13 magical recipes you can make with purple yams

Ube is the purple Filipino yam that's been grabbing attention for its royal coloring. The yam is combined with sugar, coconut milk, condensed milk, and butter and made into ube halaya, or ube jam. The jam is then used in pastries such as cakes, cookies, and even waffles! It's pretty much just like food coloring, except it's a yam. Here are some of our favorite ube recipes.

These ube crinkle cookies are done in six easy steps.

Bake Happy

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Hey, what's your favorite flavor of ice cream? Purple.

Filipino Recipes Portal

Here's how to make it.

Purple cupcakes reign.

Heart of Mary

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When will Dunkin' get on these ube doughnuts?

Burnt Lumpia

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Ube pancakes are a little easier to make than doughnuts, but they're just as tasty.

Ang Sarap

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This is the most magical poundcake we've ever seen!

Asian in America

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It's not all sweet. Ube chips are almost too pretty to eat.

The Food Gays

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Go ahead and have two of these healthy-sounding buckwheat ube cinnamon rolls.

Rachel Leung

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If you want to get fancy, ube macarons > lavender macarons.

Make it Pop Sweets

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Nothing beats these ube empanadas, though, because: FRIED DOUGH.

Jun Belen

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