The Best Filipino Dessert Recipes (2024)

Mango graham cake is a popular dessert in the Philippines. Also called mango float, it’s cold, sweet and so easy to make. Just layer graham crackers, sweetened cream, mangoes and enjoy.

This strawberry refrigerator cake (or the Filipino version of strawberry icebox cake) has a secret ingredient — condensed milk! It’s sweet, creamy and perfect on a warm sunny day.

Peach icebox cake is refreshing, delicious and easy to make. Use fresh peaches when they’re in season, or canned peaches to make this summer dessert any time of the year.

Ube tiramisu is the no bake ube cake you’ve been waiting for. Only 7 ingredients, easy to make, and so good. Destined to be the star of your celebrations.

These flan cupcakes are inspired by graham de leche or graham leche flan, a modern twist on the traditional Filipino leche flan. So good!

Suman or Filipino sticky rice cake is made of glutinous rice and coconut milk, wrapped in banana leaves and steamed to sticky perfection. Eat them with sweet mangoes in the summer or dip them in tsokolate in the winter. Delicious!

Bibingkang malagkit is a beloved Filipino treat — coconut sticky rice with a delicious coconut caramel topping. Just 6 ingredients and so easy to make!

Tropical and refreshing, coconut popsicles (Filipino ice buko) are a fantastic way to stay cool on a sizzling summer day.

Buko pandan is a sweet and refreshing Filipino dessert made of coconut, pandan-infused gelatine and sweetened cream. Comes together easily, served cold, perfect for potlucks or on a sweltering summer day.

Try this maja blanca recipe for the smoothest, creamiest maja blanca. A popular Filipino dessert, maja blanca is topped with shredded cheese or toasted coconut and perfect for special occasions like Christmas, fiestas and more.

Ginataang mais is a delicious Filipino sweet rice pudding dish made of coconut milk and corn. Only 4 ingredients and ready in less than 30 minutes!

Ube mochi is tender, chewy and a delicious ways to enjoy ube or purple yam. It’s very easy to make too! 1 bowl, less than 10 ingredients, done in less than an hour, happiness in every bite.

Ube cake (or Filipino purple yam cake) is unlike any cake you’ve had before. It’s sweet and earthy and deliciously purple! A staple in any Filipino celebration.

Delicious ube roll cake. Soft and fluffy ube cake with whipped cream cheese frosting. Fun to make, cheerful and festive, perfect for all your celebrations.

Ube chiffon cake is light, airy and melts-in-your-mouth. With its vibrant purple colour and delicious ube flavour, it’s perfect for special occasions. Easy to make, it’s great as an everyday cake too.

Ube pound cake is a delicious twist on the classic pound cake. Swirls of purple marbled beautifully all over with hints of delightful ube in every bite of vanilla butter cake.

This ube cheesecake is everything you ever wanted in an ube dessert. Luxurious ube cheesecake filling on a bed of crunchy coconut cookie crust then topped with creamy coconut whipped cream.

This yema cake recipe has everything you love about this favourite Filipino dessert. Soft and airy chiffon cake, rich and thick yema spread, and yema frosting that’s stable and so easy to decorate with.

Sans rival is a Filipino cake made of buttercream, meringue and roasted cashews. It’s chewy, crunchy, sweet and salty in one glorious bite.

Taisan is the Filipino version of vanilla chiffon cake — soft and tender, light as air, brushed with butter and sprinkled with sugar and cheese.

Leche flan cake is a combination of two delicious desserts and so good! It also looks stunning and impressive with its two layers but surprisingly easy to make.

Filipino egg pie is a rich, creamy custard baked in a buttery pie crust. A childhood favourite of many Filipinos, this egg pie will transport you back to the Philippines at first bite.

You don’t forget your first time at Jollibee! Especially peach mango pies. They’re pocket pies made of crispy, flaky pastry with a sweet and scrumptious peach and mango filling. Perfect after a spaghetti and chicken meal, amiright? You’ll be hooked.

Lengua de gato are Filipino butter cookies that are thin, crispy and so buttery. They’re very easy to make at home so you can enjoy them with your coffee, tea or whenever the craving hits.

Take advantage of sweet mango season and make some mango bars — delicious mango filling sandwiched in a buttery shortbread crust and crumble. So easy to make, even easier to eat! A mango dessert perfect for summer picnics, everyday snacking, even holiday baking

Filipino turon recipe for turon that’s crispy and crunchy whether fried or baked. Serve with vanilla ice cream and salted caramel sauce and you have yourself a dessert that transports you straight to the tropics.

Ube turon is another delicious way to enjoy ube. Ube halaya and cheddar cheese wrapped like a spring roll and fried until crispy. It’s the perfect ube snack! Just 5 ingredients and ready in no time.

This taho recipe will transport you back to the Philippines – early mornings just before school, enjoying a warm mug of taho from your favourite taho vendor. Extra arnibal (or brown sugar syrup) and sago for me, please.

