- Yukimi Daifuku
Japanese snack
snack_name = Yukimi daifuku
jpname = 雪見だいふく
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maker =Lotte
ingredients =ice cream ,mochi
flavours = Flavours:vanilla , strawberry, green tea.Yukimi Daifuku (Japanese: 雪見だいふく "snow-viewing
daifuku ") is a brand ofmochi ice cream manufactured by the Korean companyLotte . It consists of a ball of vanilla ice cream wrapped in a thin layer ofmochi , or rice cake. Lotte originally created Wataboshi (Japanese: わたぼうし "cotton hat or capped with snow"), a bite-size ice cream wrapped in a thin layer of marshmallow in 1980. Marshmallow was quickly replaced by mochi because it is more popular in Japan and the company perfected a technology to keep mochi soft at freezing temperature in 1981.It comes in three sizes: a carton containing two pieces of ice cream, with a plastic pick for eating it; a "mini yukimi daifuku" box with nine smaller ice creams; and "yukimi daifuku petit three colour box" (雪見だいふくプチ3色) containing three kinds, a
green tea ice cream , a chocolate ice cream, and a vanilla ice cream.In the
hanami (cherry blossom viewing) season, a seasonal variety with strawberry ice cream is sold."
Yukimi " is a seasonal activity in Japan, similar tohanami (cherry blossom viewing), consisting of watching snow falling. The name is a play upon "tsukimi daifuku " (月見大福, "moon-viewing daifuku"), the sweets traditionally eaten while viewing the moon.External links
* [http://www.lotte.co.jp/products/catalogue/ice/03.html Lotte product page]
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