You can have a bite of Yema pieces and a balance of saltiness in this ice cream.
Yema (caramelized milk candy) is a favourite snack and dessert among Filipinos. This sweet delicacy originated from Bulacan, a province known for many other sweets. The main ingredients of this delicacy are condensed milk, egg yolks, and sugar.
Yema is Spanish for “egg yolk,” and is most likely a reference either to its golden-yellow appearance or to its composition (traditionally a batter of egg yolks, lime peel, and sugar).
Intensely rich and similar in texture to the French crème brûlée, it is sometimes made more decadent by the addition of a thin, crisp coating of caramelized sugar. Wrapped in squares of colorful cellophane, yema can be purchased everywhere, from sari-sari stores, roadside stalls, to street vendors outside churches, as well as a few select groceries and bakeries.
As with a lot of other things in our multicultural heritage, whether yema is entirely Filipino or Spanish in origin remains to be conclusively proven. What is known, however, is that before the candy’s first recorded appearance in our country, a Spanish convent was already famed for producing a very similar delicacy.
If the West have candies and lollies in the Philippines we have Yema, a type of candy made out of egg yolks, condensed milk and crushed peanuts cooked to form a firm custard shaped in a pyramid or spherical manner then wrapped in colourful cellophane.
Think of it as a crème caramel or crème brulee candy, its creamy, its sweet it melts in your mouth.
Yema has said to have originated from Bulacan province as it is well known for different Filipino sweets, there are also some accounts that states that it was invented during the Spanish era where egg yolks are thrown away after using the egg whites in constructing buildings.
During those times egg whites are mixed with cement to give it a marble like finish when it dries up here is an example “Ruins of Talisay”. Since the egg yolks are thrown away an ingenious Filipino saved the yolks and mixed it with milk. Sugar. and peanuts which is what we call yema now.
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