Mimosa Cake

This cake is named after the tiny and fluffy spring flower Mimosa.  It is simply decorated with lemon peel and sugar scattered all over it.   Light lemon cream made with plenty of freshly squeezed lemons from my friend’s garden is sandwiched between layers of light sponge cake.       Ingredients (26cm square cake tin)…

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Honey Cake

Honey Cake Portuguese merchants first brought this sponge cake to Japan in the 16th century, when only the port of Nagasaki was open to foreign ships. This is the reason this cake is considered to be Nagasaki’s speciality. Over the years the cake changed to suit the Japanese palate. Light but moist sponge has always…

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