By MOOK Scenic Spots Family / Reported by Chen Wenlin
As spring arrives with blooming flowers, sipping coffee or tea paired with a sweet treat is a little slice of happiness. Recently, many popular queued desserts have launched brand-new fantastical creations. Whether it’s cool-flavored ice cream or crispy yet soft éclairs and cakes, enjoying them in the warming spring season fills you with a sense of pure bliss.
1. RAPL Apple Pie Ice Cream
The ultra-popular queued dessert “RAPL Pengpai Lingguo,” which debuted in Taiwan at the end of 2017, has launched its first exclusive spring limited-edition product: the “RAPL Apple Pie Ice Cream.” Combining two fan-favorite flavors—custard apple pie and rich, cold milk ice cream—it uses freshly baked RAPL Pengpai Lingguo topped with Hokkaido milk ice cream. Its layered textures bring delightful surprises to your taste buds. The “RAPL Apple Pie Ice Cream” is an exclusive Taiwan limited edition, available as a flash spring item for one month only, with a daily limit of 30 servings. It lets those out enjoying spring walks or shopping trips savor a uniquely new dessert flavor in this blooming season.
The RAPL Apple Pie Ice Cream makes its exclusive Taiwan flash debut, with a daily limit of 30 servings. Made with freshly baked RAPL Pengpai Lingguo and topped with Hokkaido milk ice cream, its layered textures bring delightful surprises to your taste buds. (Image provided by RAPL)
2. ZAKUZAKU Sparkling Caramel Sea Salt Stick Puff
The super-popular ZAKUZAKU stick puffs from Hokkaido, Japan, are beloved for their cute, fashionable stick shape and delicious taste. This spring, in celebration of Valentine’s Day, ZAKUZAKU has introduced a Taiwan-limited exclusive: the “ZAKUZAKU Sparkling Caramel Sea Salt Stick Puff.” It blends daily shop-made caramel with carefully selected Okinawa Kakinohana sea salt, perfectly merging the flavors of caramel and sea salt. Topped with specially made caramel sauce and sprinkled with sea salt crystals, its sparkling appearance and sweet-yet-not-cloying layered textures deliver a surprising treat for your taste buds.
The perfect fusion of caramel and sea salt, its sweet yet not cloying layered textures offer a delightful surprise to your taste buds. (Image provided by ZAKUZAKU)
3. Cold Stone Pink Bunny Happy Party / Cloud Berry
To welcome the vibrant spring, the renowned ice cream brand Cold Stone has collaborated with Kanahara for the first time to launch the “Pink Bunny Happy Party” ice cream cake. Featuring a double layer of ice cream—including sweet and tangy strawberry ice cream mixed with pie crust cookies, and OREO blended with creamy milk ice cream, paired with a delicate red velvet cake—it creates a visually eye-catching, multilayered flavor profile that’s irresistibly cute.
The adorable and colorful Kanahara collaboration cake combines double layers of ice cream with a smooth red velvet cake. (Image source: Cold Stone)
Additionally, the super-popular strawberry ice cream mixed with chewy plain agar and paired with tangy, juicy raspberries—the “Cloud Berry” ice cream—is a white Valentine’s Day limited flavor. Enjoy it together with the multicolored floral-shaped marshmallows on top for a wonderfully unique taste that lingers in memory.
The white Valentine’s Day limited flavor “Cloud Berry” uses the popular strawberry ice cream mixed with chewy plain agar and tangy, juicy raspberries, offering a wonderfully unique taste that lingers in memory. (Image source: Cold Stone)
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