Cookie by Imperial (Teikoku) Hotel
LOYAL ROAD OF COOKIE, SIMPLE BUT HIGHER GRADE.
Imperial Hotel (Teikoku hotel, 帝国ホテル) is well known for its sophisticated hospitality and great food served there. Even if you are not staying in, I recommend you to eat beef curry at the cafe. Extremely tender but leaving certain chewy texture beef and thick, spicy curry simply makes your life brighter.
Baked sweets and cookies are also recommended. Let me introduce cookie that I bought for your reference.
Cookie C-20N, (クッキー C-20N).
Price: ¥2,160
Also smaller and bigger packages are available.
As you can see, each cookies are packed individually. Each package is printed "Imperial hotel". So classy.
7 different kinds, 36 cookies set.
Macaroon x 7, Hazelnut x 4, Fig x 6, Chocolate x 6, Strawberry x 5, Coconut x 4, Coffe x 4
7 kinds of cookies set. Although they are written in Japanese, nice to know what kind of allergic foodstuff is used.
Macaroon - Egg, wheat
Hazelnut - Egg, milk, wheat
Fig - Milk, wheat
Chocolate - Egg, milk, wheat, walnut, soy
Strawberry - Egg, milk, wheat
Coconut - Egg, milk, wheat
Coffe - Egg, milk, wheat
Not to mention the main ingredients named on each cookies, ask the ingredients if you have any food allergies.
These are what's about to try. Here we go.
Macaroon.
Crunchy mouthfeel and chewy caramel that is after texture is simply addictive. I felt crispy almond in between each bites. Taste is quite simplistic.
Cross section of macaroon. Gap inside it makes special fluffy and spread the taste when bitten.
Hazelnut.
Very first thing you'll feel is appetizing smell of butter. Crumbling and mouth melting texture with very light hazelnut taste. Since hazelnuts are crushed and used plenty as it seems, I expected more of hazelnut's, it wasn't. This less assertive totally depends on your preference.
Fig.
I liked this the most. Floating fragrance of butter, light crunchy texture that melts in mouth. Fig's tingling texture and its smell makes the perfect match with lightly sugared cookie. Tingling texture in cookie was new to me and I really loved it.
Chocolate.
Crispy and mouth melting texture cookie. The taste was a bit bitter. Walnut is crushed and roasted, making it extra crispy. The bitterness is not too much, which brings out sweetness and fragrance of cocoa powder.
Strawberry.
The sweetest cookie I tasted in this box. Crispy and strawberry seed's tingling
texture is similar to the fig. Sour and sweet after taste of strawberry is lasting. It was a bit too sweet for me.
Coconut.
Hundreds of slices of coconut are lavishly used in caramel base dough. Crunchy coconut and chewy caramel texture is perfect mix with butter. Fragrance of coconut and butter is lasting in mouth.
Coffee.
Sweet smell which I still wonder what it was. Crunchy texture with scent of coffee powder in mixture. It felt like tasting non-sweet Caramel Macchiato, which was bull's-eye for me. (Whom never to sugar in coffee.)
Where to buy: "Imperial Hotel"
Address: 1-1-1, Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo
Also, you can buy sweets of Imperial hotel at Haneda and Narita airport.
Imperial hotel official site.
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