Gurnee Donuts Makes Award-Winning Ube Flavor

There’s a tiny donut shop in north suburban Gurnee, just a mile from Six Flags, cranking out freshly-made donuts, including a special one with Filipino roots that’s only available on the weekends. It’s called “ube” and this popular purple yam is all over Filipino menus, but not so much in donut shops. In fact, the Cambodian family who owns this particular shop near the Wisconsin border never even intended to work with ube.