This was another souvenir that I bought in the Hanedo Airport in Japan. I was not planning to buy this box of cake, but as my best friend Sarah highly recommended it and on the rack there was only one box left for purchase. I bought it lol. The box came with two flavours, original and Green Tea.
1) Original flavour
The cake had a special texture different from what normal sponge cake had. Although it was still soft and moist, the surface texture was not that smooth, a bit rough, like you can feel the honeycomb-like roughness on your palate. The cake itself was also surprisingly extremely sweet, again different from sponge cake but gave a very familiar taste. Later I found out the cake was actually a Doll Cake(人形燒a.k.a. Doll Burning), no wonder it was that sweet.
Observing the cake closely you will find a thin layer of red bean paste in between the outer layer and the cake. Being a revolutionary Doll Cake, this thin layer of paste added on an extra sweetness to this cake. Even served with unsweetened coffee, the cake was still a bit too sweet.
2) Green Tea Flavour
Although the cake was still extremely sweet too, it tasted better than the original as it had a strong green tea flavour along with the sweetness. The strong flavour dominated the cake and lessen the sweetness impression down.
A bit of information here having Wikipedia as reference. Doll Cake is a specialty originated from the Asakusa Temple in Tokyo Japan. It mainly uses flour, eggs and sugar as raw material and can gave any kind of shapes by blending the mixture in a special mold. The Doll Cake usually come as a plain cake or has a red bean paste filling and is in the shape of the Seven Lucky Gods and Asakusa Kaminarimon.
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