jQuery Menu highlight

jQuery Menu highlight

I was able to figure out how to change the background color and font of my menu items using the style class .ui-menu and tag li like this:
.ui-menu li
 {
   font-family: Arial;
   font-size: 12px;
   background-color:#FEE098;
   padding-top:1px;
   padding-bottom:1px;
   border-top: 1px solid white;
   border-bottom: 1px solid white;
 }

Now I am trying to change the color of the highlight as I move my mouse over each item. Currently it is a grey or silverish color by default. I want to change this color to: #FEE098. How would I do this? jQuery is so awesome but small stuff like this is not straightforward for me.