Kulinarya April Challenge: Polvoron

Hurray for this month's Kulinarya challenge... Polvoron!!!

This sweet and uberly easy treat is very close to my heart as I have been making these since elementary school! I used to sell these together with other delightful Filipino goodies such as yema (dulce de leche), cheese sticks and ube(purple yam) candies. So when I knew that this will be for April's challenge, my first reaction was "oh yeah!!!

Now, Polvoron comes in many variations. The classic which doesn't have any add-ons and mainly consists of four ingredients- toasted flour, butter, sugar and powdered milk. Other flavored variations include cookies and cream, pinipig, cashew, chocolate and durian. Yes, durian polvoron which is obviously native here in Davao City as we have quiet an all-year round harvest of durian, geezzz you have to make durian flavored with just about anything ei! =)

I don't have any written recipe for this as it is super easy, even my toddler can do it, but of course I won't let him just yet as it involves some cooking in the stove.

My recipe is 1:1:.5:.5, super easy to remember right?

Some said it's better than Goldilocks, so try it yourself if you share the same verdict, and of course, don't forget to let me know. =)

Instead of using one type of powdered milk, I combined skim milk and buttermilk which made it more creamier.

Polvoron 1155

1 cup All Purpose Flour (APF)

1/2 or .5 cup butter non-salted

1 cup powdered milk (half skim milk and half of buttermilk)

1/2 or .5 cup white fine sugar

Add-ons: Optional

1 small pack Oreo Cookies (3 cookies)

1/4 cup cashew nuts chopped finely

1/4 cup pinipig

Procedure:

Turn heat to medium. Melt butter in a shallow pan.

Lower the heat, add APF, toast until light brown. Stir continously as flour tend to burn very easily.

Add powdered milk and sugar. Stir for the next 2 minutes to combine. Turn off the heat.

I divided this classic polvoron into three equal parts and placed in bowls and made a variation of cashew and cookies and cream and of course classic polvoron. Just stir in the add-on of your choice.

Mold using polvoron press and wrap individually with chinese paper. I "lost" my polvoron press and so I ended up using the measuring cups instead for the design in the picture. The 1/4 cup worked really well. Invert and just lightly tap the bottom of the cup and let the gravity do the rest.

Enjoy the buttery and milky goodness of Polvoron!