The most popular ube recipes are ube halaya (jam), ube ice cream, ube cheesecake, ube pandesal (bread rolls), and ube lattes. Almost every recipe starts from cooked, mashed ube — see how to cook ube first if you're working from the raw root.
Classic desserts
Ube Halaya
The purple yam jam that's the base of nearly every other ube recipe.
FrozenUbe Ice Cream
Homemade or store-bought, and how to tell if it's real ube.
Baked goods
Ube halaya or ube extract can be folded into cake batters, cheesecake fillings, and even bread dough for a naturally purple crumb and the same sweet, nutty flavor described in our taste guide. Popular options include ube crinkle cookies, ube cheesecake, and ube pandesal.
Drinks
Ube lattes and ube milk teas typically use ube powder or syrup blended with milk. Because "ube" drinks are sometimes actually taro-based, check our purple yam vs taro comparison before assuming a drink is real ube.
Starting from raw ube
If you have fresh or frozen whole ube rather than a jar of jam, start with our step-by-step how to cook ube guide, then move on to any recipe above.
