Ube desserts are delicious, easy to make and wonderfully purple. Made from real ube and made more amazing with the addition of ube extract, you’ll definitely want to add these ube recipes to you recipe collection.
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The Best Must-Try Ube Desserts
Check out this delicious collection of ube desserts. From ube cake to ube brownies, ube cookies to ube ice cream, find your favourite ube dessert recipe here.
Ube Halaya Recipe
Most ube desserts start with ube halaya or ube jam. And this ube recipe is exceptionally good! Simple to make, tastes amazing and authentic, made with real ube. It’s one of those things that tastes like home.
TRADITIONAL UBE DESSERTS
These are the traditional ube desserts you grew up eating. Now you can make them at home and make every day special.
Ube Cake (Filipino Purple Yam Cake)
This ube cake recipe is a crowd-favourite. Moist and tender ube cake frosted with luxurious ube Swiss meringue buttercream. It’s a purple yam cake like you’ve never had before.
The Best Ube Roll Cake Recipe
Delicious ube roll cake. Soft and fluffy ube cake with whipped cream cheese frosting. Fun to make, cheerful and festive, perfect for all your celebrations.
Ube Cupcakes Recipe
Ube cupcakes are mini ube cakes frosted with the lightest ube whipped cream frosting. Perfect for baby showers, Easter and other special occasions.
Ube Chiffon Cake Recipe
Ube chiffon cake is light and airy, so easy to make, and packed with the ube flavour you love. Perfect for company or as an everyday treat.
Ube Cake Flan
Ube cake flan is your favorite ube cake with leche flan on top. And yes, it’s as delicious as it sounds! Easy to make too. Perfect for the holidays and all your celebrations.
Homemade Ube Ice Cream (No Ice Cream Maker!)
Filipinos grew up eating ube ice cream. It’s great on its own, amazing in halo-halo, even eaten with pandesal! Good news is it’s so easy to make at home. You don’t even need an ice cream maker. And your homemade ube ice cream will taste better than what you can find in-store.
Ube Bars Recipe (Ube Bar Bread)
Ube bars are a childhood favourite of many Filipinos. Available in almost every bakery or local panaderia, they’re a popular afternoon snack. Ube bars are made of bread sliced into bars then dipped in ube syrup and coated with coconut.
Ube Biko with Latik
Ube biko is a kind of Filipino sticky rice cake made of glutinous rice and coconut, and packed with ube (purple yam) flavor. Easy to make, no need to bake, delicious!
Cheesy Ube Turon Recipe
Ube turon is another delicious way to enjoy ube. Ube halaya and cheddar cheese wrapped like a spring roll and fried until crispy. It’s the perfect ube snack! Just 5 ingredients and ready in no time.
Easy Delicious Ube Hopia
Ube hopia is a Filipino treat made of flaky pastry filled with ube or purple yam. You don’t need an oven to make them and they’re easier to make than you think!
Ube Pie (Filipino Purple Yam Pie)
Ube pie is made with a deliciously creamy ube filling and uses a ready-made pie crust for ease and convenience. It will be the star of all your Thanksgiving and holiday celebrations!
MODERN UBE RECIPE IDEAS
Ube has gone mainstream as purple desserts become more popular every year. Here are some of the latest and greatest Filipino ube desserts you can make and enjoy.
Ube Cheesecake with Coconut Cookie Crust and Coconut Whipped Cream
Ube cheesecake is a relatively new ube treat but it is one of the most delicious. Imagine smooth and creamy cheesecake, packed with big bold ube flavours, complemented by a delicious coconut cookie crust. So good.
Ube Basque Cheesecake
Ube basque cheesecake is smooth, creamy and packed with the ube flavor you love. With its characteristic burnt exterior and a luxurious ube filling, it’s perfect for all your celebrations!
Ube Pound Cake
Ube pound cake is a delicious twist on the classic pound cake. Swirls of purple marbled beautifully all over with hints of delightful ube in every bite of vanilla butter cake.
The Best Ube Tiramisu Recipe
Ube tiramisu is the no bake ube cake you’ve been waiting for. Only 7 ingredients, easy to make, and so good. Destined to be the star of your celebrations.
Ube Brownies Recipe
Ube brownies are your favourite chocolate fudgy brownie but delicious ube that’s studded with white chocolate chips. Perfect for bake sales, potlucks, Christmas, picnics and more.
Ube Mochi Recipe (Hawaiian Butter Mochi)
Ube mochi is tender, chewy and a delicious ways to enjoy ube or purple yam. It’s very easy to make too! 1 bowl, less than 10 ingredients, done in less than an hour, happiness in every bite.
