Comolife Japanese Wagashi molds

These are beautiful, well-made, sturdy molds. These are just what I was looking for to make wagashi. They took a while to get here from Japan, but the wait was surely worth it. Very pleased with these molds, which are beautifully detailed, and everything I wanted in a wagashi mold. Let Amazon donate to your favorite charity! Use Amazon Smile (smile.amazon.com) when you order and Amazon will donate to the charity of your choice when you make a qualifying purchase. Check out how Amazon Smile works at https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/about/ref=smi_se_rspo_laas_aas. My shopping is donating to my favorite charity, Canines for Independence at no cost to me. Awesome!

Lol @ the other review saying the molds were too small - this is a plastic version of traditionally wooden molds for Japanese wagashi called ohigashi/wasanbon and the size is exactly what you'd expect for that type of sweet. I love that it comes with eight seasonal designs, so that I can use the molds year-round. The molds are easy to use and make very crisp shapes. While the feel is a bit different from wood, I certainly can't complain since the price point is amazing and it's practically impossible to find wooden molds in the US.

The hard plastic mould is great for creating dry tea sweets and doesn't need to be wet like traditional wooden moulds. The sweets come out with a tap on the table and he designs are beautiful. The moulds, however are slightly bigger than traditional rakugan and almost twice as thick. The combination makes for very large sweets. As this is one of the few rakugan moulds available in the US, it is worth having. Fresh sweets are much better than the packaged ones. Wasanbon and Kanbaiko are now available from Japan via Amazon. See my public idea list "Japanese Tea Ceremony and Wagashi Sweets" for links to them.

This is way way smaller than what the photos show! I am totally disgusted at the way they lied on 2 things: Size and individual molds These photos showed are way bigger than the actual mold. There are no dimensions given plus the mold is so dang shallow it will barley make a decent sized candy. The directions are all in Japanese kanji with no english. They could have done a lot better if they had been a bit more honest.. the size of these are minicule compared to normal wagashi / Rakugan molds.. Im probably going to return it

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I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to finally find these molds available in the US! I have been looking for something like this for close to eight years but they are extremely difficult to get outside of Japan. This is a mold for a type of Japanese sweet called Rakugan (a pressed sweet often used for Japanese Tea Ceremony). In the pictures I have placed the mold next to some Rakugan I purchased with a quarter for size comparison. As you can see the shapes available on the mold are a little bit bigger than most of the sweets in the box, but are still a good size for this sweet. I can hardly wait to try making these for myself!

I haven’t tried it out yet but just live how beautiful tiny the molds are. They are different than anything I’ve seen in the market

着色料がいやなので、和三盆手作りにチャレンジ。 硬めに入れると、綺麗に抜けました。コツがあるかも。

Je suis très satisfaite je peux enfin me préparer facilement de beaux wagashis tout petit et délicats,

As described

付属のレシピが別売の蒸し器を使うものでしたので、代用したら失敗してしまいました。他のレシピを検索して型として使ったら綺麗に作れました！

一粒のサイズは一般的な和三盆の干菓子より1.3〜1.5くらい大きく感じる。もう少し小さい方が個人的には好みなので星減らしてます 和三盆100％の作り方 和三盆50gで約13粒くらい作れます ①和三盆を測って粉ふるいにかける ②霧吹きに入れた水を①に1回振りかけて素早く全体に水分が満遍なく行き渡るように混ぜる！ ※和三盆がすぐに水を吸い込んで固まるので水の粒子は細かい方が良い。霧吹きは近づけ過ぎず、離しすぎてボウルのふちで大きい水滴になることもないように気を付ける ③霧吹きのサイズにもよるが3〜4回②を繰り返す ④仕上げに、もう一度粉ふるいにかける※これ重要！ ⑤ボウルの上で型に入れてしっかり親指で押し込む ⑥入らなかったものを綺麗にボウルに落とす ⑦上板を外して、下板を皿の上で裏返すと剥がれ落ちる。もしくは上板もしくは皿の縁で軽く下板を叩くと簡単に落ちる。 ※くっついて落ちない時は水分が多いと思う ⑧⑤〜⑦の繰り返し 出来上がりの舌触りは②で出来る水を吸った時の塊を出来るだけ無くすのと、⑤のしっかりと押して隙間を無くすことに掛かっているように感じました。