27 Insanely Delicious Japanese Desserts
Who doesn’t like desserts? We all do! don’t we? There are a number of ways to make desserts and each has its own unique flavor. Let’s find the most popular and traditional Japanese desserts that not only looks good but taste great too.
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Recipes For Japanese Desserts
1.Japanese Cheesecake
This fluffy cake is also called Cotton cake.
This yummy cheesecake contains fewer calories as compared to normal cheesecake and it requires less amount of cheese.
It takes one hour to prepare.
You need to first preheat the oven to 302°F.
With a combination of all-purpose flour, cheese, sugar, eggs, lemon juice you can make this lovely cake.
It is an amazing Japanese fluffy cheesecake.
2.Purin
It is also called Japanese pudding.
The process is pretty simple and even if you are living a busy life it will need only 20 minutes of your time.
To make the dessert you need sugar, gelatin powder, eggs, vanilla extract, whipping cream.
The caramel taste takes the pudding to another level.
3.Hanami Dango
This is one of the easiest Japanese desserts to make.
The recipes take around 20 minutes to make.
To make the recipe the ingredients required are tofu, matcha powder, rice flour, strawberry powder.
After your dinner, this is a much-needed yummy dessert to satisfy your craving.
These look so cute as well.
4. Japanese Fruit Roll Cake
It is one of my favorite Japanese desserts.
Whenever I host a party, this is one of the desserts on my menu as I get requests from my guests all the time to make it and I happily oblige.
First, you need to preheat the oven to 340°F.
The ingredients needed are egg yolks, milk, all-purpose flour, cream of tartar, and vanilla extract.
5.Pumpkin Manju Sweets
This dessert will remind you of mini pumpkin pies.
You need to preheat the oven to 375°F.
It takes about an hour to make.
The ingredients needed are pumpkin puree, all-purpose flour, pine nuts, vanilla extract, sweet potato.
6.Coffee Jelly
You can make coffee jelly either through instant coffee or the other option is brewed coffee.
If you want it quick then try the instant coffee version.
To make coffee jelly you need instant coffee or brewed coffee, gelatin, sugar.
Once you make it, you want to make it again and again as it is so yummy.
7.Dorayaki
It is also called a Japanese red bean pancake.
The recipe takes 45 minutes to make.
With a combination of red bean paste, all-purpose flour, eggs, baking powder, honey you can make this lovely dessert.
The pancake looks gorgeous and tastes wonderful.
8.Baked Mochi Donuts
It is a chewy, delicious, and healthy dessert. It looks cute too.
You need to preheat the oven to 338°F. It takes 75 minutes to make this donut.
With a mix of tapioca starch, white chocolate, sugar, flour, strawberries you can make these lovely donuts.
9.Cherry Blossom Raindrop Cake
This raindrop cake is also called Mizu singhen mochi.
It is one of the most unique-looking desserts as it resembles a raindrop.
This is a low-calorie dessert as it contains only agar agar and water.
It is best enjoyed with roasted soybean flour called kinako.
To get the shape you need silicon molds.
You need agar powder, soybean flour, mineral water, black sugar syrup.
10. Castella
It is a sweet sponge cake that is very popular in Japan.
This is not one of the easiest cakes to make. But the effort will surely be rewarding as it tastes great.
Also called Kasutera, it takes around an hour to make.
You need to preheat the oven to 340 degrees Fahrenheit.
The ingredients include eggs, honey, mizuame syrup, sugar, bread flour.
11.Daifuku
It is also called custard mochi that is round in shape with a sweet flavor.
To make this yummy Japanese dessert you need all-purpose flour, vanilla extract, cornstarch, milk, granulated sugar.
It is one of the most famous Japanese desserts.
Though it takes close to two hours to make the outcome is really satisfactory.
12.Strawberry Sando
This is one of the best fruit sandwiches stuffed with cream and fruits.
It hardly takes ten minutes to make.
