Japanese Haagen Dazs Crispy Sandwich

I think I have mentioned before that I don’t really like Haagen Dazs ice cream in Japan. It is just another mass produced ice cream that, to me, isn’t very creamy or nice in flavour. Anyway, here is one more a bit like the Manako bars I like, they call it a Crispy Sandwich.

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 Jersey Milk Vanilla Ice-Cream Recipe

Continuing from the Jersey milk Monaka bar article, here is a great recipe to make your own super rich, creamy Japanese Jersey Milk ice-cream. It has a lovely not too strong vanilla flavour with nice vanilla specs throughout the ice cream. Very gourmet!
Homemade Jersey Milk Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

• 150grams granulated sugar
• 3 egg yolks
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• one vanilla pod, split
• small pinch of salt
• 3 cups of Jersey Cream
• 3 cups full Jersey Milk

Mix sugar, split vanilla bean (scrape the seeds out and put them into the milk as well), and salt in top of double boiler; with the Jersey milk. Place over boiling water and cook until slightly thickened, around 10 minutes or so, stirring occasionally. Remove the vanilla pod.
Then reduce the heat so that water in bottom part of boiler is on a simmer. Beat eggs slightly and stir the hot milk mixture into it a little at a time to make a custard (and not scrambled eggs). Cook over the hot water 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from stove, chill. Add in the Jesrsey cream, add vanilla extract, stir a little then add it to your Japanese Ice Cream maker and churn until you get proper consistency. It makes around 2 litres of the creamiest vanilla ice cream you have ever had.

Japanese Jersey Milk Monaka Bar Ice Cream

There are many milk flavour ice creams in Japan. I'm never sure what they are supposed to taste like, possibly vanilla plus I know through the colour was that it was vanilla. This Jersey Milk Monaka bar is one of the best probably because Jersey milk has a high fat/ cream content, although I still prefer the Chocolate Monaka bar.

I suppose the Japanese ice cream tastes reminiscent of tinned sweet condensed milk. This is truly milky but that is what you'll assume seeing it's jersey milk. It's a full-size Japanese ice cream bar packed with authentic ice-cream not the normal iced-confectionary type ice-cream. Once you open the packet, you can smell the vanilla of the ice cream and the biscuit. The generous piece of icecream is incredibly smooth and velvety and the very first mouthful shows strong, genuine vanilla flavour. The icecream is creamy and sweet. This is what good vanilla ice cream ought to be like. The biscuit part does not possess a lot of flavour, however that's okay since its only a handy holder meant for the yummy ice-cream. The cookie cone is soft and not flaky so its good for eating a slightly melted bar. It's easy to sink your teeth into into, but doesn't crumble or fall apart. Another Monaka bar worth buying.

Japanese Fish Ice Cream Wafer

I had this Japanese Fish shaped ice-cream the other day. Its a delicate crunchy wafer molded in a fish profile. Now being Japanese it could actually be fish ice cream but it is not. Inside is white vanilla icecream along with a layer of adzuki beans along at the base of it. Its really good. Both the beans and the ice cream is not too sweet and not too much ice cream or an excessive amount of red beans. I would certainly buy this again.

Ice Cream wrapper Ice Cream fish, ready to eat Ice Cream fish half eaten

Japanese Upmarket Monaka Ice Cream

Japanese monaka ice cream has gone upmarket. These cute monaka style ice cream really look great with the pretty, crunchy heart shape. Lots of different flavours too. The melon is just like the fruit ice creams you get in the local store shaped in a round melon container.

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Japanese Chocolate Monaka Ice Cream

Japanese Choco Monaka Jambo (Chocolate Monaka Ice Cream). I have a sweet tooth, and this Japanese ice cream was given to me by a friend. At first looks, it's like an ice cream sandwich from any store, until you eat it. The outside crust of the Monaka is made of wafers the same as an ice cream cone and the insides is plain vanilla ice cream. In the middle Monaka ice cream sandwich, there is a layer of chocolate that's not too sweet, just nice.

The Japanese Monaka ice cream has different textures once once you bite into it. The wafer crust melts into the ice cream and then there is a crunch of the hard chocolate centre. The flavours go with each other as well. The Monaka isn't too sweet, because the wafer and chocolate take the sweet edge off the sweet Japanese ice cream. The only problem is that the Monaka wafer shell separate sometimes into two pieces and you end up with sticky hands afterwards.


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