Ube is a beautiful deep purple yam famous in the Philippines. Ube extract and ube powder are much easier to find here in the U.S. than actual fresh ube, a kind of light purple yam with a hairy ...

How to tell if a particular flavor has entered the mainstream American culinary vernacular: Spot said flavor at Trader Joe’s in the form of cookies, chips and/or ice cream. Have your dad, who was ...

This cake has 5 layers, including custard, pinipig, and whipped cream The sky is (almost) the limit when it comes to creating new desserts and pastries, and Jasmin’s can attest to this – this local ...

These tender and flaky mini cakes created by the dynamic duo of Timothy Flores and Genie Kwon at Kasama, a modern Filipino bakery and restaurant in Chicago, highlight the cultural phenomenon of ube, a ...

Creeping up in the US culinary scene is a newly-popular ingredient that chefs are using in cheesecakes, dougnuts, ice cream, and even homemade twinkies — and it's definitely not what most people with ...

The ube-meets-brazo de mercedes cake is made by Baguio City's Tea House Restaurant and Bakeshop Aside from their best-selling strawberry and matcha pistachio cakes, Baguio City’s Tea House Restaurant ...

Carnival is here, meaning the king cake season is wide open. Until Mardi Gras, we're sampling far and wide around the king cake realm. Here's today's cake: At a certain point during Carnival season, ...

This Hawaiian-Filipino fusion restaurant, which also has a food truck, offers a waffle dessert topped with ube sauce, a scoop of ube ice cream, and traditional halo halo (shaved ice) toppings like red ...