Chocoroom DIY

Chocoroom DIY

(Japan Crate: August 2015)

[Japan crate description: A popular snack turned DIY kit.]

Melissa Says:

Tastes like chocolate! Surprise, surprise. The fun part is making the chocolates. After warming the chocolate in hot water, you can squeeze them into the little supplied mold. There are little round candies to put in them, too. We just liberally sprinkled candies into the chocolates. Tasted like the pink color was strawberry. The little round things were sugar candies. They tasted really good because of how hard we worked on those buggers. I'd definitely make these again! It was a ton of fun.

Kimberly Says:

Okay, this was fun to make. You ended up with fairly bland chocolate, but the process of doing it was fun. xD

The candy bits are yummy, but they make the rest of it look weird, as you can see in the last picture in the bottom left.

But tasty. xD

Pulling everything out.

Getting it all ready to go!

In progress shot.

Getting ready to put in the freezer.

Mmm, all done! Some worked better than others. xD

Adzuki Mizu Yokan

Adzuki Mizu Yokan

(Japan Crate: July 2015)

[Japan crate description: A more traditional Japanese dessert, this red bean snack is sweet with a gel-like texture.]

Kimberly Says:

All right, I'd been putting this off for a while. I had doubts and concerns.

When we finally got around to trying it, though, it was...not terrible. 
We started out just eating it plain by the spoonful. If it had been more...well, every time I hit a big chunk of bean it put me off. It if had been more like jelly than jam, more of a puree, without chunks of bean, I think I would have loved it.

Or if we had had something other than italian herb ritz crackers, because the next thing we tried was spreading it on crackers. Plain Ritz, or maybe a sweet rather than savory cracker, would have been delicious.

Blurry, but tasty. x3

Melissa Says:

It looks like the cranberry stuff served at Thanksgiving, but tastes like beans. It's a tad odd. It's incredibly sweet-tasting, with the texture of pureed beans. That is, until you hit a whole bean. Then it's more unique. It's pretty good spread on a cracker. I probably wouldn't eat it again, but it wasn't bad once.