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Last Updated on March 20, 2015 by Ed Joven
How to cook Ube Macapuno Cake
Ube Macapuno Cake Recipe is a purple yam cake, which is a well-loved dessert by Filipinos. It is often served at birthday parties and special occasions that make a great centerpiece since it looks so delightful on the table. It is usually topped with sweetened macapuno strips that will surely explode in your mouth with its filling heavenly taste.
When it comes to cake, chocolate is probably the most famous choice of flavor for most of us. But this Ube Macapuno Cake is something you will also enjoy, not only that it is made with a healthy ingredient – which is the Ube Halaya (purple yam) – it is also a Filipino dessert that is very easy to prepare.
Ube Macapuno CakeIngredients:
- 1 cup cake flour
- 2/3 cup sugar, divided (1/2c + 1/8c)
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1/4 cup Fresh milk
- 1 tbsp. clear ubeextract
- violet food coloring (adjust color as desired)
Frosting:(for onelayer only)
- 1 1/2 cups whipped cream
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tsp. clear ube extract
- violet food color (adjust color as desired)
- or
- 1 box (200g) Frosty Powder Whip Cream, whipped
- 2 tsp. ube flavoring
- violet food color (adjust color as desired)
Filling: (for onelayer only)
- 1/2 cup ube halaya or store bought ube fudge
- 1/2 cup macapuno strings
- violet sprinkles or ube cake crumbs, for decorating
Ube Macapuno CakeInstructions:
- Preheat your oven to 350F. Grease and flour the bottom ofone (8×3-inch) round pan and set aside. In a large bowl, combine cake flour with a half cup of sugar, baking powder and salt, then sift together and whisk until combined. Set aside.
- In this recipe we need to use fresh eggs as possible.Separate egg yolks from the whites and set aside. Add egg yolks, oil, milk, ube extract and violet food coloring, then mix thoroughly until batter becomes smooth.
- In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites with the remaining sugar until stiff peaks form. Fold the whites into the batter mixture in three additions.
- Pour the batter into a prepared pan, if you want your cake a bit tall use 8×3-inch round pan and if you prefer a wider cake use a 9×2-inch round pan.Bake at 350F for about 20-25 minutes or until inserted toothpick in the center comes out clean. Fire off, let your cake cool down on a wire rack for a couple minutes and invert the pan to cool completely.
- To prepare the frosting, in a large, clean and well-chilled bowl, whisk the whipping cream until soft peaks form. Add powdered sugar gradually and lastly add in ube flavoring and whisk until reaches stiff peaks. And if you’re using Frosty powder whip cream, add 200ml cold water, a couple teaspoons of clear ube extract and whip until stiff peaks form. Divide whipped cream into two parts: 1/3 part for decorating and making borders and for the remaining whipped cream add violet food coloring and this will be used for icing your cake.
- Now that we already prepared what we need,solet’s assemble our ube macapuno chiffon cake. First, we need a cake board at least an inch larger than your cake. With a serrated knife, trim off the top of your cake to even the top and get rid the brown part and expose the beautiful violet chiffon. (In my case, luckily my cake turned out even so I don’t have to trim off the top, I just use my clean fingers to scrape the brown part, and it peels off easily.)
- Spread a little cream on the board, so our cake won’t slide if we ice them. Place the first layer of your cake. Edge the cake by piping it with whipped cream at least 1 inch high, this will prevent the filling from leaking out the sides. Spread the ube halaya or ube fudge evenly in the center and top with macapuno strings. Top with another layer and ice the whole cake with the whipped cream.
- Use reserved whipped cream to pipe tiny shells and big swirls on the borders. Add violet sprinkles on top of each swirl or decorate cake top with macapuno strings, placing them in the middle inside the borders, if desired.
- Refrigerate theCake for at least 2 hours before serving.
Ube Macapuno Cake Recipe is a moist and delectable purple yam cake.
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Regine
I would love to learn this over and over again! Nice!
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lovely joy merced
im drooling over that cake! looks so yummy, i love ube macapuno cake and this post is very helpful! thanks for the recipe!
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I love to try this…loks so yummy!
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Shannon
Thanks for this recipe. I’m making it for my daughters birthday. It’s her favorite color and it looks delicious.
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Deb
love the color. If I tried to make this it would never look like that. looks like a lot of work and a lot of pretty frosting
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Deb
love the color. looks like a lot of work and mine never turn out as planned
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This is another cake for me to try baking at home. I love ube. Thank you for this great recipe.
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Judy Thomas
The recipe seems quite involved with a lot of steps but the result looks awesome!
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Ronald G
This recipe sounds delicious but a little bit difficult for someone who very rarely bakes and I haven’t heard of, or know where to get ube halaya or ube fudge or macapuno strings
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Tara Woods
What a beautiful cake. I love the color. Thanks for the post.
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nickie
Yum! This looks pretty and delicious
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Mindy Bel
This cake looks absolutely delicious!
Thank you for the great recipie!Reply
jeremy jorgensen
Looks great!
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Carolyn Daley
I have never heard of the Ube Macapuno Cake, but it sounds interesting being made with purple yams as the filling.
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Marcos Batac
Like Ube Nice Recipe Thanks for Sharing
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ellen beck
I would love to make something like this for Easter dinner. This is so pretty and the color is wonderful.
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latanya
I would love to try this recipe
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Linda G.
Never tried any Filipino recipes before – this looks like a fun one!
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Lisa Brown
wow, gorgeous natural color for a cake, looks yummy 🙂
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MA. KARLA SHANE ORINOCO
This is a very palette pleasing food 🙂 Hope to try this soon 🙂
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Teresa Organ
This looks very good and it is very pretty.
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Sarah L
Beautiful cake. Would be interesting to try it.
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Charles Raisor
Looks delicious!
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ellen beck
Very pretty I really am amazed how colorful things are. Purple especially seems to be a favorite.
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Betsy Barnes
Such a beautiful cake! It looks like it would taste fantastic 🙂
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Melody
Oh my gosh, so pretty! Have to try this recipe
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Michelle L
I like the name of the cake.
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Joseph Stowell
This sounds very interesting. I will look for the ube extract, the ube ube fudge, and the macapuno strings. Besides, the violet coloring makes it look very festive!
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San
I really love the color of this cake, and it looks too beautiful to be eaten!
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courtney b
this looks soo good.
thanks 🙂 love the purple icing.. mmm
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Luisa M Davila
Im so glad i found this site…it will really come in handy for all ocasions…I can’t wait to try thsi cake it’ll be my first recipe I’ll try from this site..willkeep you posted. Thanks!!!
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Aldrin Montierro
Looks yummy inside out, Thanks for sharing this recipe.
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LL Laughlin
Yum! Pretty and delicious
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laura rubenstein
I love this cake! It is so pretty and looks and sounds delicious!
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Coline T.
This looks like an interesting recipe! Would love to try 🙂
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