It consists of two small pancake-like patties made from castella wrapped around a filling of sweet azuki bean paste.

[3] In Japanese, dora means "gong" and the name reflects the original dorayaki was baked (yaki) on a heated gong, the Kyoto based confectionery Sasaya Iori states, claiming they invented dorayaki in request from Toji Temple[1].

The word originally means triple straw hat, but is also an alternative name of Mount Wakakusa, a low hill with gentle slopes located in Nara.

[10] The Japanese manga and anime character Doraemon loves dorayaki and so it is depicted as his favourite food (in the English dub, Nobita (Noby in English) calls it "yummy buns" as an alternative), and it has been a plot device several times throughout the series.

Since 2015, JFC International has produced Doraemon Dorayaki for the North American market.