Description

‘Ukishima’ is steamed type of Wagashi (Mushi-gashi). On the first glance it looks like European Sponge Cake, however it’s fully made by bean paste. Ukishima is a mixture between European technology of making Sponge cake and Japanese traditional ingredient – bean paste. It has fluffy texture and the taste of bean paste is completely unnoticable.

‘Fuyu-gomori’, which means ‘Winter Hibernation’, is one of ‘Ukishima’. The sweets show the scene of Winter where the soil is covered by snow. White bean paste illustrates the snow, red bean paste – the soil, and the red bean in between – stones