Igeta Kikusuian Zunda Shake Sand Cookies

Sendai has a drink. It has been serving it from the storefront of Kikusuian for years, and the people who have tried it do not forget it: the Zunda Shake — a thick, cold blend of edamame-based zunda paste and soft-serve ice cream, sweet and grassy and unmistakably northeastern Japanese in character.

The question of how to take that experience home in a bag has one answer, and this is it.

Zunda is the flavor that defines Miyagi Prefecture’s confectionery culture — a paste made from edamame soaked, de-shelled, and ground into something bright green and gently sweet, with a subtle vegetal depth that sets it apart from every other sweet paste in the Japanese repertoire.

At Kikusuian, it is the ingredient that appears in their most beloved products, from the kikufuku cream daifuku to the shake that draws queues at Sendai Station.

The Zunda Shake Sand translates that combination into a chocolate sandwich cookie built with characteristic precision.

The cookies themselves are made with zunda powder worked into the dough — crisp, saku-saku in texture, with a faint edamame character that runs through every bite.

Between them, a whipped chocolate filling made in the style of soft-serve ice cream delivers the cold, creamy, vanilla-adjacent richness of the shake’s dairy component, rounded and smooth and meeting the zunda cookie exactly where the flavor needs it to land.

The result is, as Kikusuian’s own description puts it, a cookie that tastes as if the Zunda Shake became a sandwich — which is a high standard to set and, according to the customers who keep returning for it, one that the product meets.

Individually wrapped. Six per box. The kind of souvenir that gets finished before the train reaches Tokyo.

About this item
Item Name : Zunda Shake Sand
Brand : Igeta Kikusuian
Item Form : Semi-Chocolate
Number of Items : 6, 12 Counts (Box of 1)