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In Japanese cuisine, traditional sweets are known as wagashi, and are made using ingredients such as red bean paste and mochi. Though many desserts and sweets date back to the Edo period (1603–1867) and Meiji period (1868–1911), many modern-day sweets and desserts originating from Japan also exist.
This category contains Japanese desserts and sweets. See also Category:Wagashi about traditional Japanese sweets. Subcategories.
In Japan, the word for sweets or confectionery, kashi (菓子), originally referred to fruits and nuts. [5] Fruits and nuts may be eaten as snacks between meals and served as "sweets" during a tea ceremony. [6] The word Wa means "Japanese", and kashi becomes gashi in compound words, wagashi therefore means "Japanese confectionery". [6] [7]
The texture of the ice distinguishes kakigōri from other types of shaved ice desserts. Due to this textural difference, it has also been seen translated as 'Angel Snow', which perhaps sounds more appealing. [9] Popular flavors include strawberry, cherry, lemon, green tea, grape, melon, "Blue Hawaii", sweet plum, and colorless syrup. Some shops ...
Rice cake kirimochi or kakumochi Rice cake marumochi Fresh mochi being pounded. A mochi (/ m oʊ t ʃ iː / MOH-chee; [1] Japanese もち, 餅 ⓘ) is a Japanese rice cake made of mochigome (もち米), a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch.
In the Edo period, in part due to the cost of sugar, castella was an expensive dessert to make despite the ingredients sold by the Portuguese. When the Emperor of Japan's envoy was invited, the Tokugawa shogunate presented them with castella cakes. [9] Over the years, the taste changed to suit Japanese palates.
Monaka (最中) is a Japanese sweet made of azuki bean paste sandwiched between two thin crisp wafers made from mochi. The wafers can have the shape of a square, a triangle, or may be shaped like cherry blossoms, chrysanthemums, local landmarks, daruma, or other good luck symbols. Monaka is a type of dessert—wagashi—which is served with tea ...
Anmitsu (あんみつ, rarely 餡蜜) is a wagashi [1] [2] (Japanese dessert) that dates to the Meiji era. [3] It is made of small cubes of agar jelly, a white translucent jelly made from red algae. [3] The agar is dissolved with water (or fruit juice such as apple juice) to make the jelly.