A food truck for several years, Yum Yum Dessert Co. (formerly Yum Yum Cupcake ... I never went to school for baking and pastry. Some people just have a knack for it. I guess it was my calling.

Fried, doughy cakes – often the off-cuts of more elaborate desserts ... to emulate the yum yum. In the Philippines, there’s the bitso-bitso, a doughnut-like pastry that is twisted, deep ...