Festivals, processions, parades. Held mostly during the hot summer months, many of us grew up with vivid memories of colorful costumes, beating drums, resounding chants and fiesta celebrations overflowing with traditional Filipino food.

With almost every house serving their specialties during the summer fiesta season, make your dessert buffet stand out while keeping the tradition alive. Serve the unique and unforgettable tropical flavors of the Philippines with Mr. Hat Gulaman’s fiesta meryenda recipes.

Cool down after dancing to the beat of summer festivities and savor the sweet and creamy taste of panna cotta, the refreshing buko pandan sago gulaman, mango-flavored halo-halo, and colorful jelly cake or fruity jelly. All made with Mr. Hat Gulaman’s jelly powders, the fiesta dessert spreads offer a range of flavors that are sure to delight guests and elevate celebrations. Hala bira meryenda!

Serve the tropical fruit jelly cake using Mr. Hat Gulaman’s orange and white jelly powders with your mix of favorite fruits, coconut milk and sugar.

Make the mango jelly and vanilla panna cotta using ripe mangoes, mango nectar and puree, yellow and white unflavored Mr. Hat Gulaman, milk, sugar, cream, vanilla extract, and salt. You can swap the mango flavor with buko pandan, coffee jelly, or your preferred flavor. Swap the color of the unflavored jelly powder as well to match.

Give the traditional sapin-sapin a twist by making a jelly version using white, yellow and red Mr. Hat Gulaman unflavored jelly powder. For this dessert creation, you will also need ube flavoring, coconut milk, condensed milk, glutinous rice flour and water.

For uniquely Filipino recipes such as crema de fruta, coconut gulaman cooler, ube taho or strawberry taho jelly, champurrado jelly pudding, among others, check out Mr. Hat Gulaman’s recipes here – https://seanlucinc.com/recipes/?category=mr-hat-gulaman.