
6'AGAR AGAR RAINBOW LAYER CAKE 118.00 88.00.

We didn’t try the thing ourselves, however Ramen Burger, a few stalls down from Raindrop Cake, had a much shorter line. Home / Classes / 6AGAR AGAR RAINBOW CAKE Return to Previous Page.

(Photo credit: DNAinfo/Rachel Holliday Smith)Įach “cake” - prepared off-site, according to creator Darren Wong - was stored individually in a plastic container filled with water, from which staff carefully removed the jelly-like things, placed them in bamboo sheaths with the flour and syrup, then served.īuyers seemed satisfied, poking excitedly at the alleged treats with spoons before slurping them down. Non una torta con l’acqua, ma una torta di acqua.Per intenderci, l’acqua non è semplicemente tra gli ingredienti, ma è l’ingrediente principale di questo dol. 56g (1.98 ounces) or 4 Tbsp powdered gelatin Clear jello using gelatin leaves Clear jello using agar agar Colored Jello. Behind her, buyers on a pre-paid list wait for their cakes. In fact, there were so many people waiting at the food festival for this dessert puddle (amid gusting wind and near-freezing temperatures, mind you) that the Raindrop servers kept a handwritten list of pre-paid customers, to whom they doled out the gelatin snacks at $8 a pop.Ī staff member at the Raindrop Cake station at Smorgasburg on Sunday takes orders from customers for the vegan, zero-calorie desserts. Raindrop cake is a dessert made of water and agar that is supposed to resemble a raindrop. Popularized in Japan, the Raindrop Cake debuted in the states this weekend at the summer season opening of Smorgasburg - in Williamsburg on Saturday and Prospect Park on Sunday.ĭespite its odd appearance, when we checked it out Sunday, the Raindrop Cake station had the longest line in the whole place. Raindrop cake served with kuromitsu and kinako. This time around, it's a murky white gelatin, made mostly of water and agar (a vegan-friendly alternative to gelatin, according to the Huffington Post), and topped with roasted soybean flour and brown sugar syrup.

It's New York’s latest, must-have food gimmick: the Raindrop Cake.įollowing its success with the Cronut, Ramen Burger and rainbow bagel, the city’s Evil Foodie Cabal has dreamed up yet another way to get people to stand in line.
