Ringo Dorayaki

Apples and dorayaki are harmonized at a very high level

Okinaya was founded in 1918 in Shinmachi, Aomori City, who is a famous confectionery for making Japanese sweets using Aomori apples.  One of their famous sweets is “Usu-kurenai” but this time we got  “Ringo Dorayaki”,  a bean-jam pancake adding apple filling.

This dorayaki is not only filled with pasted sweet  apple jam inside, but also kneaded apple juice in the dorayaki crust, so the entire dorayaki seems to be flavored with apples.

One of apple varieties  “Fuji” , the most widely produced in Aomori Prefecture, is well known, but Okinaya uses another variety, called “Kougyoku” in their confections line-up. The “Kougyoku” is featured of refreshing sweetness and relatively strong acidity.

Pasted apple jam is sandwiched between the thick dorayaki crust, and the jam is transparent. The apple jam is mixed with white bean jam.

It is delicious!  The pasted apple bean-jam tastes light sweetness and it is good balance with sourness.  All the combination of the pancake texture, its volume and the taste is an excellent..