Ube Cookie Recipe

This Ube Cookie recipe makes for a delightfully vibrant and delicately sweet dessert that’ll make your afternoons a whole lot more delightful. A beautifully delicious purple colored cookie that just needs 5 steps to make. Using a few ingredients – all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, white sugar, brown sugar, unsalted butter, ube halaya or jam, ube extract, a large egg, and a good amount of chocolate. All the ingredients are mixed together, molded, then baked into a gooey chewy cookie with a slightly crisp outer layer.

Ube Cookie Recipe :

Ingredients :

• 1 & ⅓ cup all purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ⅓ cup white sugar
• ½ or ⅓ cup brown sugar
• ½  cup unsalted butter
• ½ cup ube halaya or jam
• 1 tablespoon ube extract
• 1 large egg
• ⅔ or 1 cup chocolate

Steps :

1. In a bowl, sift in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix well and set aside.

2. In another bowl, mix white sugar, brown sugar, and butter. Add in the ube halaya or jam and ube extract. Mix until it looks smooth enough.

3. Mix in a large egg before folding in the flour mixture until there are no white streaks left. Fold in the chocolate chips. Cover and place in the freezer for 1 hour.

4. For medium sized cookies-use a ⅓ cup or scoop. For smaller cookies use a ⅛ – ¼ cup or scoop. Place on parchment or cling wrap. Freeze for another 1 – 2 hours if these feel too soft.

5. To bake, roll into a ball using your hands ( optional ). Add more chocolate if you’d like. Press down before baking in a 350°F or 160°C preheated oven for 10 – 12 minutes. For bigger cookies, bake for 12 – 15 minutes.

6. Enjoy warm or cooled !

What are Ube Cookies ?

“Ube Cookies” also known as  “Purple Yam Crinkles” or “Ube Crinkles” is a dessert that has Filipino and American influences. American chocolate chip cookies, given a Filipino twist by using the ever popular ube, combining this with complimentary white chocolate chips. There’s nothing as aromatic and pretty as these Ube Cookies. Ube being a staple ingredient in Philippines cuisine has been used as an additive in many traditional and modern desserts. Some say i started as crinkle cookies ( smaller thicker cookies usually with no chocolate, then dusted all over with powdered sugar ) , transitioning into chocolate chip cookies after a rise in ube consumption in American social media where many have decided to add ube into almost any desserts from cheesecakes, croissants, waffles, pancakes, and more.

How to make this White Chocolate Ube Cookies Recipe ?

There’s nothing like a cookie to make sad days a bit more happier. To make this delightful ube chocolate chip cookies recipe all you need to do is prepare your dry and wet ingredients separately. First mix the dry ingredients- all purpose flour, baking powder and baking soda which will help puff out the cookies, and some salt to help bring out the flavors. Make sure to fist these in before mixing together to make sure there will be no lumps later on. Then for the next bowl, mix in white sugar, brown sugar, and butter. Cream until the butter looks fluffy and lighter in color before adding in the ube halaya or jam. While the halaya is usually more affordable and gives you a better vibrant purple color. If you want a really nice smooth and better textured batter use the jam instead. Mix until the batter looks smooth enough. Then mix in the egg before folding in the flour mixture. Try not to over mix and only fold until you do not see any white streaks left. Fold in the chocolate chips to help remove any more dry spots. If the batter feels too soft, cover and freeze for an hour or so.

To mold these, use a ⅓ cup of medium sized cookies and ⅛ – ¼ cup for smaller cookies. Place these on parchment or cling wrap and freeze for a few more hours until it’s firm enough. If you want to make sure these turn out circular, roll these on the palms of your hands a few times before placing over the parchment paper, at least an inch or so apart. Top with more chocolate if you like then flatten these a bit. Bake for a few minutes, giving the bigger cookies a bit more time before taking it out. Enjoy warm with a glass of milk, tea, or a fresh cup of joe!