Homemade ube ice cream is bright, purple and bursting with delicious ube flavour. Bonus: you don’t need an ice cream maker!

Mango sago is a refreshing dessert you’ll want to make all summer long. Made of fresh sweet mangoes, sago or tapioca, milk and cream, it’s easy to make and so good.

Pianono is the Filipino version of the Swiss or jelly roll cake. Soft fluffy cake with butter sugar filling. So good and easy to make!

This chewy coconut macaroons recipe couldn’t get any simpler with very few, easy-to-find ingredients. You don't even need a mixer to make them!

Calamansi pie tastes like your favorite calamansi juice in every bite. Perfectly sweet and tart and so easy to make. This pie is so refreshing too which makes it perfect to end a hearty meal. Serve it on Thanksgiving, the holidays, or any celebration.

Ube halaya recipe that’s authentic and easy to make. You just need a few ingredients and a little patience to make the most delicious ube halaya that compares to your favourite ube jam from back home; and definitely way better than the ube jams you can find in the stores here.

Ube crinkles are soft, fluffy and bursting with the ube flavour you love. They are like mini ube cakes and are perfect for the holidays or everyday.

Ube cookies are delightfully soft and chewy, packed with real ube halaya, and studded with white chocolate chips for the perfect ube treat. It’s very easy to make too!

Ube cupcakes are little ube cakes packed with big ube flavour. Soft, dense and just the right amount of sweet. Top with ube whipped cream frosting and sprinkle with toasted shredded coconut for the ultimate Filipino treat.

Ube brownies are your favourite chewy and fudgy brownies but packed with the ube flavour you love. Made with real ube halaya, sprinkled with white chocolate chips, so good.

This ube pie recipe is simple to make but so delicious. Ube halaya filling inside a buttery puff pastry crust. It’s very easy to customize too if you want to jazz it up and make ube macapuno pies or ube cheese pies.

Ube muffins are soft but dense, like a proper muffin should be. Topped with a sweet coconut crumble and filled with a generous helping of ube halaya or ube jam, it’s a delicious treat for breakfast, snack, picnics, work and school.

Ube cheesecake bars combine two of your favourite ube desserts — brownies and cheesecake! Creamy and tangy cream cheese swirls on top of chewy and fudgy ube brownies. So good.

Ube tarts — ube cheesecake filling within a buttery shortbread crust. So good! They’re easy to make too.

Try this palitaw recipe for delicious, authentic, easy-to-make palitaw that tastes just like the ones from home. Perfectly chewy, sweet and coconut-y, you’ll keep coming back for more.

This easy pichi pichi recipe will help you make authentic Filipino pichi pichi at home. Soft and chewy, coated with coconut or cheese, one hundred percent delicious.

This puto recipe (or steamed Filipino rice cakes) is so easy to make and very customizable you can use the same recipe to make a wide variety of puto flavours. From the traditional putong puti to puto cheese, from putong ube to puto with salted eggs. The possibilities are endless.

Cassava cake with macapuno is a traditional Filipino dessert made of grated cassava, coconut milk, condensed milk, and macapuno, which is soft, chewy coconut meat. Cassava cake is a popular merienda (snack) or dessert and is often served during special occasions like Christmas and fiestas.

Bibingka cheesecake is the latest and greatest Filipino dessert mashup. Sweet and salty bibingka and creamy, dreamy cheesecake combine for a truly extraordinary treat. And it’s not just for Christmas! Treat yourself today.

Royal bibingka (also known as bibingka Ilocano or Vigan bibingka) is a variety of Filipino rice cake made of glutinous rice flour, coconut milk, eggs and cheese. It’s chewy and sticky, not too sweet, delicious!

Brazo de Mercedesis a traditional Filipino dessert that consists of a soft and pillowy meringue roll filled with sweet and sticky egg custard. So good!

Apple buko salad is a fresh take on the classic Filipino holiday dessert, fruit salad. Made with young coconuts and crisp apples, it’s sweet, tangy, red, green, delicious!

Brazo de Mercedes cupcakes — soft as cotton meringue filled with rich decadent custard and finished off with a sprinkling of confectioner’s sugar. You’ll love it!

Here’s an authentic leche flan recipe (or Filipino-style crème caramel) that will give you rich, silky, creamy leche flan every time.

Crema de Fruta is a Filipino dessert made of delicious layers of soft fluffy cake, rich creamy custard, and fruit blanketed in gelatine. Fun, festive, definitely deserves a place in your celebrations.

Try this silvanas recipe — crunchy meringue cookie sandwiches filled with luxurious French buttercream. A unique and beloved Filipino treat.

Food for the gods is a popular Filipino treat. Similar to butterscotch bars but packed with dates and walnuts, they’re easy to make, delicious, and a joy to give out to loved ones during the holidays.