Ube Cookie Recipe – a vibrant twist on a classic cookie

This Ube Cookie recipe makes for a delightfully vibrant and sweet dessert that’ll make your afternoons a whole lot more fun! This easy to follow recipe just needs 5 steps, a good amount of chocolate to ed up with a gooey chewy cookie with a slightly crisp outer layer, sweet earthy ube taste, and a beautiful purple hue. 

Ube Cookie Ingredients :

• All purpose flour – the gluten needed to make these delicious cookies.
• Baking powder – it keeps the cookie from rising too much.
• Baking soda – to help the cookie rise.
• Salt – to enhance the flavors
• White sugar and Brown sugar – for the sweetness and structure. Too little will make the cookie crumbly, too much will make the cookie overwhelmingly sweet.
• Unsalted butter – gives the cookie it’s nice rich taste and aroma.
• Ube halaya or jam – for flavor, it also helps with the chewy texture of the cookie.
• Ube extract – for additional flavor and pop of color.
• Egg – binds everything to gather and makes the cookies chewy.
• Chocolate – you can choose white or milk chocolate to pair with the ube. Dark chocolate may over power the ube’s taste.

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.

Try our other Yummy Ube Flavored Recipes :

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.

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.