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🇯🇵 Japanese Cuisine

Desserts

10 Recipes

Mochi Ice Cream

Soft, pounded glutinous rice dough wrapped around a ball of ice cream in flavors like matcha, strawberry, and red bean.

Prep 20 mins·🔥Cook 10 mins·🍽Serves 8Medium

Dorayaki

Two fluffy honey pancakes sandwiched together with a generous filling of sweet azuki red bean paste.

Prep 15 mins·🔥Cook 20 mins·🍽Serves 6Easy

Matcha Ice Cream

Intensely flavored green tea ice cream made with ceremonial-grade matcha for a bittersweet, creamy finish.

Prep 15 mins·🔥Cook 0 mins·🍽Serves 4Easy

Wagashi

Artisan Japanese confections of bean paste and mochi shaped into seasonal motifs, served alongside matcha.

Prep 30 mins·🔥Cook 20 mins·🍽Serves 12Hard

Anmitsu

A classic Japanese dessert bowl of agar jelly cubes, red bean paste, mochi, and fruit drizzled with kuromitsu syrup.

Prep 20 mins·🔥Cook 10 mins·🍽Serves 4Easy

Kakigori

Finely shaved ice mounded in a bowl and drenched with flavored syrups like matcha, strawberry, or condensed milk.

Prep 10 mins·🔥Cook 0 mins·🍽Serves 2Easy

Japanese Cotton Cheesecake

An impossibly light, soufflé-textured cheesecake that jiggles like a cloud with a delicate cream cheese flavor.

Prep 30 mins·🔥Cook 1 hr·🍽Serves 8Hard

Castella

A moist, honey-flavored sponge cake with Portuguese origins perfected over centuries in Nagasaki, Japan.

Prep 20 mins·🔥Cook 50 mins·🍽Serves 8Medium

Yokan

A firm, elegant jelly of sweet red bean paste and agar set into blocks and sliced into refined portions.

Prep 15 mins·🔥Cook 20 mins·🍽Serves 10Easy

Mille Crêpe Cake

Hundreds of paper-thin crepes layered with lightly sweetened whipped cream into a spectacular tower of texture.

Prep 60 mins·🔥Cook 30 mins·🍽Serves 8Hard