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Basque Cheesecake Recipe

Basque Cheesecake

Basque Cheesecake is a Spanish cheesecake with a distinctive burnt and caramelized top. Its creamy, almost custard-like interior without a crust became a culinary sensation around the world. Japan is no exception, and Basque Cheesecake was THE dessert in the late 2010s that everybody was talking about. It is still going strong in Japan, and not only restaurants and bakeries but also many convenience stores have started making packaged Basque Cheesecakes, making it super popular among the ordinary public, not just foodies.

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Swiss Roll Cake Recipe

Swiss Roll Cake

Swiss Roll Cakes are popular Western-style desserts in Japan made by rolling thinly baked sponge cake and filling it with cream, jam, or fruit. Roll cakes are enjoyed on various occasions such as celebrations, parties, or even everyday teatime. They not only have a pretty looking swirl but are also delicious and relatively easy to make at home, especially after a couple of practice rounds.

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Christmas Cake Recipe

Christmas Cake

Christmas Cake is a round layered cake, usually a sponge cake, filled with fruits, and frosted with whipped cream. The fluffy sweet cake is loved by all generations in Japan, and it has become an annual custom for the last several decades. Christmas cakes are seen everywhere in Japan during the season, such as at cake shops, supermarkets, and convenience stores. It plays a significant role in Japanese cuisine today, even though it’s not a traditional Japanese sweet.

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Matcha Chiffon Cake Recipe

Matcha Chiffon Cake

Matcha Chiffon Cake is soft sponge cake flavored with Matcha green tea powder. This light and fluffy and not overly sweet cake is great by itself, but it also goes very well with sweet whipped cream and berries, like we made here. Matcha Chiffon Cake is perfect for afternoon tea time, and it is also a very nice light dessert after a full dinner.

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Banana Omelette Cake Recipe

Banana Omelette Cake

Banana Omelette Cake (バナナオムレットケーキ) is thin sponge cake folded in half, looking like a half round, and filled with a whole banana and whipped cream inside. Omelette cake is called “omelette” because of the resemblance of the shape of egg omelet. Classic banana and cream taste never betrays anyone’s expectation. Although this cake is rather simplistic (looking), it is sweet and soft and very tasty. This dessert is a bit old fashioned in Japan, but it’s still got steadfast popularity to be found at many shops there.

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Sponge Cake Recipe

Sponge Cake Recipe

Japanese sponge cake (スポンジケーキ) is a very light and fluffy yellow-white cake that is a base component for a lot of Japanese Western-style sweets.  Although we have our own traditional Japanese desserts like Mochi rice cake and Anko sweet red beans, Western-style cakes and other treats are tremendously popular in Japan.  Once you master Japanese sponge cake, you will be able to make various Western-style Japanese sweets.

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Yuzu Madeleines Recipe

Yuzu Madeleines

Madeleines are French sweets that are a cross between cookies and cakes.  They are usually baked in shell-shaped molds or a special Madeleine pan with shell indentations.  We flavored this traditional French concoction with fragrant Yuzu citrus peel.  The distinctive Yuzu citrus aroma is unusual but a surprisingly good match with the buttery rich cake.

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Souffle Cheesecake Recipe

Japanese Cheesecake

Souffle Cheesecake is a popular cheesecake sold at western-style dessert shops in Japan.  As you can guess from the name, it is a light and airy soufflé-like dessert as opposed to dense and thick American cheesecake.  Soufflé Cheesecake is not overly sweet, as with other Japanese cakes, but it still has a good enough cheese flavor to be called a cheesecake.

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Matcha Roll Cake Recipe

Matcha Roll Cake recipe


Matcha Roll Cake (抹茶ロールケーキ) is Matcha flavored sponge cake rolled with Anko (sweet red bean) whipped cream.  This western style dessert has traditional Japanese flavors, however, it is light enough to be a perfect ending after any kind of meal.

Matcha is a kind of green tea that is in a powdered form, traditionally used for the Japanese tea ceremony, and it is different from regular green tea leaves.  Matcha tastes rather strong and bitter by itself, but its refreshing flavor goes very well with dairy and sugar.  It is an excellent complement to baked goods especially, leaving no bitterness but a nice fragrance.  Matcha has become a common flavor for many drinks and desserts in the US too, such as Matcha Ice Cream and Matcha Latte that you may have seen before.  The cream inside this cake is flavored with Anko which is another very authentic component for Japanese desserts.  By mixing with whipped cream, Anko becomes a milder taste so that two big flavors don’t crush each other.

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Matcha Pound Cake Recipe

Matcha Pound Cake recipe


Matcha is a kind of green tea that is powdered, which is traditionally used for the Japanese tea ceremony.  Although Matcha is a kind of tea, it is different from regular green tea leaves.  It tastes rather bitter and has a much more concentrated flavor than green tea leaves. Matcha’s refreshing flavor goes surprisingly well with dairy and sugar, so it is a great flavoring to use in western style sweets as well as Japanese. It has become a common flavor in the US for many drinks and desserts, such as Matcha Latte and Matcha Ice Cream.

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