One of my favorite dessert flavors is ube (purple yam). Its unique, vanilla-like, and slightly earthy flavor works perfectly in many not-too-sweet desserts like ube tiramisu and ube ice cream. So, of ...

Make Abi Balingit's strawberry shortcake sapin-sapin (layered rice cake), ube cheesecake bars with a sesame cracker crust and rainbow fruit polvoron (shortbread cookies) You can save this article by ...

Chera Amlag had no idea that her baking hobby would flourish into a full-time profession. But when the Filipina American’s signature ube (Filipino purple yam) cheesecake rose to notoriety, she took a ...

SUDDENLY, UBE IS everywhere. The purple yam, a popular ingredient in Filipino desserts, blazes across dessert trays in amethyst-hued scoops of ice cream, cupcakes colored a brilliant violet, lavender ...

You know when there’s an underground band you love, and all of a sudden you’re hearing their songs on the radio and everyone’s wearing the T-shirt—and it makes you a little sad, because you enjoyed ...

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 ...

WaBa Grill, an LA-original rice bowl chain known for its Asian-inspired menu, invites guests to indulge in its new, limited-time Ube Royale Cheesecake, adding a distinctly colorful and decadent ...

This is the sweet story of a viral and photogenic ube cheesecake. To many Filipino-Americans, ube is not a trend. It’s a staple. Yet here in the United States, it was known for decades as an ethnic ...

Blackbeard Dulceria's ube cheesecake, seen here served with a scoop of ube ice cream, is a popular seasonal dessert at LITM in Jersey City. (Buko Media photo) Creamy, decadent cheesecake is probably ...