Recipe: Yummy Ube cake

Ube cake. Ube cake (or Filipino purple yam cake) is unlike any cake you've had before. It's sweet and earthy and deliciously purple! A staple in any Filipino celebration.

When cool, run a knife around the edges to loosen cake from pans. Fill between layers with coconut preserves, then frost top and sides with butter icing. Ube cake is one of the most beloved Filipino cakes. You can cook Ube cake using 19 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Ube cake

1. It's of Chiffon(dry).
2. You need of all purpose flour.
3. It's of sugar.
4. Prepare of salt.
5. Prepare of baking powder.
6. Prepare of powdered milk.
7. You need of Chiffon(wet).
8. You need of egg yolks.
9. You need of oil.
10. It's of water.
11. It's of ube flavor.
12. It's of violet food color.
13. You need of Meringue.
14. Prepare of egg whites.
15. Prepare of cream of tartar.
16. Prepare of white sugar.
17. You need of Fillings and toppings.
18. Prepare of Ube halaya.
19. It's of Macapuno strings.

It is made from ube or purple yam. Purple yam is a tuber or root crop that is vivid purple, hence the name. Ube-flavored desserts are so popular in the Philippines and are currently making a splash in the US. Ube cupcakes are little ube cakes packed with big ube flavour.

Ube cake step by step

1. Preheat oven 170°c..
2. In a bowl combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and powdered milk. Mix well untill combined.
3. In a separate bowl add the wet ingredients for the chiffon. Mix well untill combined.
4. Combine wet and dry ingredients..
5. Beat egg whites on med.low speed until foamy. Add cream of tartar beat until soft peaks form..
6. Increase speed to high and gradually add sugar. Beat until stiff peaks form.
7. Gently fol the meringue into the base batter.
8. Gently pour the batter into the pan line with parchment paper.
9. Bake for 25 minutes or do the toothpick check if it comes out clean your cake is done. When its not cook for 5 mins and check..
10. Do the ube swiss buttercream.
11. Assemble the cake.mix buttercream with ube halaya and use it as a filling.
12. Decorate ur cake usin the swiss buttercream.
13. Refrigerate if done with the first layer and put the second layer of swiss buttercream. Pipe decorations using the swiss buttercream.

Soft, dense and just the right amount of sweet. Top with ube whipped cream frosting and sprinkle with toasted shredded coconut for the ultimate Filipino treat. (Do you love ube as much as I do? Ube Chiffon Cake is one of my favorites. I just love the deep purple color. I have been wanting to bake an Ube Chiffon Cake for a while now but I've had quite a hard time finding Ube jam here in Singapore.