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How to make amazing Japanese fruit flower sandwiches

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By Oona McGee, SoraNews24

Japan is well-known around the world for traditional specialties like sushi, soba and multi-course kaiseki meals. However, once you delve a little deeper into the local cuisine, you’ll find a whole array of familiar Western foods that have been given a special Japanese touch.

One of those foods is the humble sandwich, which can be found here with not just savory fillings, but a variety of sweet fillings too. And while they’re surprisingly tasty, they’re also beautiful, commonly filled with fruit and cream.

Today we’ll be learning how to make some gobsmackingly pretty ones, thanks to the team at Tastemade Japan. So let’s start by taking a look at the easy-to-follow video below.

Are you ready to make the most artistic sandwiches you’ve ever made in your life? Don’t feel daunted, because it’s incredibly easy to master once you follow these few simple steps!

Ingredients (makes 6 sandwiches, 12 when cut in half)

  • Bread – 12 slices (white milk bread is recommended for best results)
  • Fresh cream – 200 milliliters
  • Mascarpone cheese – 200 grams
  • Granulated sugar – 30 grams
  • Fruit: Strawberries, mandarins, green kiwi fruit, yellow kiwi fruit, mango, seedless green grapes, seedless red grapes, bananas

Method

1. Make the cream by adding the fresh cream and granulated sugar to a bowl and whisk for 6 minutes. Then add mascarpone cheese and mix for 7 minutes.

2. Cut the fruit

・ Mandarins — Peel the skin and leave as-is

・ Yellow kiwi fruit — Slice, apply cream on top and roll into a roll

・ Bananas — Cut into a flower shape

・ Strawberries — Cut into a tulip shape

・ Mango — Cut into a flower shape

・ Red grapes — Leave as-is

・ Green kiwi fruit — Sliced to resemble a flower stem

・ Green grapes — Cut in half to resemble leaves

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3. Spread the cream on two slices of bread, place the fruit on top of the cream and layer with cream. Then place a slice of bread on top to sandwich it all in.

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4. Wrap in plastic wrap and cool in the refrigerator for 20 minutes to bind everything together.

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5. Cut in half diagonally.

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And there you have it — half-a-dozen sandwiches that’ll please your eyes, palate and Instagram account at the same time.

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Just because we can’t go out to enjoy springtime picnics at the moment it doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some picnic sandwiches indoors.

Source: YouTube/テイストメイド ジャパン

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Looks nice, but like the typical Japanese 'sandwich', made with that awful marshmallow cheap-quality white bread, and the 'filling' confined to the front, with sweet FA inside. Once you've taken one bite, all the filling is gone.

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While they look almost too pretty to eat I'd suggest replacing that pale "bread" by thick, fluffy pancakes.

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Those sandwiches are awful, especially made with regulation Japanese marshmallow bread.

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Work on the bread, out of Tokyo has many craftypeople.

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