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)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare 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. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Filipino Food Series: Baguio’s Good Shepherds Ube Halaya Custard Cake (Purple Yam Custard Cake) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re 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 whole life.

Filipino Food Series: Baguio's Good Shepherds Ube Halaya Custard Cake (Purple Yam Custard Cake). Great recipe for Filipino Food Series: Trivia: Ube halaya or halayang ube is a Philippine dessert made from boiled and mashed purple yam. Good Shepherds in Baguio, Northern Luzon part of the Philippines, makes the best Ube Halaya! You can use it for pastries and cake flavours.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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 cook that.

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. Prepare 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. Get Frosting: 1 bottle of Ube Halaya Jam (Purple Yam)

This is my first time to do frosting and rosette swirls. Trivia: Ube halaya or halayang ube is a Philippine dessert made from boiled and mashed purple yam. Good Shepherds in Baguio, Northern Luzon part of the Philippines, makes the best Ube Halaya! You can use it for pastries and cake flavours.

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) ✌️

Good Shepherds in Baguio, Northern Luzon part of the Philippines, makes the best Ube Halaya! You can use it for pastries and cake flavours. This is my first time to do frosting and rosette swirls. Peel and thinly grate the flesh. Like all traditional bhajias, kand na bhajia is also made by deep-frying thin slices of purple yam dipped in a gram flour batter.

So that’s going to wrap it up with this special food filipino food series: baguio’s good shepherds ube halaya custard cake (purple yam custard cake) recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I am sure you will make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!