Mochi + Ube Ice Cream Cupcakes
There’s nothing lovelier than a deep shade of purple, but in dessert? YES. The secret to this beautifully colored ice cream is yam, purple yam called ube! Ube is used in many Filipino desserts and makes for some amazingly colorful sweets.
The sweet ice cream doesn’t taste of yam I promise, the color provides a glorious contrast when paired with a mochi cupcake. Ube and mochi make the world go round. You can find this unique ice cream flavor check the freezer section of your local asian market, and serve up a scoop with cupcakes for the perfect asian combo dessert!
Mochi + Ube Ice Cream Cupcakes
Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup mochiko
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1/3 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup whole milk
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep a cupcake pan with liners.
In a medium bowl whisk the flour, mochiko, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar. Add the eggs until light and fluffy, then stir in the vanilla.
Alternate the flour mixture with the milk, until combined.
Pour into prepped liners. Bake for 15-17 minutes depending on your oven, testing with a toothpick. Let cool on a wire rack.
Top with a scoop of Ube Ice Cream to serve.
It’s ths year’s Lakers dessert! I love ube ice cream!
I want to get my hands on some of this icecream. I love purple…I’m wearing purple shorts right now!
My husband would love these! Too bad I’m not great at baking. Best I can do is put ice cream in a bowl. Hmmm… ube ice cream + mango ice cream. That counts as a purple & gold dessert right?
i love that ice cream! great idea to pair it with a cupcake. super cute matching sprinkles too.
This is so weird. I literally just bought ube ice cream yest, same brand. Been wanting to try it and it was on sale. And then I read your post. Now I need to try the ube with mochi cupcake.
I love the colors & the Lakers too! Dave’s Ice Cream here in Hawaii makes a very good Ube ice cream, might try your recipe one day soon.
Pri-teeee! I lvoe the color of that taro ice cream.
I’ve had mochi a lot of ways but never as a cupcake! I can’t wait to try to make these.
Next time you’re in San Francisco, you DEFINITELY need to hit up Mitchell’s Ice Cream, it’s not far from Tartine. Their UBE ice cream is the best I’ve ever had, not to mention some of their other flavors! And mmmm mochi cupcake. I will have to try that! My kids looooooooove mochi!
My husband is an absolute UBE fanatic. Loves anything ube..fresh ube dessert, cakes, breads, shakes…and most of all ice cream (his other love). This cake would be perfect for him. Thanks for sharing. Oh and BTW Dina is absolutely right… Mitchell’s is the best. They may still have that episode on the Food Network… Ube and Avocado ice cream is my fave there.
Wow, I’m soo jealous that you got Magnolia ice cream! I want to get a container of the coconut pandan, but the only place they sell it is so far away. 🙁
I definitely wanna try baking mochi cakes one day though.