Chocolate and Vanilla Soft Cream from Japan

Nothing nicer in Summer than a nice Japanese softcream and one of the best would be this chocolate and vanilla ice cream cone.

Japanese Italian Monaka Icecream

This Japanese ice cream is really just a different flavoured Monaka bar – like the chocolate ice cream Monaka and jersey milk vanilla ice cream Monaka bars. This one tastes like strawberry/rasberry ice cream to me, I haven’t got a clue what makes it Italian flavour.

It was nice but nothing really special.

Japanese Octopus and Squid ice cream

I have posted before about the weird flavour ice cream of Japanese Squid ice cream but here is the matching pair – Octopus ice cream! Both have the same flavour, both are pretty bad , like a not quite right vanilla ice cream .

 

Robot Gundam Ice cream

My son thinks this Japanese ice cream is the best. A robot Gundam style print on the ice cream container. I don’t know what flavour ice cream it is as I never tasted it.

Four Flavours of Soft Serve Ice Cream

Another Japanese soft cream cone. I guess nothing was really special about this Japanese ice cream apart from it looking so nice – it was just like any other soft serve ice cream. Nice ice cream flavours – Vanilla, Peach, Cherry Blossom and Green Tea.

Cake Stick, Blueberry cheesecake ice-cream from Japan

The cheesecake flavoured Cake Stick is Japanese icecream plus a little blueberry jam inside it. It is meant to be just like blueberry cheesecake that you can buy in coffee shops. It’s not smooth milk based icecream however, rather like a frozen icy kind of ice cream, akin to frozen yogurt or something. Very good but not great Japanese ice cream, though I find it a little bizarre to have artificially flavoured cheesecake icecream.

 

Three, no Four flavours of Japanese Ice Cream

Yes, I know there are four ice cream containers but I can not remember what the 4th one was. Any way the three Japanese ice cream flavours are Melon Ice Cream, Cheese Ice Cream, Dark Sugar Ice Cream.

Hang on I do know the flavour of the fourth Japanese ice cream, it is just pain old Vanilla.

All were nice, the Dark Sugar one was excellent, like a burnt caramel flavour.

How To Make Japanese Mochi Ice Cream Recipe

I have finally got around to having instructions on How To Make Japanese Mochi Ice Cream At Home. It is really simple, any one can make this classic Japanese Ice Cream dessert, just follow this step by step recipe.

Everyone loves delicious mochi, right, little golfballs sized ice-cream covered by sweetened mochi. You bite into one... first chewy sweet bliss followed by the creamy cool ice-cream heaven.

A lot of store bought mochi are OK, like Mikawaya (they say they invented the Mochi Ice Cream), some are really nice ice cream, some not so nice but have you tried to make it yourself? It isn’t really hard and I am sure it is cheaper to just buy the Japanese ice cream mochi but it’s fun to do.

Mochi Ice Cream Recipe (around 8 servings)

Sweet rice powder 50g
Sugar 100g
Water 100ml
Ice cream 150-200g
Cornstarch as needed

1 spread cornstarch onto a cutting board (use plenty so the mochi dough does not stick to the cutting board)

2 Place the sweet rice powder into a bowl, glass is best, and add the water little at a time until it is mixed well. Then add the sugar and mix it well again.

3 Next, cover the bowl with plastic food wrap (leave a breather gap) and cook in the microwave - medium for 2 minutes. Mix with a wooden spoon (dip it in water) and cook for around one more minute.

  
4 You can tell the dough is ready when it turns shiny and smooth.

5 Dip your spoon in water then spread the sweet rice dough onto the cutting board as flat as possible. Remember the dough is hot so take care.

6 Cover the dough with corn starch and then flip it over. Then pull and stretch the edges and make the dough thinner.

7 Keep pulling and stretching until the dough is around 2 or 3 millimetres thin.

8 Leave to cool a little and when the dough is cool enough, cut it into rounds , use a bowl for the size.

9 You are left with nice round mochi sheets.

10 To freeze the dough, cover each layer of mochi sheet with plastic wrap and dusted with cornstarch then put it into the freezer.

11 Put the ice cream onto the centre of the mochi sheet. For a nice round mochi use an ice cream scoop. Mmm, strawberry.

12 Fold and join the edges and then back in the freezer until it’s eating time!

 
This is how your mochi ice cream should look, Strawberry and Green Tea Mochi. It's best to eat these when they're slightly thawed, or else it's like biting into a little ball of rock and we all know that would be no fun:)

 
TIP, you can use a mochi ice cream container ( the tray from mochi you have bought in a store) to help form the shape .

Matcha & raspberry parfait

Matcha & raspberry parfait.

Delicious looking Japanese ice-cream from the tearoom Tsujiri in Isetan department store, Kyoto Japan. Lovely match ice cream with matcha rice cake, pear, rasberry jelly, matcha (green tea) sponge cake and hojicha (a roasted green tea - brown colour) sponge cake.

Japanese Ice Cream

Every one loves ice cream, right? Well maybe after tasting some of the Japanese Ice Cream flavours you might not be so keen.



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Wow these Japanese Ice Cream tubs don't seem to have the standard chocolate or vanilla or rasberry swirl. Yuk, there is even Garlic flavoured Japanese Ice Cream!




I will be posting more weird and wonderful Japanese Ice Cream creations soon. Enjoy.