Yamazaki Picola Cookie Starawberry

Picola’s strawberry version puts 10% strawberry into the cream — the figure is printed on the front of the box, in raw-fruit terms — and what that buys is acidity.

Yamazaki Biscuits describes the flavour as sawayaka, bright and clean, and the distinction matters: this is not the soft pink sweetness most strawberry cream biscuits settle for but something with an edge to it, closer to the fruit than to strawberry candy.

That edge works because of where the cream sits.

Picola is a hollow rolled cookie with the cream coating the inner wall rather than the outside, so the biscuit surrounds the filling and stays dry against it.

The wall is thin enough to give way immediately with a light sakusaku crispness, and the strawberry arrives from the inside out — tart first, then the toasted biscuit underneath.

Nothing gets on your fingers.

Ten sticks in two sealed packs of five, at 120 kcal a pack.

The packaging earns its place: a hollow rolled cookie takes on humidity faster than a solid biscuit, and opening one pack at a time keeps the rest crisp.

Picola has been on Japanese shelves for fifty years, which the box now marks with an anniversary badge, and strawberry sits alongside chocolate as one of the two flavours the range is built on.

About this item
Item Name : Picola Strawberry
Brand : Yamazaki Biscuits
Item Form : Cookie
Allergens: Wheat, egg, milk, soybean
Number of Items : 5 Counts x 2 Packs (Box of 1)