" I piled the cookies, their lovely violet color peeping through a light coating of powdered sugar, on a plate. I studied the offering, then added a small bowl of vanilla ice cream as well as a serving of my ube halaya, the purple-yam jam I'd used to create the cookies, to the dish. Perfect. "

― Mia P. Manansala , Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)