Category: Crafts

The seventh and final installment in this candy making series is another kit by Kracie: this sushi kit. Egg, tuna and salmon row sushi, all made of candy. Let’s go!

No surprises with the kit contents, although the dropper is unusual. The black packet on the bottom contains the ‘seaweed’.

This was a pliable solid that was flattened and would become the seaweed wrap for the salmon roe. I nibbled a tiny bit and it had a fruity taste.

The rice was interesting. Once again it was simply powder mixed with water but this time it formed a sticky and somewhat grainy clump that at first glance easily passed as rice.

The egg and tuna were jellies formed in these two trays. The bottoms of the trays were textured, as you’ll see on the photos of the finished product below. They nailed the colours of both of these and they convincingly look like egg and tuna.

The amazing moment from this kit was the creation of the salmon roe. A powder was dissolved to form a red liquid which was then dropped into a tray containing another dissolved powder in which it solidified! The individual eggs could then be removed and used as the roe.

The final step was to create beds of rice on which to play the egg/tuna/roe. This was easy and the final products look great.

The salmon roe sushi in particular is a work of art! That’s all candy, and 100% edible! And I made it myself 🙂

This stuff was all delicious. The texture was perfect (mostly gummy but the rice was chewy) and the tastes were all fruity. We didn’t plan this, but this final kit was the best of the seven both in terms of fun to make and how yummy they were to eat. All the thumbs up for this one!

And that’s it for a week of candy making. I hope you enjoyed this, since we did. And you can bet if we find any more unusual (probably Japanese) candy making kits in the future we’ll be buying them as well!

This kit makes a pudding of a Sanrio character! This one has the fewest steps of any we’ve made this week, but in some ways is also the most complex.

Inside we found two packages and a tray. The first step is to mix the contents of the large packet with milk:

Then it was microwaved for a minute (we stopped it early since is boiled!) before being poured into both trays and placed in the refrigerator for two hours.

Afterwards it had indeed set into a pudding, and plopped out onto a plate looking like this:

I was so shocked by the appearance I forgot to take a photo before I added the contents of the other packet: a light blue goo that was used to draw the eyes and mouth. Needless to say this didn’t look much like I expected, so let’s compare it to the photo on the packaging:

I think you’ll agree this is a complete disaster, and I’ll add that the hindquarters of Cinnamoroll (the other half of the mold) weren’t much better.

Only KLS tasted it, and she reports it was “a bland vanilla flavor” and “very slimy”. A fail in every way therefore, and I’ll give it two thumbs down!

This unusual kit makes gummy jellyfish, and the process is quite unique compared to the others we’ve been making.

Three bags of powder and a tray, much like you’ve seen in the other kits. As usual we begin by mixing one of the powders with water.

This creates the jellyfish, which (based on shape) are of several species. The white powder became the yellow gummy when the water was added.

Next a second bag of powder was mixed with water to make this transparent slime. The packaging suggested it would be clear after enough mixing, but try as I did I couldn’t mix out all of the air bubbles. It had the consistency of shampoo or thick oil.

This slime was added to the small spoon…

And then a jelly was carefully added. It’s a little difficult to see in the photo, but the jellyfish is now suspended in a small cupfull of liquid slime.

Then the magic happened. The last bag of powder had been dissolved into water to create a light blue transparent liquid which was being stored in the tray. I believe this was supposed to be an ‘aquarium’ for the jellyfish, but whatever the suspension was it turned the liquid slime into a gelatinous semisolid once it was carefully lowered in!

There’s the four jellyfish sealed in their slime bubbles suspended in the aquarium. Gummy inside slime inside liquid: what a complex and bizarre candy kit!

These were most unusual candies. It turned out that only the outer skin of the slime bubble was strengthened and the inside remained liquid! Eating them was truly unpleasant – like eating a grape with liquified interior. The taste (called ‘Pineapple acid’ on the package) wasn’t great either .

But it was interesting and fun to make – perhaps the most fun of all of them so far – and for that alone gets two thumbs up!