Sweets made in the monastery
1. Morioka Dominican Monastery Galette
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This certainly should not be lost, an excellent and delicious monastery galette!
Morioka Dominican Monastery, located by the Kitakami River in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, produced a very popular galette, but discontinued its production and sales in 2005. However, Kawatoku, a long-established department store in Morioka City, has reproduced and reissued this traditional and popular product, the “Morioka Dominican Monastery Galette. I have had sweets made at the monastery, such as “Trappist cookies” and “Nasu Trappist galette” and remember them as being of surprisingly...
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2. Trappist Cookies
Fermented butter cookies made with traditional monastic methods
"Trappist cookies" made at the "Trappist Monastery" in Hokuto City, located in western Hokkaido, are a classic Hakodate souvenir. It is a very unique product, a cookie made in a monastery, but it is nice to know that it is also available at ordinary souvenir shops. The yellow packaging is cute, with a design that looks like a picture of an echoing bell. The individual packages contain three cookies. These cookies are...
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3. Nasu Trappist Galette
The best galette ever made in a monastery
The "Nasu Trappist Galette" made at the Nasu Trappist Monastery in Nasu-gun, Tochigi Prefecture, has been produced for more than 50 years and is loved not only locally but also throughout Japan. Anyway, the biggest point is that the sweets are handmade in a monastery, an amazing and wonderful setting. It looks like a so-called Belgian waffle, but the texture of the dough is similar to that of a biscuit or cookie....
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