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Product Review: Heart – Sumikkogurashi Lollipop

Yuki by Yuki
2 February 2022
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Product Review: Heart – Sumikkogurashi Lollipop

Photographs by MuchMunchies

Heart – Sumikkogurashi Lollipop – Simple
Price: ± €6
Extra supplies: Scissors and Microwave.

These adorable animal creatures by San-X, called Sumikkogurashi, have been featured in quite a few candies. There are several other Sumikkogurashi reviews on AVO Magazine as well. This kit is available in two versions, version A featuring Neko and Tokage and version B featuring Shirokuma and Tokage. Which version you get is a surprise, as there’s no indication on the outside of the packaging. Each package contains a mould, three kinds of candy and two lollipop sticks.

Flavour: ♥♥
These candies reminded me of Starbursts, but they were a bit harder to chew. This is probably due to them being in the refrigerator for quite a while as well. The flavours were a bit hard to place as they were all pretty subtle. Each of them had a sweet taste, but also a hint of sour flavour to it.

The intended flavours of the candies were: yoghurt for white, orange for orange and cider for blue. Each of these were recognizable once I knew what they were supposed to be, but again very subtle. The white ones were creamier in flavour than the other ones. Blue seemed to have an apple flavour and a hint of an alcoholic flavour as well.

Time needed: ⧗
This kit doesn’t take a lot of time, you do have to wait about 10 minutes for the candy to harden once it’s in the mould.

Difficulty level: ★
Definitely an easy candy kit to make. All you need to watch out for is not overheating the candy in the microwave. The orange and blue ones tend to overheat faster, so keep an eye on them.

Similarity: 📷📷📷
As you can see on the pictures below, the final product looks pretty much the same as the picture on the packaging. The main difference being that I added too much white to the belly of Tokage, otherwise they’re pretty much identical.

Want to enjoy this kit again?

Clean the mould and lollipop sticks with warm water, after using it, and let it air dry.

Fill the mould with chocolate or kneadable candies.

 


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.

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