ice cream

It's, of course, not enough that Glico makes the best Japanese sweets and snacks around. (Pocky! Pretz! Glico ice cream!) They also have toys which let you make your own adorable bunny and bear themed Glico "ice cream" cones. It's not really ice cream in this case but still some sorta delicious looking something.

I'm convinced that "konapun" toys were invented by Japanese toy makers to drive me into a cuteness frenzy and lure me to defect to Japan.

This konapun kit in particular is for making fake miniature soft serve ice cream cones, or "soft cream" as they call it in Japan.

Be sure to play it to the end so you can see them squeeze the ice cream out!

If you'd like to know more about konapun, check out my other blog post about it here.

(photo by Flickr user roboppy)

(photo by Flickr user swee_tmaba)

If you've ever had the Japanese treat of ice cream wrapped in mochi (soft rice dough), you might have wondered how you can make this bite-sized awesomeness at home.

I just stumbled on what appear to be some pretty simple instructions at japaneseicecream.blogspot.com.

These are the only ingredients you need:

Sweet rice powder
Sugar
Water 
Ice cream
Cornstarch

Then 12 simple steps later, you're in business! I'm excited to try this out!

Click below for the instructions/recipe:
http://japaneseicecream.blogspot.com/2009/04/japanese-mochi-ice-cream-recipe.html

(P.S. I love that there's a whole blog dedicated to Japanese ice cream!)

Did you know that you only need two ingredients to make your own "magic shell?" Yummm. Check out these instructions by Instructables user scoochmaroo.

Just when you thought Cake Pops were the most adorable dessert on a stick. Here come ice cream pops! Learn to make them via scoochmaro on Instructables.