Spring has finally come along and that means its cherry blossom (sakura) season. During this season, a popular treat to have is sakura mochi. Even though sakura mochi has always been a piece of pink rice cake wrapped around red bean paste and then garnished with a piece of preserved cherry blossom leaf, the style […]
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Strawberry Daifuku
Daifuku is a Japanese dessert that involves wrapping a glutinous rice flour (mochi) dough around a sweet filling. Most of the time the filling for Daifuku is red bean (anko) paste but sometimes a strawberry gets wrapped in there as well for extra deliciousness. I think that these Japanese cakes are the cutest things ever especially when […]