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Ninong's Dessert Lab is a family-run Filipino bakery that initially opened in 2008 and is led by Kissa Ortega. Thanks to the overwhelming success of the brand's Ube Pancakes, the brand's line of ube-flavored Filipino pastries has continued to grow. Branching out to online and wholesale operation, Ortega's business is becoming the authority on all things ube flavored.

With Ninong's Dessert Lab Ube Cookie Butter ($7), anything from pancakes to pandesal can be ube flavored. Use it as a spread or eat it by the spoonful — this cookie butter can satisfy any sweet tooth or ube craving.