Today I will introduce about "Short cake".
Ingredients are strawberries, whipped cream, sponge cake, and so on.
In Japan, we eat this cake for someone's birthday or christmas.
Of course as a refreshment.
Now, do you know the birthplace of the short cakes?
The answer is Japan !!
In 1543, the ships of Portugueses arrived at Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima.
After that, Fujiya company improve sponge cake ( Kasutera) more softer.
It's the prompt of making short cakes.
By the way, "Fraisier" is famous in France.
This cake used butter cream or custard cream instead of whipped cream.
In addition, heavy sugar sweets called "marzipan" on the top of the cake.
It's contrastive to Japanese short cake and the taste is very rich.
Why such a difference occured ?
I think it is originate from people's usual eating style.
Japanese often use sugar and sake for home cooking.
Therefore we want modest sweetness and light thing for dessert.
And french have kind of strong foods and drink totally because they live in more colder area than Japan. So sweets are heavy, too.
If you have a chance, please try many kinds of cakes :) !
