Ube Latte Powder in Tbilisi
The violet drink you have seen on Instagram, and the colour is real: ube is a purple yam, dried and milled, nothing added to make it that shade. Sweet, vanilla-ish, faintly nutty, and completely caffeine free.
What ube actually is
Ube is a purple yam, a staple root across the Philippines, where it has been dessert long before it was a latte. Ours is dried and milled to a fine powder, so what goes in the cup is the vegetable itself — that is where the colour comes from, and why it tastes sweet without much sugar.
How to make an ube latte
Stir 8–10 g into 50 ml of hot water until there are no lumps, then pour in 200 ml of milk, hot or over ice. Oat milk suits it best. It needs more powder than matcha because it is a root, not a leaf — think of it as cocoa, not tea. No sweetener needed, though a spoon of condensed milk is how it is drunk at home in Manila.
In baking and ice cream
Ube is a better baking powder than matcha because heat does not take its colour or its flavour. Use 20–30 g per 500 g of batter for cake, cheesecake and cookies; for ice cream, whisk 40 g into a litre of base before churning. The purple holds through the oven.
Questions people ask
Does ube have caffeine?
None at all. It is a root vegetable, so it is the drink to hand someone in the evening, or a child who wants what you are having.
Is the purple colour natural?
Yes. Nothing is added for colour — the yam is that shade, and it is why the powder looks lilac rather than grey.
Can I mix ube and matcha?
Plenty of people do — matcha at the bottom, ube poured over it, for a green and violet layered cup. We sell the two together as a combo on the shop page.
Delivery
Delivery across Tbilisi, usually the same day or the next. Message us on Instagram, or add it to the cart and check out on the site — pay by bank transfer or cash on delivery.
Wholesale
Wholesale for cafes, bakeries and shops: the 500 g and 1 kg tiers are already the wholesale price, with no minimum order beyond them. Tell us what you pour in a month and we will quote you.
Keeping it
Keep the tin closed, cool and out of the light. Matcha fades in daylight and picks up smells in a fridge, so a cupboard beats a fridge door. Once opened it is at its best within two months.
