For the past decade Rosalie Kline has been making ube-flavored pastries out of her kitchen in Peoria. She sells ube buchi, sesame balls filled with ube paste, ube bread, sticky ube rice cake and more.

Try this Ube Cake Recipe for a rich, deep purple cake with the rich flavor of ube! Ube is a beautiful deep purple yam famous in the Philippines. Ube extract and ube powder are much easier to find here ...

The ascent of ube has little to do with the purple yam’s taste or Filipino origins. It’s the color, flavor experts say. Credit... Supported by By Julie Creswell and Kevin Draper Two years ago when ...