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I was over @runeandmoon's house this weekend and we made these five Japanese candy kits and had a ton of fun doing it!

We made Popin' Cookin' Donut, Popin' Cookin' Desserts Party, Popin' Cookin' Fuwa Fuwa Pancake, Meiji Apollo DIY Strawberry Chocolate Kit and Heart Bonsai Tree. Look, there's me making the donuts! I think they came out pretty good.

Here's the mini donuts. They're super cute, aren't they? Everything is made from a powder mix that you just add water to. You get two kinds of dough (custard flavour and chocolate flavour) and three kinds of icing (chocolate, vanilla and strawberry), as well as hundreds and thousands [sprinkles] and crunchy bits. They don't need any baking, so the texture is kind of strange, but they have quite a nice subtle flavour. The icing is very, very sweet. Decorating them was a delicate operation as the donuts are so small and fragile, but this was one of the kits I enjoyed making the most.

This is the dessert party set. This one, like before, was mostly powders you mix with water, though you also get two biscuits [cookies] to decorate. There's a lot of parts to this one: the afformentioned biscuits, as well as jelly [jello] in four flavours (orange, strawberry, melon and blueberry) vanilla sponge cake and cream icing. The jelly took about 10 minutes to set and the cake needed to be cooked in the microwave, though that only takes about 30 seconds. The jelly is really nice (tastes a bit like Fruit Pastilles), as is the icing, but the cake is a bit bland and smells very weird when it's cooking. This was really fun to make, too, and everything looks so pretty!

Oh, these were super easy to make! They were just powder mixes and water for the cake (chocolate and vanilla) and 30 seconds in the microwave, and then the icing (chocolate) was another powder mix with water. Despite being so simple, decorating them was so fun and just look at them! CUTE! We had a ton of icing left over from the donut kit, so we added some vanilla and strawberry icing for extra details. I made the panda and Kay made the bunny. Which do you like the best?

Here's all the cakes and desserts together, minus the couple that we ate!

The Meiji Apollo kit was another really easy one. After warming up the three tubes of chocolate, white chocolate and strawberry, it was then up to us to decide how to use them in the provided moulds. You're also given little candy balls to add to them, and we had tons of the decorations left over from the donuts, so I also used some of them. We filled every part of the mould, even the tiny little indents that were clearly not meant to be used and were just designs on the plastic. Those are the tiny, tiny bits you can see. Can you blame us for wanting to use ALL the chocolate? I particularly like the marble-effect one Kay made.

This was the one Kay was the most excited about making, the mini bonsai tree. This one took a lot longer to make than the others and was a little bit on the fiddly side, but the end product is impressive, isn't it? The trunk and branches are made from modelling chocolate, which had to be placed inside moulds, that then went in the freezer for two 30 minute periods to chill. The leaves are actually vanilla sponge cake, a powder mix added to water and then cooked in the microwave for 30 seconds. There was a lot more cake and chocolate in the kit than you actually needed, but it's always better to have too much than too little, right?