Wednesday, July 15, 2009

ITALY


●Today's Menu●
I want to go to Italy someday...!! So, I'm going to show Italian sweets to you today!There are many many sweets in Itary, but I will introduce the most famous sweet of Sicily in Italy this time;-)


Menu one
●Cassata●
What is this sweet? Jelly? Bavarian cream?
In fact, this is a cake made of ice cream!
Do you know Gelato is popular sweet in Italy, don't you?
To tell the truth, Sicily is the birthplace of Gelato!
So, in Sicily, the ice cream is very popular sweet ;-)
Especially, this cassata is typical sweet!
There are dried fruit, chocolate chip and almond chip, etc. in this cassata. It seems to be a jewel box! I want to eat it now...


Menu two
●Cannoli●
This is also typical sweet in Sicily!
They shape dough of pie into a cylinder and put cream into them. This cream made from Ricotta cheese containing vanilla, chocolate, pistachio and liquor etc. It seems to use not cheese but custard cream according to the region.


Even so, Italy is so good place...they have many many delicious sweets!










THAILAND

●Today's Menu●
Hello, everyone! Today is too HOT...
I'm very tired. How about you? So, I will introduce colorful sweets which make you vigorous surely this time!

Menu one
●Rookchop●
How colorful sweets! Do you think so?
This sweet is 'Roo
kchop'. It's popular sweet in Thailand.It seems to take time very much to make these cakes.This cake looks like 'Nerikiri' in Japan. But the taste of coconut milk extends to a full of mouth.They make form of these cakes like vegetable and fruit.



Menu two
●Unmaprau●
This is also colorful sweet! And it's a good sweet in summer. Because...
Un means 'Kanten' in Japanese and ma prau means 'coconut'.That is to say, this sweet is KANTEN made of coconut. ;-)
How? Do you want to eat it in summer, don't you?
Really this tone seems to be Thailand!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

BELGIUM

●Today's Menu●
Hello! Recently, I feel moisture is terrible. How do you do?
Well, I introduce sweets of Belgium to you this time!
The person who loves chocolates should see them. ;-)

Menu one
●Javanais●
This sweet is 'Javanais'. It looks like the OPERA.
But its taste is different. The main taste of this cake is 'COFFEE'. It goes to the layer in the coffee cream repeatedly! Javanais means Person on Java Island. So its taste is coffee. Java Island is well known for producing coffee!



Menu two
●Merveilleux●
This cake seems to be loved especially by people in Belgium.
Meringue and whipped cream are spread many times, the chocolate is pasted to the surroundings!
And you might see it as small cake but its size is big in fact.
If you go to Belgium, why don't you challenge it?:-)
I want to try it someday...



Today's My recommended Menu
●Dame Blanche●
This dessert is just right for HOT day! ;-)
As you know, this is vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup.
But it is not a normal ice cream.
To tell the truth, this chocolate syrup is hot!
We sprinkle hot chocolate syrup on cold vanilla ice cream.
It seems to be very delicious!

Saturday, June 27, 2009

☆FRANCE☆

●Today's Menu●
How are you? A hot day continues recently! This year's rainy season might have gone to somewhere.
Well, do you want to go to France? There seem to be a lot of delicious sweets!
Therefore, I'll introduce French sweets to you this time!


~Menu ONE~
●Kouign Amann●
This is a traditional cake of Bretagne.
Kouign means cake, and Amann means butter; that is, Kouign Amann are made of butter from Bretagne.
Enough having salt butter is use for this, and sweet caramel is painted on the surface and it is baked.
It is sold in the convenience store also in Japan.


~Menu TWO~
●Brioche●
Here is one of the sweet roll of France. Suddenly, do you know Marie Antoinette? Actually, there is a little relation between this cake and her.
"If there is no bread, you eat the cake."
She said that during poverty and food shortage in France. This cake she had said was actually this Brioche. Then, she also was eating Brioche!

~Today's Special Menu~
●Croquembouche●
This is tower of many many little cream puffs! In France, they eat it as wedding cake. How fantastic! It seems to be very delicious!;-)
And it seems to be said that the higher it piles up the cream puff, the more the happy married life can be spent in France.
There was a couple who made this croquembouche as wedding cake.
What kind of wedding cake do you want?




Sunday, June 21, 2009

☆OKINAWA☆

●Today's Menu●
It is completely hot. Summer will come soon! Thus, I'm going to present cakes of Okinawa this time. I think you also know because it is standard cakes in Okinawa.


