Popin' Cookin' Oekaki Gummy Land

Hey guys, we're back with another sweet review (pun intended!)

This set was gotten from Tokutokuya for RM 13.90. You can get it in some other places as well but I haven't seen any besides there.

Generally what you do with this set is you make your own flavoured candy gummies with the provided materials in box; which consists of a bunch of cookie cutter shapes that varies from pack to pack, there's no way of telling exactly what's inside, a few sachets of gummy powder and flavourings as well as a 'pallet' of sorts where you make your creations.

You pretty much achieve this by using the included dropper to 'colour' the shapes with the flavoured water. There's some instructions in the front on what colours end up tasting like what flavours, but its still totally up to you whether you want to follow it or not. 

Even if you can't read Japanese they make it really easy to understand what sorts of flavours you get when you mix the colours. You can apparently make diluted versions of each colour as well, by adding a higher water ratio in the pallet; but I find that it dilutes the flavours a little too much to my liking.

Inside, you get the usual bundle of sachets, a plastic pallet, cookie cutter shapes and a dropper.

Its a shame that its not too easy to see what shapes you will get inside. I think I landed with one of the more generic-shapes ones. I was hoping that there would actually be a dolphin shape inside (as indicated by the packaging) but I guess this will have to do. The plastic is fairly tough, so once you're done you can keep them as cookie cutters or stuff to make those cute bento box decorations.

All laid out, you pour in the whole packet of sweet smelling gummy powder into the largest section of the pallet, and fill up the appropriate colours. Each reservoir has a water level indicator so you likely won't overfill it by accident. Yellow is lemon flavoured, red is grape flavoured and blue is ramune/soda flavoured. Of the three primary colours I liked the yellow the most; it tasted strong without being ridiculous, which is a good thing!

I decided to go with one of the smaller shapes first, and followed the instructions to get the appropriate colours; except for the brown (a mix of all three primary colours) which kinda tasted like a watered down cola. You have to shove the shape all the way down till the powder is almost overflowing out of it before you get to work.

Colouring up the shapes is pretty easy; you grab the dropper and drip in the colours you want to 'paint' the gummy with.

Once the colour is in, it's sucked up by the powder so even if you put more on the same spot it doesn't mix, so you can get creative without worrying that it'll turn into an ugly mess. Pretty neat!

After that you give the gummy a short while to dry and you can just pick it out of the mold using the included fork. The back of the gummy will be coated in a little bit of white powder where the liquid didn't get through and will be a bit lumpy. You can take care of it with a quick squirt of extra colour before you put it aside.Then use the fork to even out the powder again before you make a new gummy.

Now the biggest problem I have with the kit here is overflow. When you start getting near the bottom of the powder, the gummy tends to either get stuck to the bottom of the pallet or extra colour starts coming out the sides.

The kit is maybe good for maybe four gummies before it hits this stage, depending on which shapes you used. In the end there was a little powder left over which I couldn't do much with so I squirted it with some colour and let it solidify there. A gummy's a gummy.

Personally I found this kit quite enjoyable. For starters the colours are nice and vibrant; and the flavours are quite pleasant as well. They weren't horribly sweet and neither were they too strong.

The only flavour I didn't really like was the Ramune, but that's mainly because I don't like Japanese Soda flavour to begin with. The rest tasted quite strong, with my favourites being lime and orange.

The gummies themselves weren't as tough as the ones you can get at the store, but instead were slightly soft, but they held their shapes well and frankly they were delicious.

Spire sez: Honestly speaking, this would be one of the kits I would love to play around with again. Its fun for kids who are creative, and it's real colourful so it satisfies the need to learn-and-play. The gummies are pretty tasty too; I just wish they gave more of the gummy powder; I'd gladly pay extra if they provided maybe two sachets instead of just one. On top of that the pallet can be kept for real watercolour works and the shapes can be kept as well, I say this kit deserves it's high ratings.

Silvy says: It was a fun and entertaining kit! My only peeve would be that the instructions were pretty vague (if you didn't search it up on Youtube that is) and the gummies didn't dry up fast enough for me to remove them from the molds! Oddly hypnotizing and relaxing to work this out, have a great time with your friends (and get sugar high right after that!)

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 4/5

Price: 3/5

DIY level: Easy

Fun:  5/5

Silvy's Ratings

Flavor: 5/5

Price: 3/5

DIY level: Easy to Average

Fun:  5/5