I’m going totally off topic here because there is so little beauty news (until my email explodes at around 9am tomorrow morning!) but my current non-beauty obsession is the Kracie Japanese Sweets kits. They’re so bonkers but a lot of fun and just, well, amusing to do. I will warn you ahead that they don’t even taste very nice (to a western tongue).
Although the instructions come in Japanese – I had a super helper from Twitter who translated the back of the box for me (@nicintokyo) – they’re not really complicated. Once I’d understood via Nic that you just fill the empty portion of the carton with water and add the enclosed sachet of powder to
mix up a paste, I was off. Everything is included, from little spoons and icing bags to sprinkles and wafer cases (if needed). And, as you can see, there are plenty of diagrams to follow.
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I started off with the ice cream one, and then had a very enthusiastic over-ordering session so now I have boxes and boxes of Kracie Japanese Sweets kits!
This is the inside of the Pizza kit – I wouldn’t start with this one because it’s quite complicated; I’m not looking forward to working this one out! If you do fancy trying Kracie Japanese Sweets, I’d start with the ice-cream set because it’s really easy and very, very cute.
The taste, by the way, is a bit sweet wallpaper paste. I know it’s probably a soy paste of some kind and it’s fairly safe to say that you can throw away the healthy-eating book on these, but it’s interesting to try, at least, and not exactly horrible.
The kits aren’t expensive, starting at a couple of quid, but mine took a long time to arrive in the post – about three weeks. If you want to try the ice-cream set, it’s HERE. Otherwise, just key in Kracie onto amazon.co.uk and everything available pops up.
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I saw these at Blippo and wondered about the sushi set… Worth the try, perhaps 🙂
These are such fun! I’ve tried loads. I would avoid (or perhaps only buy if your are more adventurous) the burger and fries kit, which tastes like ‘real’ burger. Also the takoyaki kit is…exciting – a traditional Japanese dish of fried octopus balls and mayo. The website we bought ours said it was caramel and peach flavour, but it was definately octopus flavour.
“Sweet wallpaper paste.” That description is so on point. I’ve grown up eating Japanese sweets, and I can’t say I’m fond of these snacks. But they’re so darn cute!
Those look so interesting 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
My kids have had a few of these (sushi/burger/cake/sweets/donut), and they are fun to make but dont taste that good.
I forgot to comment on this. My kids are obsessed with you tube videos about these. I’m just about to place an order as it’s got me wanting to do them too. I saw one yesterday that Lola was watching where they dripped liquid into another pot and it made these little jelly balls and I want that one.