Cookie Monster – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today. Mon, 01 Jul 2024 01:01:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/en_rocket_1024.png?w=32 Cookie Monster – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com 32 32 176746664 Sesame Street characters turn into awesome shaved ice desserts at Tokyo Sesame Street cafe【Pics】 https://soranews24.com/2024/07/01/sesame-street-characters-turn-into-awesome-shaved-ice-desserts-at-tokyo-sesame-street-cafe%e3%80%90pics%e3%80%91/ https://soranews24.com/2024/07/01/sesame-street-characters-turn-into-awesome-shaved-ice-desserts-at-tokyo-sesame-street-cafe%e3%80%90pics%e3%80%91/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2024 01:00:55 +0000 https://soranews24.com/?p=671179 
And yes, the Cookie Monster shaved ice includes a cookie!
“Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?” asks the theme song of the beloved children’s show, and yeah, sure we can. You just take the train to Ikebukuro in downtown Tokyo, and from there walk to the Sunshine City shopping center. Sesame Street is on the first floor.
That’s how you get to Sesame Street Market, anyway, Tokyo’s permanent Sesame Street cafe and specialty shop. Being open all year round means the cafe can offer special seasons treats, and with summer here that means shaved ice, in the form of clever desserts based on iconic Sesame Street characters.
The first four joined the menu on June 27, starting with the Elmo Ice (Strawberry & Milk).
Each shaved ice features facial features made out of chocolate, plus other tempting toppings, like the sliced strawberries for Elmo.
Naturally the Cookie Monster Ice (Melon & Milk) has a chocolate chip cookie, plus whipped cream to add extra richness and sliced melon inside the mound of ice.
The grouchy green Oscar Ice (Matcha Tiramisu) is drizzled with both green tea syrup made using Uji matcha and tiramisu sauce, with an extra sprinkling of matcha powder. A little bitterness seems perfectly appropriate for the routinely crabby Oscar, but he’s got some sweetness inside too, where you’ll find chocolate an sweet bean jam.
Rounding out the first batch is the Big Bird Ice (Manco & Cream), but there are two more Sesame Street shaved ice desserts coming later in the summer. : the bold Abby Ice (Peach & Cheese), with Nagano-grown peaches, cream cheese, camembert cheese, and oiri (round rice puff candies) on July 18…
…and The Count Ice (Grape and Cream), with whole Nagano-grown grapes and chocolate cookie crumbles, on August 8.
We’ve mentioned Nagano a few times, and in fact even the water used to make the ice is sourced from Nagano, since the prefecture is known for having some of the purest, most delicious water in Japan. those gourmet ingredients do mean that the Sesame Street shaved ices cost 1,980 yen (US$12.40), but they also look big enough to possibly share.
The Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Big Bird shaved ices will all be sticking around for the whole summer, until September 1, while Oscar is available until July 17, Abby August 7, and The Count September 1.
Cafe information
Sesam Street Market / セサミストリートマーケット
Address: Tokyo-to, Toshima-ku, Higashi Ikebukuro 3-1-1, Sunshine City Alpa section 1st floor
京都豊島区東池袋３丁目１−１ サンシャインシティ 専門店街アルパ 1F
Open 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Website
Source, images: PR Times
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Look out, Cookie Monster — Elmo’s “favourite” wasabi is about to blow you away.
Krispy Kreme has been keeping us on our toes recently with a number of surprising doughnut creations, and it looks like the fun is far from over, because the chain has now announced it’ll be releasing a collection of Sesame Street doughnuts for a limited time.
If that news sounds familiar, you might recall Krispy Kreme Japan previously released a lineup of Sesame Street doughnuts in 2019, featuring star characters Elmo, Cookie Monster and Big Bird. This time around, however, the range will only feature two of those famous faces:
▼ Cookie Monster, who looks pretty much identical to the way he looked as a doughnut four years ago…
▼…and Elmo, who previously appeared as a sprinkle-topped cream-filled doughnut, but is now a smooth, coated ring.
Elmo, whose voice you can almost hear with its open-holed “mouth”, is coated in a sweet yet tart strawberry icing, with white and bitter chocolate eyes and a dollop of orange sauce for his nose. The Cookie Cream & Cookie Monster, as the Cookie Monster doughnut is officially known, consists of a Ghanaian cacao-blended chocolate doughnut topped with vanilla cream, sprinkles, and a chocolate chip cookie, which looks like it’s been popped into the cookie-loving monster’s mouth.
▼ Cookie Monster’s love for cookies is given another special place in the collection with the Chocolate Chip Cookie doughnut.
This delightful sweet is designed to look like a thick chocolate chip cookie, with plenty of bittersweet cocoa biscuit pieces and chocolate chips covering a caramel-coated doughnut, and finished off with a bitter chocolate sauce.
▼ Elmo’s favourite flavour is also given a spot in the range, as the Wasabi Cream doughnut.
This exciting new doughnut is topped with sesame-scented crackers and brown rice puffs, which add a crunchy textural accent to the smooth and tangy wasabi cream. The chain recommends trying this as soon as you can “before Elmo has it all to himself”, but unlike the other doughnuts, which are available at all Krispy Kreme locations around Japan, the Wasabi Cream is only being sold at the Tokyo International Forum branch.
▼ The Tokyo International Forum branch will also be dressed up in a special Sesame Street display while the range is available.
The doughnuts can be purchased separately and they’re priced at 324 yen (US$2.48) each for takeout or 330 yen for dine-in, except for the Chocolate Chip Cookie doughnut, which is a little cheaper, at 291 yen for takeout or 297 yen for dine-in.
▼ Alternatively, they can be purchased in packs of three for 961 yen (979 yen for dine-in)…
▼ …six (1,544 yen for takeout or 1,573 yen for dine-in)…
▼ …or 12 for 2,592 yen (2,640 yen for dine-in).
▼ As you may have noticed, the half-dozen comes in a very cute box.
All the doughnuts will be on sale from 19 April to late May, except the Wasabi Cream, which will be available from 19 April to 7 May. They’re all being made in limited quantities, though, which means they may sell out earlier, so you’ll want to get to Sesame Street for a taste of these as soon as you can!
Source, images: PR Times TM/© Sesame
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