Ube Cupcakes!

 

Hello, guys! I have not written anything on my blog for months now. I am back! lol. Just checked my blog again today and felt like blogging again. Hopefully I will have time for it again from time to time.

Anyway, my blog post for today is about my homemade Ube Cupcakes! I have been wanting to bake some ube cupcakes or cake these past few months. But I was not so lucky to find an ube flavoring. It is very hard to find an ube flavoring here where I live. The Asian stores here do not have it always. Maybe if they do, it goes away pretty fast because it is not available all the time. I tried to find it online, found one in Amazon but it was too expensive for such a little amount. It is almost $10 for a 20 ml bottle. And I need to use at least two bottles in each recipe. It is not worth it, lol, I am on a budget.

Finally I found some ube flavoring two weeks ago at the Asian store. I got lucky! I bought two bottles ( did not read the recipe yet prior to buying). I thought the two bottles was more than enough. I regretted it. I should have bought all the four bottles. Because I later found out that the recipe calls for the two bottles to be used. Oh well! Lesson learned. I have to wait again for it to be available at the Asian store, lol. I should have been smarter. By the way, the price for each bottle at the store was just $3 each, big difference from the online price. 

So finally, I was able to bake some cupcakes. Primarily, I wanted to bake a cake, but I thought, if we do not finish the whole cake fast it will be wasted. So I decided to just bake the cupcakes. That way, I will just frost enough number of it that we can eat easily. And then I froze the rest for next time.

By the way, for those who do not know what "UBE" is, it is a root crop. Sometimes it is called purple yam, maybe because it is purplish in color. It is a tuberous root vegetable. It is different from the purple sweet potatoes though which is more common here in the US. In the Philippines, it is very common. You can find ube jams, ube ice cream, and of course ube cake/cupcakes.

Back to my baking. The recipe I followed was pretty good. But not what I was expecting. I was looking for the spongy type cupcake. The one I made was more dense. But it was still good, it was pretty moist. Though a little oily for my liking. But overall, the cupcakes were good and the ube taste did come out pretty well.

I will try to find another recipe next time and experiment. Hopefully I will find the recipe I am looking for. Until next post!:)

CASSAVA CAKE RECIPE

Way back in my high school days, I used to buy Cassava Pudding for recess at the Night Class canteen in NOHS. It is one of my favorites. Living here in the US made me miss eating my favorite foods at home. So I have to find ways to be able to make it. So I tried to experiment and later came up with a recipe that tickles my taste buds, I mean that I like. Cassava Cake is mainly made of grated cassava, milk, sugar, and coconut milk. So here it is:





Ingredients:
2 LBS. grated cassava
1 can coconut milk (minus 6 tbsp. for the topping)
1 cup white sugar
3 eggs
1/4 cup butter
1 can evaporated milk
1 can condensed milk (minus 6 tbsp for the topping)
1 tsp vanilla

FOR TOPPING:

6 tbsp coconut milk
6 tbsp condensed milk
2 egg yolks

PROCEDURE:
1. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Mix all the ingredients (except the topping ingredients) in a bowl.
3. After it is mixed well,put it in a greased baking pan.
4. Bake it in the oven for about 35-45 minutes or until the mixtures dries.
5. On the other hand, mix all the topping ingredients,well. After the cassava is done in the oven, pour the topping and bake it for another 25 minutes or until the topping turns golden brown.
6. Take it out from the oven,let it cool down a little and ready to serve. Eat, eat, eat!!!:)

 For those who are in the US and do not have fresh coconut milk, you can buy coconut milk in cans.