★ Making Cute Japanese Sweets ★

A MofuMofu Adventure: Kracie Happy Kitchen Donuts & Kabaya Saku Panda Chocolate Cookies

    Last weekend I got the chance to hang out with my lovely friend Nana! We went to the local asian super market, Uwajimaya. We found these fun kits on an endcap near the snack aisle. Having seen videos featuring kits like these on youtube, we were really excited to be able to try them out for ourselves! We love cute, small things like this! (^_^)

    If you're not familiar with this type of thing, these are fun easy-bake-esque confection making kits from Japan. There are other kits including candy sushi, and a burger & fries meal that's supposed to taste like the real thing! 

    The packaging is entirely in Japanese (except there is a nutrition information sticker in English). For those who can't read Japanese, it could be a little adventure trying to figure out the instructions. In this post I will provide a translation of the instructions for the kits we bought. So follow along and enjoy!

★The first kit we tried was Kracie's Happy Kitchen Donuts★

 I made a translation in English, but the instructions are pretty straight-forward anyways. 

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Here's what the kit included:

(scissors not included)

1. Making the dough

2. Making the Donuts & Icing

    We agreed strawberry sauce tasted like strawberry pocky, and the chocolate sauce tasted like cold hot cocoa. I can't describe the taste of the vanilla sauce, it was sweet and a bit like the strawberry sauce.

The "crunchies" tasted like cookie bits: the kind of pre-made cookie (ie. chips ahoy) that has lots of preservatives in it.

3. Decorating!

☆Final Results☆

There will be enough dough to make 4 donuts. 

    I tasted one of them, it was sweet, like it smelled. But the texture was kind of a chewy play-dough-like texture. 

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Next is the Kabaya Saku Saku Panda Chocolate Cookie making kit!

This kit included:

1 packet of chocolate

1 packet of white chocolate

1 packet of biscuits

1 packet of strawberry powder

2 heating trays

1 mould with 5 bear faces

1 piping bag

    1. Put the chocolates in the tray and heat in the microwave for 10 seconds. It will take several times in the microwave for the chocolate to melt. Stir the chocolate with a spoon or chopstick between heating. 

2. Mix the strawberry powder into the melted white chocolate.

3. Pour into the mould. Place and lightly press the cookie on.

4. Put the mould in the refrigerator and let it set for at least 60 minutes.

You can use the piping bag filled with melted chocolate to draw faces after they set.

☆Final Product☆

The strawberry ones tasted like Meiji Hello Panda cookies and the milk chocolate ones tasted like Kinoko no Yama chocolates. There's enough chocolate to make about 3 batches. We made 2 - and we just ate the extra chocolate. (>w<)

You can also buy Saku Saku panda chocolate cookies.

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    We hope to be able to do more of these - and make more posts about them! We're always excited to try cute Japanese things - snacks, toys, accessories, etc.

We'll see you in the next post!
~Usagi & Nana