rice always does when heat gets to it. They are […]

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Fritule are small, round fried dough balls — a yeasted batter of flour, eggs, milk, sugar, lemon or orange zest, a splash of rum or rakija, and sometimes raisins, dropped by the spoonful into hot oil and fried until golden on the outside and soft inside. They are dusted with powdered sugar immediately and eaten […]

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