Do you have a sweet tooth? Do you make it a point to eat local sweets when you are traveling?
I love cake, candy, chocolate, pie and all other types of dessert. One of the joys of traveling, for me, is to get to eat local sweets. (Continued after Japanese summary)
大阪パティッシュ・モンシェールの堂島ロールと生ショコラ
旅する際の一つの楽しみは、地元スイーツを食べること。先日、主人が美味しいサープライスをくれました。元同僚の薦めで、大阪のパティッシュ「モンシェール」の定番商品を仕事帰りに購入。さっそく食べてみたら「堂島ロール」というロールケーキがとても美味しかった。北海道からの新鮮な生クリームと生地が最良なスポンジケーキの組み合わせは絶品です。甘すぎず、フレッシュな味がします。また、口の中にとろける生ショコラは、天国からの贈り物のように最高でした。モンシェールのスイーツ、すごくお薦めです!また、買ってもらおうかと思います(ウフフ)^^
I’ve had a sweet tooth since the day I was born! While I struggle with a sugar addiction, I’m now trying to eat cheap candy much less often and instead buy a quality sweet treat once a week.
The other day my husband came home with an incredibly delectable treat from Osaka. Turns out one of his former colleagues had been raving about how good their cakes were, and that my husband just had to try for himself. Thanks former colleague! 🙂
These are baked treats from a pastry store called Mon Cher. Their flagship bakery is in Dojima, Osaka. Mon Cher’s head baker and founder was inspired by the quaint local bakeries in Paris, France, thus the name.
With fresh cream from Hokkaido, and a sponge cake so tasty, Mon Cher’s cake roll is one of the best I’ve ever had. It’s neither too sweet nor too creamy, but has a fresh, delicious taste that makes you want to eat the whole thing in one sitting (just kidding!)
Not to be outdone, the bite-sized, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate cake is a slice of pure heaven. I ate it a few hours ago and I’m still going “Mmmmmmm…” 🙂 It’s that good!
Cake rolls, called ロールケーキ “roll cake” in Japan, are quite popular as gifts and desserts. Mon Cher’s is among my favorites. Fortunately, we don’t have to go to Osaka just to eat these yummy treats. They have an online store and branches all over the country, including Yokohama, Tokyo, Nagoya and Fukuoka.
Highly recommended!
For Bakers and Cake Lovers
Speaking of baking, a friend of mine is really into baking. She once gifted me with an entire chocolate cake, for no special reason! Not reliant on cookbooks, she cuts out recipes from magazines and prints out from the internet. For her birthday I made a binder design especially for cake recipes.
A pretty, girly binder with stripes and polka dots, in pastel and candy shades of pink, green and cream. There are four cute, matching frames trimmed with lace, to illustrate the recipes and feature the baker’s favorite images.
You can purchase the binder here. Replace the sample photos with your own. Customize the text for a sweet, fully customized binder that’s uniquely your own. Makes a wonderful gift for the baker, pastry chef or patissier in your life.
Here’s a Pinterest-ready image for pinning:
I hope you enjoyed today’s post on sweet treats! What’s the best cake you’ve ever tasted? Where were you when you encountered this gift from heaven? 😉
Mmm, cake. I’m not fond of cream cakes but your description sounds intriguing. Still so busy 🙁
I think I’ll get some cake this weekend.
Cream cakes in the Philippines are terrible: overly sweet, too buttery, too dry, etc. I’ve never eaten one that I liked. But the good ones sold in Japan are very delicious, methinks. The freshest cream from the freshest milk, just slightly sweetened, and sponge cake that tastes so good it could be eaten as a stand-alone (without the cream) and still taste wonderful 🙂 Anyway, I hope you had your cake this weekend!
最近の暑さでとろけそうですが、このロールケーキは甘さと美味しさでとろけそうです。
「堂島ロール」って名前から、もっとコテコテのロールケーキを想像してたんですが、ちゃんとした?スイーツですね。
「堂島」って「日本のニューヨーク」って言われてたんですね。
へええ、堂島って金融街ですね。知りませんでした。モンシェールのような、お洒落で南フランス風の町かと思いました^^ 次に食べてみたいのは、フルーツ入りのロールケーキと、夏限定のヨーグルトケーキです!よろしくです~~ふふふ^^ あ、あと、生ショコラは、1~2個ではなく、6個を食べたいです、一気に!^^