Best Ube Macapuno Cupcakes Recipes

UBE CUPCAKES RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325F. Line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners and set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk 2 large eggs, 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup canola oil until combined.
• Add ube jam and whisk until you don't see any ube jam chunks remaining.
• Add 3 tsp ube extract and continue whisking until combined.
• Sift 1 cup cake flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt into your ube mixture.
• Gently stir just until combined. Do not over mix. If you no longer see massive streaks of flour, you're OK.
• Scoop batter into prepared liners, filling them a little over 1/2 full.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of a few of the cupcakes comes out with minimal dry crumbs and the tops spring back when lightly pressed.
• Remove from pan and cool on a rack completely before frosting.
• To make the ube whipped cream frosting, in a small bowl or measuring cup, sprinkle 1 tsp gelatine into 2 tbsp cold water and set aside to bloom (about 2 minutes). Do not stir.
• In the meantime, using a handheld electric mixer or a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, start whipping 1 cup heavy cream with 3 tbsp sugar and 1 tbsp ube extract on medium speed until you reach medium peaks.
• Go back to your gelatine and microwave for 10 seconds to dissolve. Stir to combine and bring down to room temperature.
• Add a dollop of your whipped cream into the gelatine to temper it. Then add the tempered gelatine to your whipped cream and continue whisking until you reach stiff peaks.
• Frost and decorate cupcakes as desired.

UBE CUPCAKES-MOIST, FLUFFY AND EASY TO MAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350f/180c. Place cupcake liners in a cupcake tin.
• Combine coconut milk, evaporated milk, and vinegar in a small bowl. Stir briefly then set aside for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar until the mixture becomes pale and fluffy. Add condensed milk and whisk. Add eggs one at a time. Whisk after every addition.
• Add oil, salt, ube extract, food color and milk mixture. Continue whisking until everything is combined. Taste and adjust ube flavor and color as needed.
• Sift flour, and baking powder onto the wet mixture. Stir until just combined. Do not overmix.
• Fill each cupcake liner with the batter. They should just be 2/3 full. Do not overfill.
• Bake for 18 to 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove cupcakes from the pan and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting. Click here to get the ube buttercream frosting recipe.

UBE-MACAPUNO CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line bottoms of 3 - 9 inch pans with parchment paper, but do not grease. Mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
• Place grated ube in a large bowl. Mix together 3/4 cup milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla; gradually blend into ube until smooth. Blend in corn syrup, egg yolks, and oil. Beat in flour mixture until smooth; set aside.
• In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites with cream of tartar until foamy. Gradually add sugar, then red and blue food coloring, continuing to beat until stiff peaks form. Fold 1/3 of the whites into the batter, then quickly fold in remaining whites until no streaks remain. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the center of cake bounces back when lightly tapped. Invert pans on a wire rack and let cool upside down. When cool, run a knife around the edges to loosen cake from pans. Fill between layers with coconut preserves, then frost top and sides with butter icing.
• To make Butter Icing: Combine evaporated milk and 3/4 cup sugar. set aside. Cream butter until light and fluffy; gradually add sugar mixture, and continue beating to desired spreading consistency. Add food color, one drop at a time until desired tint is achieved.

UBE MACAPUNO CUPCAKES RECIPE - (3.8/5)

Steps:

• Assemble team dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Assemble team wet ingredients - evaporated milk, yoghurt, ube flavoring. Set both aside. Mix together sugar, oil and eggs. Eggs can be added in one go but make sure that everything is well incorporated. Add in ube halaya. Add in one third of the dry ingredients and then add in one half of the wet ingredients. Repeat step 4 until all are combined. Just barely mix, until you cannot see streaks of flour in the batter. Line cupcake pans with cupcake liners, the batter will make 33 cupcakes. Fill each 3oz sized cupcake liners with 1/4 cup batter. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until done. Let the cupcakes cool to room temperature. To make the frosting, beat butter until smooth. Mix in ube halaya and ube flavoring. Sift the powdered sugar and add to the butter mixture slowly. Mix until smooth. Pipe frosting into the cupcakes, I used a closed star tip Ateco 809. The frosting recipe is enough for 33 cupcakes

UBE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Peel and slice the yams into inch thick slices. Transfer into a medium pan, rinse, then cover with cool water. Bring to boil and simmer until tender. Mash with a fork.
• Crack eggs into a large bowl. Beat with a whisk until yellows and whites are combined.
• Gradually add sugar and whisk until combined.
• Add oil and whisk until combined. Add chopped macapuno, mashed yams and vanilla and stir with a wooden spoon to combine.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in another bowl.
• Add about a third of the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix to combine.
• Add about one half of the buttermilk and mix to combined.
• Repeat above, alternating flour and evaporated milk and ending with the flour mixture.
• Scoop into cupcake papers about half to two-thirds full (depending on whether you want flat or domed cupcakes. Note that these cupcakes will don't shrink. Two-thirds full will result in domed cupcakes.).
• Bake for 22-25 minutes until a cake tester comes out clean.