My moth­er, hav­ing spent her child­hood in the Philip­pines, loves ube, a pur­ple yam com­mon­ly enjoyed there — so, for her birth­day, I knew I want­ed to try mak­ing her an ube cake. It took a lit­tle exper­i­men­ta­tion to get both the tex­ture and fla­vor right, espe­cial­ly as the fla­vor of ube can be quite sub­tle, but I was rather pleased with the end result and am excit­ed to share it! If you’ve nev­er had ube, it’s a lit­tle dif­fi­cult to describe how… Con­tin­ue Reading