15 (Japanese)

List by: itisclaudio, created: 26 Aug 2020, updated: 26 Aug 2020 Public: Users can add dishes

List of the most traditional desserts you can find in Japan. While sugar hasn't existed always in Japan, they still enjoyed sweet treats based on ingredients such as nuts, fruit, anko, and mochi. Traditional Japanese desserts are known as wagashi, were enjoyed with green tea to offset the bitterness, as opposed to a treat at the end of the meal.

1. Japanese Milk Pudding

(Japanese)

Japanese milk pudding is a Japanese dessert made with milk, heavy cream, sugar, gelatin, vanilla. The texture is very soft and melts in the mouth.It is very delicious.

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2. Anmitsu

(Japanese)

Anmitsu is a Japanese dessert that has been popular for many decades.It is made of small cubes of agar jelly, a white translucent jelly made from red algae. It is served in a bowl with sweet azuki bean paste or anko (the an part of anmitsu), boiled peas, often gyūhi and a variety of fruits etc.

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3. Daifuku

(Japanese)

Daifuku is a Japanese confection consisting of a small round mochi stuffed with sweet filling, most commonly anko, sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans.

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4. Dango

団子, Japanese dumplings (Japanese)

Dango is a Japanese dumpling and sweet made from mochiko, related to mochi. It is often served with green tea. Dango is eaten year-round, but the different varieties are traditionally eaten in given seasons. Three to four dango are often served on a skewer.

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5. Dorayaki

Mikasa (Japanese)

Dorayaki is a type of Japanese confection, а red-bean pancake which consists of two small pancake-like patties made from castella wrapped around a filling of sweet Azuki red bean paste.

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6. Sakuramochi

Sakura Mochi (Japanese)

Sakuramochi is a Japanese sweet consisting of sweet pink-colored rice cake (mochi) with a red bean paste (anko) center, and wrapped in a pickled cherry blossom (sakura) leaf.

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7. Taiyaki

(Japanese)

Taiyaki is a Japanese fish-shaped cake. The most common filling is red bean paste that is made from sweetened azuki beans. Other common fillings may be custard, chocolate, cheese, or sweet potato. Some shops even sell taiyaki with okonomiyaki, gyoza filling, or a sausage inside.

Taiyaki is made using regular pancake or waffle batter. The batter is poured into a fish-shaped mold for each side. The filling is then put on one side and the mold is closed. It is …

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8. Amezaiku

飴細工 (Japanese)

Amezaiku (飴細工) is a Japanese candy craft artistry. An artist takes multi-coloured mizuame and, using their hands and other tools such as tweezers and scissors, creates a sculpture. It is made with sugar syrup, corn syrup, edible paint, flavour.

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9. Anpan

(Japanese)

Anpan is a Japanese sweet roll most commonly filled with red bean paste. Anpan can also be prepared with other fillings, including white beans (Shiro-an), green beans (Uguisu-an), sesame (Goma-an), and chestnut (Kuri-an).

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10. Castella

Kastuera (Japanese)

Castella is a popular Japanese sponge cake made of sugar, flour, eggs, and starch syrup. It is Japan’s favorite sweet treats, castella (also called kastuera) actually has European roots.

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11. Chinsuko

(Chinese) (Japanese)

Chinsuko is a traditional sweet often sold as a souvenir (miyagegashi) in Okinawa, Japan. Chinsuko is a small biscuit made of mostly lard and flour, with a mild and sweet flavor very similar to shortbread.

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12. Coffee Jelly

(American) (British) (Japanese)

Coffee jelly (コーヒーゼリー, kōhī zerī) is a jelly dessert flavoured with coffee and sugar. Although once common in British and American cookbooks, it is now most common in Japan, where it can be found in most restaurants and convenience stores. Coffee jelly can be made using an instant mix or from scratch. It is served in restaurants and cafés.

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13. Green Tea Ice Cream

Matcha Ice (American) (Japanese)

Green Tea Ice Cream is a Japanese ice cream flavor. This flavor is extremely popular in Japan. Green tea ice cream is also sold in monaka form. It has been available in the United States.

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14. Hakuto Jelly

Shimizo Hakuto Jelly (Japanese)

Hakuto jelly (白桃ゼリー) is a seasonal Japanese dessert available in the summer. It is made using the juice of ripe hakuto peaches from Okayama and mineral-rich spring water. The texture is very smooth and soft, similar to the texture of the fruit itself. It has a light floral/peach aroma and taste. Hakuto jelly often comes in a container designed like the peach it was made from. Hakuto jelly can either be cut into cubes and served as such or eaten …

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15. Imagawayaki

Obanyaki (Japanese)

Imagawayaki (今川焼き) is a Japanese dessert often found at Japanese festivals as well as outside Japan. It is made of batter in a special pan (similar to a waffle iron but without the honeycomb pattern), and filled with sweet azuki bean paste, although it is becoming increasingly popular to use a wider variety of fillings such as vanilla custard, different fruit custards and preserves, curry, different meat and vegetable fillings, potato and mayonnaise. Imagawayaki is similar to Dorayaki, but the …

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