
[2024] 12 recommended cake shops in Kyoto
Introducing Kyoto's beloved baked sweets stores. From aroma and texture to flavor, these baked sweets are full of charm and attention to detail, making them the perfect snack or souvenir.
Find your favorite baked goods from a variety of flavors such as hard and soft, sable and cookies.
A small baked sweets cafe [cafe wakka] in Nishijin. Delicious baked goods are available for eat-in and take-out twice a week in a 100-year-old house. The counter is filled with baked goods such as cookies featuring the rabbit character Tsukimi-chan, pound cakes using seasonal ingredients, and shortbread.
From the front, rice-flour snowballs, 380 yen. Raspberry jam cookies 350 yen. Tsukimichan sable 100 yen. Edam cheese and black pepper rice flour sable 280 yen. Fermented butter shortbread: 200 yen.
A baked sweets store run by sisters Naoko, a confectioner, and Yuko, who works to serve customers. They are open on Thursdays and Saturdays. The thick, crunchy galette, tourtupirene with red bean paste, fluffy and light chiffon, and other pastries are sure to lift your spirits the moment you see them all lined up at the counter.
Torteux Pyrenees - 270 yen and up per piece. A pastry from the Pyrenees region of France baked in a large brioche mold. Plain with white bean paste mixed into the dough, chocolate with red bean paste mixed into the dough, etc.
This baked confectionery specialty store opened as a new business model of SUGiTORA, which is known for its homemade gelato and creative parfaits. Currently, there are about 16 kinds of baked sweets made with top-class ingredients, including pound cakes with pears purchased directly from producers and financiers with the aroma of fermented butter from France. If you are lucky, you may be able to get a freshly baked one!
Duckwords series starts from 297 yen. The scent of high-quality hazelnut powder and the melt-in-your-mouth texture that's lighter than you'd expect. 5 types including lemon tea, pistache, and chocolate
A popular patisserie that opens only once a week on the first floor of an apartment building near Keihan Tanbabashi Station. The pastries lined up in the store are all made using carefully selected ingredients and production methods. In addition to the butter sandwiches, the flavors of which change with the seasons, there are many fans of specific products, such as the fragrant lemon cake made with Setouchi lemons.
From the front, the signature product raisin butter sandwich is 324 yen per piece. Pistachio dacoise using two kinds of pistachio paste from Italy and Sicily, 300 yen per piece. A sakura strawberry butter sandwich made by sandwiching white bean paste-based butter cream in a sable made with cherry blossom leaves, 432 yen each.
Anfurne is a snack café that has appeared in Mibu's Nishishindo Nishikikikai shopping street, which has a downtown feel to it. The main items are baked sweets that are easy to eat for people of all ages. The owner, Mr. Osanai, who says, "I want to be an everyday snack," has a strong desire to deliver delicious food at his own pace, but without fail.
Clockwise from the top: carrot cake with cream frosting for 420 yen. A 500 yen cheesecake with lots of cream cheese, sour cream, and mascarpone, rich but not too sweet. Lemon cake recommended to be eaten chilled 400 yen
Kaho Kaho, a popular store established in Kyotanba, has appeared in the Gosho Nishi area of Kyoto City. [The simple baked sweets made with carefully selected ingredients, such as butter from Yotsuba Dairy and fresh heirloom eggs, have many fans throughout Japan. The shop always has about 20 varieties of baked goods on standby, including its signature butter sandwiches and tarts made with seasonal ingredients.
Butter sandwiches with butter cream mixed with Italian meringue and white chocolate, 507 yen each. (Photos from the front: Haskap, Double Cacao, Fig & Walnut)
The café [Ayumi Ko] was a confectionery lover's dream in Ebisu, Tokyo. After recharging for three years in the U.S., the cafe reopened in Kyoto in 2018. The fox scones and ginger cakes that are well-known in recipe books are also available here. The eat-in area, where you can enjoy a monthly dessert set, is basically by reservation only.
Cookies 756 yen. Plain, green tea, and chocolate. They are soft and delicious even when eaten cold.
Murakami Kaishindo is a long-established Western confectionery shop established in 1907. The store's plate glass doors, curved show windows, marble pillars, and other features from the Meiji and Taisho eras remain strong in the interior. Signature products include "Russian Cake," a baked sweet with a slightly softer dough than cookies, and cookie tins filled with 11 different flavors to enjoy.
Nostalgic tasting Russian cake 205 yen each
[A bakery specializing in baked goods developed by Cafe Sarasa. The store does not use large machines, but instead offers handmade tarts, cheesecakes, muffins, and other baked goods that line the shelves of the store every day. The store always offers about 30 varieties of cookies, each of which is satisfying and has a homey, comforting taste.
SARASA Cookie Tin" based on American cookies, medium size, 2,700 yen
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