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Anko (sweet red bean paste) Recipe

Anko (sweet red bean paste) is the crucial ingredient for Japanese traditional confectioneries.  It is a paste made with Azuki (red beans) and sugar.  It is used in a lot of different forms of dessert...

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Dorayaki Recipe

Dorayaki is one of the most popular Japanese confectioneries.  It is Anko (sweet red bean paste) sandwiched between sweet pancakes.  It is a Japanese sweet beloved by the old and young.  It may be...

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Purin (Custard Pudding) Recipe

Purin is a flan-like cold custard dessert in Japan.  The name “Purin” obviously comes from “pudding” (perhaps more obvious in Japanese), but it is not the same thing as the gooey pudding in the US at...

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Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

Japanese Strawberry Shortcake is a western-style layered cake with whipped cream and strawberries.  It is the most popular kind of western cake in Japan for everyone.  It is said the Strawberry...

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Sponge Cake Recipe

Japanese sponge cake is very light and fluffy.  It is a very important component for Japanese Western-style sweets. We have mainly two kinds of sweets in Japan: Japanese-style (Wagashi) and...

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Coffee Jelly Recipe

Coffee Jelly is a cold jellied dessert made throughout Japan from black coffee and gelatin.  As Coffee Jelly is not too sweet, although you can adjust the sweetness however you like, and rather light,...

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Choux Cream Recipe

Choux Cream is a cream filled dessert and one of the very popular western style sweets in Japan.  It is better known as a cream puff in the US, and choux a la creme in France.  Japanese Choux Cream...

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Zenzai (Oshiruko) Recipe

Zenzai is sweet Azuki red bean soup with baked Mochi or Dango in it.  It is a traditional Japanese snack.  Although you can find it all year round at Japanese sweet shops in Japan, warm Zenzai is...

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Kakigori Recipe

Kakigori is shaved ice with flavored syrup.  It is very popular during the hot and humid summer in Japan, and there are a lot of pop up Kakigori stores appearing in the season. Although you can get...

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Matcha Pudding Recipe

Matcha Pudding is soft custard pudding flavored with Matcha powder.  Pudding is not very Japanese, but just by adding Matcha flavor, it becomes a great ending for a Japanese meal. Pudding in the US is...

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