Osaka Dessert Workshop: Matcha Parfait and Japanese Sweets
Osaka Dessert Workshop: Matcha Parfait and Japanese Sweets
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Join Saeko, a professional chef and cooking instructor, for a dessert-making class in Osaka! Make matcha ice cream and a range of Japanese sweets like warabi mochi, shiratama dango, and kuromitsu.
Highlights
Cook authentic Japanese desserts with a professional chef in Osaka
Discover Japanese ingredients and cultural insights
Learn to make matcha ice cream, warabi mochi, shiratama dango, and kuromitsu
Decorate a matcha parfait using the desserts you’ve prepared
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Experience Details
Join Saeko, a professional chef and cooking instructor for a dessert-making workshop in Osaka!
Learn how to make matcha ice cream along with a range of Japanese sweets like warabi mochi, shiratama dango, and kuromitsu. This class includes all of your ingredients, an English-language recipe to take home, and Japanese tea.
Meet your host, Saeko–a professional chef and passionate cooking instructor from Osaka. Prior to opening her Kansai-based cooking studio in 2018, and have taught over 1000 foreign students. Saeko traveled extensively (over 21 countries) and had a stint working as a Japanese chef in Denmark.
These experiences sparked her interest in connecting with other cultures through food, eventually leading her to pursue a career as a cooking instructor in her home country (Japan). To date, she has taught over 500 foreign students and counting.
Your dessert-making workshop will take place at Saeko’s personal cooking studio. You’ll be greeted and receive a brief rundown of your cooking experience, then strap on your apron before heading into the kitchen.
There, you’ll learn how to make matcha ice cream from scratch, which you’ll later use to create a bitter-sweet parfait!
Next come the Japanese sweets: Warabi mochi, shiratama dango, and kuromitsu. This trio of beloved desserts are well-known all over Japan. They can be found everywhere from supermarkets, specialty stores, festivals, and beyond, but there’s no better way to experience them than by making them yourself!
Warabi mochi are made from bracken starch and have a gelatinous texture, shiratama dango are chewy rice flour dumplings, and kuromitsu is a silky brown sugar syrup.
After creating your dessert delights, combine the ingredients to make and decorate a loaded matcha parfait.
But be quick before it melts; sit back and enjoy your handmade Japanese desserts alongside your classmates and host.
What You Get
Good To Know
- Private booking is available
- Participants for the standard class must be over 5 years old to join, but private bookings can accommodate guests under 4
- Please be careful with fire and knives (guardians of younger participants are asked to pay close attention)
Meeting Point and Meeting Time
We will meet at Senri-Chuo Station on the Midosuji Subway Line. It is easily accessible from central Osaka with no transfers required (about 15 min from Shin-Osaka, 20 min from Umeda, and 30 min from Namba). Detailed meeting instructions and a Google Maps link will be provided after booking.
Cancellation Policy
Cancel your booking at least 48 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund.
Experience Location
Osaka Prefecture is the birthplace of Kansai-style okonomiyaki and many classic Japanese street foods. Centered around Osaka (the prefectural capital), the clash of trade, traditions, and modern technologies contributes to the dynamic energy of this prefecture overlooking Osaka Bay.
Great fun for my family and I. Interesting to learn how much effort goes into the desserts we eat. Also satisfying to watch the fruit of your own labour take the shape of the sweets we love. Ichi b...read more
Amazing experience. I offer this class to my girlfriend as a surprise and she loved it! I had no expectation about the parfait that I made but when I tried it was actually really tasty!! I recommen...read more
Saeko great, from giving direction and escorting us from the station through whole workshop, she showed us basics of putting together a parfait desserts and explained different ingredients for maki...read more
Saeko was an amazing host. Super fun to talk to, knowledgeable and super friendly. The course was amazing, we had such a fun time and the food was amazing. Thanks so much for having us and showing...read more
We really enjoyed this workshop from Saeko-san. It was nice to have casual conversation with a local and cook in in here house. We learned a lot about Japanese sweets and we'll definitely make them...read more
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