Although we are already accustomed to many Japanese dishes, cooking Japan is still exotic to us. What are some recipes only Japanese desserts! But between those desserts as such in the traditional Japanese cuisine long absent. Love them, the Japanese came after meeting with European culture. And before that they were well treated fresh fruit, dried fruit and nuts.

Yes, and modern Japanese desserts are very different from those of sweets, to which we are accustomed. Conservative Japanese taking over the fashion of harmful (from their perspective), dishes, managed to adapt them to their own culinary traditions and taste preferences. In Japanese desserts you will not find the usual cream, chocolate or cream. Fruit pastes, marmalade, jellies, jams, caramel - that mainly included in Japanese sweets. And, of course, fruit and nuts.

Buy traditional Japanese delicacies hard enough (not your sushi and rolls!), And I want to try. Therefore, many dare to culinary experiments and desserts are prepared independently. Well, it's commendable. And if you want to participate in such an experiment, here are a few recipes.

Ice Cream "Match aysukurimu"

Non-standard, but quite familiar: ice cream - and it is in Japan cream. To make this Japanese dessert, we need the following ingredients:

• Milk fresh water (2 cups)
• Condensed milk (the bank)
• Whipping cream (glass)
• Dry green tea (4 h. L.)
• Sugar (third cup)

Preparation:

Tea pulverized. Boil the milk, dissolve sugar in it and add the tea. Sweet tea brewed with milk insist twenty minutes. By ostyvshemu tea add condensed milk and cream, stir well (mixer or in a blender) and freeze. Three hours later we take out of the freezer and remove the sample with traditional Japanese dessert.

Note:

Cream should not be less than 34% fat, the amount of sugar can be reduced or increased.

Cakes "Tyakin shibori"

Frankly, shocking recipe! Cakes of peas? This could only come up with the Japanese. Ventured to try a Japanese version of the dessert?

Ingredients:

• 6 eggs
• 3-4 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup fresh or frozen green peas

Preparation:

Cake will do yellow-green (as it should): from an egg and pea mixture. For the first boil hard boiled eggs, remove the yolks and rub them through a sieve. Pour into a bowl, mash and mix with a piece of sugar. For the second mixture peas boil for about fifteen minutes, until tender, drain and mash (not mashed!). Add the remaining sugar and cook sweet green paste from it until all the moisture has evaporated. Let cool.

Both divide the mixture into six or seven equal parts and manufactured cakes. Take a thin cotton cloth or gauze, moisten it and squeeze. Spread the napkin on the table, put her one serving of green paste, and on top - the yellow portion. We lift up and wipes the corners of her tightly curled. So we combine the two portions of pasta in a ball and set aside on the cake intricate pattern on the fabric folds. Also, we do the rest of cake. Cool. Try this and the Japanese version of the dessert.

Note:

Instead of cloth or gauze convenient to use an ordinary handkerchief.

Mandarin dessert ", but kanroni kinkala"

So Japanese dessert not surprise us. Still, it is quite unusual: mandarins in syrup, and even vodka!

Ingredients:

• Mandarins (1 kg)
• Sugar (half cup)
• Water (part-time cup)
• Vodka (a half teaspoon)

Preparation:

Take small dense mandarins, cleaned, put in a saucepan and fill with cold water. Add the vodka and put on high heat and bring to a boil. Then diminish the fire and boil (stew) mandarins about fifteen minutes. Take out of the pan, give them cool and dry. While mandarins cool, prepare the syrup. In the same water where mandarins cooked, add the sugar and half a glass of water. Boil syrup (stirring constantly) bring to a boil and boil for a few minutes. Dipped in syrup tangerines and boil them for another ten minutes. Ready dessert take out of syrup, we give them dry and cool. Harvesting in the refrigerator. Partake of chilled.

Rice Candy "Moti"

Preparation of this Japanese dessert will be more difficult than previous versions. But if we are determined to learn the wisdom of Japanese sweets, then no mochi we can not do.

Ingredients:

• Round glutinous rice (cup)
• Powdered sugar (3 tablespoons)
• Water (half a cup)
• Chocolate (tile)
• Rose petals

Preparation:

Figure washed and soaked overnight. In the morning again washed rice, wrap it in a thick cotton cloth and forty minutes, cook for a couple. Thereafter Fig ground in a mortar and is ground in a blender. And then - the most tedious. Figure intervene until we get a strong compact mass. Continue to knead the dough of rice is gradually podsypaya him powdered sugar. Once the rice is no longer stick to the mass of arms - it is ready. For the filling melt the chocolate in a water bath.

