This is not a sponsored review and because of this I won’t mention where I bought this set, if you do an online search using the name of this kit you’ll be able to find this one in several webshops.
Heart – Petit Bear Chocolate House – Very Elaborate
Price: ± €25
Extra supplies: Spoon, Refrigerator, Microwave*, Heatproof Bowl or Cup, Optional: Piping bag or Sandwich bag, Cutting Board, Baking Paper OR Acetate.
* Instead of melting the chocolate in the microwave you could warm it au bain-marie, with a heatproof glass bowl on top of a pan with a small layer of boiling water. Stir gently until all of the chocolate has melted.
With this kit you create an adorable little chocolate house for the little bear toy that’s included in this kit. Using the crackers, cocoa cookies, wafers, chocolate and mould included in this kit, you’ll be able to put together a chocolate alternative to the classic gingerbread house. This kit isn’t always available for international purchase, but has been around for years. Bourbon also released a chocolate train kit a few years ago.
This kit includes a toy bear, in one of the many available colours, several moulds, a base to place the house on, two kinds of cookies, wafer rolls, wafers and three bags of chocolate.
Keep in mind it’ll take some time to create and assemble all of the pieces, but you can also spread the work out over several days. You could for instance melt the chocolate and fill the moulds in the evening and assemble the rest the next day.
Flavour: ♥♥
The chocolate in this candy kit isn’t ‘real’ chocolate, since it doesn’t contain cocoa butter. You can tell by the way it quickly sets, even at room temperature. It was creamy and did have a faint chocolate-y flavour to it, but didn’t taste quite the same as real chocolate. I didn’t dislike the taste, but I did get bored of it pretty quickly when eating it separately.
The wafer cookies were thin, light, airy and crispy, with a thin chocolate layer in the middle of them. The wafer rolls had a chocolate centre as well, but the wafer was crunchier. The cocoa biscuits were crumbly and had a slight cocoa flavour to them, it wasn’t very clear. The crackers were slightly salty and flaky in texture.
All the elements complemented each other pretty well.
Time needed: ⧗⧗⧗
Creating the many parts of this candy kit does take up quite some time, even when you don’t count the time you’ll need for the chocolate to set. The chocolate isn’t ‘real’ chocolate, so it sets pretty quickly even at room temperature.
Difficulty level: ★★
The steps of this kit are pretty simple, but it can be hard to keep things neat when you’re gluing everything together with melted chocolate. Consider using a piping bag to make it a little easier on yourself and be careful removing the chocolates from their moulds. Be particularly careful with the tiny bear ears.
Similarity: 📷📷📷
As you can see on the pictures below, the final product looks very similar to the packaging. In fact they look practically the same. If you follow the steps you should end up with something similar, although it is hard to assemble the house as neatly as on the packaging.
TIP: Use a piping bag filled with melted chocolate, instead of a spoon, to work a bit more precisely.
Want to enjoy this kit again?
Clean the mould with warm water, after using it, and let it air dry. Don’t use soap to clean the mould.
If you want to reuse the mould you could create another chocolate house, in whatever flavour you’d like. To recreate this chocolate house you’ll need 200 grams of chocolate to fill the moulds.
You could replace the cookies and wafers with other kinds of cookies as well, or for instance create a roof made of chocolate candies. Just let your creativity flow, this is an easy candy kit to make with whatever edible decorations you have on hand.
