Recently I purchased a few Japanese Candy kits and I will review all of these for AVO. This is not a sponsored review and because of this I won\u2019t mention where I bought this set, if you do an online search using the name of this kit you\u2019ll be able to find this one in several webshops.<\/p>\n
Popin Cookin – Taiyaki & Odango – Elaborate Most of the Popin Cookin kits have English instructions, which you can find here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n With this kit you create three cute wagashi, traditional Japanese confections and a cup of ramune. The three wagashi you\u2019ll create are taiyaki, ichigo daifuku and dango. The packaging can be used to create a wrapper for the cup and to cut out a \u2018tablecloth\u2019 with \u2018plates\u2019 on it. These take almost no time to cut out and put together, because you don\u2019t have to fold anything. Making the three wagashi and the drink took me around 15 minutes.<\/p>\n This kit is an easy one to make, as long as you own a microwave, but most of all it is fun to make because of the cute components it\u2019s made out of.<\/p>\n The final product looks cute, although the taiyaki didn\u2019t come out of the mould as well as I\u2019d hoped. Luckily you use two of them, one for on the bottom and one for on top of the chocolate sauce. You can put the prettiest on top. As you can see on the picture everything looks very similar to the picture on the packaging, the colour is a little different, but aside from that it all looks good.<\/p>\n I personally liked the chocolate sauce the most. This combined well with the mochi, which was tasty and slightly sweet, and the strawberry gummy candy, which tasted like sweet strawberries.<\/p>\n The taiyaki was also very tasty, the little cakes had a vanilla flavour and were a lot fluffier than I\u2019d expected. I assumed they\u2019d be very dense, but the cakes were pretty fluffy instead. The little cakes also combined well with the chocolate sauce.<\/p>\n The sauce that was on the dango wasn\u2019t really to my taste, the flavour was a bit salty and just a little weird. I didn\u2019t recognize the flavour, but I thought it was a bit fishy. The mochi tasted pretty nice, a little sweet but otherwise neutral.<\/p>\n The drink, ramune, tasted a bit like chewing gum and had bubbles in it. The bubbles were unexpected, because you create it out of water and powder. The flavour wasn\u2019t very special, but also not gross.<\/p>\n TIPS: <\/strong>If you want to fill the tray up till the line, to make the mochi, you can use 5 scoops of water for this. For the cup of ramune you\u2019ll need 6 scoops of water.<\/p>\n Use the pick, for the dango, to spread the chocolate sauce on the taiyaki.<\/p>\n On the box there are instructions for microwaves with a wattage of either 500 watt or 600 watt. I used an 800 watt microwave at full power and put the taiyaki in it fora bout 15 seconds.<\/p>\n Want to enjoy this kit again?<\/strong><\/p>\n Clean the mould with warm water, after using it, and let it air dry. Don\u2019t use soap when cleaning this mould.<\/p>\n If you want to reuse the mould you could fill the fish moulds with fondant or mochi, for instance. You could also put melted chocolate in the moulds, but make sure the melted chocolate isn\u2019t too hot because it might melt through the mould otherwise. You could fill the strawberry mould with jelly. You could use chocolate to make the chocolate sauce, or you could use a little bit of cocoa powder, icing sugar and a small bit of milk, mixed together. For the dango and ichigo daifuku you could also use mochi or fondant.<\/p>\n You could reuse the pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I purchased a few Japanese Candy kits and I will review all of these for AVO. This is not a sponsored review and because of this I won\u2019t mention where I bought this set, if you do an online search using the name of this kit you\u2019ll be able to find this one in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":21289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2960,3086,2976],"tags":[3140],"class_list":["post-21291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-do-it-yourself-en","category-product-reviews-en","category-all-reviews","tag-candy-kit-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25023,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions\/25023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em><\/strong>Price:<\/strong> \u00b1 \u20ac7
\nExtra supplies:<\/strong> Glass, Water, Scissors, Scotch tape, Microwave.<\/p>\n
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![\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\nPopin Cookin – Taiyaki & Odango – Elaborate\n<\/em><\/strong>Price:<\/strong> \u00b1 \u20ac7\nExtra supplies:<\/strong> Glass, Water, Scissors, Scotch tape, Microwave.<\/p>\nMost of the Popin Cookin kits have English instructions, which you can find here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nWith this kit you create three cute wagashi, traditional Japanese confections and a cup of ramune. The three wagashi you\u2019ll create are taiyaki, ichigo daifuku and dango. The packaging can be used to create a wrapper for the cup and to cut out a \u2018tablecloth\u2019 with \u2018plates\u2019 on it. These take almost no time to cut out and put together, because you don\u2019t have to fold anything. Making the three wagashi and the drink took me around 15 minutes.<\/p>\nThis kit is an easy one to make, as long as you own a microwave, but most of all it is fun to make because of the cute components it\u2019s made out of.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/a>\n \n <\/a>\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe final product looks cute, although the taiyaki didn\u2019t come out of the mould as well as I\u2019d hoped. Luckily you use two of them, one for on the bottom and one for on top of the chocolate sauce. You can put the prettiest on top. As you can see on the picture everything looks very similar to the picture on the packaging, the colour is a little different, but aside from that it all looks good.<\/p>\nI personally liked the chocolate sauce the most. This combined well with the mochi, which was tasty and slightly sweet, and the strawberry gummy candy, which tasted like sweet strawberries.