Vanilla Lakomka: The Bar That Cracks
Лакомка Ванильная
Lakomka is the classic Russian ice cream bar: vanilla plombir on a stick, sealed under a chocolate shell thick enough to crack. Korovka makes it the way people remember it, with a dense, slow-melting center and a coating that breaks into flakes. For anyone who wants a real dairy bar instead of a light frozen dessert.
$65 order minimum · Free local delivery in South Florida and New York City
How it tastes
- First bite
- The shell breaks with a clean snap, then gives way to cold vanilla cream underneath.
- Texture
- Dense and smooth rather than airy, with the slow melt that high-butterfat plombir is known for.
- Aroma
- Warm vanilla and sweet cream, with a faint cocoa lift from the shell as it warms.
- Finish
- Shell fragments outlast the cream, dissolving one at a time so the last thing you taste is chocolate.
About Vanilla Lakomka
Lakomka is one of the formats that defines Soviet-era ice cream. The idea is simple and hard to do well: freeze plombir onto a stick, then coat it in chocolate so the shell sets brittle. Bite it and the coating cracks first, in flakes, before the cream arrives. That crack is the whole point, and it is why the bar has kept the same shape for generations.
Vanilla is the baseline flavor, the one that shows whether the plombir underneath is any good. Plombir is the Russian style built on high butterfat and simple dairy, and Soviet GOST standards historically set minimum milk-fat levels while limiting what else could go in. Korovka iz Korenovki is made in Korenovsk, Krasnodar Krai, at a dairy producing since 1952. Ice Country LLC handles distribution in the US.
Questions about Vanilla Lakomka
What is a Lakomka bar?
Lakomka is a Russian ice cream bar: vanilla plombir frozen onto a stick and coated in a chocolate shell that cracks when you bite it. The format goes back to Soviet-era ice cream and has barely changed since.
How is Lakomka different from Eskimo?
Both are bars on a stick with a chocolate coating. Lakomka is built around the shell cracking into flakes over vanilla plombir, while Eskimo is the classic chocolate-coated bar format. Try one of each and pick a side.
How do I order Vanilla Lakomka?
Order online at korovkaicecream.com. Orders have a $65 minimum, and local delivery is free in South Florida and New York City. Delivery is temperature-controlled, so the bars arrive frozen. Move them straight into the freezer, since a shell that stays hard is a shell that cracks.
Can I buy Lakomka bars in a store rather than online?
Sometimes, depending on where you live. Ice Country LLC supplies retailers across the Northeast US and Florida, so Russian and Eastern European groceries in those areas may carry the line, though which flavors are in a given freezer changes week to week. Shops that want to stock it apply at /signup or email info@icecountry.com.
How should I store the bars?
Keep them frozen and toward the back of the freezer, where the temperature swings least. A shell that softens and refreezes will not crack the same way. Move them out of the delivery packaging and into the freezer right away.
