Filipino Food Series: Baguio’s Good Shepherds Ube Halaya Custard Cake (Purple Yam Custard Cake)
Filipino Food Series: Baguio’s Good Shepherds Ube Halaya Custard Cake (Purple Yam Custard Cake)

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, filipino food series: baguio’s good shepherds ube halaya custard cake (purple yam custard cake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ube cake (or Filipino purple yam cake) is unlike any cake you've had before. When I went home last October, at the top of my foodie to-do list was to go to the Good Shepherd Convent so I can buy boatloads of ube jam that I can take back to Toronto. If you love this Baguio convent's products, then this is the ube halaya recipe you need to mimic its iconic purple yam jam.

Filipino Food Series: Baguio’s Good Shepherds Ube Halaya Custard Cake (Purple Yam Custard Cake) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Filipino Food Series: Baguio’s Good Shepherds Ube Halaya Custard Cake (Purple Yam Custard Cake) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook filipino food series: baguio’s good shepherds ube halaya custard cake (purple yam custard cake) using 3 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Filipino Food Series: Baguio’s Good Shepherds Ube Halaya Custard Cake (Purple Yam Custard Cake):
  1. Prepare Custard Ingredients: 5 egg yolks, 1 egg, 3 tsp brown sugar (you can add more if you like☺️) 1 tsp vanilla, 2/ tsp water, 1/2 cup of evaporated milk, 1/2 cup condensed milk
  2. Get Cake: 5 egg whites, 2 egg yolks, 2 tsp white sugar, 1 tbsp Purple Yam, 1tsp purple food colour, 1/4cup evaporated milk, 1/8 corn oil, 3/4 cup cake flour, 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp baking powder
  3. Make ready Frosting: 1 bottle of Ube Halaya Jam (Purple Yam)

This is the Ube and Leche Flan mashup you never knew you needed. You can grab this purple yam cake filled with creamy custard, ube sponge cake, and purple One of their signature desserts include the Ube Halaya Crisp ala mode, which is made of light and crispy. Custard Cake resembles a chiffon cake with a topping of sweetened milk and egg mixture known as custard. At first glance, this could be mistaken as I like chilled custard cake.

Instructions to make Filipino Food Series: Baguio’s Good Shepherds Ube Halaya Custard Cake (Purple Yam Custard Cake):
  1. Custard - Make the caramel base of the custard first by melting sugar with a little bit of water. Once sugar is caramelised set it aside. In a separate bowl, mix egg, egg yolks, evaporated milk, condensed milk, vanilla. Then strain the egg mixture 4-5 times until it’s smooth. Remove the bubbles and pour in the mixture to the pan with the caramelised sugar.
  2. Cover with foil then punch holes to avoid water drops. Pre-heat the steamer for at least 10 minutes then put the custard pan and steam it for 30-40 minutes. Let it cool down, set aside or put it in a fridge.
  3. Cake Meringue - Make the egg white frothy first. Add sugar while continuously whisking until you achieve peaks. Set aside.
  4. Cake Batter: Mix together egg yolks, sugar, evaporated milk, oil, vanilla, Ube Halaya, purple food colour. Then add the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda. Mix until no lump. Then add the meringue by batch then fold gently.
  5. Pour in the mixture into a round shaped baking pan and steam it for 40 to 60 minutes. Use a skewer to test if cake is fully cooked. Set aside and let it cool down before cutting it into half.
  6. Frosting: I used the remaining Ube Halaya for frosting and Rosetta swirls using a piping tool (I think it would come out better using a piping bag) ✌️

Sometimes I even add whipping cream on. Recipe: Tasty Filipino Food Series: Baguio's Good Shepherds Ube Halaya Custard Cake (Purple Yam Custard Cake) ⋆ Grandma's secret recipes blog. Trivia: Ube halaya or halayang ube is a Philippine dessert made from boiled and mashed purple yam. Ube Halaya is a Filipino dessert made from purple yam or "Ube " as we call it. Ube Halaya is usually served cold.

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