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Today I’m here with another fun and exciting recipe, and I'm going to show you how to make Taiyaki a famous Japanese cake. This unique recipe serves as a snack as well as a dessert. You can make this recipe with your kids and believe me! Your kids are surely gonna love it ;)   Taiyaki Taiyaki (???), as clear from its name, is a Japanese recipe. It’s a very popular vendor snack in Japan that’s served on festive occasions as well. It’s a fish-shaped cake. Its shape resembles the shape of a Japanese seasonal fish called “Tai” that’s why it’s called Taiyaki. This amazing fish-shaped dessert is usually filled with a red paste that’s made from Adzuki beans but you can also fill it with Custard, Nutella, Sweet Potato paste, Chocolate, or yummy Cheese filling. This warm cake can be enjoyed at any time of the year but is best suited for winters.   Some Important Tips for making Taiyaki: You can use Pancake flour instead of cake flour as it also goes well with the recipe. Baking soda reacts with the acidic elements of the dough and has a leavening effect and the cake gets lighter and puffier. Japanese recipes are usually less sweet than our cakes, that’s why this recipe contains a bit of sugar. If you are a sugar-lover, then you can add more sugar according to your taste. Salt is added to balance the sweet taste of sugar. But it’s optional. You can skip if you like cake sweeter. Only adding milk will leave this cake a bit dense. Make a mixture of half water and half milk. A mixture of water and milk will make this cake light and fluffy. Taiyaki Fillings The best part of this cake is that you can fill it with any filling of your choice. It gets wells with almost all kinds of fillings. Japanese traditionally fill it with a sweet red paste of adzuki beans. But you’ve got the option to use the filling of your choice. The most popular fillings for this cake include: Custard Cheese Filling Chocolate Filling Sweet Potato Paste Nutella Strawberry Jam Red Bean Paste Red bean filling famously known as “Anko” is made from Adzuki beans. To make this paste, soak the adzuki beans overnight and boil them until they get tender. Now add sugar into the beans and mash the mixture of beans and sugar to a smooth paste. If you don’t want to make Anko Paste by yourself, you can buy it easily from a nearby Japanese store in your area. Taiyaki in the US If you’re craving taiyaki but don’t have a fish-shaped taiyaki mold or aren’t in a mood to cook it by yourself, then don’t worry! There are plenty of spots in the US where you can buy this amazingly delicious fish-shaped Japanese cake. If you live in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, or Miami, then there’s a Taiyaki restaurant chain called Taiyaki NYC that makes the best Taiyaki around town. You can dine in or can get your taiyaki delivered to your home. Likewise, if you live in Texas, California, or Hawaii, there’s another restaurant chain called SomiSomi that serves Korean ice cream stuffed in taiyaki. This amazing ice cream stuffed taiyaki cone is called “ah-boong”. SomiSomi also serves taiyaki with different fillings like Nutella, Taro, Cheddar, Custard, and Red Bean Paste. How to store Taiyaki? I would recommend you to eat taiyaki cakes fresh because they taste the best right after they are dished out of the pan. Fresh Taiyaki cakes are soft, crispy, and slushy. But if you want to store them, then you can store them in two ways: Refrigerate Taiyaki Freeze Taiyaki 1- Refrigerating Taiyaki You can store taiyaki cakes in the fridge for up to two days. It’s better to store them in an air-tight container to maintain their moisture, softness, and texture. 2- Freeze Taiyaki If you want to store Taiyaki for a long time, then you can freeze it. To freeze taiyaki, wrap each fish individually in a plastic wrap and place them in a sealable bag or air-tight container. You can store them in the freezer for up to 6 weeks. How to make Taiyaki November 27, 2020 Difficulty: Easy Print This By: Cooking Frog Ingredients • 1 ½ cup of Cake Flour • 2 tsp of Baking Soda • 1 ½ tbsp. of Sugar • 1 pinch of Salt (Optional) • 1/3 cup of Water • 1/3 cup of Milk • 1 large Egg • Oil to brush the pan Directions Step 1 1. Take a medium bowl and flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda in it and mix them well. Step 2 2. Now add an egg and (milk + water) in it. Mix them well until a smooth batter is formed. Make sure there are no lumps in the batter. Step 3 3. Cover the batter and refrigerate one to two hours. Step 4 4. Take a fish mold cake pan and brush them with oil. Step 5 5. Place the cake pan on a burner on medium-low heat. Step 6 6. Once the pans are heated, pour a thin layer of batter into the fish molds. Step 7 7. Remember that, don’t overfill the pans otherwise the cake will pop out of the mold and its fish shape will get distorted. Step 8 8. Let it cook for a few seconds. Add 1 tbsp. of Anko paste or the filling of your own choice in the center of the fish. Step 9 9. Now add more batter over the filling until it gets covered well. Step 10 10. Now close the lid of the Taiyaki mold pan. Step 11 11. Cook the batter for 2 – 3 minutes from one side. After 2 – 3 minutes, flip the pan and heat the other side for 1 – 2 minutes until both sides of the cake get a beautiful golden color. Step 12 12. Remember that your pan may have different-sized fish molds and your cooking time may vary a bit. Step 13 13. Dish them out in a baking rack or plate and let the cakes cool. Step 14 14. Now serve the cakes to your loved ones and enjoy ? How to Reheat Taiyaki? There are 3 methods to reheat Taiyaki: Toasting Frying Heating in Microwave Toasting Taiyaki  The best way to reheat taiyaki is to toast them in a toaster. Toasted taiyaki will be crispy and yummy. Taiyaki cakes mostly fit in the toaster but if they don’t, then you go for any of the other two reheating options. Frying Taiyaki You can reheat Taiyaki by frying them in the pan. For this purpose, heat the pan and fry them in the pan without using oil. This way you will get a crispy taiyaki exterior. Heating Taiyaki in Microwave You can reheat the taiyaki cakes in the microwave for 20 seconds but this reheating method has a drawback that your taiyaki cakes won’t be crispy anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSm3RdP3RQg  

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Categories     Dessert

Prep Time 010 minutes00S

Cook Time 025 minutes00S

Number Of Ingredients 9

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Taiyaki are filled waffle-like Japanese snacks cooked in fish-shaped molds over a burner. They date back to the Edo era, when vendors morphed a similar round treat into the shape of a sea bream, a prized fish in Japan. Taiyaki (which literally means grilled sea bream) became very popular and are now a staple at outdoor markets, food halls and street festivals. Somewhat cakey on the inside, they vary from crispy to soft on the outside. This version falls in between. Taiyaki are traditionally filled with anko (sweet red bean paste), but Nutella, custard, matcha cream, chocolate, jam and ham and cheese are other options. Taiyaki pan sizes can vary, so the first time you make the recipe, you might need to play around with the amount of batter and anko per mold. You may need to adjust the heat level and/or cooking time, too. Use the first batch as a gauge.

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Total Time 1 hours 35 minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes

Yield 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

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