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Put the cake flour and sugar into a bowl and mix well.
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Add milk and egg to the bowl from Step 1 and mix until it's no longer floury.
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Strain the batter through a fine-mesh strainer or sieve.
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Melt the margarine in a microwave or over a double broiler and mix into the batter.
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Let the batter rest for about 30 minutes.
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Rinse the salt off the salt-cured cherry leaves (if they are very salty, let them soak in water for a while), pat dry with a paper towel, then mince.
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Take out a bit more than 1 tablespoon of the batter from Step 3 and set aside.
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Divide the rest into 2 portions.
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Add a little crepe batter to the matcha and mix to dissolve, then add one portion of batter.
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Add the minced cherry leaves from Step 4 to the other portion of batter with a tiny bit of red food coloring dissolved in water.
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Heat a non-stick frying pan over very low heat.
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Add a little vegetable oil, and wipe out the excess.
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Pour the batter to make crepes about 9 cm in diameter using slightly less than 1 tablespoon of batter at a time to the frying pan.
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Cook each side.
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(Make a total of 8 pink, 8 green, and 1 white crepe - the white one should be a slightly larger than the others.)
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Cream the margarine and mix it with the boiled adzuki beans and half of the chopped cherry leaves from Step 4.
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(Reserve about 1 teaspoon of the cherry leaves for Steps 10 and 12.)
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Layer the sakura (cherry pink) and matcha (green) crepes so that they are overlapping each other.
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Put about 1/2 tablespoon of the anko-butter (margarine) filling in the center, and fold in half as shown.
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Cut cherry flower shapes out of the white crepe.
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Use some of the anko-butter from Step 8 on the back and stick the flowers onto the folded crepes from Step 9 .
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Spread a little margarine on the flower shapes, and sprinkle on some sesame seeds.
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(I also recommend sprinkling on some edible gold leaf.)
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If you put a little bit of the anko-butter from Step 8 between the sakura and matcha crepes, they will stick together and not come apart.
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These crepes also go well with fruit!
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Make one with the matcha crepe on the outside, then sandwich a strawberry in the middle to make a pair of hina dolls.