Ube Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Can’t decide between ube cheesecake and ube brownies? Ube cheesecake bars are the answer!
Jollibee Ube Pie (Copycat Recipe)
A popular Filipino fast-food chain introduced ube pie a few years ago and this ube pie recipe is inspired by that, but better! Delicious ube halaya wrapped in crispy, butter puff pastry then baked not fried. It’s so simple to make and so good.
How to Make Ube Tarts
Ube tarts — ube cheesecake filling within a buttery shortbread crust. So good! They’re easy to make too.
Ube Rice Krispies Treat
Looking for unique rice Krispie treats? Try ube rice krispies! Ube, puffed rice cereal and marshmallows come together for a fun, chewy and delightfully purple snack.
COOKIE RECIPES WITH UBE
If you want to shake things up and bring your cookie baking game to another level, try these ube cookie recipes. They don’t only look pretty, they’re delicious too!
Ube Crinkles Recipe
Chocolate crinkles are popular around the holidays but ube crinkles are a favourite all year round. They’re soft and tender and taste just like mini ube cakes. Perfect with coffee or tea.
Ube Cookies Recipe - Soft and Chewy
Wondering what your favourite chocolate chip cookie will taste like in the ube world? Make a batch of these soft and chewy ube cookies!
UBE FOR BREAKFAST
What better way to start the day than with ube?
Ube Butter Recipe
Ube butter is exactly what it sounds like — your favorite ube jam transformed into a wonderfully creamy butter spread. Goes so well with pandesal, pancakes, waffles and more!
How to Make Ube Pandesal (Plain, Cheese or with Ube Jam)
Ube pandesal is your favourite Filipino bread roll but ube flavoured! Make it plain, with cheese, with ube halaya, or with cheese and ube halaya.
Ube Ensaymada
Ube ensaymada is your favourite soft and cheesy Filipino bread filled with delicious ube halaya or jam. Easy recipe with tips, FAQs and more!
Ube Pancakes
Ube pancakes are your favourite buttermilk pancakes bursting with the ube flavour you love. Made with ube halaya or ube jam, it’s sweet, soft, fluffy. It’s definitely one of my favourite ways to start my day.
Ube Waffles
Turn it up a notch and make ube waffles! They’re your favourite buttermilk waffles filled with the wonderful flavours of ube. Crunchy outside, soft inside, delicious. Serve it on Thanksgiving morning!
Ube Muffins Recipe
Ube muffins are soft but dense, topped with a sweet coconut crumble and filled with a generous helping of ube halaya or ube jam. It’s a delicious treat for breakfast, snack, picnics, work and school.
Baked Ube Donuts Recipe
Ube donuts are soft and tender, packed with ube flavour, and baked not fried. Quick and easy to make with 3 different toppings, including a mouthwatering ube sugar glaze.
Ube Bread Rolls
Ube bread rolls are made of delicious ube jam enveloped in soft, fluffy bread and served with toasted coconut. Perfect with coffee!
Desserts with purple yam are unique, delicious and most of them are very easy to make and takes no time at all. So go ahead and recreate your childhood favourite and enjoy an ube treat today.
What’s your favourite ube dessert? I’d love to hear from you in the comments section below.
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Sara
Wow! These desserts look amazing! Thank you for sharing, my son loves ube treats.
Lynndee
I love ube-flavored desserts. Now if only I can have them all right about now. 🙂
Rosey
I wouldn’t mind trying the ice cream. It’s good that you don’t need an ice cream maker.
Bunny
Been eyeing your ube cheesecake for a while 🙂 Looking forward to making that. Love this collection!
Marysa
I wish it was easier to find ube around here. These desserts are all so pretty!
Richelle Milar
Wow! These looks absolutely delicious and tasty! I would really love to try this my kids would love all of these foods!
Melissa Cushing
I have heard of Ube before . I think the ube bar bread looks amazing. I will definitely check out the homemade ice cream too! Thanks for sharing
Kathy
Everything looks amazing. I would love to try all of these recipes. I just love how everything is purple. It makes them even more appealing.
Terri Steffes
I love the cookies rolled in powdered sugar. You can really see that purple color.
Hollie
All of these look so good. I love the color of ube! I don’t even know which one I want to make first.
alita
These Ube recipes are out of this world. I love Ube yam! I always had Ube ice cream fro my birthday
Claudia
Oh., this post just made me hungry. I haven’t had ube crinkles for a while too. and it makes me wanna eat
LOURAINE WILMOT
Hi. Thank you for introducing me to ube, I love trying new foods.
Wendy
I can’t wait to try the ube brownies!!!
Amber Myers
I keep hearing about ube but haven’t tried it yet. I should! These look like some tasty desserts.