![]() ![]() The whole concept is that since the raindrop cake is basically flavorless gelatin, you need to have ‘accessories’ that adds flavor and sweetness. I also substituted the kinako and kuromitsu with chunky red bean paste and heavy cream. Now, if you want to make this completely vegan, then you can use agar. For me, I prefer the gelatin texture over the agar texture so I’m substituting agar with gelatin. So it’s much harder to find agar agar unless you have a Asian market near you or else you can buy it on Amazon. The hardest part about making the raindrop cake is the ratio of gelatin and water. I guess you can call it a dieter’s dessert. So what’s so special about the raindrop cake? It just look amazing with a dome shaped gelatin and very mild flavor. Instead of using rice as the mochi, mineral water and agar was used in its place. Turns out it was originally known as Shingen Mochi (信玄餅) which is made of rice cake with kinako (roasted soy flour) and kuromitsu (black sugar syrup). Ice cream sandwich and momo sizzler, Doodh cola, sea salt chocolate, chandan sherbet, momo burger and chocolate momo, ice cream rolls, ice cream chaat, bhoo chakra gadde, rasgulla chaat, chilli chocolate, fried ice cream, and paper sweet.I have never heard of the raindrop cake until recently even though I worked in Japan in the late 1990’s. Would you like to know about the other things on the list? Here you go! This cake makes it to the list of seemingly crazy food stuff we have tried out. You might want to enquire whether the cake is available before you visit, though. Sampling this cake for the first ever time was, definitely, a dream come true for me, an experience I will cherish forever.įor those of you who are interested, the cake is priced at INR 100 at My Cousin’s Place. But still, this is something really, really cool – something that every foodie must try out at least once in their lifetime. However, it didn’t satiate the huge sweet tooths that my husband and I possess. The cake is, obviously, very different from the typical Indian and international desserts that we are used to, so it definitely possesses a novelty value. The Japanese often add fresh or dried sakura blossoms to their raindrop cakes, I gather, which, of course, weren’t present in this Indian version.Ĭonsidering that I have never sampled the original cake from Japan and have no benchmark to measure this dessert against, I will refrain from doing the same.ĭid I like it? Not really. At My Cousin’s Place, too, I guess, the same two flavouring agents were offered along with the cake. I understand that, traditionally, in Japan, the cake is served with kinako soyabean powder and brown sugar syrup. The cake had no flavour of its own, deriving all its taste only from the mildly sweet powder and syrup it was served with, just as it is supposed to be. It felt like a drop of water on my tongue. The cake felt and tasted exactly as I had imagined it to be. It looked exactly like a droplet of water on a leaf! This is a work of art all right! Raindrop cake at My Cousin’s Place When the raindrop cake arrived at our table, the husband and I ooh-ed and aah-ed over it. How was my first tryst with the raindrop cake? ![]() This post is all about the raindrop cake.) It has a very different-from-the-usual concept of dining, but more about that later. So, when I heard of this eatery called My Cousin’s Place in HSR Layout serving the cake, I had to drag the husband there, one fine weekend, to sample it! (My Cousin’s Place, BTW, earlier used to operate in Electronic City, and has now shifted to HSR Layout. Thanks to this fragility, the cake isn’t available at a lot of places, even in Japan. I understand the dessert dissolves into a puddle of water within 30 minutes of being served. This dessert was all over the international food world in 2016 and, of course, I wanted a bite of it, too. Apparently, the company makes the cake using fresh water from the Japanese Alps, which is so sweet and tasty that the cake doesn’t need any other flavouring! Thus, ‘ Mizu Shignen Mochi‘ literally translates to ‘ water cake‘. ‘ Mizu‘, in Japanese, means ‘water’, and ‘ Shingen Mochi‘ is a kind of rice cake that is popular all over Japan. ![]() Popularly known as ‘Raindrop Cake’, Mizu Shingen Mochi is the brainchild of the Kinseiken Seika company of Japan. ![]() That is Mizu Shingen Mochi, the Japanese dessert, for you. The taste too is exactly the same – just like a drop of water. Cut into it, and you feel its lightness – it feels like you are cutting a drop of water. Imagine a cake that looks exactly like a drop of water. Hamsagayathri Naraya… on Edible Rice Flour Lamp Or Maa…Īviyal kuzhambu | Mi… on Beetroot Vattalkozhambu| Beetr… The Girl Next Door on Edible Rice Flour Lamp Or Maa…
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