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Kyotofu: Uniquely Delicious Japanese Desserts
By Nicole Bermensolo
Running Press - 2015
Dark Chocolate Brownies : page 66
Brownies with miso!
The recipe says that miso gives these a buttery flavor, but I kinda think its the 7 oz of butter that performs that function. These are very different brownies. They are not fudgy, but nor are they cakey. They had a very soft and delicate crumb (and were very good for my daughter, now 17, after she had her wisdom teeth removed).
There is a lot of chocolate in these brownies, and a lot of butter. I don't think I would make them again, but I am glad that I tasted them.
Again - prepared by my son home for the holidays - and in his second year of college.
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Raspberry Cheesecake : page 61
Miso in a cheesecake?? You bet! I do not really care for cheesecake, but this thing was amazing. Only a bit of white miso, but it added an umami note that was there if you looked for it. What was also nice is that it was not terribly sweet. We used a combination of raspberries and blackberries, and skipped the sieving step to remove the seeds. And I should not be saying "we" but "he" - this was prepared by my son, who is home from college.
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Sweet Tofu Pudding with kuromitsu syrup : page 32
A very nice panna cotta-like dessert. However, it was a bit too stiff - one should back off the amount of gelatin slightly. Also my son (who made this) added a lot of vanilla - maybe 1 tsp - and it gave the pudding a delicious flavor.
Note that this pudding uses both soy milk and heavy cream, though much less heavy cream that the standard panna cotta. Also the syrup on the top required an ingredient that we could not find in our local Japanese market (kurosato tiles). I think one could substitute a molasses mixture, but we found the pudding plenty flavorful as is.
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