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Ube Cake Dubai:
Where to Buy & How to Make It

Order Filipino purple yam cake with UAE delivery — or bake the real thing yourself.

By UBE.AE · Updated July 2026 · 6 min read

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⚡ Quick Answer — Where to Get Ube Cake in Dubai

🎂 Most Iconic

Red Ribbon Cakes

Filipino ube cake with real purple yam. Delivery across UAE.

🚚 Free Delivery

Bloomsbury's UAE

Ube cake with ube jam glaze. Free delivery Dubai & Abu Dhabi.

🇵🇭 Filipino Bakery

Capricorn Bakery

Stalls inside Lulu, Carrefour, Spinneys, West Zone & Al Maya.

🏠 Make It Yourself

Ube Chiffon Cake

Full recipe below. Around 90 minutes start to finish.

In This Guide

  1. 1Where to buy ube cake in Dubai
  2. 2Types of ube cake explained
  3. 3How to spot an authentic ube cake
  4. 4Ube chiffon cake recipe
  5. 5Common questions

Ube cake is the centrepiece of Filipino celebrations — a vividly purple chiffon or sponge cake made with ube halaya, traditionally served at birthdays and family gatherings. With more than 650,000 Filipinos living in the UAE, it has become genuinely easy to find in Dubai, and increasingly popular well beyond the Filipino community.

Where to Buy Ube Cake in Dubai

🇵🇭 Filipino Icon

Red Ribbon Cakes

📍 Online delivery across UAE

The most requested Filipino cake brand in Dubai. Soft ube layers with silky cream frosting, and ube halaya made and baked fresh as a cake every day.

From ~AED 70

🚚 Free Delivery

Bloomsbury's UAE

📍 Free delivery in Dubai & Abu Dhabi

A moist chocolate sponge layered with homemade ube filling and finished with an ube jam glaze — a more Western take on the classic.

Free UAE delivery

🥐 In Supermarkets

Capricorn Bakery

📍 Stalls in Lulu, Carrefour, Choithrams, Spinneys, West Zone, Al Maya

The easiest ube cake to buy without ordering ahead. Also sells ube rolls, ube ensaymada, hopia ube and ube halaya by the tub.

Walk-in, no pre-order

🍰 Café Slices

Chicha Bakehouse

📍 Dubai

Filipino-owned bakehouse serving ube coco cheesecake and ube keso cookies alongside ube matcha. Best for a single slice rather than a whole cake.

By the slice

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🏠 Home Kitchen

Liezel's Kitchen

📍 Dubai

Known for using real ube yam rather than artificial flavouring. Ube chiffon cake, ube ice cream and halo-halo made the traditional way.

Order ahead

🛒 Ingredients

Philippine Supermarket

📍 Al Muraqqabat, Deira, Dubai

If you would rather bake it yourself, this is where to get ube halaya, ube extract, ube powder, macapuno strings and frozen grated ube.

All ube ingredients

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Types of Ube Cake Explained

Not all ube cakes are the same. Knowing the difference helps when ordering.

Type What It Is
Ube Chiffon CakeThe classic. Light, airy sponge made with ube halaya. The base for most other versions.
Ube Macapuno CakeUbe chiffon layered with strips of macapuno — a sweet gelatinous coconut. The celebration favourite.
Ube Mamón / TaisanSmaller sponge cakes, often sold individually. Mamón is soft and buttery; taisan is topped with butter and sugar.
Ube RollSwiss-roll style — ube chiffon rolled around ube whipped cream. Widely available at Capricorn.
Ube CheesecakeA crushed-biscuit base topped with cream cheese blended with ube halaya. Served cold, baked or chilled.

How to Spot an Authentic Ube Cake

As ube has gone mainstream, plenty of "ube" cakes are really taro, purple sweet potato, or plain sponge with food colouring. Here is what to look for.

💡 Related Reading

Still unsure whether something is ube or taro? Our ube vs taro guide breaks down the visual, flavour and nutritional differences in detail.

Ube Chiffon Cake Recipe

⏱ 30 min prep · 45 min bake · 🔴 Advanced · Makes 1 x 8-inch cake (10 slices)

This is the traditional Filipino version — light, airy and naturally purple. Chiffon cake is technique-heavy but the method below is written for first-timers.

🥣 Dry & Wet

  • → 150g cake flour, sifted
  • → 150g caster sugar, divided
  • → 1½ tsp baking powder
  • → ½ tsp salt
  • → 6 large eggs, separated
  • → 80ml vegetable oil
  • → 120ml coconut milk or whole milk

🟣 The Ube Part

  • → 150g ube halaya (purple yam jam)
  • → 1½ tsp ube extract
  • → ½ tsp cream of tartar

No halaya? Use 3 tbsp ube powder mixed with 100ml warm milk into a thick paste, plus an extra 30g sugar.

Method

  1. 1Preheat the oven to 165°C. Have an ungreased 8-inch tube pan ready — the batter needs to grip the sides to rise properly.
  2. 2Sift the cake flour, baking powder, salt and half the sugar together into a large bowl.
  3. 3In a separate bowl whisk the egg yolks, oil, coconut milk, ube halaya and ube extract until completely smooth and evenly purple with no lumps of jam.
  4. 4Pour the wet mixture into the dry and whisk just until no flour streaks remain. Overmixing kills the lift.
  5. 5Beat the egg whites with the cream of tartar until foamy, then add the remaining sugar gradually and beat to stiff, glossy peaks.
  6. 6Fold one-third of the meringue into the ube batter to loosen it, then fold in the rest in two additions using a light hand.
  7. 7Pour into the tube pan, run a skewer through the batter to pop air pockets, and bake 45–50 minutes until the top springs back when pressed.
  8. 8Invert the pan immediately onto a bottle neck and cool completely upside down. Only then run a knife around the edge to release.

💡 Make It Ube Macapuno

Slice the cooled cake horizontally, spread a layer of ube halaya, then scatter over drained macapuno strings before reassembling. Finish with whipped cream and more macapuno on top. This is the version served at Filipino birthdays.

Baking it yourself?

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Common Questions

How much does ube cake cost in Dubai?

Typically from around AED 70 for a smaller cake up to AED 140 or more for larger celebration sizes, depending on the bakery and whether macapuno or extra layers are included.

Can I make ube cake without fresh ube?

Yes — and most bakeries do. Ube halaya and ube extract are the standard base even in the Philippines, and give a more consistent colour and flavour than fresh yam alone.

Why did my chiffon cake collapse?

Almost always one of three things: the pan was greased, the meringue was underbeaten, or the cake was not cooled upside down. Chiffon needs to hang inverted while cooling or its own weight compresses it.

How long does ube cake keep?

Two to three days at room temperature in an airtight container, or up to a week refrigerated. Cakes with cream frosting or macapuno should always be refrigerated — important in the UAE climate.

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