Yema Recipe

These little yema balls are made with the simplest ingredients—eggs and sugar—yet they taste so good that one piece is never enough. When forming them into balls, dust hands with sugar to keep the mixture from sticking to your palms.

Yema Recipe

Gene Gonzalez

These are made with the simplest ingredients: eggs and sugar. One piece is never enough.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Resting Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Filipino

Servings 40 balls

Ingredients

  

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Yema Ingredients

• 36 Egg yolks only
• 12 Egg
• 1 kilo white sugar
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

Instructions

 

• Combine egg yolks and whole eggs with white sugar in a double boiler. Cook, stirring constantly until mixture is thick.
• Cool mixture, then form into balls and sprinkle with sugar. Keep yema balls in the refrigerator while you prepare the caramel coating.
• In a heavy duty saucepan, mix white sugar, water, and cream of tartar. Boil until sugar has completely dissolved and turned caramel in color. (Click to see How to Make Caramel Sauce)
• Then dip each yema ball in the syrup. Work quickly before the caramel hardens. Set dipped yema balls on a pan greased with oil or lined with a nonstick Silicone sheet. Cool completely.

Keyword classic, Cream of tartar, panghimagas

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