Baye baye reinventions

With nothing much to do during the long weekend of Fiesta Minatay and seeing a lot of baye baye on the table, in the fridge and even in my dreams (lol), I decided to try my hands on some reinventions of my own. Inspired with the innovations of baye baye during the Tigkaralag Festival of Pavia a few days, most of my creations mirrored what I saw and tasted during that competition.

Using ingredients I found inside the fridge – a pack of pecan nuts and some dulce de leche, I reinvented the native delicacy not only with a twist but with a little “sophistication”.

Inspired by the sesame seed crusted entry, I made a pecan nut crusted baye baye by rolling it over grated pecan nuts. An easy reinvention but using a not so common nut made it more intriguing and giving it somewhat classy remake. Though eating proved to be somewhat messy as some of the pecan nut crumbs fell before reaching one’s mouth

Baye baye halves filled with pecan nuts and dulce de leche mixture and topped with half a pecan nut reminds of me that entry with cheese toppings. More so, it took me back to the days when we had our food tasting session at Tinapayan as the bakeshop presented bars and slices looking almost like that – well made and much better presented of course. Eating with bare hand proved to be untidy – sticky dulce de leche and pecan nut crumblings.

And lastly, I got my own version of the winning entry – a baye baye twist with dulce de leche and pecan nut crumbs mixture as filling. It would have been easier if I used a plated baye baye but I combined several sticks of baye baye, molded them into longer and flatter individual sticks, filled and rolled them into the finished product. If only I could have made the baye baye thinner …

My favorite turned out to be the “twisted” reinvention mainly because of the dulce de leche mixture and being more manageable to eat. Next was the pecan crusted baye baye being the most photogenic and more viable for commercialization. And the other one – I find it almost ugly as the you-know-which cake LOL.

I had more fun making these baye baye reinventions than actually eating them since I got myself filled up with the “rejects” during the process of reinvention.

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