Wong told Slate that eating the Raindrop Cake ' tastes like eating a giant raindrop.' The cake 'is very mild and very much about the delicate texture the melts in your mouth. Since the cake itself has almost no taste, it's served alongside roasted soybean flour (kinako) and a sugary syrup called kuromitsu. In respect to this, do raindrop cakes taste good? Apparently, there is always a queue at that shop because of how popular this dessert is. Agar-agar if vegetarian and a great substitute for gelatin.The fairest flowers soonest fade At the shop where the Mizu Shingen MochiвЂќ originated, the raindrop cake only stays in its raindrop form for about 30 minutes so you can not take away, you have to eat it there. I hope you enjoy this fun recipe using molecular gastronomy techniqueвЂ¦for more recipes like this please check on Honey Caviar or Coconut Panna Cotta with Mango Sphere recipes.Дid you know that agar-agar was discovered in Japan? Agar-agar is a derivative from seaweed and has no calories, no sugar, no carbohydrates, no fat, and packed with fiber. Just before serving I grated a bit of pistachio (to give some color contrast) and drizzled simple syrup made with organic crystal sugar. I added rosewater on the agar-agar mixture once it was all dissolved and ready to be pour into the molds. Unmold the вЂњcakeвЂќ and serve with something sweet such a maple syrup, simple syrupвЂ¦ Pour into the mold and let it refrigerate for 1 hour. Stir constantly until all the agar-agar is dissolved. Place the water with agar-agar in the low-medium heat. Heat the remaining water and pour over the agar-agar. Add a little water until the agar-agar is totally moist. Weigh the agar-agar and place in a small pot.

Flavoring component, I added rosewater in this particular one, and in the future I plan to add orange blossom water, cucumber infused water, mint infused water, strawberry infused waterвЂ¦and my list goes on and onвЂ¦.

With this said, I think that the most important thing besides achieving the correct texture the taste should match its вЂњcleanвЂќ lookвЂ¦then everything comes is harmonyвЂ¦magical! When I presented raindrop cake to my husband he loved itвЂ¦the вЂњcakeвЂќ melt almost instantly in your mouth, the combination of the slightly sweet, rosy aroma just give you a clean, pure, light and refreshing feelingвЂ¦something that it is hard to describe, somehow stir your sensesвЂ¦very hard to explainвЂ¦now I kind of understand the hype over this particular dessert. The nice thing is that you are literally playing with waterвЂ¦ As a result of all these вЂњexperimentsвЂќ I just can tell you that you have to do your own вЂњexperimentвЂќ since the consistency will depend entirely on the quality of the agar-agar you use. Yes, it did work! My notes reminded me of my lab notebook with all the calculations since I was varying the amount of water as well. I taper down to 0.5%, then to 0.25% (not bad) but wanted to push lower and went to 0.1% which the gel barely setвЂ¦finally decided to add a bit more and went for 0.2%. I started with the percentage that I used to use when working in the microbiology lab, 1.5%вЂ¦then went down drastically since it gave me a jelly ball so hard that I could almost throw on the floor and it would bounce back. Therefore the amount of agar-agar is very critical.ДЄfter searching through the internet I found that the ratio of agar-agar to water varied from 0.25% to 3% meaning that in 1 cup (250ml) of water the amount of agar-agar varied from 0.625g to 7.5gвЂ¦yes, you read it rightвЂ¦so here is where my вЂњexperimentsвЂќ startedвЂ¦ A little extra of agar-agar the вЂњcakeвЂќ will turn into a flavorless jelly, a little вЂњtoo littleвЂќ and the вЂњcakeвЂќ will not hold its shape. The trick is to have the right ratio of water and agar-agar to achieve a very soft almost running gel. When I first saw these raindrop cakeВ (which in my opinion it is not a cake per say, cake in my view should contain flour or its substitutes) I was fascinated by its shape and the notion of its purenessвЂ¦upon reading the ingredients, I immediately could imagine its textures as I had worked with agar-agar, both in the kitchen and in the lab.

How can a dessert made of almost 99.8% of water be so trendy? The answerвЂ¦it is all in its textureвЂ¦

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