Vegan & Plant-Based Cakes To Celebrate Holiday Season
The holiday season is one of Japan’s most awaited events, with many delicious foods and beautiful decorations, which last around Christmas to New Year. In the last week of October, many shops start accepting cake reservations to be ready (or delivered to your home) before Christmas day.
With the increasing need for plant-based foods in Japan, we found some plant-based cakes that could be your choice in this holiday season.
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Biokura
Biokura is a sweets online shop that offers a wide variety of sweets that meet with food diversity, from vegan to macrobiotics. The sweets offered to come in gentle sweetness from simple ingredients that allow many people to eat the same foods together.
Vegan creme tarte au citron
・Milk and egg free.
・Made with Japan’s domestic wheat flour and domestic beet sugar.
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It is made with abundant lemon juice that gives a refreshing lemon scent, with lemon-flavored soy cream and jelly in the center. Decorated with spiral-shaped smooth-textured soy milk cream, it tastes nice with the tart’s crisp texture and the almond dough’s richness.
The cake does not use butter, the dough is baked twice which gives an irresistible aroma of the flour, and comes with lemon peel topped as an accent.
Available at the price of 2,916 yen (tax in) for the whole cake and 3,132 yen (tax in) for the 6-cut whole cake.
*The cake is a frozen product, so it will be delivered by “cool delivery”.
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Vegan Rice Flour Gateau Chocolate
・Milk, egg, and wheat free.
・Made with Japan’s domestic wheat flour and domestic beet sugar.
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The fluffy gateau chocolate cake is made with rice flour from Yamanashi Prefecture, organic cocoa, and cocoa mass, and is gluten-free! It has a deep taste with the addition of organic soybean miso (as a secret ingredient) and also has a moist texture with the addition of rapeseed oil and organic soy milk.
Put it in a microwave for 2-3 seconds will make it comes moister and the cacao scent will stand out.
Available at the price of 3,240 yen (tax in) for the whole cake and 3,456 yen (tax in) for the 6-cut whole cake.
*The cake is a frozen product, so it will be delivered by “cool delivery”.
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Vegan Daiginjo Otofuke Tofu Cake
・Milk and egg free.
・Made with Japan’s domestic wheat flour and domestic beet sugar.
・No alcohol used.
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The cake is using Otofuke Osodefuri soybeans from Hokkaido which is known for its fragrance, which is proceeded into ultra-smooth tofu with condensed umami of the beans. It is slowly baked at a low temperature and has a softly-spread bean flavor.
The base dough is made with an organic almond poodle and brown rice flour, with the addition of brown rice amazake, beet sugar, rice starch syrup, white miso, and lemon juice.
Available at the price of 3,672 yen (tax in) for the whole cake and 3,888 yen (tax in) for the 6-cut whole cake.
*The cake is a frozen product, so it will be delivered by “cool delivery”.
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Las Olas by Gateaux de Voyage
Las Olas by Gateaux de Voyage offers plant-based sweets and cakes, free from animal-derived ingredients such as milk, eggs, honey, etc, with the concept of the happiness that everyone eats the same food without worrying about food restrictions.
Las Olas is plant-based and free from animal-derived ingredients, sugar, and alcohol. Vegan sugar refers to sugar that is not refined using animal bones, etc. Source: Gateaux de Voyage website.
Frozen Chocolate Mousse
It’s a 100% plant-derived mousse cake made without the use of wheat, milk, eggs, or white sugar while maintaining its delicious taste. The chocolate mousse has a rich taste made with organic chocolate, organic sugar, and organic agave syrup, with the addition of sweet and sour mango puree and passion puree jelly that add more flavor to the whole taste.
The chocolate cake is available at a price of 4,320 yen (tax in), recommended to have it half defrost.
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Frozen Raspberry Mousse
Same to frozen chocolate mousse, frozen raspberry mousse is a 100% plant-derived mousse cake made without the use of wheat, milk, eggs, or white sugar while maintaining its delicious taste.
Chocolate sponge dough made with organic cocoa powder, almond milk, soybean flour, and rice flour, then layered with raspberry mousse made with agave syrup and soy milk cream and filled with a sweet and sour raspberry sauce.
The chocolate cake is available at a price of 4,320 yen (tax in), recommended to have it half defrost.
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St. Palace
St.Palace has been developing hotels, souvenir shops, and gift shops in Tottori Prefecture since its establishment in 1965 and offers a vegan course and sweets using the blessings of Tottori Prefecture.
Vegan Chocolate Terrine
St.Palace’s vegan chocolate is one of the popular vegan cakes that has been covered by some TV programs, made from 100% plant-based ingredients, and is free from egg, dairy products, and white sugar. It is carefully made with a perfect balance of bitterness and sweetness to produce a rich and deep taste cake that is good for health.
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The chocolate terrine is available at a price of 4,320 yen (tax in).
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Vegan Cheese Cake
Cheesecake without using cream cheese or other cheese products. The feature of cream cheese is reproduced by combining soy milk yogurt and coconut oil, to make the soft texture of rare cheesecake. In addition, it uses homemade plum jam (besides lemon) to give moderate sourness that is peculiar to cheesecake.
The vegan cheesecake won the gold medal at the 47th Japan Food Selection on January 2022.
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The vegan cheesecake is available at a price of 4,320 yen (tax in).
Save 1,080 yen for a set of vegan chocolate terrine and vegan chocolate cake! The set is available at a price of 7,560 yen (tax in), more reasonable than purchasing separately.
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