Loftti Cafe creates Japanese ‘Raindrop Cakes’
Loftti Cafe creates desserts that look like raindrops (Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A Green Tea Rain Drop Cake, from left, an Original Rain Drop Cake and a Lychee Strawberry Rain Drop Cake are displayed in Loftti Cafe in Las Vegas on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Jeferson Applegate/Las Vegas Review-Journal
A Green Tea Rain Drop Cake, from left, an Original Rain Drop Cake and a Lychee Strawberry Rain Drop Cake are displayed in Loftti Cafe in Las Vegas on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Jeferson Applegate/Las Vegas Review-Journal
An exterior photo of Loffti Cafe, located at 7729 Rainbow Blvd., in Las Vegas is seen on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Jeferson Applegate/Las Vegas Review-Journal
An interior photo of Loffti Cafe, located at 7729 Rainbow Blvd., in Las Vegas is seen on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Jeferson Applegate/Las Vegas Review-Journal
An interior photo of Loffti Cafe, located at 7729 Rainbow Blvd., is seen in Las Vegas on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Jeferson Applegate/Las Vegas Review-Journal
It definitely doesn’t look like a cake, but this dessert with Japanese origins sure does look like a raindrop. The Raindrop Cake from Loftti Cafe, 7729 S. Rainbow Blvd. (at Robindale Road) is made of agar and water, which gives it a gelatinlike texture, and served with roasted grain powder and sugar or green-tea syrup. The original flavor is $3.25; green tea, $3.75. The raindrop with lychee and strawberries mixed in and strawberry and chocolate sauces is $4.
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