What is a Sweet But Healthy Japanese Cake?
Who said you should give up sweets when you're on a diet?!
If you’ve ever wandered around the basement food floors of Japanese department stores, you’re bound to have seen a wide range of desserts from western delicacies to traditional Japanese sweets. Precious cakes, beautiful gift boxes, and tea cookies each individually wrapped to perfection. Ohh, the temptation.
No one can resist a slice of cake! However, these slightly healthier cakes take some of the guilt away when you accidentally have a piece too many… These sweet slices are chock-full of fruity, nutty and natural flavours.
Today. we'd like to introduce to you the Sweet Castella and Matcha Castella 10 packs set [KYOTO] a famous confectionary sponge cake in Japan that is super moist with a taste of sweetness from honey and unearthly flavor of Kyoto Uji matcha green tea.
What is Castella?
Castella is a Japanese confectionary , which is “wagashi” in Japanese. It’s a simple sponge cake made with flour, eggs, sugar, and starch syrup, and baked in a rectangular mold. Castella was originally introduced by the Portuguese merchants to Nagasaki area in the 16th century. Additionally, it has a dark brown top and bottom crusts with a creamy yellow center which gives a beautiful contrast to the sponge cake. This delicate cake is very moist, smooth, bouncy, and has just enough sweetness with a fragrance of honey.
Sweet Nagasaki Castella
The fluffy and moist sponge cake made with thick malty syrup, and its golden brown surface with its sweet aroma, give a contrast and texture loved by children and adults alike; it also makes a popular gift to take home or give to friends and relatives.
Matcha Castella
A Japanese version such as green "matcha" tea-flavored castella, with their lovely light green-brown color, are gaining popularity even amongst tourists from overseas. A not too sweet and not too dry and the matcha taste is present along with a mild amount of sweetness.
Sweet but healthy sponge cake.
Castella is made with only 4-5 ingredients which makes it one of the easiest cakes to make! This is very popular confectionary in Japan. These are the following basic ingredients: Bread Flour, also called as strong flour. It has more protein than regular flour which results in the cake having a higher rise and more elasticity. Next ingredients are sugar and large eggs. Eggs must be in room temperature. Next is Honey, as the main flavour of castella. You will also be needing a water and a pinch of salt.
Satisfy your sweet tooth with this Japanese Castella cake!
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