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June 6 was Roll Cake Day in Japan, and while we’ve never needed an excuse to stuff ourselves full of cake, we took full advantage of the occasion anyway by sampling TEN convenience store roll cakes!

Food & Drink, Japan, Lifestyle
(cake • conbini • convenience store • convenience store food • roll cake • roll cake day • Snack • sweets)

Make Father’s Day sweet this year with these lovable treats from Ginza Cozy Corner!

Kay
Jun 6, 2016

If your dad’s fond of sweets, then Ginza Cozy Corner has a great way for you to celebrate Father’s Day this year!

Culture, Food & Drink, Japan, Lifestyle
(cake • Father's Day • Ginza Cozy Corner • jelly • sweets)

Life goals: Find a love as pure as the one this Shiba Inu has for cake【Pics】

Scott Wilson
May 5, 2016

Such sweet. Much zen. So love.

Cute, Japan
(cake • delicious • dogs • funny animal photos • pets • Shiba Inu)

Look for one of the weirdest looking buildings in Tokyo to find some very delicious pineapple cake

KK Miller
Apr 1, 2016

You would never be able to guess it’s a pastry shop from the outside.

Japan
(architecture • awesome • cake • cool • free • restaurants • SunnyHills • sweets)

Traditional sakura mochi meets Western cake with gorgeous and tantalizing results!

Kay
Mar 7, 2016

A unique treat that combines traditional sakura mochi with western cake is set to seriously tempt your taste buds this spring!

Food & Drink, Japan
(cake • cherry blossoms • mochi • sakura • sakura mochi • sweets)

Demon pants and dog butts coming soon to Japanese mouths

Master Blaster
Jan 21, 2016

If Sunkus’ Red-Oni-Pants-Lookin’ Bread and Pom Pom Purin’s Purin Purin! Butt Cakes are any indication, 2016 is shaping up to be a great year for baked goods.

Japan
(cake • food • oni • pom pom purin • Sanrio Puroland • setsubun • Sunkus)

McDonald’s Japan unleashes final appeal of 2015 to disgruntled fan base: Fancy cakes!

Master Blaster
Dec 22, 2015

The beleaguered fast-food giant wants everyone in Japan to know that it is now your one-stop spot for decadent Viennese Sachertortes and delectable Chocolat Zuccotto.

Japan
(cake • dessert • fast food • McCafe • McDonald's • Sachertorte • Zuccotto)

Order your own historical sword-turned-hot-guy Touken Ranbu cake just in time for the holidays

Krista Rogers
Dec 1, 2015

Remember Touken Ranbu, that game where you turn historical Japanese swords into hot men? Well, one shop is now turning those men into delectable cakes!

Internet, Japan
(cake • card game • swords • Touken Ranbu)

Need a date for Christmas Eve? VR headset lets you share cake with an anime voice actress

Casey Baseel
Nov 4, 2015

Last week we took a look at a new brand of instant curry on sale in Japan that includes a DVD of a sexy model who pretends to be your girlfriend as you eat it. Now, who’s ready for some dessert?

In Japan, it’s not a proper Christmas Eve without a romantic date and some cake, so unattached anime fans will be thrilled to know that one of the industry’s most popular voice actresses is available for a dessert date this year. The only catch?

The date takes place in virtual reality.

Japan
(anime • cake • otaku • sweets • Sword Art Online • virtual reality)

Prank your pizza-loving coworker with a cake that looks just like a pizza 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Sep 5, 2015

The English and Japanese-language teams at RocketNews24 have entered into a strange sort of competition, as they try to one-up each other with foods that don’t look anything like they should. The English side fired the opening salvo in this war of the eyes vs. the taste buds with a sneaky pink soy sauce taste test, and now our intrepid Japanese reporter Mr. Sato has decided that revenge is a dish best served sweet with this cake from a Tokyo bakery that looks exactly like a pizza.

Japan
(cake • crazy • food • pizza • prank • sweets • weird • yakiniku)

Cakes that bring a giant Totoro-sized smile to any Studio Ghibli fan’s face【Photos】

KK Miller
Aug 30, 2015

It’s so easy these days to try something new and creative since tons of people post really cool things to Instagram and Pinterest. A person can get a million fantastic ideas for their next project just by browsing for a few minutes. What’s especially helpful is that people will often post DIY tutorials and step-by-step pictures to allow even the commonest of folk to get their creative juices flowing. Whether your final product turns out as well as the instructions you are following is a bit of a crapshoot, it’s still extremely fun/funny just to try it for yourself.

So for a Studio Ghibli fan’s next big day, why not try and make one of these amazing Totoro cakes? Check out dozens of spectacular sweet treats featuring one of our favorite Japanese characters after the break.