~Menu ONE~
This is SATA ANDAGI (サーターアンダギー)
It is one of the tradition cake in Okinawa.
'SATA' means sugar, 'ANDAGI' means frying by oil in the dialect of Okinawa.
So, it is Okinawa version doughnut!
Because enough sugar is used, are women a caution needed!?;-)


~Menu TWO~
This is TINSUKOU (ちんすこう)
Probably, many people know this cakes.
These cakes are much sweetness! So when you eat TINSUKOU, you need drinks which is not sugary.
And there are many kinds of tastes as you know.My favorite tastes are KOKUTOU and BENIIMO.
Try that by all means!

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Traditional Cake of KOREA

●Today's MENU●
Hello everyone!
Today, I'm going to show you the Korea's cake!
There might be the one that looks like the cake of Japan.


Menu ONE
●Inzyorumi●
This cake is made from glutinous rice and soybean flour.
It is like"Kinako-Mochi" in Japan.
In Korea, there are many cakes made from glutinous rice.Therefore, a lot of Korea's cakes look like Japanese cake!



Menu TWO
●Tokkeiku●
This cake looks an ordinary cake.
But, this cake is also made from glutinous rice! Can you believe?;-)
Though the pumpkin and sweet potato taste seem to be popular among young people in Korea, there are cocoa taste and fruits, etc. in another shops.



Special Drink
●Omizyatyafa●
Today's recommended drink is "Omizyatyafa".
It is tea like a sweet juice that floated many kinds of fruits such as watermelon and pears on tea.
It's a good drink in the season of the future because it floats ice.
Let's drink it!


How?
There seem to be many cakes of Korea that the glutinous rice was used.
Please look for your favorite cake when you go to Korea in the future!


Tuesday, May 19, 2009

●Today's Menu●
Hello! How do you do?
Then, do you know Turkey's traditional sweet? I'm going to introduce you to Turkey's sweet this time!
~Menu ONE~
This is sweets called 'Lokum'. In English, is called 'Turkish delight'.
This is made of sugar, starch and nuts(walnuts, almond, coconuts, for example).
And this is like a rice cake of Japan.
It's very sweet.
There are various lokum by the region.
So, how about looking for your favorite lokum?


~Menu TWO~
This is also popular sweets in Japan.
This is ice cream called 'Dondurma'.
It's sold as 'Turkish Ice' in Japan.
Like this right picture, this ice cream is stretched.
It's fun, isn't it?
Basic taste is a sweet milk or vanilla flavor, but there are coffee and chocolate tastes.
In the feature one, there is milk with cayenne!
It tries by all means!



●Special Menu●
I introduce a recommended drink to this sweets.
This also represents Turkey and it is called 'Caay'.
Enough putting sugar in and drinking are recommended of me.




Sunday, May 10, 2009

●Today's Menu●
Hello!
How did you spend your Golden Week? I returned to my family home. So, my hometown is very comfortable place.
Well, I want to introduce pudding of 'Lawson' that you also often use this time.

~Menu ONE~
'Omatase pudding of tea with milk'
The first pudding is 'pudding of tea with milk'. We eat this pudding with not caramel source but syrup of tea. I love smooth taste!


~Menu TWO~
'Horoniga pudding of powdered green tea'
The second pudding is 'pudding of powdered green tea'. Recently, there are a lot of sweet of the powdered green tea flavor. Dose Japanese still like green tea? ;-) This pudding with lemon source. We can experience a strange taste.




Now, there are various kinds, and sweets of the convenience store cannot be made light of easily. Also, it is big charm for us to get it cheaply.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

●Today's MENU●
It is Children's Day soon!
Children's Day is near, and I want to introduce the sweets eat at Chirdlen's Day this time.

First of all, about the cake in the photograph on. This is a Japanese sweet that is called "CHIMAKI". CHIMAKI is a rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves.

The following is "KASHIWAMOCHI".
The cake in the photograph of the second piece is KASHIWAMOCHI.
As for the cake eats at Children's Day, this KASHIWAMOCHI might be imagined than the CHIMAKI.

How?
Children's Day when the children's health and growth are watched.
Will you eat this wonderful Japanese sweets with delicious Japanese tea?

Sunday, April 26, 2009

heaven's cafe

This blog is given for Everyone who loves Sweets!
I'll introduce my recommended Sweets and desserts.
There are many kinds of sweets and desserts (sometimes good drinks).
For example, nice cafes sweets in my city, in convenience's sweets and
traditional sweets all over the world!!

I wish you meet your favorite Sweets in my blog!