Mommy Pehpot, Author at Mommy Pehpot

Dessert As Comfort Food: Red Ribbon’s Most Comforting Food

I gave up chocolate cakes some months ago. Most chocolate cakes, is too sweet for me, specially if I pair it with my comfort food, which is COFFEE. Now you must know, I love my coffee creamy and sweet so just imagine if you pair that to a chocolate cake. Too much, I know. So instead of chocolate, we usually have ube cake here. Ube Macapuno Roll to be exact. But of course, we cannot deny the fact that there is always a longing for chocolate cake, something that is right for my sweet and creamy coffee. And what’s with the chocolate cravings?

Science offers an explanation about this magical ingredient that Aztecs used to worship. Chocolate contains tryptophan and phenylethylamine, chemicals that stimulate secretion of hormones like endorphins. These produce feelings of elation, attraction, and pleasure. How wise those Aztecs were.

And lucky for us, Red Ribbon whipped up a version of the classic chocolate cake with its new Chocolate Fudge Cake. This sure comfort food list-topper is made with its moist chocolate pound cake layered with luscious chocolate fudge filling and then smothered with velvety chocolate icing. It’s the kind that will make you savor every bite, scrape off the last bit of crumb and icing on the plate, and then lick the fork clean.

oh, excuse my amateurish photo.. let’s try it again and this one comes from red Ribbon..

that’s better..

Red Ribbon’s Chocolate Fudge Cake is available in regular size for P460.00 and junior size for only P275.00.

That’s Miss Pam of Red Ribbon giving us a round up of what most people consider as their comfort food. And that’s Ms Sherrie Tan talking about chocolates baking and desserts.

That’s my two boys enjoying their spaghetti by Red Ribbon and later that night, they were treated with a slice of Chocolate Fudge Cake each

As for me, I think I just found a new partner in crime, er, my coffee’s perfect partner, Red Ribbon’s Chocolate Fudge Cake it is!

Barbie Fashionista Birthday Bash

Remember my post? This is it! This is what’s inside that envelope. And yes, it’s not a mommy event but our Daughter’s event! Yay!

See? Even Barbie’s dog is uber excited!

and so is the little girl. She was so amused with all the pinks and the dolls… more photos:

Trying out Barbie’s fashion and glittery hut.. she says it’s too big for her…Barbie Fashionista Birthday Bash was a fun filled activity for girls. Pretty little girls that comes in their cute pink outfit or fierce pink outfit. The kids were treated with a Barbie Makeover, Barbie gameswith Barbie prizes of course! And they also won some PINKTASTIC treats (from Barbie doll to Barbie cake!)

the pinktastics prizes!!

And of course, they got a peak on the latest cakes from Red Ribbon, Barbie Birthday Cakes!!!

That’s the Red Ribbon Barbie Birthday Cake: Barbie Fashionista Birthday Cake, complete with runway and spotlights!

The Red Ribbon Barbie Birthday Cake: Barbie Princess Birthday Cake.. and look at that! There’s a castle on the background and even a pond and bridge on the side.

That’s Red Ribbon Barbie Birthday Cake: Barbie Mermaid Birthday Cake… and look, there’s a seahorse too!

And this one is the Red Ribbon Barbie Birthday Cake: Barbie Fairy Birthday Cake… see? there’s even a real fairy there 🙂

September Celebrants were treated with cakes and of course a Happy Birthday song.. aside from the make over, the little ladies were also given a Barbie loot bag and a pink cupcake to match the theme..

But of course, this event was even more fun because Sati bonds with Ate Kyla.. Ninang Chris’ daughter..

And mommy too! It was really nice seeing you guys (shout out to Michelle and Chris)

But after the event, Sati kept saying Ba Ba Ba Ba.. we think she wants her own Barbie now.. LOL

Now you little girls, go tell your Mom about Red Ribbon Barbie Birthday Cakes! *wink

And Yes We Are Ready For Another Ondoy..

Before I wrote this, I go through my post about ondoy and our experiences. It was not that bad after all. Two days without food and yet we survived. Days of cleaning, weeks of creating a new home. Months of recovering financially and almost a year of erasing our fears. But we survived, that’s all that matters. Maybe during that time it felt like the world has forgotten us. How can we not think that way? We only see water and fear (from our eyes and from the neighbors). There was no electricity, there was no news and the thought that our family was worried for our safety hunts us. But then again we survived and it has been exactly a year since it happened. We’re still here, we’re still living.

September 26, 2009. A day that will always be remembered in our history. It was Ondoy’s day. It was the day when nature pull us all back to Earth. And now one year after, are we Ondoy safe?

I had a glimpse of Boy Abunda’s The Bottom Line. He asked DSWD Secretary if the department is ready in case another Ondoy happened. And the secretary said yes. So I guess it is safe to assume that our government did not make sure that there will never be another Ondoy. So what did they exactly do? Buy over priced rubber boats? Prepare sacks of rice to be distributed in case of another flood?

“We are ready for an Ondoy part two. I am responsible. I am accountable. They just have to follow me,” said Ramos, a former commander of the Army’s elite forces (inquirer.net)

“We are ready for a [Tropical Storm] ‘Ondoy’ part two,” said Benito Ramos, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).

See what I mean? They are ready, in fact we are ready too. We are ready for Ondoy part 2. Yes they are expecting another Ondoy but why should we expect if we can do something so that it would not happen again. It would have been better if it is:

We are not ready for another Ondoy, because there will never be another Ondy. We already took care of your sewerage, esteros and flood ways. We already took action to prevent another flood. We are not ready because there is nothing to prepare for.

Wouldn’t you love to hear that from our government?

But of course knowing how they always twist the truth, we still cannot expect that our government is ready for another Ondoy. I just wish, nature will understand, our president is new and he just came from another crisis (hosatge crises with a twisted truth). And another crisis will be too much for him.

The funny thing about Ondoy was some people really took advantage of it. Yeah, like rescuing her leading lady in a speed boat. Nice move. nice movie gimmick. still it was a flop. Just like our urban planning, flop, nothing more, nothing less.