Posted on 04/21/2021 11:31:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We know how great avocado is in salads, sandwiches and especially on toast, but have you ever thought to have it as a dessert? We certainly hadn’t, so when we heard that local sweets chain Café comme ça was selling an avocado tiramisu cake, we immediately knew we had to pay them a visit.
Unusual cakes like these tend to be incredibly popular, so we called ahead to reserve a slice as soon as they were released on March 18. When we arrived to pick it up at 3 in the afternoon, we were glad we’d thought ahead, because all stocks of the cake had already sold out.
After returning to the office with our prized possession, we carefully took it out of its box and placed it delicately on a plate. The cake was far more beautiful than we’d expected, with chunks of avocado carefully splayed on top, interspersed with whipped cream.
Only the freshest, highest quality avocados are used in this dessert, giving the slice a vibrant pop of green and gold color. It really did seem odd to be looking at a cake with an avocado topping, but that’s when we remembered that avocado isn’t really a vegetable–it’s a fruit, and that made us even more curious to find out what this sweet combination would taste like.
The cake pairs avocado with two more commonly known fruits: mango and banana. After piling a heap of it all onto a dessert fork, it started to resemble a fruit salad…only we’d never eaten these three together in one mouthful before.
Avocado-tiramisu-cake-comme-ca-Japanese-sweets-Tokyo-cafe-food-desserts-Japan-review-photos-4.jpg Keeping one eye on the seemingly out-of-place avocado the whole time, we lifted the fork to deliver its contents to our eager taste buds. We really weren’t sure what to expect from this, but as soon as we’d had one mouthful, we were instantly blown away. All the different components melded into one, deliciously melting on the tongue as if it were a fruit-flavored cream.
Part of the reason why the cream is so flavorful is because it sits upon the entire length of the slice, allowing you to taste the combination of cream, avocados and fruit on one end, cream and mascarpone in the middle, and cream and avocado at the other end. This provides you with a variety of flavor combinations to keep your taste buds entertained with every bite.
Of course, we can’t forget about the tiramisu element, which sang out strong through the bittersweet espresso sauce as it casually oozed its way through the middle section. Even this was a great pairing for the creamy avocado, and despite being rich and creamy, we were surprised to find the whole cake left us feeling light instead of heavy, as if we could have another serving straight away.
To be honest, this was an insanely delicious cake, with just the right amount of bananas, mangoes, avocado, espresso, mascarpone and cream to provide an exquisite balance of flavors. The smooth texture and high fat content of the avocado makes it surprisingly well-suited to creamy desserts, and we’d recommend this cake to avocado lovers without question.
If your taste buds are keen to explore this new frontier for avocados, the avocado tiramisu cake retails for 950 yen is currently on sale at Café comme ça outlets until April 14.
This certainly reads like a paid advertisement by the cafe.
I’m not that much of a foodie to bother with it. I’m happy enough with my 7-11 chocolate crepes and fruit jelly.
They have crepes at 7-11?
Little mass produced fresh ones delivered each day in plastic wrappers - chocolate, pudding, strawberry, etc., with cream and custard. Pretty nice little sweet snacks.
>>we remembered that avocado isn’t really a vegetable–it’s a fruit
AKA the alligator pear.
avocado isn’t really a vegetable–it’s a fruit
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They could put some tomatoes on top, that’s a fruit too.
Avocado says it all. No thanks
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit
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Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.
In Japanese 7-11’s they might. The Japanese version of that chain carries some very different kinds of products.
CC
Looks like a pie to me.
The textures seem very similar
7-11 is actually a Japanese owned company, by the way, which caters to whatever audience they are serving. Their biggest competitor is Lawson's which was once another American chain based in Ohio.
7-11 tends to have more stores in the Kanto region (Tokyo) and Lawson in the Kansai region (Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe).
Gag.
Avocado is what green tastes like.
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