Puto Seco (Philippine Butter Cookies)

Over the summer Kevin and Helen got married. It was a much smaller celebration than originally planned (because 2020) but how can you go wrong with a backyard wedding in mid-July?

So of course for her Christmas present I wanted to make Helen something Filipino again. I did an internet search like last year and tried to not focus on just recipes from blogs by people of Filipino heritage. Which is how I landed on a recipe for butter cookies on All Recipes (a user-submitted recipe site). Helen seemed to like them (and know what they were, which was my fear - just because it's Filipino doesn't mean she's familiar with it).

Pinipig Cookies

For the last several years I've been wanting to make Helen a Filipino dessert (specifically a cookie) recipe for Christmas since she grew up in the Philippines. However, the rare time I searched I didn't find any that I would be confident in making. This year was a little different: Kevin and Helen got engaged in September. Which is why I decided I would for sure make a Filipino cookie for her present this year.

The search results were interesting though - cookies that were more what I think of as American (e.g. chocolate chip cookies) but were mainly from bloggers of Filipino descent/origin. A bit confusing. While there were some that sounded like Filipino cookies, I was still a bit unsure for some reason. So I decided to ask my co-worker who's Filipino (I have several co-workers who are). She gave me a recipe for Pinipig cookies by a Boston chef of Filipino heritage, posted to BostonChefs.com.