Tokyo Banana (東京ばな奈). Tokyo Banana is a Japanese banana-shaped sponge cake with cream filling. It is the official souvenir sweet of Tokyo and is manufactured and sold by Grapestone Co. Tokyo Bananas come in many different flavors and are usually packaged individually in plastic.

Tokyo Banana (東京ばな奈) Same texture and taste except not as sweet. This is the home of the famous banana sponge cake well loved by visitors as souvenirs. Aaaand I got another special snack a little while ago: Tokyo Banana cakes! You can have Tokyo Banana (東京ばな奈) using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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Ingredients of Tokyo Banana (東京ばな奈)

  1. Prepare of For Banana Custard Cream : 100g Banana, mashed.
  2. Prepare 1 of Egg.
  3. Prepare 1 tbsp of Corn Starch.
  4. Prepare 3 tbsp of Sugar.
  5. You need 150 g of Milk.
  6. Prepare a few of drops of Vanilla Extract.
  7. You need of For Sponge cake : 2 Eggs.
  8. You need 50 g of Caster sugar.
  9. You need 35 g of Cake Flour.
  10. You need 20 g of Milk.

I saw them all around Tokyo but never had the time to buy some, so my dad surprised me with some after a business trip! Have you heard of TOKYO BANANA (東京ばな奈) ? It's a fluffy little banana shaped sponge cake filled with banana flavoured custard cream. Also TOKYO BANANA is available with many different flavours and shapes, and some of them are only available at limited locations or for limited time. - - Sister product of Tokyo Banana Raison Sand and Waffle.

Tokyo Banana (東京ばな奈) instructions

  1. For custard : Just mash banana and mix all ingredients (except vanilla extract) together with it in a bowl. Strain the mixture into a saucepan, low heat, stir constantly. Stop when the cream thickens and put in vanilla extract. Transfer cream into a bag and put in fridge..
  2. For sponge cake : Preheat oven to 180ºC Beat 2 eggs and 50g of superfine sugar. Place over hot water, continue beating to melt the sugar and warm mixture till 40°C. Remove from heat. With an electric beater, beat on high speed for 5mins, then on low speed for 2mins "to set"..
  3. Sift in 35g of cake flour, fold together with a spatula for about 10 times. Add 20g of milk, fold together with spatula for about 50 times until combined..
  4. Pour batter into pan, drop pan against countertop to release trapped bubbles. Bake for 11-12mins Drop the pan lightly to prevent shrinking. Let cool completely on wired rack..
  5. When baked, and cooled, cut sponge cake into squares. And cut each square into thin slices  Place each square on plastic wrap (with browned side up). Pipe banana cream onto the cake, roll and securely twist the ends like a candy. Chill in fridge before serving. enjoy!!.

One of most famous and coolest sweets from Tokyo. Soft sponge cake covers sweet banana custard cream. Just looks like cute yellow banana! Great sweets for everybody especially for kids. Tokyo Banana (東京ばな奈) is one of the more popular presents people bring back from Japan.