At Hotel Osaka Bay Tower (Minato-ku, Osaka), the "Monkey Year Zodiac Cake", named after the 2016 Zodiac "Monkey", is now available. It will be sold in the lobby lounge on the 1st floor of the hotel from December 30th to January 31st, 2016.

It's cute and a little hard to eat!
It's cute and a little hard to eat!

The Shinnen Zodiac Cake is a banana-flavored sponge cake sandwiched between confit made from Osaka oranges and coated with chocolate cream. The chef's playful expression of the monkey is painted in chocolate.

The price is 400 yen (tax included) per piece. In the case of eat-in, ice cream, coffee jelly and drinks are included and it is offered for 1,190 yen including tax. Sales hours are from 10:00 to 19:00. It will end as soon as it runs out.