While in San Francisco, I came across Filipino silvana cookies for the first time at an ice cream shop, and I'm kind of in love. It's a crunchy, creamy, frozen cookie with butter cream sandwiched between two cashew-meringue wafers and coated with cookie crumbs. It looks like a bigger, flatter French macaron, but it's lighter, melts-in-your mouth, and is kind of refreshing {which you don't often say about a cookie}. I had the coconut {above}, chocolate, and mocha-flavored silvanas…yum! Now, I just need to find them locally… — Joy
{photo by Oh Joy}
that looks & sounds amazing!!
Those are my favorites too! There’s a place called house of silvanas in LA and you can also get them at goldilocks for red ribbon (Filipino bakeries) 🙂
i love these! the colors are so pretty… and they’re especially good out of the freezer.
Try the larger dessert version called Sans Rival…so yum!
oh gosh, i need one of these in my life!
yum! Looks so delicious. Now I’m starving!
Omg, that reminds me of Sans Rival. So good!
do you remember the name of the place you found these? or perhaps the neighborhood? pretty sure I need these in my life asap.
Yes! Cako Creamery in SOMA! 😉
Joy
Looks and sounds amazing!
I wish shipping is not so expensive so I’d ship to you lots of silvanas. 🙂 We eat a lot of that here in the Philippines. I love silvanas with nuts though, they’re crunchier.
I second Goldilocks 🙂
Oh, thank you for reminding me to get some silvanas and sans rival! Haven’t had them in a long time… yum!!!! I will check out Cako Creamery!
oh, you must go to silvana’s! my parents opened a restaurant right next door to one of their south san francisco shops and the owners are adorable and just as sweet. 🙂
Yummy yummy. It just makes me to get some more to crunch. Not good if you know what I mean 🙂 lol