Japanese candy includes many attempts at imitating ice cream without the meltiness, with varying but usually positive degrees of success. Now we have it in DIY form, with two flavors and these very happy little ice cream cones filling each other. The cider flavor (which likely means ramune) is of particular note, as I haven't had ice cream quite like that before. Maybe it'll work, maybe it'll be a disaster, or somewhere in between.
The contents of this DIY are quite simple, but simplicity can be sweet. A packet representing the ice cream, a spoon, and three cones. Which seems like a bargain considering only two are shown on the package!
I don't usually take pictures of the powder, but these two have quite interesting appearances. The pink one in particular has a white powder and then long pink shapes. Does that mean there are sprinkles built in? Would be quite interesting.
Clearly that's not the case though, as upon adding water everything seems to fizz up beyond its original volume. I wasn't sure what amount of water to add, because neither the package nor online videos made it clear, so likely I added too much, but the foamy action is all the same.
The end result is... less than spectacular. The liquid is light to a fault, where it's difficult to shovel tons of it into the ice cream cone, so you end up with tons left over. It also doesn't taste too great. The flavors are there, but they are very obscured by the vast foaminess. It's just a ridiculously airy concoction to the point of not having much of a taste. The cones also are incredibly bland wrappers for everything. The strawberry one is slightly better: as it turns out, ramune flavored ice cream really doesn't work. It's authentic ramune flavor whereas the strawberry one leans havily on the artificial one, but at least strawberry vaguely works as an ice cream flavor.
Rating (strawberry):
3 - Rrr
Rating (cider):
2 - Awrr
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