Red bean cake紅豆餅

Red bean cake is a Japanese dessert often found at festivals, also wide-spreading in Taiwan (車輪餅 or 紅豆餅). It is made of batter in a special pan (similar to a waffle iron but without the honeycomb pattern), and filled with sweet azuki bean paste, although it is becoming increasingly popular to use a wider variety of fillings such as vanilla custard, different fruit custards and preserves, curry, different meat and vegetable fillings, potato and mayonnaise.

Imagawayaki began to be sold near the Kanda Imagawabashi bridge during An'ei years (1772 - 1781) in the Edo period. The name of Imagawayaki originates from this time.

今川燒是一種源自日本的和菓子（日式甜點），在台灣常稱為車輪餅或稱紅豆餅，相較於日本的今川燒，台灣的紅豆餅不但流行於市井之間，更發展出許多不同的樣式與口味。

台灣的紅豆餅依餅皮口感主要分為兩大類：鬆軟的蛋糕皮與鬆脆的脆皮。傳統的紅豆餅餅皮口感則介於兩者之間。

而台灣的紅豆餅餡料種類更是豐富多樣。傳統上紅豆餅的餡料以紅豆、卡士達奶油、芋頭、花生、地瓜、芝麻等甜餡為主。但鹹餡如蘿蔔乾、蘿蔔絲、鮪魚、高麗菜、咖哩、酸菜等在台灣亦受到一般民眾的歡迎，這是在日本比較少見的。

另外，隨著紅豆餅文化的發達，也出現許多融合西式、日式風格的餡料如抹茶、巧克力、青醬鮪魚、奶油玉米甚至是起司披薩等口味。而在餡料中加入麻薯則是近年來流行的作風。