Form the candy. We pinch off a piece of dough and mash it into a patty. In the middle of a rice cake put a little chocolate and gently zaschipyvaem dough on top. Align, giving the shape of the ball. Ready-serve candy, put each on a rose petal.

Note:

The filling can be used as fresh strawberries, grapes and yoghurt soufflé.

Well, you do not scare you traditional Japanese desserts? The recipes are not very exotic? Then - for the cause!

This very original name of the cake is not related to the breed of dog. And take it from the top of the Spanish "Pancha", which means "cream pie". And the cake itself is nothing other than a variation on the theme of the Spanish sour cream cake. By the way, this cake is known also under the names "Ivashka Curly", "Curly Boy", "Hlopchik Curly", "Curly poodle" and even "Ai-Petri". However, despite the rather unusual name, Cake Curly Pincher considered not only delicious but also easy to prepare dessert. And variations on the theme of "Pincher" is simply not counted. Let's try to cook some of them?

Just "Pincher curly"

According to those who tried to cook a cake in this recipe, baking unable even novice cooks. So if we are not witches, and just learning, it is worth trying this variant prescription.

Ingredients for the dough:

• one and a half cups of flour
• cup sugar
• tablespoon of fat sour cream
• 2 eggs
• half cans of condensed milk
• 2 h. L. slaked soda or baking powder
• 2 tbsp. l. cocoa

Ingredients for the cream:

• liter of sour cream
• cup chopped walnuts
• 6 tablespoons. l. caster sugar

Ingredients for sweets:

• cream (4 tbsp. l.)
• sugar (6 tablespoons. l.)
• butter (2 tbsp. l.)
• 4 tbsp. l. cocoa powder

Preparation:

First, prepare the dough. Beat eggs with sugar. Mixing egg-sugar mixture, add it gradually cocoa, condensed milk and cream. Continuing to whisk lightly the sweet mass, add (one tablespoon) whole meal. And at the very end add the vinegar quenched or pineapple soda.

Divide the dough for two identical cakes and baked in two shapes - round and rectangular. Cakes bake in the oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees, to the "sample dry toothpick." While the cakes are baked, prepare the cream. Sour cream, beat until fluffy and gradually add powdered sugar to it, and in the end - walnuts. Ispekshiesya cakes take out of the oven and allowed to cool.

Then we collect the cake. We take a round cake and carefully coated with sour cream and hazelnut cream. We leave it to soak, and meanwhile rectangular cake cut into cubes. Dimensions of cubes do not play a big role, but too small can be melted with cream and too much - keep dry. Therefore, we must cut into cubes of medium size (as always, the golden mean) - around half a matchbox.

After that we return to our assembled round Korzh (or its return to itself), and laid on him all the cubes, pre-dipping them in sour cream. Place the cubes can be different: chaotic, crumbling like a woodpile, a neat pyramid or "as received". And then the "Curly" our pinscher thin stream of chocolate. To prepare a glaze mix sour cream with sugar and cocoa, add a small piece of butter and heated to boiling. Pour cake still warm chocolate and sprinkle with chopped walnuts nucleoli.

"Curly Pincher" striped

Another variation. The composition of the cake is almost the same, but the execution is somewhat different.

Ingredients:

• 2, 5, Art. flour
• Half of the cans of condensed milk
• Milk - 1/3 Art.
• Cocoa powder - Article 5. l. Glaze and 2 for the test
• Sugar or powdered sugar - 1 tbsp. dough, 1 tbsp. cream, 5, Art. l. for sweet
• Flour - 1, 5, Art.
• Sour cream - 2, 5, Art. in cream and 1 tbsp. in dough
• Soda (Redemption) - 1 ch. L.
• Butter - 2 tbsp. l.
• 2 eggs

Thoroughly whisk the eggs with the sugar. After the increase in volume of the mass, adding thereto soda, cream and sweetened condensed milk. Good, but gently and stir a spoonful Pour all the flour. Divide the weight in half. One little white reserve, and the second add cocoa powder. In a greased form in a hot oven bake cakes, both about 40 minutes.

