Once I had a craving for a snack I used to have in childhood. It wasn't often my family made it but I remembered it's very simple but oh-to-die-for taste and marshmallowy beDimpled  look. It made an indelible imprint in my child mind so that decades after, I only need close my eyes and I see them and could almost taste them. I certainly enjoyed helping make it as a child as it needed a lot of tactile affection to reach its voluptuous form. One had to take a pinch of the doughy wet batter----ball it wih the palms and poke it with a finger to make a cute Dimple in the middle. NOw that I am older I realize the dimple was not only artful,  but also functional as it holds some sweet sauce as it travels on a spoon to meet and reward the anticipating tastebuds. So when the craving hit I did not have a choice but consult THe google, and here's what I ended with after making some adjustments to suit my taste: TADAAAA...

PALITAW sa LATIK---made with sticky rice flour, with coconut and melted brown sugar sauce and a sprinkling of reduced coconut bits. Ohhh yumm! 
Palitaw basically means to float which is exactly what these bedimpled rice dumplings do---they float to signal they are cooked and ready to eat.
It was pure bliss to eat this food again. Eating it lead me down to Nostalgia Lane where I remembered home-made Leche Flan out of duck's eggs brought by the farmhand  and  dark sweet guava jelly harvested from three gigantic guava trees my father planted beside our house and macapuno (sweetened Sport coconut strips) which came in batches after the coconut harvest....the list went on and on....while I savored this missed long lost but found fare.

 Makin' balls and pokin' a dimple on each is the funnest part

     Cooking in coconut sauce----when they're afloat, they are ready!

     Reducing coconut milk to brown bits for garnish (the most tedious part..)

                                            VOILA!  Palitaw sa Latik

                     
                                             What blissful reunion!!!