Bourbon Elise Lezalu Chocolate Wafer Sugar Butter

Lezalu is the Elise family’s newest experiment, and its most unexpected: the wafer reimagined not as a delicate cookie but as a rugged grain stick.

Like its sibling Pakila, it wears the Elise name on the box, but it departs from the classic in both directions at once.

The shell is no longer a smooth langue-de-chat but a proper stick cereal — a crunchy dough of wheat, corn, and rye baked to a hearty zaku’ snap, toasty and faintly savory from the grains themselves.

And the filling flips Elise’s usual milk-chocolate cream into something more grown-up: a salted butter chocolate, pale and rich, that Japanese reviewers repeatedly compare to a premium salted white chocolate.

The sweet-and-salty balance is the whole idea, and it is where the “sugar butter” character comes from — that toasted-grain-and-buttery-salt profile familiar to anyone who loves the genre of upscale Japanese butter-cereal confections.

Reviewers describe warm, buttery depth against the crisp savory shell, an amakara (sweet-salty) moreishness that keeps the sticks disappearing.

A few note the richness builds by the second stick, so it eats best a piece at a time — and, as with Pakila, a spell in the fridge firms the chocolate and sharpens the crunch.

Released in March 2026 in a pale sky-blue box, Lezalu rounds out the indulgent Elise trio: the original cream classic, Pakila’s chocolate-crunch slab, and now Lezalu’s salted-butter grain stick.

Six sticks to a box from Bourbon of Niigata, and — reviewers’ one recurring wish — gone a little too quickly.

About this item
Item Name : Elise Lezalu Sugar Butter
Brand : Bourbon
Item Form : Semi-Chocolate
Number of Items : 6 Counts (Box of 1)