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Ube roll is a classic Filipino dessert made with an airy sponge cake rolled around a creamy ube filling. Cute, fluffy, and delicious, it’s a must-try!
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Ube Cake Roll (Filipino Purple Yam Roll Cake)
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Looking for a fun and tasty dessert? You’ve come to the right place! Today we’ll show you how to make ube roll: a classic Filipino cake roll filled with purple yam, AKA ube. It’s so cute, fluffy, and delicious. You’ll love it!
Cake rolls are super popular in Southeast Asia, and ube-filled roulades are a real hit in the Philippines. And for a reason!
Ube rolls bring together a light and airy sponge cake with Philippines’ beloved purple yam spread, AKA ube halaya. All in a cute-looking swirled dessert!
First time using ube? Ube is the Filipino name for purple yams, a root vegetable with a strikingly purple flesh and barky, brownish skin.
This wonderful tuber tastes sweet and nutty, with hints of vanilla and even white chocolate!
Ube is traditionally used to make ube halaya, a custard-like dessert that includes milk, butter, and sugar.
Ube halaya is also the base of many colourful desserts like cakes, donuts, flans and puddings. And yes, this ube cake roll too!
Whenever a recipe calls for ube, you have two options:
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Get the pre-made ube halaya at your local Asian food store or online;
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Make ube spread from scratch using purple yams (fresh or frozen).
We have a quick and easy ube spread recipe if you want to give it a go!
It’s dairy-free and made with less sugar and a little coconut oil for creaminess. It’s cheaper and healthier than the store-bought one!
And if you’d like to try the recipe but can’t get ube, you can use purple sweet potatoes instead. They’re so very similar to ube they’re basically interchangeable!
Once you’ve sorted the ube spread, all you have to do is prepare the cake batter, bake it, and roll it up with ube filling.
The batter for cake rolls is very light and airy. Made with a little sugar and flour, it basically relies on whipped eggs for structure and fluffiness.
Many roll cake recipes recommend rolling and cooling the sheet of cooked sponge cake first, then unroll it and fill it. In our recipe, instead, we immediately filled and rolled the ube cake while it was still warm.
From our experience, the less time you spend handling the cake, the less likely it is to crack!
Ok now, time to get started and make this swirled ube roll together!
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