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

With its eye-catching color and sweet-but-subtle flavor, ube has been on dessert menus everywhere over the past few years. A staple in Filipino cooking for generations, ube became Instagram-famous ...

A stunning dessert, this cheesecake gets its beautiful purple color from ube, a purple yam popular in Filipino cuisine. It’s rich, creamy, and topped with a vibrant ube halaya and a fluffy ube whipped ...

“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 ...

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, ...