Dorayaki (どら焼き, どらやき, 銅鑼焼き, ドラ焼き) is a type of Japanese confection which consists of two small pancake-like patties made from castella wrapped around a filling of sweet red bean paste.
It has been made popular by the famous manga character, Doraemon.
Here is a simple recipe that will please children and adults alike!
Japanese Cake: Dorayaki!
INGREDIENTS: For 6
-Pancakes:
Eggs: 2
Sugar: 100 g
Honey: 1+1/2 tablespoons
Salad oil: 1 tablespoon
Mirin/sweet sake: 1 tablespoon
Sodium bicarbonate: 1/3 teaspoon
Flour: 150 g
Water: 40~60 cc/ml
-Salad oil for cooking
-Sweetmeats/Anko/Bean jam:
300 g: (50 g per dorayaki)Look HERE for basic recipe!
RECIPE:
-Use a hand whisker instead of an electric whisker/blender as overmixing will achieve poor results!
Respect the order of the ingredients!
Beat the eggs and add the sugar. Mix until the mixture whitens.
Add the honey and mix until it has completely nblended in.
Add oil and mix.
Add bicarbonate sodium and mix.
Add mirin and mix.
-Add half of flour and mix well.
Add other half and mix well.
-Add water and mix. The amount of water might vary with the kind of flour.
Experiment!
-Heat a frypan over a medium fire first.
take frypan off fire.
Lower fire.
Once the frypan has cooled down bring over the fire again.
Wipe it with a kitchen paper soaked with salad oil.
Wipe off excess oil if necessary.
-Pour pancake mixture. Bear in mind that the size of the panckes must be the same. The amount, whatever it is must be the same. Choose your ladle/spoon well beforehand!
-Cover with lid.
-When bubbles have appeared across the surface turn the pancake over.
-The very minimum of oil will garantee an even cooking!
-Too much oil and your pancake will have that look!
Sandwich sweetmeats/anko between two pancakes and serve hot.
Once cooled down you may deep-freeze them wrapped in cellophane paper.
A perfect look!
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Ray Berger
I was given some frozen Dorayaki filled pancakes. Could you please tell me how I should reheat them?
Thank you
dragonlife
First unfreeze them slowly inside the refrigerator. When they are completely unfrozen you can reheat them wrapped in cellophane paper inside a microwave oven!
Hiragana Mama
I tried this and it was great! I just blogged about it.
dragonlife
They are so easy to make and so yummy!
Dorayaki/ どらやき « Hiragana Mama
[…] that doesn’t take much time and can be frozen for later use. I adapted my recipe from the Shizuoka Gourmet blog. (I tried several other recipes and this seemed the most authentic to […]
dragonlife
Thank you so much dear Hiragana Mama!
Kelli
Hi Robert, I tried to post you a comment a few days ago but I guess something went wrong in the ether.
I just wanted to say thank you so much for posting this recipe. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to eating regular pancakes again after tasting dorayaki.
Cheers!
dragonlife
LOL you are most welcome, dear Kelli!
Kelli
I just wanted to send you a big thank you for sharing this recipe! I don’t think I’ll ever go back to eating regular pancakes after tasting dorayaki. I tried out three different fillings: mirin-soaked prunes with anko cream, peaches with ginger cream and the slightly more traditional custard cream and anko paste. All great!
Kelli
Oh, wait. I see it now – don’y know why I was expecting it to be at the bottom of the list. feel Free to delete this one.
dragonlife
LOL again!
dragonlife
Cheers and you are most welcome!
susie
could you also freeze the green tea custard ones?
dragonlife
I doubt it although freezing them in aitight bag cold be ok!
Aurora
Wonderful recipe! I did respect the order of the ingredients and it made a big difference. My husband (raised in Japan) prefers my homemade Dorayaki to any he’s had before. ありがとう!
dragonlife
Chers dear Aurora!
Ypur husband is a lucky one!
Best regards,
Robert-Gilles
watchmebake
i love eating dorayaki and yours look awesome!
hahah am going to try it out one day when i get my hands on some adzuki red beans!! (:
cheryl
dragonlife
Dear Cheryl!
They are easy to make. Just find the beans!
Robert-Gilles
Devaki Das
Hi Robert – Here I go again. You blog makes my heart bleed for my hubby. If we had not met in Singapore & got married, I have no doubt he would be in Japan! But hey – at least he’s got me & I’m all that …:-)
Love the stuffed pancakes – they remind me of the Chinese pancakes served at the hawker centers in Singapore – usually with mung bean, red bean or custard.
Also if you don’t like my next question just tell me to shut it! But how do you like food buzz’s FP program? How long after beginning the blog should one apply & would you recommend it?
I am so glad to read your posts – they are wonderful!
Sincerely, Devaki
dragonlife
Dear Devaki!
Greetings!
Thank you so much for your kind comment!
I’ve sent you a personal mail!
Cheers,
Robert-Gilles
notabrownbag
Yummy! I am going to try to recreate a green tea mascarpone filling that I tried once for the filling..yeah, not very traditional I know!
dragonlife
Why not!
It sounds like a great ideat to me!
Cheers,
Robert-Gilles