Snickers Pumpkin Halloween Candy

Oh look, two updates in the same month! Amazing!

This one was also on the backburner for quite a bit of time, being halloween candy and all. I picked this up for about RM 4.99 at Cold Storage during Halloween season last year (and that's when I ate it too, this isn't a few month old candy bar!)

In terms of size it's a little bit smaller than your average Snickers bar but it's thicker. It looked pretty promising because well, I'm more a fan of chocolate than I am of sweet candies and gummies so I decided to just gloss over those last year. That and I have to watch my health a little more so I get to be picky ;)

I was surprised by the level of detail on the chocolate. I'm quite used to seeing candies that look nothing like what's advertised on the wrapper; especially seasonal ones seem to suffer from that the most. Taste wise, its your regular old Snickers bar minus the wrinkles and the nuts. The chocolate tasted a little creamier than usual but it could just be my imagination.

Spire sez: If you like Snickers, you're getting the exact same thing here but in a slightly different package. It's also a fair bit more expensive but you're paying Halloween Candy prices so it's somewhat justified. I quite liked the fact that they didn't incorporate nuts in this iteration, and that the fillings were caramelly smooth. I hope they bring it back this year.

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 4/5

Price: 4/5

DIY level: Nonexistant

Fun:  2/5

Puchi Deco Tezukuri

Hey gang, we're back with something a little different, a deco candy post!

For the life of me I cannot read Japanese, and I can't seem to find the actual name of this kit either save for what the English ingredient label said at the back. But what IS obvious about this kit is that it gives you a bunch of pre-moulded chocolate treats to decorate and either eat (of course!) or give to your friends.It was priced at RM 24 when purchased.

This kit and the others in the same series have the girliest boxes I've ever seen in my life; they're completely pink for one, and if the lace and sparkley gem prints don't give away that this is for girls well....perhaps it's time to get your eyes checked. Please ignore the expiry date, we tend to write our reviews at random after we actually test out the kits so we're not actually messing around with expired candy here.

The kit itself didn't really have that much in it, consisting of the moulded chocolate cakes and cake slices, a sachet full of sugar decorations, a tube of white chocolate and a bunch of rather cute packets to store your candy in once you were done.

Here's a closeup of the chocolates themselves. Each one was a milk chocolate with a layer of white chocolate on top. They looked pretty plasticky to the point they almost looked like toys but they smelled pretty good.

The next order of business was to heat up the tube of white chocolate. This would act as the 'glue' for all the sugar decorations which consisted of candy shapes (flowers and hearts of various colours) and colourful nonpareils. Since the chocolates came in some extra packaging we just reused them as a place to store the candies while we worked.

Now here came the hard part. The kit doesn't give you anything to help you decorate your goodies, so we resorted to using toothpicks to help attach the candies, which is really tricky. You see, both Silvy and I have these giant ungainly hands that aren't capable of handling the delicate task of decorating such tiny things, but we tried our best anyway.

First you attach a glob of white chocolate and then stick on a nonpareil or a candy onto it. Sounds simple doesn't it?

Considering how LONG both of us took to decorate six candies, we had to reheat the tube of chocolate at least 3 times with fresh bowls of hot water. This is what happens when you give a pair of adults with questionable decorating skills something like this.

We did have a lot of fun decorating these candies of course, and when bagged up with the included plastic bags they did look pretty adorable. 

We didn't bundle up everything however, for what's the point of candy if none are sacrificed for the sake of taste. So like all good supporters of natural selection; we ate the ugly ones. These are pretty cute things to give people as gifts honestly, but it also makes a fantastic passive aggressive gift to those who lack the coordination for tiny things.

Spire sez: Despite being plastically in looks, honestly they were pretty delicious. You do feel a bit bad chomping down on something you so meticulously made but the fun involved in making them is worth the effort. You also end up with a lot extra white chocolate left over and that itself doesn't taste half as bad either. My biggest gripe would be the price, which is a bit ridiculous for the amount of stuff you get inside. I would have expected somewhat better chocolate quality at least coming from something at this price point and the fact that the box advertises pink coloured chocolate pieces which were nowhere to be found.

Silvy says: I loved it! It was fun attempting to test out my artistic skills piping the melted chocolate nicely on the 'cakes' and decorating them painstakingly one bead/flower at a time. Taste-wise wasn't all too bad either, despite the initial impression that the 'cakes' looked rather plasticky and inedible. I just wish we could've 'baked' the cakes instead of getting pre-set ones. 

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 4/5

Price: 3/5

DIY level: Moderate-Hard

Fun:  4/5

Silvy's Ratings

Flavor: 3/5

Price: 3/5

DIY level: Moderate-Hard (precision is needed!)

Fun:  5/5