For three quarters of a century, Estrel’s has been synonymous with caramel cakes. The luscious confections from the Quezon City-based bakeshop have occupied pride of place on hundreds of dining tables and helped mark countless milestones in the lives of Filipino families.
The business started 75 years ago by Estrella N. Ylagan steadily grew from a small kitchen in the 1950s to a much larger, more streamlined one a few years ago on Scout Tobias, Quezon City.
Her nieces, Joy and Gina Navarro, took over after Ylagan passed away, but the look and taste of a caramel cake from Estrel’s has remained essentially the same. Whether topped with the pastel rosebuds or the tiny sa…
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