Ube-by A Taste of the Philippines

I miss Manila so much and I cannot wait until we get there.  I'm so excited to set up a home there and plant ourselves in the city and begin the work God has for us.  It cannot come quick enough!  The other day I had the hankering for some Ube Ice-Cream, a tasty Filipino treat that I absolutely loved, so I thought I'd try my hand at making some.  

I headed over to Manila Market (a local Filipino store) and picked up some Ube in a jar, as they did not carry Ube itself and looked up a recipe.  

Not content to have just the ice-cream alone I thought of something else to do with it, that would be a perfect summer treat.  I give you...

Ube Ice-Cream sandwiched between Vanilla Wafer Cookies sprinkled with Pistachios. 

For the Ube Ice-Cream I adapted this recipe.

In a food processor mix together:

1/2 cup purple yam spread

1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut 

1 1/2 cups Silk Coconut Milk

1 TBS. agave (b/c there was already sugar added to the paste)

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Then just follow the instructions for you ice-cream maker.  

Vanilla Wafer Cookies (adapted from Peas and Thank You)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup vegan shortening (Earth Balance)

1/2 cup Stevia

1/4 cup brown sugar

2 TBS. Silk Coconut Milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/3 whole wheat pastry flour

1/8 tsp. sea salt

1 tsp. baking powder

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.  In a bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking powder and set aside.  Meanwhile, cream together shortening, stevia, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla using a mixer.  Next, slowly add the flour mixture to wet ingredients continually beating until dough forms.  Then spoon out desired cookie sizes, and bake for 11 minutes.  Allow cookies to set for a minute before transferring to cooling rack.  

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Now you're ready to assemble your ice-cream sandwiches.  Place cookie top side down.  Smear on a little ice-cream, place other cookie on top of ice-cream and press down.  Then sprinkle pistachios around the edges if you wish.  

I know the Ube ice-cream will be good by itself too, and I can definitely think of other ways to eat these cookies....like smearing some Justin's chocolate peanut butter on them.  MMmmmm

I'm definitely happy with the outcome of these!  What a fun summer treat.

Now if we could just get to Manila....

P.S. 4th of July recipes coming soon.  I was just too excited to share this first!  I promise you'll have plenty of days left this summer to make all of it.  I could live in the sunshine forever!