Questions

• Additional Ingredients 
  • Make this snack even more fun by adding an even chewier ingredient ‘mochi or rice cakes’. Simply use store bought mochi, slice them into smaller pieces if needed and place thes inside or in the middle of the cookie batter before baking. A fun Ube Mochi Cookies recipe that kids and adults will both love.
  • For those wanting a richer more coco-nutty take; make some Ube Coconut Cookies recipe by using coconut sugar in replacement of brown sugar, with the addition of ¼ or ⅓ cup of coconut milk, you can also replace ⅓ of the all purpose flour with coconut flour if you’d like. To top it all off, at the end before baking, sprinkle the top with desiccated coconut for a stronger coconut aroma.
  • For those who like the marbled look, try a Ube Cream Cheese Cookies recipe (marbled ube cookies recipe) do this by adding cream cheese in the batter by not mixing these thoroughly, or if you’d like to make the cream cheese a surprise, add this inside the cookie.

• Ube cookies recipe without ube jam or halaya ?
  • Ube cookies recipe with ube powder – While ube halaya or jam may not be as easily available you can also use 4 to 5 oz of ube powder with 2 – 3 tablespoons of water or coconut milk to make a quick ube paste. Then mix it well as instructed in the recipe.
  • Ube cookies recipe with ube extract – You can also simply use more of the extract adding another 2 -3 tablespoons. It might not have the chewy moistness the jam or halaya might have but it will have a more vibrant color.

• How to make this a gluten free ube cookie recipe ?

To make this gluten free simply replace the all purpose flour with the same amount of gluten free flour. You can also replace these with white rice flour or brown rice flour, removing ¼ or ⅓ cup of it as these can absorb too much of the liquids.

Try our other Yummy Ube Flavored Recipes :

• Ube Cheese Ice cream
• Ube Cake ala Red Ribbon    
• No Oven Ube Cake  
• Ube Milk Tea  
• For other cookie options try this “How to make Ube Crinkle Cookies” recipe
• Or to pair with teas, try “Ube Shortbread Cookies recipe” ( ube tea cookies recipe )
• Ube Pandesal    

Ube Cookies Resipi ( Tagalog ) :

Mga Sangkap :

• 1 at ⅓ tasa ng harina
• ½ kutsarita ng baking powder
• ½ kutsarita ng baking soda
• 1 kutsarita ng asin
• ⅓ tasa ng puting asukal
• ½ o ⅓ tasa ng kayumangging asukal
• ½  tasa ng mantikilya ( na unsalted )
• ½ tasa ube halaya o jam
• 1 kutsarang ube extract
• 1 malaking itlog
• ⅔ o 1 tasa ng tsokolate

Paano Lutuin :

1. Sa mangkok, salain ang harina, bakinh powder, baking soda, at asin. Haluin at itabi.
2. Sa ibang mangkok, haluin ang puting asukal, kayumangging asukal, at mantikilya. Pagkatapos, haluin ang ube halaya o jam at ube extract. Haluin ng mabuti.
3. Haluan ng itlog bago ifold ang harina na mixture hanggang wala nang makitang mga puting guhit. Ifold ang tsokolate. Takpan at ilagay sa red ng 1 oras.
4. Para sa katamtamang laking cookies gumamit ng ⅓ na tasa o scoop. Para sa maliliit na cookies gumamit ng ⅛ o ¼ na tasa o scoop. Ilagay sa cling wrap o parchment at palamigin nang 1 – 2 oras kung masyado itlong malambot. 
5. Para ihurno, irolyo ang mga bola sa kamay ( opsyonal ). Dagdagan ng tsokolate kung gusto. Pindutin pababa at lutuin ng 350°F o 160°C na ininit na oben ng 10 – 12 minuto. Para sa malaking cookies, lutuin ng 12 – 15 minuto.
6. I-enjoy !

Notes : 

• Depende sa biniling uba halaya o jam, dagdagan o bawasan ang gagamiting kayumangging asukal.
• Kaya pinapalamig ang ‘masa’ ay para mabilis itong imold mamaya. Ifreeze ang mga ito ng 1 – 2 na oras kung masyadong malambot.
• Para makabuo ng bilog, gumamit ng tasa o kahit anong gamit na may bilog na bibig at i-bilog ito sa cookie hanggang makamolde ng maayos na bilog.