Backerei Danken Revisited

Last week I was feeling in the breadish mood, and X and I were naturally near our favorite bread shop, Backerei Danken, which I sometimes refer to as Bendan for no reason other than I can't remember the real name. So we decided to pop in, X in search of pretzels, and I in search of either of my two favorite breads, the berry tower bread or the caramel nuts roll. Unfortunately, they had neither of the breads I was looking for but that didn't stop me. First, I bought the honey comb bread. The honey comb bread is nice and lite. (Pardon my messy room. I am packing atm.) They cut the top of the bread in the shape of an X and shove honey and butter inside while it is still hot. The honey and butter soak into the soft bread inside and make it nice and sweet. The bread itself is like a french bread roll. Very nice. This has become one of my top 5 favorites at Danken. Next, I tried something new. I noticed that they had put out a new bread, which was pink and in some way was related to berries. It was soft bread, which I am usually not drawn to, but it was pink and I am nothing if not sucker for pink things. I'm not really sure what they have covering the bread. It looked like a layer of batter. When I picked it up, it was quite heavy and that should have been my first clue that I wasn't going to like this bread. I opened it up and inside must have been a whole jar of strawberry jam. Unfortunately, I have never liked jam filled anything, but if you do, then you would probably like this bread very much. The bread was very sweet and they were very generous with the jam. I wonder how they get the bread to turn pink? I think they use fruit juice. I don't think food coloring would make it taste as sweet as it does, even if sugar was added.

Danken, while making some (in my opinion) unfortunate changes to their bread menu, is still one of my top 3 favorite bread shops in Kagoshima...(maybe in Japan). What's your favorite bread treat?