"I feel like it’s the next vanilla,” says Henry Awayan about ube, the beautiful, vibrant purple root vegetable. Jean Chen ...

“I often have to tell people it’s not that sweet,” says self-taught baker Irene Pabellano, founder of Pastries On Demand and creator of the royal purple-hued ube flan cake. “It’s similar to leche flan ...

For a petite pastry, Genie Kwon’s cross between a sandwich cookie and cake has a lot to say. Starting with two buttery discs of Basque cake, Kwon layers on pastry cream made with ube. That nods to the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Does having potato as an ingredient in a chiffon cake sound too heavy for you? Try using U.S. dehydrated potatoes in place of fresh potatoes. These potatoes are light, airy, and ...

Ube, the violet yam native to Southeast Asia, has been making its purple presence known in bakeries and on dessert menus throughout Philly. Though there are many varieties of ube (pronounced “ou-beh”) ...

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 ...