Hokey pokey (ice cream)

Hokey pokey
Honeycomb ice cream with toffee and sauce
TypeIce cream
CourseDessert
Place of originNew Zealand
Region or stateDunedin, Otago[1]
Main ingredientsVanilla ice cream and honeycomb toffee

Hokey pokey is a flavour of ice cream in New Zealand consisting of plain vanilla ice cream with small, solid lumps of honeycomb toffee. Hokey pokey is the New Zealand term for honeycomb toffee.[2][3][4][5] The original recipe until around 1980 consisted of solid toffee, but in a marketing change, Tip Top decided to use small balls of honeycomb toffee instead.

It is the second-most popular ice cream flavour behind vanilla in New Zealand,[6] and is a frequently cited example of Kiwiana.[7] It is also exported to Japan, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.[8]

  1. ^ "Hokey Pokey Ice Cream". 23 November 2018. Archived from the original on 19 October 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Hokey Pokey" Archived 2011-12-17 at the Wayback Machine, Recipe, Evening Post, 1927
  3. ^ Chelsea Sugar – Hokey Pokey, Chelsea.co.nz, archived from the original on 2011-04-26, retrieved 2010-10-28
  4. ^ "Hokey Pokey – New Zealand Kids Recipe at KiwiWise". Kiwiwise.co.nz. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
  5. ^ "Popular Kiwi recipes – pavlova, anzac biscuits, roast lamb, pikelets etc". Kiwianatown.co.nz. Archived from the original on 2010-06-04. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
  6. ^ "The New Zealand ice cream industry". Nzicecream.org.nz. Archived from the original on 2022-10-28. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
  7. ^ "Kiwiana". Christchurch City Libraries. 2010-05-04. Archived from the original on 2010-05-23. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
  8. ^ Masters, Catherine (27 December 2001). "It's a love affair in a cone". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2011.