[Roadside Station Aioi in Aioi] Eat Brown Bear and White Bear!? Pretty Kumayaki

Kumayaki Cake

The Kumayaki Cake is a bear shaped Imagawa-yaki Japanese muffin, and 4 types of the Kumayaki Cake, Brown Bear containing Chunky or Smooth Red Bean Paste (ヒグマのつぶあん), Brown Bear containing Soymilk Custard Cream (ヒグマの豆乳カスタードクリーム), Polar Bear containing Chunky or Smooth Red Bean Paste (シロクマのつぶあん) and Cold Brown Bear containing Chunky or Smooth Red Bean Paste and Fresh Cream (ナマクマのつぶあんと生クリーム) were sold. The price was JPY 150 per one.

My first visit was in 2015. I heard from Ms. Tani that the Kumayaki Cake became a popular topic, so I visited here. Only 2 types of the Kumayaki, the Brown Bear containing Chunky or Smooth Red Bean Paste and the Brown Bear containing Soymilk Custard Cream were sold at that time. The price was JPY 120 per one. I was going to purchase those immediately, but only the Brown Bear containing Soymilk Custard Cream was sold. The Polar Bear was sold out. It was popular, after all. As for the the Brown Bear containing Soymilk Custard Cream, the brown pancake was filled with cream and jam bean. The soymilk was also used in the pancake, so a higlight was soft and fluffy pancake. I felt that the pancake was too a little sweet, but I guessed that people got sugar supplementation if they were tired. By the way, the Kumayaki Cake had front and behind perfectly, and the back had a tail, too.

The road station highly recommended the Kumayaki Cake, and types of the Kumayaki Cake increased when I visited here in 2017. The price was JPY 150. It was more expensive, too. I bought a Brown Bear containing Soymilk Custard Cream and a Polar Bear containing Chunky or Smooth Red Bean Paste this time. It was popular with most of visitors to buy the Kumayaki Cake, after all. First I ate the Polar Bear containing Chunky or Smooth Red Bean Paste. The bear shaped dough using Tapioca flour was soft and chewy. The Chunky or Smooth Red Bean Paste produced in Tubetsu was very sweet, so I supposed that it suited for peolpe with a sweet tooth.

Then I ate the Brown Bear containing Soymilk Custard Cream. Its dough with using homemade soymilk without water was fluffy. The custard cream was made from the soymilk. The sweetness was just right. Thanks for the tasty pancakes!