Kururi to Kanazawa

A sweet bun, a miniature bean-jam bread like, made by a long-established Japanese confectionery

Murakami Seika in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is an extremely long-established confectioner founded in 1911 (Meiji 44).  While they have been making traditional Japanese sweets for over 100 years, they also take a modern approach, likewise the other confectioners there.  They have produced unique, stylish-looking confections such as the “Wari-Gohri” sweets.

The “Kururi to Kanazawa” is a manju, a sweet bun, made to look like a small bean-jam filled sweet bread.

The dough has a bread-like texture and walnuts are kneaded into it.

A sweet red bean jam is filled and it looks like a bean jam bread

The bread dough-like manju skin is delicious. The dough is made from finely ground domestic rice flour.  This represents the confectioner’s precise dedication to complete the delicate sweetness and it reminds us of therir experienced fine skill from a long history.  It looks like a delicious miniature bean jam bread.