Ever thought veggie-flavoured cookies would work?
Translation from left to right: pumpkin cookies, carrot cookies, gobo (or gobō/gobou) - burdock root cookies, purple sweet potato cookies, and Japanese mugwort (yomogi) cookies.
I was really mind-blown because these are very unusual flavours to pair with pastries or cookies. Trust the Japanese to come up with such interesting ideas. It's freaking cool to see carrot and gobo cookies especially - I absolutely can't imagine what flavour they would produce in pastry (and they're not even the filling either). Mugwort cookie? How on earth does that work? By the way, it's a plant used to make a certain type of Japanese mochi. Since mochi is usually flavourless in itself, I wonder how such a cookie would taste.
I saw these at a shopping mall's supermarket both in Kyoto and Osaka... but I forgot the name of the supermarket, and I'm not even sure it was the same chain. They had a slightly higher-class feel and sold gourmet food. So if you wanna attempt to acquire them, try going to such places.
I was really mind-blown because these are very unusual flavours to pair with pastries or cookies. Trust the Japanese to come up with such interesting ideas. It's freaking cool to see carrot and gobo cookies especially - I absolutely can't imagine what flavour they would produce in pastry (and they're not even the filling either). Mugwort cookie? How on earth does that work? By the way, it's a plant used to make a certain type of Japanese mochi. Since mochi is usually flavourless in itself, I wonder how such a cookie would taste.
Moreover, the colours are absolutely pretty! Now all they need is a more reddish veggie (red capsicum?) and a bluish veggie (red cabbage or blue corn flower?) and you'd have rainbow coloured cookies of all different flavours!! It would be a heck of an impressive display at parties for the dessert/snack section.
I saw these at a shopping mall's supermarket both in Kyoto and Osaka... but I forgot the name of the supermarket, and I'm not even sure it was the same chain. They had a slightly higher-class feel and sold gourmet food. So if you wanna attempt to acquire them, try going to such places.
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Update: I finally bought and tried these cookies on a subsequent trip to Japan! Check out my review here!
If you don't live in Japan, vegetable-flavoured cookies might be highly unusual. If you found this interesting, you can explore more exceptionally unusual food and drinks here!
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