(10) Honey Toast

It’s a popular dessert in Japan now in young generation. Actually I was shocked by its appearance at the first time I saw it. What was the inventor thinking about? He or she must be a toast lover or a dessertaholic who take dessert as meals, or why he/she need such a huge and sweet dessert?

There are lots of different version of this desserts and every of it looks pretty and sweet, just like the dessert which only appears in a fairy tale.

How popular it is in Japan? They even build a mesuem for it!

It's the website: http://www.pasela.co.jp/food/honey/museum/index.html

Please go visit the website and you will be surprised by the creativity (or craziness :P) of Japanese.

It has a beautiful appearance which looks like a jewelry box and that’s also one of the important reasons why it’s popular among young generation, especially women. Frankly speaking, this dessert consists of toasted toast, honey, sugar, and other things you prefer such as fruits, chocolate or caramel as decorations. Though it is simple, the taste is good and sometimes we easily ignore the wonderfulness out of simplicity.

Recently in Taipei, a coffee shop which served honey toast as their recommended dessert opened and it soon became very famous. If you want to have an afternoon tea there, you have to book before two months or wait in line for at least two hours. Besides, the honey toast sold there at a high price. As a result, if the ingredients are easy to find and the steps are few and simple, why not try to make it on our own?

Prepare half loaf of toast and take the white part out.

It’s a little bit hard to explain in words so there’s an illustration. The red lines are where we cut.

Cut them into mouthful cubes and spread butter and some sugar on them then put them in an oven. Whether to toast the toast crust depends on you.

Put the cubes and other ingredients you like such as fruits or chocolate into the toast crust. The most recommended decoration is ice cream for it’s icy and the toast is hot and crunchy.

If you want, you can also replace the sugar with salt or garlic butter and make it a salty dish. There’s an example. http://www.chinafoodtv.com/u/junzhi/archives/2010/3309.html

No matter which version you like, its simple taste and beautiful appearance are attractive. It’s not hard to make but it does bring some changes and surprises to your normal daily meal.