Basuku Cheesecakes

🇯🇵 BASUKU in Japan 🇯🇵

We’ve taken some strides this past month in Japan! Our Original flavor cake is now available in Kyoto and Osaka on a daily basis!

Just like in America, we use only the best dairy we can find. The cream cheese and fresh cream in the Japanese recipe is all sourced from Hokkaido 🥛. The Original flavor here has more of an orangey hue due to the amazing local eggs we found in Kyoto 🥚. We are grateful to all of the support and positive feedback we’ve received in Japan 🙏 Can’t wait for some of you who know the Bay Area version to make it to Japan and try this one!

Here are the locations currently serving BASUKU in Japan:

Kyoto: .kyoto - a wonderful cafe that specializes in sweet potato desserts. They also make an amazing Hokkaido Salted Butter soft cream that is 🔥🔥🔥 Pay them and their friendly staff a visit when you’re in Kyoto 🍠

Osaka: - conveniently located in the Daimaru Department Store at Osaka station, this oasis in the middle of the hustle and bustle is a great place to relax and enjoy some cheesecake or their seasonal kakigori 🍧 They also have matcha products using crazy good organic matcha from our friends 🍵

More flavors will become available over time in Japan! We now head over to Taipei and will be working on cakes becoming available by the Fall 🍁 Stay tuned for those details coming soon!

先月、日本でいくつかの進展がありました！オリジナルフレーバーのチーズケーキが、京都と大阪で毎日販売されるようになりました！

アメリカと同様に、日本でも最高品質の乳製品のみを使用しています。日本のレシピでは、クリームチーズと生クリームはすべて北海道産のものを使用しています🥛。京都で見つけた素晴らしい卵のおかげで、日本版のオリジナルは少しオレンジがかった色味になっています🥚。日本でたくさんのご支持と温かいフィードバックをいただき、本当に感謝しています🙏。ベイエリアの味を知っている皆さんが、日本版を食べに来てくれるのが待ちきれません！

現在、日本でBASUKUを提供している店舗はこちら：

京都：.kyoto
さつまいもスイーツを専門にしている素敵なカフェです。北海道産の塩バターを使ったソフトクリームも絶品なので、京都に来た際はぜひ、優しいスタッフと一緒に訪れてみてください🍠

大阪：
大阪駅直結の大丸百貨店内にあり、都会の喧騒の中でゆっくりとチーズケーキや季節限定のかき氷🍧が楽しめるオアシスのようなカフェです。🍵

今後、日本でもさらに多くのフレーバーが登場する予定です！これからは台北に向かい、秋頃にはそちらでもケーキをお届けできるよう準備を進めていきます🍁 詳細は近日中にお知らせしますので、お楽しみに！

🚨 The Last Week Sale 🚨

Been really proud use only the best ingredients over the years. Having come up in the Bay at a time where sourcing was everything, I’ve done my best to be committed this Bay Area ethos (sad this is no longer something emphasized by the new generation of local food media 😢). cream has always been been the soul of Basuku and has been in every one of the 25,000 cakes made over the last 5 years.

This week will be the last sale in SF and Palo Alto for the foreseeable future. Please note the change to the Palo Alto pickup time.

The pre-sale drops tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5pm at our Online Shop (link in bio). SF pickup is Wednesday 3:30-5:30p. Palo Alto pickup is Saturday 11:30-1:30p. Slices will be available at both pickups on a first come first serve basis at both pickups. Please only order if you can pickup during the pickup window, as cakes will be forfeited if not picked up by the end of the pickup window - no exceptions. Please respect our time and policy.

This week’s menu:

- OG
- Cookies+Cream 🍪🥛
- Black Sesame 🇯🇵 🥜
- Hojicha 🔥 🍵
- Pure Strawberry 🍓
- Roasted Banana 🍌
- Choco Banana 🍫 🍌
- Strawberry Mont Blanc (Palo Alto Only)

Due to popular demand, we got some more Hojicha from the fine people for this last sale.

Online sales have been super intense lately with everything selling out within the first minute. Lots of people report having things in the cart, but it disappears by the time payment is processed. This is something has never repaired in their system. Apologies for that…best advice is to start refreshing the site before 5:00pm and process your order as soon as the store opens up.

Won’t put all the cakes out for pre-sale for the Saturday Palo Alto pickup so we can better accommodate what we expect to be a long queue that morning. Shooting to be able to accommodate 60-80 people between slices and whole cakes, but will post more accurate numbers on Friday.

🚨 This Week’s Sale 🚨

This week marks 5 years for Basuku 🎂 As this wild ride comes to an end in the Bay, it’s been crazy to reflect on everything. Grateful for all of the support over the years 🙏 but it’s not over year!

This week will be the last sale jn Oakland and next week will be SF.

The pre-sale drops tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5pm at our Online Shop (link in bio). Oakland pickup is Wednesday 2:30-4:30p. Palo Alto pickup is Saturday 11-4p. Slices will be available at both pickups on a first come first serve basis at both pickups. Please only order if you can pickup during the pickup window, as cakes will be forfeited if not picked up by the end of the pickup window - no exceptions. Please respect our time and policy.

This week’s menu:

- OG
- Cookies+Cream 🍪🥛
- Black Sesame 🇯🇵 🥜
- Hojicha 🔥 🍵
- Pure Strawberry 🍓
- Ube 🍠
- Roasted Banana 🍌
- Strawberry Mont Blanc (Palo Alto Only)

This will be the last week for Hojicha and Ube. For next week, there’ll be less flavors but more quantity of each. Online ordering has been really challenging for most, so likely moving it back to all first come first serve sales to make it as ‘fair’ as possible.

🚨 This Week’s Sale 🚨

In Oakland this week and will be back in SF next week. Palo Alto pickup time is now permanently changed.

The pre-sale drops today at 5pm at our Online Shop (link in bio). Oakland pickup is tomorrow, Wednesday 2:30-4:30p. Palo Alto pickup is Saturday 11-4p. Slices will be available at both pickups on a first come first serve basis at both pickups. Please only order if you can pickup during the pickup window, as cakes will be forfeited if not picked up.

This week’s menu:

- OG
- Cookies+Cream 🍪🥛
- Kyoto Matcha 🍵
- Passionfruit ❤️🥭
- Black Sesame 🇯🇵 🥜
- Strawberry Black Sesame 🍓🇯🇵🥜
- Pure Strawberry 🍓
- Hot Chocolate 🍫🥛
- Strawberry Mont Blanc (Palo Alto Only)

This week’s new flavor:

- Pure Strawberry - this flavor is made with Mare de Bois strawberries that have a more strawberry candy-like flavor with some strawberry preserves stirred into the batter. For the strawberry lovers out there.
- Strawberry Black Sesame - this flavor is a nice blend of our classic toasted black sesame with our new Pure Strawberry. Definitely one of our new favorites and kind gives off PB&J vibes combing the nuttiness from the black sesame along with the aromatic strawberry.
- Hot Chocolate - one of our more popular chocolate flavors brought back for Mother’s Day. This is our OG based topped with Hawt Chocolate. Like eating a slice of hot chocolate. The chocolate topping also gives a nice additional texture to the cake.
- Strawberry Mont Blanc - this is our OG cake topped with fresh Mare de Bois strawberries then topped extruded strawberry cream ‘Mont Blanc’ style. A Mother’s Day special! (Palo Alto pickup only).

Likely the last Passionfruit of the year. This is our last bag of Kyoto Matcha, so last of the year too.

Big announcement about the future of Basuku coming soon!