What are the different types of Japanese desserts?

Japanese desserts can be traditional matters using local fruit, plants and nuts, foreign imports or unique combinations of these two. There are many regional variations of Japanese desserts known as Meibutsu as well as a souvenir ( omiyage ) for tourists. Traditional Japanese desserts use ingredients such as sweet beans Azuki, fruit, nuts and mocha.

MOCHI is a sticky, sticky rice cake that forms a central element of Japanese sweets. It is often served wrapped around sweets such as Azuki Paste ( Daifuku ), Anko and Strawberry paste. Some desserts taste MOCHI with taste such as cherry flower ( sakura ), peach and green tea. Mochi are the most popular for the New Year.

Wagashi is a type of dessert based on Mochi. There is no type Wagashi , but instead there are dozens of variations. They are made using fruit, nuts, azuki and mochi. Green tea is often served as a complement to sweet dessuerts.

MOCHI is also used to make Japanese desserts called dango . dango are mochi balls that are laid on skewers and immersed in the aroma. The traditional Dango festival is immersed in the syrup of the soy sauce called Shouyu and is called Mitarashi Dango . Another type of Dango is bocchan dango , which has one normal Dango ball, one green tea ball and one ball with Azuki flavor.

MOCHI can be produced in a different way to create a series of jelly. There are other jelly called agar jelly, which are used in desserts such as anmsu and mitsumame . These jelly cubes are combined with ingredients such as Azuki or Anko, fruit slices and Mitsu syrup.

Many Japanese desserts are reversal of foreign imports. For example, Castella is a cake named from the caste area of ​​Spain, but in fact is JapaThe version of the Portuguese cake known as pao-de-lo . Castella is a mushroom cake that is often eaten alone or overflow with brown sugar, green tea powder or flavored icing sugar/icing.

Ice Cream is also a popular dessert in Japan. One vanilla ice cream and other green tea ice cream is often served next to Azuki beans and Mochi. There is also a number of ice cream ice cream wrapped mochi with ordinary mochi cover around vanilla, chocolate or ice cream made of green tea or flavored mochi around ordinary ice cream.

Many Japanese foreign desserts have undergone a process of green tea. This means replacing one component with green tea. For example, there are many ranges of chocolate bars with a flavor of green tea. There are also cakes of green tea and other mushrooms, green tea ice cream, curd cakes and tiramisu. Similar versions were also made with the taste of cherry blossom.

Japan also has a number of sweet breads that can be servedLike dessert. Melonpan looks like a watermelon, but is made of normal bread dough wrapped in biscuits before baking. They can be served simple, with chocolate flakes inside, custard filling or flavored ingredients such as green tea powder and caramel. Anpan is a sweet bread full of Azuki beans.