Bread, like rice, is a staple of Filipino diets. When we wake up in the morning, trust the quotidian pandesal to be on the dining table. For recess, any school kid would probably reach for a sandwich inside his lunch box. On weekends when the family goes out, a stop at a burger joint is part of the routine.

Cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter, shortening, or margarine, although a fruit purée such as applesauce is sometimes substituted to avoid using fat),