
Last time, I made traditional Gateau basque with both dark rum-infused pastry cream and French black cherry jam. I loved it so much that I wanted to make a Filipino version of it as a Filipino myself, by substituting the black cherry jam with ube halaya, Filipino traditional ube jam.
As an ube lover since childhood, I'm biased so I will say I prefer this version, the nuttiness of the Filipino ube goes well with the French pastry cream.