Donuts!

Posted August 18th, 2011 in Food, Japan No Comments »

Donuts are definitely one of my tea-time favourite. I was just browsing some Japanese donuts websites and they all look so yummy…. !

I love going to MisterDonut because they have many shops across Japan, even near my house, but there are other donut shops in Japan includes franchised and private-owned. Here are some of them.

DoughnutPlant is one of popular franchise shops originally from New York. They don’t only sell bakery donuts and sweet donuts but also bagels and donut cookies.

Their products don’t contain eggs. Their sweet donuts (cake donuts) contain kanten (agar), and it tastes like fluffy sponge cake.

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Canezees Doughnut are hand-made and fried in rice oil. Their donuts don’t contain eggs, and use dark sugar instead of white.

They have unique flavours such as Black Sesame Kinako (soy powder) and Yuzu Lemon. They re-use the oil which has been used to fry donuts as fuel on their van!

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Zen Donut are baked, not fried. Zen donut uses Japanese products in their donuts, and the flavours are very unique. Soy Milk Sesame, Ho-ji-cha Tea, Bamboo Charcoal, and Warabi-mochi are some examples.

They also sell karinto, one of my favourite Japanese snacks!

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Floresta sells donuts made from only natural ingredients, called ‘nature doughnuts’. The owner started selling donuts from a stall inside shopping malls in Nara prefecture, but now they have 30 shops across Japan, from Hokkaido to Kyushu.

They sell seasonal donut desserts as well. Now, during summer, they are selling donut and ice cream sundae. Sounds yummmm…

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Hara Donuts use soy milk and tofu extract (okara) in their donuts. Their hand-made fresh donuts are naturally delicious and so healthy!

Again, their flavours are unique – spinach, carrot, sweet potato, kiwi, passionfruit, lemon tea, sakura , etc. They use fresh fruits and vegetables in their products. By that, you can know what they are trying to tell you – the simple, natural ingredients are the best.

They also sell donut ice cream. Bitter chocolate, purple sweet potato, and pumpkin etc etc… You won’t get bored with these unique flavours.

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Miel Donut is another shop selling baked donuts, not fried. Although they only have 8 flavours, all of them look delicious~! Baked Sweet Potato and Rum Raisin sound good. 🙂

As their donuts are baked, the texture is soft – just like butter cake. The best way to enjoy a baked donut is to lightly warm it up in an oven toaster. This way, you can create the contrast of fluffy interior and crispy outside.