Saint Marc Cafe celebrates Halloween with new gruesome-looking smoothie and Jack-o’-Lantern candy potato croissants.
In Japan, lots of Halloween festivities have a cute, whimsical contact to them. That even goes for the colour palette. Most of the time, Halloween-themed decorations and objects will make beneficiant use of a fashionably festive shade of purple, with the extra conventional and ominous black and orange relegated to secondary and tertiary roles.
And yeah, certain sufficient, Japanese cafe chain Saint Marc Cafe has launched a purple candy potato smoothie for Halloween…however they’ve additionally launched a Vampire Smoothie that appears equal components wicked and scrumptious.
Oftentimes in vampire imagery, the blood they drink is likened to purple wine, a watery, darkly coloured liquid to be sipped from a gothic goblet. However since Saint Marc Cafe has made a smoothie for vampires, the “blood” right here is kind of a bit pulpier, with a semi-coagulated vibe.
▼ It’s served with a syringe-style dropper full of “Vampire Syrup.”
In fact, seeing as how blood-sucking undead make up, at most, solely a small share of Saint Marc Cafe’s clientele, there’s no real hemoglobin within the Vampire Smoothie. The beverage base is Japanese pear (sweeter and moister than Western pears), and its white coloration serves to create a powerful, and strongly unsettling, distinction with the grape gelatin, which performs the position of the mass of blood on the backside of the cup. The Vampire Syrup, in the meantime, is a liquid sweetener with a deep, virtually black purple coloration with mixes right into a fresh-blood purple as you squeeze it into the drink.
All of those come collectively completely, stunning your eyes and delighting your style buds, our taste-testing Japanese-language reporter Okay. Masami says. The Vampire Smoothie is splendidly fruity and refreshing, and if you end up getting too weirded out by the way it appears, you’ll be able to all the time simply preserve stirring all the things collectively till they meld right into a extra conventionally fairly hue that wouldn’t look misplaced in a tropical drink.
Showing alongside the Vampire Smoothie for Saint Marc’s particular Halloween lineup is the Premium Chocolate Croissant Anno Imo Jack-‘o-Lantern. Saint Marc Cafe is known for his or her chocolate croissants, and these limited-time seasonal variations make use of Anno Imo, a prized number of candy potato grown in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Actually, the Jack-‘o-Lantern croissants look a bit of extra like zombies, or possibly severed fingers. Arguably inaccurate title apart, although, they do appear like some kind of creepy creature (particularly in case you have the workers heat them up earlier than consuming like we did, making the chocolate eyes tackle a distorted form and liquidy consistency), in order that they nonetheless cross the take a look at for being Halloween sweets.
Their coloration comes from mixing candy potato powder in with the dough. Biting into one, we have been met with the nice and cozy, barely gooey goodness of the buttery candy potato croissant and its filling of Anno Imo cream and chocolate.
So sure, the 690-yen (US$4.90) Vampire Smoothie and the 380-yen Premium Chocolate Croissant Anno Imo Jack-‘o-Lantern each look the a part of Halloween treats and style nice too. They’re on sale now and will probably be obtainable at Saint Marc Cafe branches throughout Japan till October 31. Oh, and when you’re headed to a Halloween occasion, anticipating trick-or-treaters, o identical to to maintain your home well-stocked with snacks. the croissants are additionally obtainable in a reduced five-pack for 1,700 yen.
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