<\/p>\nThe taiyaki was also very tasty, the little cakes had a vanilla flavour and were a lot fluffier than I\u2019d expected. I assumed they\u2019d be very dense, but the cakes were pretty fluffy instead. The little cakes also combined well with the chocolate sauce.<\/p>\nThe sauce that was on the dango wasn\u2019t really to my taste, the flavour was a bit salty and just a little weird. I didn\u2019t recognize the flavour, but I thought it was a bit fishy. The mochi tasted pretty nice, a little sweet but otherwise neutral.<\/p>\nThe drink, ramune, tasted a bit like chewing gum and had bubbles in it. The bubbles were unexpected, because you create it out of water and powder. The flavour wasn\u2019t very special, but also not gross.<\/p>\nTIPS: <\/strong>If you want to fill the tray up till the line, to make the mochi, you can use 5 scoops of water for this. For the cup of ramune you\u2019ll need 6 scoops of water.<\/p>\nUse the pick, for the dango, to spread the chocolate sauce on the taiyaki.<\/p>\nOn the box there are instructions for microwaves with a wattage of either 500 watt or 600 watt. I used an 800 watt microwave at full power and put the taiyaki in it fora bout 15 seconds.<\/p>\nWant to enjoy this kit again?<\/strong><\/p>\nClean the mould with warm water, after using it, and let it air dry. Don\u2019t use soap when cleaning this mould.<\/p>\nIf you want to reuse the mould you could fill the fish moulds with fondant or mochi, for instance. You could also put melted chocolate in the moulds, but make sure the melted chocolate isn\u2019t too hot because it might melt through the mould otherwise. You could fill the strawberry mould with jelly. You could use chocolate to make the chocolate sauce, or you could use a little bit of cocoa powder, icing sugar and a small bit of milk, mixed together. For the dango and ichigo daifuku you could also use mochi or fondant.<\/p>\nYou could reuse the pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently I purchased a few Japanese Candy kits and I will review all of these for AVO. This is not a sponsored review and because of this I won\u2019t mention where I bought this set, if you do an online search using the name of this kit you\u2019ll be able to find this one in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":21289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2960,3086,2976],"tags":[3140],"class_list":["post-21291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-do-it-yourself-en","category-product-reviews-en","category-all-reviews","tag-candy-kit-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25023,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions\/25023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Popin-Cookin_Taiyaki-Odango_3.jpg\"){kind=link}
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![\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe final product looks cute, although the taiyaki didn\u2019t come out of the mould as well as I\u2019d hoped. Luckily you use two of them, one for on the bottom and one for on top of the chocolate sauce. You can put the prettiest on top. As you can see on the picture everything looks very similar to the picture on the packaging, the colour is a little different, but aside from that it all looks good.<\/p>\nI personally liked the chocolate sauce the most. This combined well with the mochi, which was tasty and slightly sweet, and the strawberry gummy candy, which tasted like sweet strawberries.<\/p>\nThe taiyaki was also very tasty, the little cakes had a vanilla flavour and were a lot fluffier than I\u2019d expected. I assumed they\u2019d be very dense, but the cakes were pretty fluffy instead. The little cakes also combined well with the chocolate sauce.<\/p>\nThe sauce that was on the dango wasn\u2019t really to my taste, the flavour was a bit salty and just a little weird. I didn\u2019t recognize the flavour, but I thought it was a bit fishy. The mochi tasted pretty nice, a little sweet but otherwise neutral.<\/p>\nThe drink, ramune, tasted a bit like chewing gum and had bubbles in it. The bubbles were unexpected, because you create it out of water and powder. The flavour wasn\u2019t very special, but also not gross.<\/p>\nTIPS: <\/strong>If you want to fill the tray up till the line, to make the mochi, you can use 5 scoops of water for this. For the cup of ramune you\u2019ll need 6 scoops of water.<\/p>\nUse the pick, for the dango, to spread the chocolate sauce on the taiyaki.<\/p>\nOn the box there are instructions for microwaves with a wattage of either 500 watt or 600 watt. I used an 800 watt microwave at full power and put the taiyaki in it fora bout 15 seconds.<\/p>\nWant to enjoy this kit again?<\/strong><\/p>\nClean the mould with warm water, after using it, and let it air dry. Don\u2019t use soap when cleaning this mould.<\/p>\nIf you want to reuse the mould you could fill the fish moulds with fondant or mochi, for instance. You could also put melted chocolate in the moulds, but make sure the melted chocolate isn\u2019t too hot because it might melt through the mould otherwise. You could fill the strawberry mould with jelly. You could use chocolate to make the chocolate sauce, or you could use a little bit of cocoa powder, icing sugar and a small bit of milk, mixed together. For the dango and ichigo daifuku you could also use mochi or fondant.<\/p>\nYou could reuse the pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently I purchased a few Japanese Candy kits and I will review all of these for AVO. This is not a sponsored review and because of this I won\u2019t mention where I bought this set, if you do an online search using the name of this kit you\u2019ll be able to find this one in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":21289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2960,3086,2976],"tags":[3140],"class_list":["post-21291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-do-it-yourself-en","category-product-reviews-en","category-all-reviews","tag-candy-kit-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25023,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions\/25023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Popin-Cookin_Taiyaki-Odango_6.jpg\"){kind=link}