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A famous steamed rice cake, puto is often consumed as dessert and it is also suitable for breakfast dipped into a hot chocolate or coffee. Puto usually comes in white color but there are other people who love to play with different colors. Yet, the flavor of the puto stays the same though food coloring is added into it.

It has a spongy and slightly fluffy texture. The puto is light and airy. Once a person bite into it, he/she would feel like biting in a firmer kind of Angel cake. There are different kinds of puto in the Philippines.

Puto bumbong for one is a mixture of sticky rice and regular rice. The rice is then soaked into salted water and dried overnight. It is poured into a bumbong or bamboo sticks. The bamboo with the rice is steamed until done. Puto Maya is another kind of puto. It is mixed with coconut milk, salt, sugar and ginger juice. A puto mamon is a kind of puto which is a combination of egg yolk, salt and sugar.

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