Matcha Ganache

This fresh cream chocolate melts in my mouth.
So many kinds of fresh chocolates spread over shoppers this season for Valentine's Day.

I love making dessert at home. However I buy chocolates for Valentine's Day.
Fun to go hopping around chocolate shops to find best chocolates for me and my family, packed with people at shops, though.

Actually, easy to make matcha ganache. It just mix ingredients and sit it over night.
Should be careful for choosing nice chocolate.

**matcha ganache recipe**
6 * 18 cm (2.3 * 7 inch) flat mold

150g white chocolate
10g matcha powder
80mL heavy cream
1 tbsp agave syrup

matcha powder and edible gold for decoration

1. Put white chocolate and matcha powder in a sauce pan. Simmer on the low heat until they melt and blend them. Set aside.
2. Put heavy cream and agave syrup in another sauce pan, and simmer on the very low heat. Mix together.
3. Add heavy cream into a matcha white chocolate saucepan very quietly. Blend them thoroughly.
4. Pour chocolate into a flat mold with attachment paper. Sit it in fridge over night.
5. Take out matcha ganache from the mold and cut in pieces for small square size.
Be careful when you cut chocolate. Use warm knife.
6. Sprinkle matcha powder and decorate with edible gold.

Classic Gateau Chocolat

It is time to get idea for Valentine's day.
Classic chocolate cake grabs my heart.

Always stocked creamy pumpkin in my fridge.



**Classic Gateau Chocolat recipe**

20 cm(8 inch) round cake pan  (baked rectangular tart pan today)

120g sweet chocolate
100g butter
30g pastry flour
3 egg yolks
100g granulated sugar
100ml heavy cream
1-2 tbsp dark ram
50g cocoa powder
5 egg whites and 60g granulated sugar
powder sugar, pumpkin seeds for decoration

1. Put minced chocolate and butter in a saucepan on the medium low heat until they get melted.
2. Put egg yolks and granulated sugar in a clean bowl. Whisk them until the color changed a little white.
3. Add melted chocolate and heavy cream into the bowl. Also add dark ram into the bowl and blend them all.
4. Add cocoa powder and shifted pastry flour into the bowl. Blend them quietly. Set a side.
5. Beat egg whites and granulated sugar in an another clean bowl until get stiff peak.
6. Add egg whites into the chocolate batter bowl in twice. Blend them very quietly.
7. Pour the cake batter into your cake mold with buttered inside.
8. Bake the cake in the oven at preheated 160C for about 1 hour.
9. Cool down completely and decorate in your favorite way.

The Seventh of January

Special day for me. Only me.

The day I flew to Canada with my little monster thirteen years ago.
The day I extremely felt grateful to my husband.
The day I said good-bye to my mom for entire my life. I lost her while in Canada.


Memories is basically fading from our mind as time has passed.
Mine of spending time in Canada becomes more clearly.

Probably my son now remembers just small part of Canadian life.
Probably my family I left in Japan at the moment don't care about it now.

I care Canada for good.

Happy New Year 2017

I like 2017 very much so far.
Need New Year's Resolution, still keeping my mind.
Popping up new desserts in my head,  brainstorming my new lifestyle and so on.


Our first day of 2017 started with digging easy quick Osechi and strolling Osaka castle park.
Not bad even not having my whole family together.