"Celebrate with Us the Pinoy Sundae Surprise on Saturday July 1, Canada Day without Compromise... !"

Ingredients of Halo-Halo Sundae with Ice Cream Canadian-style: 6 large parfaits or servings

1 1/4 c yellow cooking banana (Filipino store avail.)

1 c jackfruit

1 1/2 c purple yam (ube) (Filipino store avail.)

1 c nata de coco (from jar, Filipino store avail.)

2 c palm fruit (from jar, Filipino Store avail. or Oriental Food Store)

3 1/2 c treacle (sugar syrup) [1 1/3 c maple syrup + 2 c "golden" sugar syrup + 1 c honey + 1/2 c Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey(R)]

4 lemons for juice

4 limes for juice

Toppings:

12 tblsp lemon zest

12 tblsp lime zest

12 candied marascchino cherries (red)

12 candied cranberries (jar)

2 c total Purple yam (Ube) ice cream

2 c total coconut fullcream ice cream

2 c total vanilla ice cream

18 mint leaves (small)

Instructions:

(Warning: labour intensive and time consuming so prepare well ahead with the crew for a Sundae party at nite or in the heat for a snack.)

1. Get the fresh fruit as indicated and chop into uniform bite size pieces.

2. Cook bananas, root crops and then chop into bit size pieces.

3. Get fresh jackfruit to clean out from seed, chop then cook in bite size pieces.

4. Obtain preserves in a bottle of: nata de coco, palm fruit and cranberries. Chop into chunklets.

5. Prepare treacle or syrup by taking sugar syrup and maple syrup and honey and finally add the Skrewball whiskey in a large saucepan over MED heat and stir with a whisk taking turns to boil up to 45 mins.

6. Mix fruit and other ingredients into the treacle for the parfait filling to layer in the glass.

7. Layering of parfaits: in 6 large cups add in the mixture of banana, ube, jackfruit, nata de coco, palmfruit and candied cranberries in treacle.

8. Top or finish off, add small scoops (3) of each of the (3) icecreams of purple yam, coconut and vanilla (you can try mint chocolate in addition).

9. Add atop the zest of lemon and lime and finally top with (3) marascchino cherry halved and mini mint sprigs (3) as a jubilee.

Options: Do not add any coffee flavourings, young coconut meat, caramel sauce or chocolate syrup.