Extraordinary salad cakes are the latest weird craze to sweep Japan Instead of being loaded with wonderful sugar and butter, these seemingly sweet treats are actually made from salad

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These immaculately decorated cakes might look like the height of decadence, but looks can be deceiving.
Instead of being loaded with wonderful sugar and butter, these seemingly sweet treats are actually made from salad.
They are the work of Japanese food stylist and designer, Misuki Moriyasu, who sells them from her new cafe Vegedeco, in Nagoya.
A video filmed at the cafe in central Japan shows delighted diners, mostly female, smiling as they nibble on the delightful creations.

Instead of being loaded with wonderful sugar and butter, these seemingly sweet treats are actually made from salad

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Moriyasu invented the cakes in a bid to make vegetables more appetising and when they took off she opened the new eatery dedicated to them.

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The deceiving cakes were on show at new cafe Vegedeco, in Nagoya, Japan

The peculiar creations are made by blending whole vegetables, roots and all, with soybean flour to create a spongy feel.
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The 'salad cakes' are the work of Japanese food stylist and designer, Misuki Moriyasu

For the icing she mixes vegetables with cream cheese or tofu.
The result is a low-carbohydrate, gluten-free cake which counts as one of your five a day.
But even though they look exquisite and are wonderfully good for you, nothing will make them taste like chocolate cake.