We are a small bakery with a big heart (and appetite!) for unique Filipino sweets in Seattle. Home of Chera's Hood Famous Ube Cheesecake.
Hood Famous Bakeshop grew out of a Filipino pop-up dinner series--Food & Sh*t--which featured our founder, Chera Amlag’s unique desserts introducing Filipino flavors to familiar American classics. The response was overwhelming as many shared the excitement of eating desserts they’ve never had before. When her ube (purple yam) cheesecake debuted in October 2013, the creamy purple cake quickly became the most demanded, most memorable, and most instagrammed item on the menu. The word had spread within and outside of our neighborhood, but when a friend asked for the purple cake at a pop-up dinner, coining it as “that ‘hood famous cheesecake,” our name was born. In Nov 2014, Hood Famous Bakeshop was launched with Ube Cheesecake as its flagship item and shortly after, Chera quit her well loved job as an educator to run the business full time. Our small bakeshop has since grown to wholesale to local grocery stores, restaurants and most recently our own production kitchen and sweets-to-go retail counter in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Check out where to find us. Join us in our pursuit to brighten up desserts, our communities, and the world one bite at a time!
Hi, I'm going to do a testing video of eating. We got little cheesecakes from Hoodfamous Bake Shop. Daddy went and grabbed it for us in the rain today, h Yeah. So we'll show you a picture here. Let'see. I'm going to try it. Okay, we already took bites out of it and then were Yeah. Let'see here. I'll move the camera. That's what they look I think there's ube. I think that's coffee. I think that's coconut pendant and then maybe strawberry. Guava. Guava. Guava. Guava. This is Vietnamese. Oh, Vietnamese coffee. You want to try the coffee one? Yeah. Really? Okay. Is it yucky? I don't know. You tell me. What do you think? That tastes Mm-hmm. But it tastes Coffee beans? Because that's what coffee is made of. The beans. How more terrible. I'm going to show them. I think this is ube. Ew. Don't do that. What do you think of that one? Stop it. That one's pretty good, h And I purple ton. What do you think of the ube? Which one do you The coffee or the ube? The ube. The ube? Okay. Let's try the guava again. Guava. Which one is your favorite so far? Two. Ube. Okay. I think that's the one. Terro. Ube. Terro. It's not terro. It's ube. I call it terro. But it's not terro. They're totally different things. They're different things. I want more terro. Do you try the coconut pandan? I think coconut pandan? Do you only No water. Guys, we're going to pause you for a second. Sorry guys, I needed to get water. She's drinking water out of her thermos. Okay, so out of all four, which one did you Terro. Ube. Terro. Ube. Terro. She used to be the liar. She doesn't know. Okay. Guys, she's been lying on pants and liar. So you Yeah. Okay, what's the second? Ube. No, you have to choose different one. Just ube. Ube. How about guava? You Just ube. Who's ube? Okay, I win ube. No, ube. I'm sorry. Just be careful. Ube. Nobody knows who ube is. And what about urr? You No. Ube. Ube. For the win. You can get these little tiny cheesecakes. My one I don't At Hood Famous in the International. My one I don't You can get these little mini cheesecakes at Hood Famous in the International District. I suggest you getting the little variety pack because they're so y And you can get really good coffee there. Daddy picked up some coffee beans for you. Bye.