We turned this Pokemon from the land of Kitakami into a festival treat during this week's Pokemon baking livestream over on Twitch!
Kudamono ame - candied fruits - are a popular Japanese festival treat. 🎆 While we didn't make ours with the traditional millet flour starch, we did flavour our candy with cinnamon, and it was a perfect combination! Dipplin's eyes and tail are made from chocolate (and I can't count how many times the pieces broke on me 🥲) and I painted on gold luster dust for the shiny.
It's also really cool that this new Pokemon dropped right around Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year - which we celebrate with apples and honey to represent a sweet new year! 🍯
Had a strawberry tanghulu as snack. The strawberries are big and juicy. Eating it as a candied fruit, brings both the fresh and crunchy candy flavour. Love the sweet and crunchy snack. Gluten free. Vegan snack. From “Tanghulu NYC”
Coca de Sant Joan, one of the traditional sweet breads eaten on the Catalan festivity of Sant Joan, celebrated on the night of June 23rd and on June 24th.
It’s a spongy brioche topped with candied fruit, it can also have custard creme. The other sweet eaten on this day is coca de llardons, a flatbread consisting on puff pastry made with pork rind and topped with pine nuts.
November 25th is the day of Saint Catherine, locally known as “les catalines”. In Sueca (Valencia, Valencian Country), it’s traditional that on this day children go to the rice fields with their classmates to eat this sweet.