Tokimeki Bread is a line of products by Tokimeki, a relatively new brand that sells all kinds of Japanese snacks. This bread is fluffy Japanese-style bread and is available in several flavours. Each kind of bread is priced around €2,- to €3,- per individually packaged piece of bread.
The bread seems to have been put together with vertical layers of dough. Some kinds had stripes of flavours, like chocolate and sugar, in between these dough layers.
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Chocolate
This bread was layered, with pieces of bread and stripes of chocolate alternating one another. It was fluffy and sweet, but not overly sweet. The chocolate flavour was there, but it wasn’t overpowering the bread at all.
Hokkaido Cream
Out of all the kinds of bread I tried this one was the fluffiest. I expected it to have a Hokkaido cream filling, but instead the cream flavour could be found throughout the entire bread. It was a bit on the sweet side, but definitely tasty.
Okinawa Brown Sugar
Despite the sweet sugar layers, this bread wasn’t overly sweet and was well balanced. The bread itself was pretty neutral when it came to sweetness, so the added sugar from the brown sugar layer didn’t feel misplaced at all.
Salt Butter
There was a salt flavour to this bread, but it also had a sweetness to it. It took a while for me to taste the salt, but once I chewed for a bit longer I did notice it. This bread wasn’t too salty.
Melon
I was a little bit disappointed, because I’d expected Melon Pan, but this turned out to be bread with a melon flavour. I’ve never tried bread with this kind of flavour, there was a clear melon flavour to the bread, but it wasn’t overly sweet. I’m not the biggest fan of Melon, but it didn’t mismatch with the bread at all.
Maple
Another striped type of bread, with layers of bread and maple syrup alternated. It was fluffy and soft. The syrup stripes were sweet, but the bread itself didn’t seem very sweet, which balanced it out.
All of these kinds of bread were very soft and fluffy. They reminded me a little bit of milk buns, but softer and without the browned, and often a bit more dry, top.
Overall I liked the chocolate bread the most. The Hokkaido Cream one was the sweetest of the bunch.
Despite the small size of each bun, I do recommend you try these one at a time. They are quite filling and I needed a bit of help to finish these six, since I opened them all on the same day.
Have you tried any of these kinds of Japanese bread? Or have you tried some from another brand?
Let us know what you thought!
