Tag: My Mochi

In order to cover all the holiday flavor bases, My/Mochi has expanded its Christmas time varieties beyond Cool Peppermint and introduced Sugar Cookie, Hot Cocoa, and Gingerbread Ice Cream. Yes, popular seasonal flavors like egg nog, fruitcake, and lumps of coal are missing, but maybe they’ll come next year.

Sugar Cookie

It features sugar cookie flavored ice cream with sugar cookie pieces floating in it. At first I didn’t taste anything. But as I chewed the mochi coating, a sweet, light buttery flavor came through that instantly brought Santa’s favorite to mind. While the pieces embedded in the creamy filling don’t enhance the baked good taste, they do add a bit of texture, but not one you’d expect from an ingredient called “sugar cookie pieces.” Instead of a cookie crunch, the pieces floating in the ice cream add a sugar crystal crunch, like the decorative sugar sprinkled on top of the cookie. Personally, I prefer a sugary crunch over a cookie one. With its combination of flavor and crunch, I find these to be quite delicious.

Hot Cocoa

I partially expected this Hot Cocoa one to taste chocolate ice cream with marshmallows, but it’s much better than that. Its description says it’s hot cocoa flavored ice cream with marshmallows, and it tastes like what I wish my hot cocoa made from water and instant hot cocoa mix would taste like. While there are tiny mallow bits, the creamy filling itself tastes like there’s a bit of marshmallow within the chocolate base, which gave it a bit of maltiness. The bits are not soft, and they’re also not like what you’d get in cereal, but they add a snappy texture to contrast the creaminess and chewiness of the other two components. I enjoyed these slightly more than the Sugar Cookies ones.

Gingerbread

Gingersnap cookies was the first thing that came to mind when I took my first bite from My/Mochi’s Gingerbread Ice Cream, and then my body instinctively braced itself for the ginger burn that it’s experienced with the cookie. Thankfully, it never came. The level of ginger in this ice cream is strong and similar to Nabisco Ginger Snaps, but not having the burn makes these easier to eat. However, there’s something about this variety that makes me enjoy it slightly less than the other two. They’re good, but I find myself reaching for the other two first.

Overall

I’ve never had a disappointing product from My/Mochi and that continues with these three. I’m also sure that if the company comes out with a Lump of Coal flavor someday, it’ll probably taste great too.

DISCLOSURE: I received free product samples from My/Mochi. Doing so did not influence my review.

Purchased Price: FREE
Size: 6-pieces
Rating: 8 out of 10 (Sugar Cookie), 8 out of 10 (Hot Cocoa), 7 out of 10 (Gingerbread)
Nutrition Facts: (1 piece) Sugar Cookie – 90 calories, 2 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of saturated fat, 5 milligrams of cholesterol, 15 milligrams of sodium, 15 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 11 grams of sugar (including 10 grams of added sugar), and 1 gram of protein. Hot Cocoa – 90 calories, 2 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of saturated fat, 5 milligrams of cholesterol, 15 milligrams of sodium, 16 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 12 grams of sugar (including 11 grams of added sugar), and 1 gram of protein. Gingerbread – 70 calories, 2 grams of fat, 1 gram of saturated fat, 5 milligrams of cholesterol, 15 milligrams of sodium, 14 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 10 grams of sugar (including 9 grams of added sugar), and 1 gram of protein.

I imagine some of you are mentally saying “ew,” like you just caught someone picking their nose as you looked at the photo above. But you should flip that “ew” around, add an H between the two letters, and stick a bunch of Es at the end because this flavor is surprisingly fun. Wheeeeeee!

Well, that is if you can get your hands on My/Mochi’s Classic Pickle Mochi Ice Cream because it’s only available at mymochi.com and select SoCal Bristol Farms locations. But if pickle-flavored things tickle you or you want some entertainment at a holiday gathering this year, I recommend spending the green for a box.

The soft mochi coating is only green in color and provides no additional taste, but the off-white ice cream filling is unmistakably pickle. I understand that might sound awful regarding ice cream, but think of it as a pickle that’s sweet but not salty. It has a noticeable dill flavor, but there’s no brine taste, and there’s a lot more sugar, milk, cream, and vanilla, which makes the ice cream taste surprisingly good. Every time I ate one, I thought the dill had sort of a holiday spice kind of vibe to it. I’ve enjoyed this more than any of the odd Van Leeuwen pints that have come out. Although, I have yet to try the recent Dill Pickle one.

Call me weird. Call me a picklehead. Call me pickleweirdhead. But I genuinely love eating these. My/Mochi sent two boxes, and I’ve eaten a whole box already. And this will sound even weirder, but I’ve been craving them. (Am I pregnant?) I’ve been looking forward to eating one every day. I also want to eat more than one of these creamy treats daily, but I’ve been holding back because I know I’ll never get to eat them again once they’re gone. Unless My/Mochi decides my words are powerful enough to warrant a nationwide release. But my words have never been that influential.

Yes, most of you have no desire to eat pickle ice cream, and that’s fine. I’m not going to convince you to take adventure bites and expand your palate with the one life you have. But if pickles tickle you, you should try to pickle these up.

DISCLOSURE: I received free product samples from My/Mochi. Doing so did not influence my review.

Purchased Price: FREE
Size: 6 pieces/box
Purchased at: Received samples from My/Mochi
Rating: 8 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (1 piece) 80 calories, 2.5 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of saturated fat, 10 milligrams of cholesterol, 15 milligrams of sodium, 14 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 11 grams of sugar (including 10 grams of added sugar), and 1 gram of protein.