If you are interested and would like to know more, head to that post. I have shared the comparison chart in Anmitsu post. Gelatin, Kanten and Agar are used as coagulants in Japan. It does make a little more than I needed for the mold I have. Use the correct agar powder and mineral water ratio.The brand I used is available in Australia from major supermarkets. I shared a comparison chart in Anmitsu post. There are different types of agar agar powder. I used one called “Cool Agar which I ordered on Amazon from Japan. Apparently, there is always a queue at that shop because of how popular this dessert is.ģ tips to make crystal clear raindrop cake The dessert originated in Yamanashi prefecture, which has a Japanese sweets shop that first sold this dessert.Īt the shop where the Mizu Shingen Mochi” originated, the raindrop cake only stays in its raindrop form for about 30 minutes so you can not take away, you have to eat it there. It is a jelly-like dessert made from water and agar powder and it looks just like a giant raindrop. Even with the addition of the syrup, though, a raindrop cake holds its form for only about half an hour outside a refrigerator.Raindrop cake is actually called “Mizu Shingen Mochi” in Japanese. It is usually served with kinako (roasted soy powder) and kuromitsu (black sugar syrup), the latter of which has a molasses-like quality that lends the cake temporary solidity. The saucepan is set in cold water so that the agar cools quickly, and the resulting gel is set in a spherical mold and refrigerated for an hour. (Some recipes add sugar to the mix.) The agar is placed in a saucepan and stirred, with water added slowly to avoid lumping, and then brought to a boil. The raindrop cake is at first glance simple to make, with only two ingredients: water and agar, a polymer derived from red algae that is somewhat firmer than animal-derived gelatin.
Versions also turned up in restaurants in Australia and Hong Kong. Chef Darren Wong introduced his version to New York’s Smorgasburg outdoor food market in 2016, with its sale, as in Japan, restricted to summer weekends, and the raindrop cake soon became a food fad item much in demand. Other firms in Japan developed variations of the cake. It quickly became popular, with visitors queueing up at the confectioner’s shop in such large numbers that Kinseiken Daigahara limited production to 300 cakes a day. The raindrop cake was first developed in 2014 by the Kinseiken Daigahara confectioner in the small town of Hokuto, using water from the Japanese Alps it was marketed as “water you can eat.” Molded into a raindrop shape, it was as evanescent as a rain shower, available for sale there only on weekends and public holidays in summer.
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