In Japan, water cakes makes most Japanese excited during summer, and one of the most popular is the mizu shingen mochi water cake, which were considered by most Japanese as the most delicate sweet cake ever created. Although making the cake is a hard task, a recent tweets surfaced in Japan showing how you can create something, that at least looks very much like the water cake.
The fabulous water cakes was offered by Kinseiken shop in Yamanashi Prefecture, but if you want to try having a bit of fun playing with water, you can make your own water cake at home.
Although the famous water cake produced by Kinseiken continues to be a secret, a Twitter user from Japan revealed some tips on how to make almost exactly like the mizu shingen moche and tweeted the procedures on how to do it.
Twitter user @crazy07uma tweeted the procedures on how to make the famous water cake and the tweet has already been retweeted over 60,000 times.
When you take a closer look, there’s no denying the clear jelly looks almost exactly like the mizu shingen moche but they’re not the same thing. The water jelly using this recipe isn’t meant to be a dessert but a way to play with water.
So, here’s the recipe:
(1) Add 1 g (o.035 oz) of alginic acid to one cup (200 cc or 6.76 oz) of water, then mix thoroughly with a hand blender. Leave for about 15 minutes until the air bubbles have all settled and disappeared.
(2) Measure 4 cups (800 cc or 27.05 oz) of water into a large bowl, then add 5 g (0.176 oz) of calcium lactate and mix with a spoon.
(3) Add the mixture from (1) into the mixture from (2). Repeat the process several times without getting the bowl too full.
(4) Mix the entire combination slowly for about three minutes. Use a spoon to scoop the semi-solid balls into another bowl that has been filled with water.
水をぽよぽよにする方法やて 夏にたくさん作って遊ぼwww pic.twitter.com/YRZORmg3jU
— みゆてぃむ (@crazy07uma) May 24, 2015
H/T: RocketNews24