Recipe: Delicious Ube cake

Ube cake. So this ube cake was born. For my previous ube cakes, I used either ube extract or ube powder but now, since I have the real thing, I thought to use ube jam. And the result was an ube cake that's bursting with ube flavour I could cry.

Ube cake is a traditional Filipino chiffon cake or sponge cake made with ube halaya (mashed purple yam). It is distinctively vividly purple in color, like most dishes made with ube in the Philippines. Ube cake is generally prepared identically to mamón (chiffon cakes and sponge cakes in Filipino cuisine), but with the addition of. You can cook Ube cake using 19 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ube cake

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

What I love the most with Ube Macapuno cake is it's decadence and uniqueness. One of the best cake I've made so far. If you have never had ube, purple yam, then this cake is like nothing you will have tasted before. It is difficult to describe, unusual but quite lovely.

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.

The texture is light and slightly pink in colour. You can buy ube, purple yam, in the UK from specialist Asian stores. It's found in cakes, ice cream, candy, bread fillings and even in Halo-Halo. How to Bake an Ube Chiffon Cake. Inga recreated her friend Stephen's, childhood favorite - the elusive, and very, very purple ube cake!