About the Recipe
What would happen if halo halo was a cookie? This is my halo halo cookie. The cookie base is made of ube, saba banana, red bean, and jackfruit, yielding a soft, cake-like texture and the ice cream has the palm fruit, coconut gel, macapuno, and of course leche flan! Sandwich it together and you have yourself the halo halo cookie. What filipino dessert should I cookiefy next?
Ingredients
Cookie base
200 g white sugar
25 g brown sugar
0.25 cup saba banana, mashed
155 g all-purpose flour
115 g melted butter
1 tsp salt
0.5 tsp baking soda
1 egg
1 tsp ube extract
4 jackfruit bulbs, diced
Leche Flan
4 egg yolks + 1 whole egg
230 ml condensed milk
270 ml evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
Topping
1 scoop ube ice cream
1 tbsp nata de coco
1 tbsp macapuno
1 tbsp palm fruit
Preparation
To cook the leche flan: For caramel, dissolve sugar and water on medium-high heat until it turns a light amber colour.
Immediately transfer to cake pans and evenly spread the caramel onto the pan, swirling it around until the bottom is evenly coated.
Whisk all the flan ingredients together until the mixture is homogeneous and pour flan mixture into pan.
Cover with tinfoil and steam for 15-20 minutes, or until firm. Let sit in the fridge for at least two hours or overnight.
Cook saba banana and jackfruit in syrup. Let cool.
For cookie base, mash saba banana. Whisk together cooled melted butter, saba banana and sugar until smooth.
Thoroughly whisk in one egg until it is lighter in colour, add the ube extract and whisk.
Fold in the dry ingredients. Fold in jackfruit and red bean.
Let set in the fridge for one hour.
Roll into 30g balls and bake for 350F for 13 minutes. Let cool.
With ube ice cream, mix nata de coco, macapuno, and palm fruit. Let set in the freezer until frozen.
To assemble, scoop mixed ice cream on cookie base, add leche flan slice in the middle and sandwich with another cookie. Serve immediately.