Ispekshimsya give shortcakes cool and cut them in half - each cake into two thin. And then collect the cake, alternating bright and chocolate cakes and cream promazyvaya them. So we laid three cakes, and the latter break into small pieces. All the "wreckage" pour into a bowl with the remains of the cream, stir and lay on top. The top of the cake pour glaze, prepared from milk, cream, butter, sugar and cocoa.

"Curly pincher" with dried apricots and prunes

Let's call this diversity Cake Curly pincher. Just so do not get confused - if with prunes and dried apricots, it has become kucheryashki curls. So, Dalmatian option "Pinscher" need the following ingredients:

• Bank of condensed milk
• Milk - 1/3 Art.
• Cocoa - 5 Art. l. Glaze and 2 for the test
• Sugar or powdered sugar - 1 tbsp. l. dough, 1 tbsp. cream, 5, Art. l. for sweet
• Flour - 1, 5, Art.
• Sour cream - 3 tbsp. in cream and 1 tbsp. in dough
• Soda (Redemption) - 2 hours. L.
• Butter - 2 tbsp. l.
• Prunes and dried apricots 1 tbsp.
• 1 chocolate without filling
• 1 tbsp. walnuts (chopped)
• 2 eggs

Preparation:

For the dough, mix the eggs with a glass of sugar, a glass of sour cream, a can of condensed milk, soda and whole flour. Stir, stir it all with a mixer. The resulting dough cakes share a couple of parts: a quarter and three quarters. Because of the smaller cake bake thin light. In another part of the test add the cocoa powder and cook from her chocolate cake.

While the cakes are baked, stir the cream of the cream and sugar and cook sweet (cream, sugar, milk, cocoa butter). The composition and method of cooking cream and glaze for all the options, "Pincher" is the same. And for this option also preparing mincemeat: apricots and prunes are well washed, were dried and cut into small pieces (you can grind in a blender).

Take the ready cooled cakes and white do the foundation cake, spreading it on a dish and liberally sprinkled promazyvaya cream and dried fruit. Chocolate cake break (cut) into pieces. Share on cake soaked in half slices of chocolate cream cake, sprinkle them with nuts and dried fruits, followed by the rest spread and "fragments" and dipping them into the cream. Top entire cake again sprinkle with nuts and prunes with dried apricots, then pour fondant. In conclusion, even sprinkle chopped chocolate shavings. That we will have our curls Curly pinscher.

"Curly pincher" in the microwave

This is an option for those hostesses who have no oven, but there is a microwave. It turns out she copes with cooking Curly pinscher. For recipes and cooking techniques and cream glaze, we shall not stop. Here, they are prepared in the same way as in all previous embodiments. Consider the features of the preparation of the test, for which the following ingredients are needed:

• Bank of condensed milk
• Sugar - 1 tbsp.
• Cocoa powder - 2 tablespoons. l.
• Flour - 1, 5, Art.
• Fat sour cream -1 Art.
• 2 eggs
• Soda (repayment) or baking powder - 2 ch. L.

Preparation:

Sour cream mixed with sugar. Pour the condensed milk and again all mix well. Now all the eggs that we, too, one is added in the dough, and behind them - and soda, quenched in vinegar or pineapple. At the end gradually pour all the flour and knead well again.

Divide the dough into three equal parts. One do chocolate, mix the dough with cocoa powder, and alternately bake three cakes. Bake cakes in the form of microwaves. For each of them with a maximum power need only 3 minutes. Just bullet cake! And then we collect the cake. One white cake coated with a cream and the other with chocolate cut into pieces. Each cube sponge dipped in cream and stacked on the cake base. You can layer (white - dark) can be mixed. Cake topped with chocolate icing.

Optionally, you can add mincemeat, you can use any nuts, poppy seeds, canned or fresh fruit. It turns out tasty "Pincher" with cherries and strawberries. There are fans of this cake stuffed with pineapple and peaches. Some people prefer walnuts hazelnuts, and someone - almonds. In short, how many cooks, so many options.

Because each Pincher cake recipe - it's just another variation on the theme of the Spanish sour cream cake. It's like jazz - all play a melody, but each has its own party. And you do not want to try themselves in the role of culinary jazz?