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Coffee Jelly with Ice Cream

Coffee Jelly with Ice Cream

Have you tried Japanese Coffee Jelly before? You might have seen an anime character eating it on TV, or if you have been to Japan, you might have seen it next to Purin at convenience stores. Coffee Jelly is a chilled coffee with gelatin, and it’s been a popular dessert in Japan for decades. It’s usually served with heavy cream, but in this recipe, we are serving it with ice cream. The jelly is made much softer and less sweet than our original Coffee Jelly recipe, so you can simply spoon the soft and cold jelly into a glass. Top with vanilla ice cream, it melts in your mouth! Bitterness from black coffee and sweetness and creaminess from ice cream are a perfect match. You can adjust the amount of gelatin and sugar to your liking. If you like ice coffee, you should definitely give this a try!

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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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Bavarois with Strawberry Sauce Recipe

Bavarois with Strawberry Sauce

Bavarois is a cold French dessert that is something between jelly and mousse. Bavarois is solidified by gelatin like jelly, and it’s creamy using milk and whipped heavy cream like mousse. Bavarois, although a French sweet, has been a staple homemade dessert in Japan for decades as well as a component of fancy cakes at cake shops. Bavarois is very un-Japanese but a popular basic sweet people often eat there.

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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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Vanilla Purin Recipe

Vanilla Purin

Vanilla Purin (バニラプリン) is a cold custard dessert in Japan.  The name Purin comes from the word pudding, but it is not the same thing as the gooey pudding in the US at all.   This custard pudding has more the feel of a jelly dish because of its gelatin content.  It is a very basic sweet but everyone in Japan adores it.  It is a great alternative dessert to ice cream in summer.

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Shiro An Recipe

Shiro An

Shiro An is sweet white bean paste, and it is a crucial ingredient for Japanese traditional confectioneries, just like Anko sweet red bean paste.  Shiro An is made from white kidney beans and sugar. It’s used in a lot of different forms of desserts in Japan, from fresh Mochi desserts such as Fruit Daifuku to baked Manju so it is a great recipe to know if you like making 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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