Internet
(cake • Cat Bus • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • sweets)

Starbucks sakura series 2015: Caramel, chocolate and a flowery chiffon cake

Oona McGee
Feb 19, 2015

With Valentine’s Day out of the way, and plum blossoms still in bloom, it’s time for early spring marketing to burst onto the scene in Japan. Leading the pack, as it does every year, is popular coffee chain Starbucks, with the nation’s other favourite flower, the cherry blossom, taking centre stage in their annual line-up of sakura menu items and merchandise.

This year, the humble cherry blossom meets caramel and chocolate in latte and Frappucino forms, and also finds itself in a beautiful pink and white chiffon cake. Curious to know what sakura tastes like when blended with such sweet partners? Join us as we bring you all the photos and flavours from our recent visit.

Japan
(cake • cherry blossoms • coffee • drinks • sakura • Starbucks • sweets)

Pet Bird Exhibit at Tokyu Hands Ikebukuro offers adorable Parakeet cakes and much more!

Kay
Jan 14, 2015

If you like cute little pet birds and happen to be in the Tokyo area, we have some good news for you! There’s now a special exhibit going on at the Tokyu Hands Ikebukuro shop until January 22 titled the “Parakeets and their Friends Exhibit (Inko to Nakama-tachi Ten)”.

Yes, pet birds seem to have quite a following in Japan, enough at least for a unique product like “pet bird flavored ice cream” to have come out in the past. Now, at this Tokyu Hands exhibit featuring pet bird-themed items from various artists and creators, you can apparently enjoy a set of “parakeet cakes,” and judging from the pictures we’ve seen, the cakes certainly look almost too cute to eat!

Japan
(birds • cake • Kotori Cafe • parakeet • Tokyu Hands)

Newlywed couple’s hearts beat to Beatmania with music game-themed wedding cake

Casey Baseel
Nov 26, 2014

A lot of times, the simulated situations of a video game are a lot more enjoyable than they would be in real life. For example, a Street Fighter or King of Fighters session is a pretty fun way to kill an hour, but it’d be considerably less entertaining to, in reality, spend 60 minutes brawling with a string of 10 or 20 dudes, one after another.

But what about music and rhythm games? Sure, dropping a few hundred yen into Konami’s DJ simulator Beatmania is cheaper than cover charge at a club, and arcade staff members are much less likely to give you an attitude than a front door bouncer, but the digital version doesn’t give you the same chance to form a connection with potential romantic partners, does it?

Actually, sometimes it does, as seen in this newlywed couple’s Beatmania wedding cake.

Japan
(cake • cool • fod • romance • sweets • video games • weddings)

A truly sweet affair — high fashion meets high dessert at the Tokyo Sweets Collection!

Kay
Nov 20, 2014

We’d like to think that all things sweet and beautiful have a certain universal appeal, regardless of country and culture. Japan is no exception, and the Japanese public certainly loves sweets in all shapes and sizes, so much so that the word pâtissier, French for “pastry chef,” has become an established part of the Japanese language. From that viewpoint, an event that brings delectable desserts, beautiful fashion and entertainment all together in one package is something of a dream experience, at least for this writer. And just recently, we were fortunate enough to attend exactly such an event — the Tokyo Sweets Collection 2014!

Join us as we take you along on a sweet journey through this unique show in which six renowned pastry chefs serve up heavenly plates of desserts in a fantastical setting complete with lights, music, dancing and models in beautiful clothes, all designed to tantalize not just your taste buds but all of your senses!

Japan
(cake • dessert • pastries • sweets • Tokyo Sweets Collection)

This rice omelet, grilled eel, oden, and fried pork are actually cakes! We try them all

Master Blaster
Nov 9, 2014

We previously ran an article about Maplies, a bakery in Shinjuku that excels in the art of making cake look exactly like Chinese food, namely gyoza, ramen (salt or soy sauce), and tenshindon.

About a year has past since then and our reporter Mr. Sato had a sudden hankering for some cake that looked like egg, crab meat, and rice. He headed down to Maplies only to be shocked at what he found. The bakery had added a whole new assortment of cakes that look exactly like other foods!

Needless to say he bought one of each and brought them back to the office for a taste of pure confusion.

Japan
(cake • katsudon • Maplies • oden • rice omelet • unaju)

Disney magic strikes again — Get ready for some serious Frozen sweetness!!

Kay
Oct 30, 2014

It’s been over seven months since Disney’s Frozen was released here, but love for the hit animated film still seems to be going strong in Japan. Walk into a bookstore around here, and you’re more than likely to find several different Frozen picture or music books, and you can bet that many kids in Japan will be dressing up as Elsa and Anna for Halloween this Friday. Well, it seems the world of pastries here is no exception. Major Japanese confection maker Cozy Corner has announced that they will soon be coming out with lovely offerings inspired by the movie, and yes, we’re thrilled, because these are exactly the kind of goodies we love — delightful to look at and delectably sweet to taste!