List of Japanese desserts and sweets

A selection of wagashi to be served during a Japanese tea ceremony

In Japanese cuisine, traditional Japanese sweets are known as wagashi. Ingredients such as red bean paste and mochi are used. Many modern day sweets and desserts in Japan are also in existence.

Japanese desserts

Imagawayaki (gozasōrō) being prepared in a store in Sannomiya, Kobe, Japan

Coffee jelly is a popular gelatin dessert in Japan

• Anmitsu
• Anpan
• Castella
• Chinsuko
• Coffee jelly
• Green tea ice cream
• Hakuto jelly
• Imagawayaki
• Melonpan
• Mochi ice cream ^[1]
• Sata andagi

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  Hakuto jelly is a seasonal dessert in Japanese cuisine available in the summer.
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  Mochi ice cream is a Japanese confection made from mochi (pounded sticky rice) with an ice cream filling.
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  Sata andagi are sweet, deep fried buns of dough similar to doughnuts

Wagashi

Peanut Amanattō. Amanattō is a traditional Japanese confectionery that is made of azuki or other beans, covered with refined sugar after simmering with sugar syrup and drying.

Wagashi is a traditional Japanese confectionery which is often served with tea, especially the types made of mochi, anko (azuki bean paste), and fruits. Wagashi is typically made from plant ingredients.^[2]

A

• Akumaki
• Amanattō
• Arare (food)

B

• Botamochi
• Beika

C

• Chitoseame

D

• Daifuku
• Dango
• Dorayaki

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  Daifuku is a glutinous rice cake stuffed with sweet filling, most commonly anko, sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans.
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  Dango is a dumpling and sweet made from mochiko (rice flour), related to mochi. It is often served with green tea.

G

• Gionbō
• Gyūhi

H

Higashi is dry and contains very little moisture, and thus keeps relatively longer than other kinds of wagashi.

• Hanabiramochi
• Higashi
• Hishi mochi

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  Arare is a type of bite-sized Japanese cracker made from glutinous rice and flavored with soy sauce. Sweet and savory varieties are prepared.
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  Hanabiramochi is a Japanese sweet usually eaten at the beginning of the year.

I

• Imagawayaki

K

Kuzumochi are mochi cakes made of kuzuko

• Kanten
• Karinto
• Karukan
• Konpeitō
• Kusa mochi
• Kuzumochi
• Keiran Soumen

M

• Manjū
• Mizuame
• Monaka

N

• Namagashi

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  Manjū is a popular traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from flour, rice powder and buckwheat and a filling of anko (red bean paste), made from boiled azuki beans and sugar.
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  Mizuame is a sweetener from Japan which is translated literally to "water candy". A clear, thick, sticky liquid, it is made by converting starch to sugars.
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  Monaka is prepared with azuki bean jam filling sandwiched between two thin crisp wafers made from mochi.
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  Namagashi are a type of wagashi, which is a general term for snacks used in the Japanese tea ceremony. Namagashi may contain fruit jellies, other gelatines such as Kanten or sweetened bean paste.

R

• Red bean paste
• Red bean soup

S

Suama (right) and orange gyūhi (left)

• Sakuramochi
• Senbei
• Suama

T

• Taiyaki
• Tokoroten

U

• Uirō

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  Sakuramochi consists of a sweet pink mochi (rice cake) and red bean paste, covered with a leaf of sakura (cherry blossom).
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  Taiyaki, literally "baked sea bream," is a Japanese fish-shaped cake.
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  Tokoroten is prepared with jelly extracted from seaweeds such as tengusa (Gelidiaceae) and ogonori (Gracilaria) by boiling. Pressed against a device, jelly is shaped into noodles.
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  Uirō is a traditional Japanese steamed cake made of rice flour and sugar.^[3]

W

Warabimochi is a jelly-like confection made from bracken starch and covered or dipped in kinako (sweet toasted soybean flour)

• Warabimochi
• Wasanbon

Y

• Yatsuhashi
• Yōkan
• Yubeshi

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  Assorted Yatsuhashi. The flavors, from top to bottom, are tofu, cinnamon, sesame.
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  Yōkan is a thick, jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar. It is usually sold in a block form, and eaten in slices.

Brands

• Black Thunder
• Fusen gum
• Hyōrokumochi
• Shiroi Koibito

See also

Japanese sweets and desserts

• Japanese cuisine – Sweets
• List of Japanese dishes – Japanese-style sweets

Related topics

• Cuisine
• List of desserts

References

1. Watanabe, Teresa (2012-11-07). "Frances Hashimoto dies at 69; Little Tokyo leader, mochi ice cream creator". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
2. Gordenker, Alice, "So What the Heck is That?: Wagashi", Japan Times, 20 January 2011, p. 11.
3. "ういろう" [Uirō]. Dijitaru daijisen (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. OCLC 56431036. Retrieved 2012-06-24.

External links

• Media related to Confectionery of Japan at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Sweets of Japan at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Wagashi at Wikimedia Commons