Ube Skillet Crinkle Cookie
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Fil-Am dessert | Ube cookie | Skillet bake
This ube crinkle cookie is meant to be spooned from a skillet, with set edges, a soft center, and powdered sugar across the top. Halaya supplies the dough's ube body, while a little extract makes its color and aroma more pronounced.
Why make it: This original version turns ube crinkle cookie flavor into a warm skillet dessert for parties.
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About This Recipe
Butter and sugar are creamed before the halaya, extract, and egg go in. Flour, baking powder, and salt complete a dough that is chilled and pressed into a single skillet rather than divided into individual cookies.
The optional white chocolate chips add pockets of sweetness, but the ube remains the main flavor without them. Serve the warm cookie with the listed vanilla ice cream for a contrast in temperature as well as texture, allowing the softer center to stay part of the dessert.
Cooking Notes
- Fold the flour mixture in only until there are no dry streaks. Scrape the bowl's bottom, where flour can hide under the heavier halaya mixture, before chilling the dough.
- Press the chilled dough evenly across a well-seasoned 10-inch cast-iron skillet. A mound in the center makes the middle cook more slowly than the outer edge.
Ingredient Notes
For ube
Use ube halaya for body and extract for color and aroma.
For texture
Chilling helps the cookie bake thick instead of cakey.
Ube Skillet Crinkle Cookie Recipe
This original version turns ube crinkle cookie flavor into a warm skillet dessert for parties.
Shopping List
- ube halaya
- ube extract
- flour
- butter
- sugar
- eggs
- white chocolate optional
- powdered sugar
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup ube halaya
- 1 teaspoon ube extract
- 1 egg
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Crinkle Top
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup white chocolate chips, optional
For Serving
- Vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Beat in ube halaya, extract, and egg.
- Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together, then fold them into the ube mixture with the optional white chocolate chips. Reserve the powdered sugar for the top.
- Cover and refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, heat a conventional oven to 350 F with a rack in the middle.
- Press into an even layer in a cool, well-seasoned 10-inch cast-iron skillet with an oven-safe handle. Do not preheat the skillet or use a smaller pan with this timing.
- Dust with powdered sugar.
- Bake at 350 F for about 25 to 35 minutes, checking at 25 minutes. The edges should be set and the center soft but no longer liquid or glossy with raw dough; a skewer should have moist crumbs, not wet batter. A center reading around 195 to 200 F is an additional baking cue. Continue baking if the center is still wet. Rest on a heatproof surface for 10 minutes before spooning into 8 portions.
Nutrition Estimate
Approximate values per serving based on the listed ingredients and yield. Actual nutrition will vary by brand, exact portion size, and cooking changes.
Tips For The Best Ube Skillet Crinkle Cookie
- Keep the center soft, not raw: Follow the center-doneness checks in the card; the cookie firms further during its 10-minute rest.
- Use extract lightly: Too much tastes artificial.
- Chill dough: It improves texture.
- Serve warm: That is the point of a skillet cookie.
How To Serve And Store
Rest 10 minutes, then serve warm with ice cream added to individual portions. Refrigerate cooled leftover cookie without ice cream in a covered container within 2 hours and use within 3 days; rewarm individual portions gently.
Common Questions
Can I make regular cookies?
This timing is for one 10-inch skillet cookie. Individual cookies need a separate baking schedule; do not use the skillet timing for scoops.
Can I skip white chocolate?
Yes.
Can I use ube powder?
Use the measured halaya for this formula. Rehydrated ube powder has different moisture and sugar, so it is not a direct replacement under the same baking schedule.
Why is it cakey?
It may be overbaked or overmixed.
Are white chocolate chips necessary in this ube skillet cookie?
No, they are optional. Leave them out for a more direct ube flavor and fewer sweet pockets in the dough; keep the butter, sugar, halaya, and other dough measurements unchanged.
Can I replace the ube halaya with extra extract?
No. The halaya contributes bulk and moisture as well as flavor, while extract is concentrated and used in a much smaller amount. Extra extract would not replace the missing half cup of halaya.
Would you rather have ube crinkles or one giant skillet cookie? Share your family version or testing notes in the comments.
Recipe inspiration and technique reference: original Filipino-American riff development informed by Love, Filipino Food, Kitchen Confidante, The Dusky Kitchen, and the site roadmap.
Technique and food-safety references: kingarthurbaking.com.
