Growing up, Elaine Schober loved eating her grandma’s baking. During Christmas, Elaine’s grandma, AKA Lola, would make batches of traditional Filipino treats and give them to family and friends. One holiday season, Lola shared the recipes she had brought from the Philippines with Elaine. The conversation inspired Elaine to open Laine & Lola Confection Co – a bakery that specializes in the traditional polvoron cookie. Made of toasted flour, powdered sugar, milk and butter, the simple yet delicious cookies are a great alternative to shortbread (plus you don’t have to use an oven). This week, we learn how to make the delicious treats and get a cameo from Lola herself. Does she approve? Watch the video and find out!
Lola’s Recipe for Polvoron Cookies
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup powdered skim milk
1/4 cup powdered buttermilk
1/4 cup crushed oreo cookies (no frosting)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup salted margarine or butter
1/4 cup Rice Puffs
Method:
Toast flour for 30min on medium heat
Crush Oreos in food processor
Combine ingredients and sift
Mix in butter
Mould with cookie press
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Video Transcription
Hi, I’m Elaine,
from Laine and Lola.I’ve been baking and
cooking for 20 years,and I’m here today
to share with youour recipe for polvoron.♪Me and my grandmother are
excited to share with you todaythe polvoron cookies
that she taught me.The ingredients
we’re using today are,toasted all-purpose flour,
skim milk powder,buttermilk powder, sugar,
chocolate cookie crumble,rice cereal,
and melted butter.Unlike in
traditional cookies,you bake it with raw flour.Because it’s toasted,
it doesn’t require youto put it in the oven.First, what we want to do
is add the dry ingredients.So, next,
we’re going to sift it.Sifting the cookies actually
allows it to just meltright in your mouth
when you eat it.♪Laine and Lola is a
company I startedwith my grandmother.Lola is what we call
grandmother in the Philippines.She used to make these
cookies for us every Christmas.She is 97 now.She’s not making
them so much anymore,so she’s passed on the
recipe to me so that I canshare our Filipino
heritage with everyone.Polvoron is a
powder cookie, actually,but we call them PONPONS so
that people can remember itbetter ’cause it’s kind
of hard to say polvoron.So next,
what we want to addis the chocolate
cookie crumble…The rice cereal.
And then, the melted butter.And then, we’re going to mix it
all together for abouta minute at the
lowest setting.♪I think we’re about done.So our next step is,
we’re going to pour this mixinto a cookie tray and
mould our polvoron,using this mould that
my grandmother gave me,from the Philippines.If you find it’s
a little bit dry,just add a
little more butter.♪Take a section – look,
it’s already combined -and press it down.
And then, just pop it out.♪I started this business
because I’ve really alwaysbeen passionate about
my grandmother’s recipe.I really got inspired andI started creating
all these different flavours,and it doesn’t taste
anything likeyour store-bought polvoron.It just tastes amazing.
(laughs)Our next step is we’re
going to wrap them up in thetraditional paper that my
grandmother alwayswrapped them in for Christmas.We’re gonna start
with some plastic wrap,or cellophane.
And, some tissue paper.♪I think the key
ingredient to success ispassion and perseverance.It’s so important to have
passion in what you doso that you just don’t give up.Here we go.Now it’s time to
taste my cookies so,who better to taste them,
it’s my Lola.You pick one and
I’ll pick oneand then we’re gonna eat it.You tell me if it’s
as good as yours, okay?- It’s okay.
– It’s okay? (laughs)- Delicious.
– (laughs)Thank you, Lola, for teaching
me how to make the polvoron.I hope I made it
as good as you.- I love you, I love you.
– I love you.Hi, I’m Natalie, casting
producer for Tasty Business.Thanks so much for
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