Mr. Ito Shine Muscat Tart Cookies

Shine Muscat Tart Cookies take on a fruit most confectioners approach with caution.

Shine Muscat is the premium Japanese table grape developed over three decades of breeding and released in 2006 — seedless, edible-skinned, and valued above all for an aroma that is floral and perfumed rather than simply sweet.

That aroma is also fragile, which is why it rarely survives being cooked.

Ito Seika’s method sidesteps that.

The tart shells are baked first and the jelly piped in afterwards — the company calls it after-depot — so the fruit never meets oven heat and keeps the brightness that defines it.

Each batch then ages for five days before shipping, letting the shell draw a little moisture from the jelly and settle into the shittori crumb the Tart series is built on.

The shell is a custard-flavoured tart pastry with skimmed milk powder and condensed milk worked into the dough, baked to carry the fruit rather than compete with it.

Eight individually wrapped tarts to a box, with an eight-month shelf life.

Ito Seika has baked in Ibaraki for decades, and the Tart series has just passed its twentieth year.

About this item
Item Name : Shine Muscat Tart
Brand : Mr. Ito
Item Form : Cookie & Biscuit
Allergens: Wheat, egg, milk, soybean
Number of Items : 8 Counts (Box of 1)