Loacker Ice Cream Sandwich
One of the surprises of the season landed directly in the freezers without prior notice and without much noise. That’s the best way.
The Loacker ice cream sandwich series (NIS 12 per unit, NIS 39.90 for a package of eight mini units divided into four packs) takes the brand’s famous Italian wafer and reinvents it with ice cream. This hit-play collection includes cream ice cream with cookies and hazelnut-cocoa ripple, Alpine milk cream ice cream with cookies, and a frozen dessert with hazelnut-cocoa flavor and hazelnut-cocoa ripple.
The product works, and works well. The cookies are thin and manage to retain some crispness. The flavors are delicate and unpretentious, and overall – especially in the mini size, by the way – it’s a joyful treat.
Ramzi X Popsicle, Dor Alon
A limited and hot summer edition arrives from the friendly collaboration between the gas station chain and its hardworking presenter, backed by the excellent Tamara.
“Ramzi X” is a secret popsicle with built-in boba balls waiting in the Super Alonit freezers. The base is fruit yogurt in flavors that can be described as tropical – pineapple and mango, let’s say – and the familiar tapioca balls from popular drinks provide the desired texture play with jelly and fun and smiles. It’s surprisingly moderately sweet, fulfilling promises and excellent in every other respect. Price: NIS 12.90.
Double Cherry and Double Hazelnut, Magnum
The popular ice cream brand is tackling the forecast with a very coated – to say the least – double summer launch.
Magnum’s Double Cherry and Double Hazelnut work within the group’s framework and go wild within its boundaries. Each combines flavors and textures, highlights a unique marbled look for the genre, and feels indulgent even before the first bite.
The cherry version includes a vegetable-fat popsicle with berries and cream ripple, sour cherry coating, and another layer of milk chocolate with berry-flavored sugar pieces for a sweet-sour experience and a necessary end-of-day boost. The hazelnut popsicle does the same with vegetable-fat hazelnut-flavored ice cream, caramel-flavored ripple, and hazelnut cream coating, including an extra layer of white chocolate with caramelized nut pieces. It’s deep and decadent and could perhaps tone down its sweetness, but still wins in the category of “these calories definitely don’t count.”
Milka Popsicles, Nestlé Ice Cream
A highly acceptable summer comeback leads into the freezers one of the popular series here, and quite rightly so.
Milka popsicles, from Nestlé Ice Cream, draw inspiration from the flavors of the purple chocolate bars and include four hot-season versions – Milka Pretzel (chocolate ice cream with pretzel ripple coated with milk chocolate and pretzel pieces), Milka Caramel (vanilla ice cream with caramel ripple coated with milk chocolate, biscuit pieces, and puffed rice), Milka Vanilla (vanilla ice cream with chocolate-flavored ripple coated with milk chocolate), and Milka Butter Cookies (vanilla ice cream with cookie spread coated with milk chocolate and butter cookie pieces).
This story needs no further recommendations, but there’s no problem giving them. These are sweet-indulgent combinations that know how to play with textures and keep a solid, beloved flavor base, with a real sense of ice cream richness and toppings – both outside and inside.
Cookie Dough Waffle Cone Multipack, Ben & Jerry’s
The ice cream giant packs temptations and piles amusements into all our freezers, just in time.
Ben & Jerry’s Cookie Dough Waffle Cone multipack contains a quartet of cones (NIS 27.90 for 4 units of 100 grams each), popular and tasty, that play beautifully with the combination of the crispy exterior and the chunky vanilla cookie dough ice cream inside. A party.
Jelly Pop, Feldman
The veteran Israeli brand – 1945, and still freezing fun – approaches summer with the expected state of mind of play and surprises.
Feldman’s Jelly Pop series is based on classic popsicles with a jelly core inside and includes three flavors – fruit popsicle with lemon core, pineapple popsicle with apple-flavored core, and lemon popsicle with cherry-flavored core.
The execution is good, the combinations work, the move achieves its goal with an interesting kick into a routine seasonal experience, and even the price (NIS 3–5 per unit, NIS 10 for a four-pack) tries hard not to annoy with its own twist.