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🍽️ Filipino
Toast Ube Cake
🍽️ Filipino
A soft purple yam chiffon cake layered with light cream frosting, a Filipino favourite. Ready in about 1 hour 5 minutes.
Prep 30 min Cook 35 min Serves 10 Hard Ingredients
- 🫙Vegetable Oil1/2 cup
- 🥚Eggs5, separated
- 🧀Milk1/2 cup
- 🌾All-Purpose Flour2 cups
- 🫙Sugar1 cup
- 🫙Baking Powder1 tbsp
- 🧀Cream Cheese200 g
- 🍦Whipped Cream1 1/2 cups
- 🍠Ube Halaya1 cup
Optional extras
Instructions
- 1
Heat the oven to 165°C and line two cake tins.
- 2
Whisk yolks, half the sugar, oil, milk and ube halaya; sift in flour and baking powder.
- 3
Whip the whites with the remaining sugar to stiff peaks and fold in gently.
- 4
Bake 30–35 minutes until a skewer comes out clean; cool completely.
- 5
Beat cream cheese with some ube halaya, fold in whipped cream, and layer and frost the cake.
Chef's tip
Bake by visual cues as well as time: every oven runs a little differently.
Toast Ube Cake
- Time
- 65 min
- Serves
- 10
- Level
- Hard
- Prep / cook
- 30 / 35 min
Ingredients
- 🫙 Vegetable Oil1/2 cup
- 🥚 Eggs5, separated
- 🧀 Milk1/2 cup
- 🌾 All-Purpose Flour2 cups
- 🫙 Sugar1 cup
- 🫙 Baking Powder1 tbsp
- 🧀 Cream Cheese200 g
- 🍦 Whipped Cream1 1/2 cups
- 🍠 Ube Halaya1 cup
Optional
Steps
- Heat the oven to 165°C and line two cake tins.
- Whisk yolks, half the sugar, oil, milk and ube halaya; sift in flour and baking powder.
- Whip the whites with the remaining sugar to stiff peaks and fold in gently.
- Bake 30–35 minutes until a skewer comes out clean; cool completely.
- Beat cream cheese with some ube halaya, fold in whipped cream, and layer and frost the cake.