To make this dessert you need milk bread, strawberries, whipping cream.
Make sure the milk bread is fluffy. I would suggest you go with shokupan.
13.Kinako Brioche Donuts
It is one of the most simple Japanese desserts.
You need kinako pastry cream, granulated sugar, brioche dough to make this wonderful dessert.
My entire family loves this tasty dessert and I simply love all the praises that come my way.
14.Kanten Fruit Jelly
This Japanese dessert is pretty easy to make.
To make the recipe you need fruits like raspberries, kiwi, sugar, apple juice, kanten powder.
If you don’t have sphere mold you can use an icecube tray to mold it.
Kanten is also used to make other Japanese confectioneries but it does not have any taste of its own so here apple juice is used to get the flavor.
15.Chocolate Japanese Cheesecake
It is one of the most delicious desserts.
You need to preheat the oven to 325°F.
With a combination of eggs, vanilla extract, cornstarch, cream cheese, cocoa powder you can make this lovely cake.
16.Nutella Tayaki
This is one of the unique-looking desserts. It is a fish-shaped dessert that looks cute and tastes yummy.
It takes around 80 minutes to make this delicious dessert.
To make the dessert the ingredients needed are eggs, vanilla extract, Nutella, cake flour.
17.Matcha Panna Cotta
This is one of the quickest desserts that takes only 20 minutes.
The ingredients include matcha powder, heavy cream, gelatin, whole milk.
It has an earthy flavor but tastes sweet.
The dessert looks very impressive.
18.Matcha Swiss Roll
Matcha roll looks similar to Swiss roll but it is lighter, fluffier, and not as sweet as a Swiss roll.
This dessert is going to take a couple of hours to make but the wait is completely worth it.
First, you need to preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
With a combination of eggs, whole milk, baking powder, heavy whipping cream, cake flour.
19.Sweet Red Bean Paste
This recipe is also called Anko. This red paste is used in a number of Japanese and Chinese cuisines.
The ingredients needed to make this paste are adzuki beans, salt, sugar.
Adzuki beans are half the size of kidney beans but it tastes great when used to make Anko.
It is used as a spread and toppings too.
20.Mochi Waffle
It is crispy from the outside and chewy from the inside.
This dessert is best served with Hojicha which is a green tea or Matcha latte.
The ingredients needed are mochi, rice flour, roasted sesame seeds, soy sauce, daikon.
21.Harajuku Crepes
This dessert is pretty easy to make and it is one of the most popular street food in Japan.
To make the dessert the ingredients needed are eggs, milk, butter, flour.
This is one of the best Japanese desserts recipes.
22.Yuzu Ice Cream
Ice cream is one of my favorite desserts and yuzu ice- cream is simply delicious.
The ingredients needed are eggs, heavy whipping cream, sugar, yuzu tea.
23.Mitarashi Dango
It is one of the traditional Japanese desserts.
The recipes take only 15 minutes to make.
To make the recipe the ingredients needed are glutinous rice flour, soy sauce, cornstarch, silken tofu.
24. Green Tea Ice Cream
This tastes quite different from regular chocolate or vanilla flavor and that is what excites me the most.
To make this delicious ice cream you need matcha green tea powder, sweetened condensed milk, whipped heavy cream.
25. Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcakes
These soft and fluffy cupcakes are a sure-shot hit with the guests.
I make it for the holidays too. Everyone loves it.
It takes around an hour to make this dessert.
You need to preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
With a mix of eggs, cake flour, heavy cream, vanilla extract, canola oil you can make this lovely cupcake.
26. Japanese Cake Roll
The chiffon cake base is the real star of this recipe.
It takes a little more than an hour to make.
You need to preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
The ingredients include vanilla extract, milk, baking powder, egg yolk, and cake flour.
27. Strawberry And Cream Japanese Cake
It requires an hour of prep time and 14 minutes of cooking time.
The ingredients include cake flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt and granulated sugar.