How to make Ube Custard Cake (Filipino Purple Yam Leche Flan Cake) Recipe

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Ube Custard Cake is a combination of Leche Flan (Filipino Crem caramel, caramel custard, egg pudding or caramel pudding) and the Ube cake. It is beautifully layered that you can enjoy the two desserts in a bite. It is a combination of the sweetness of flan and the softness of the Ube cake will make you smile when you taste it. I hope you get to enjoy this cake! 🙂

Ingredients

[for caramel]

3/4 cup Sugar – https://amzn.to/2YtYLP1
1/3 cup Water

[for flan]

5 pcs Egg Yolks – https://amzn.to/2NwNjf7
1 pc Whole Egg – https://amzn.to/2NwNjf7
1 cup Condensed Milk – https://amzn.to/2Z34EBP
3/4 cup Evaporated Milk – https://amzn.to/2NwNDKR
1 tsp Vanilla Extract – https://amzn.to/2AYvzHc
Lemon Rind – https://amzn.to/3eyMjTY

[for ube cake]

4 pcs Egg Yolks – https://amzn.to/2NwNjf7
1/3 cup Sugar – https://amzn.to/2YtYLP1
1/4 cup Cooking Oil – https://amzn.to/3eytrUQ
1/4 cup Milk – https://amzn.to/31bx2Ex
2 tsp Ube Flavoring – https://amzn.to/3hU1Xv4
1 tsp Vanilla extract – https://amzn.to/2AYvzHc
1 cup Cake Flour – https://amzn.to/3dvLhXa
1 and 1/2 tsp Baking Powder – https://amzn.to/31ccxHV
1/2 tsp salt – https://amzn.to/3hVqos1

[for meringue]

4 pcs Egg Whites (room temperature) – https://amzn.to/2NwNjf7
1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar – https://amzn.to/37UrCPM
1/3 cup Sugar – https://amzn.to/2YtYLP1

Steps

[caramel]

Add caramel ingredients (sugar and water) in the pot
Simmer until it turns slightly dark brown
Transfer the caramel into a pan (8×4 inch) and set aside

[flan]

Separate the egg white and yolk, prepare 5 yolks and 1 whole egg
Add Condensed Milk, Evaporated Milk and Vanilla Extract then mix gently
Pinch Lemon Rind in the mixture and set it aside

[ube cake]

Prepare room temperature eggs, separate the yolks and whites
Keep the egg whites for meringue
Add sugar in the yolks and give a whisk
Add Cooking Oil, Milk and Ube Flavoring and mix well and add Vanilla Extract
Prepare the dry ingredients (cake flour, baking powder, salt) sift and combine with wet ingredients, then set aside
Making meringue, add whites, start mixing and add sugar gradually while mixing
Note: Make sure no other liquids in your whites.
Continue to mix and add Cream of Tartar then add the remaining sugar
Continue mixing until it reaches stiff peak
Add the meringue into ube cake mixture (add them in 3 batches)
Fold them gently into ube cake mixture

[assemble/baking]

Before assembling the cake, preheat oven to 320F
Add the flan mixture using the strainer
Add the ube cake mixture
Tap for few times
Ready a deep pan with hot water and place the cake pan in there
Set time to bake for 55 – 60 minutes
After 30 minutes, cover the cake pan with the foil and continue baking the remaining 25 minutes or so

Note: you can use a skewer to poke the cake and to check. If it is not sticking on a skewer, that means the cake is baked. Check out How to do a Toothpick Test