Curious about ube, the vibrant purple Southeast Asian yam that tastes like vanilla and pistachio? Then check out this blog post for the best ube dessert recipes, as well as an easy recipe for ube halaya jam (a key ingredient when making any ube dessert). Get tips on where to buy frozen ube, store-bought ube halaya jam, ube extract, and more!
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Baked Mochi Pon De Ring Donuts
This pon de ring mochi donut recipe does NOT require any deep frying! Instead, the donuts are baked in the oven for a “healthier” version of the Japanese treat. The small batch recipe only makes 5 donuts and allows you to easily customize the donuts with a variety of flavored glazes. Access the recipe by supporting Hummingbird High on Patreon!
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Small Batch Baked Ube Mochi Donuts
These baked ube mochi donuts are crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, and filled with lots of ube flavor! The recipe is also both gluten free AND small batch. It makes just enough batter to fill one donut pan, making exactly six donuts!
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Ube Crinkle Cookies
Ube crinkle cookies are a beautiful, Filipino-American twist on the classic crinkle cookie! Ube is a purple yam frequently used in Southeast Asian desserts. It is naturally purple in color, with a subtle flavor that tastes like both pistachio and vanilla. These ube crinkle cookies get their vibrant color and flavor from both ube halaya jam and ube extract!
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ube blossom cookies
Blow everybody’s mind with this recipe for ube blossom cookies, a unique variation of classic peanut butter blossom cookies! Instead of peanut butter, I used ube, a purple yam often used in Filipino desserts, to give the cookies their beautiful purple color and a flavor that’s been described as a cross between vanilla and pistachio.
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ube layer cake + seven years of hummingbird high
Happy Seventh Birthday to Hummingbird High! For those who came for the recipe, I’ll keep things short and sweet up here: I’m celebrating the (lucky number) seventh anniversary of starting my blog with an ube layer cake (complete with ube Swiss meringue buttercream frosting!) inspired by my Filipino heritage. Ube is a sweet purple yam […]
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