Mr. Ito Paritzel Pretzel Sandwich Smooth Chocolate Cream

Parizel puts cream between two pretzels, which is a stranger idea than it sounds until you taste it.

The biscuit is a proper pretzel dough — paritto, thin and brittle, with the faint saltiness that defines the style — and Ito Seika rolls it unusually thin by its own method, so each sheet shatters rather than snaps.

Salt against sweet is the entire proposition, and it is why Parizel does not read as another cream sandwich biscuit.

The cream had to be built for it.

Ito Seika says it went through dozens of trial formulations before settling on this one, because a pretzel base is assertive enough to overwhelm an ordinary filling — what was needed was a cream that could hold its own against salt and toasted wheat.

The result is a milk chocolate cream balanced between dairy and cocoa, with the sweetness deliberately pulled back.

Ito Seika has been baking in Ibaraki for decades and is best known in Japan under the Mr. Ito name, with Langley and the Tart series alongside this one.

Parizel comes as twelve sheets in six sealed packs of two, with an eight-month shelf life. At 36 kcal a sheet it is a lighter thing than its richness suggests.

About this item
Item Name : Paritzel Smooth Chocolate Cream
Brand : Mr. Ito
Item Form : Pretzel
Allergens: Wheat, Egg, Milk, Soy
Number of Items : 12 Counts (Box of 1)