Raindrop cake: tasted! This is how it is

2023 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 11:20

I feel the hype, I can't deny it. At the same time I feel the unbridled desire to criticize more closely, because the Italians since they saw the Raindrop Cake they seem no longer in the skin: they talk about it and talk about it again now.

Too bad that here with us, for now, not even a shadow has been seen.

For the distracted, we are talking about the candy in the shape of a giant drop of water that the inventor, the pastry chef Darren Wong, a New Yorker of Japanese origins, insists on defining a cake. But that you, insatiable readers of Dissapore, immediately renamed: gelled water, but sold for 8 dollars.

In New York, where the agar-based Raindrop Cake, served with dark sugar syrup (kokumitsu) and toasted soy flour (kinako), only sells at Smorgasburg, the Brooklyn-area hipster market, some have obviously proven. Among them also Julia Reinstein, BuzzFeed reporter who described her raindrop-experience in this way.

Appearance. Consistency

The Raindrop Cake isn't a cake, Julia confirms, yet it's weird, inviting and sexy. Maybe because it resembles a silicone prosthesis? He would never stop touching it and playing with the texture. However, if kept at room temperature it melts after half an hour, so don't waste time.

Confusion

You know, everyone says, as you did, that Raindrop Cake is just water jelly. But the effect is different: it literally melts in your mouth. It's strange, it really feels like eating a drop of rain.

After tasting

Julia feels like the protagonist of a bubble bath commercial. Mind you, the sugar syrup and toasted flour are delicious, but the mega drop itself is tasteless, it looks like the snack a Martian would eat.

Vote

For Julia, the Rainbow Cake is worth trying. It may not be the best thing ever eaten, but the strangest yes. Also consider that, given its inconsistency, it will make you crave real food. Now that the infamous dress rehearsal is upon us, perhaps it's best if the drop-shaped treat stays at the Smorgasburg.