Showing posts with label doughnuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doughnuts. Show all posts

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Popin' Cookin' Doughnuts Part 2!

Now finally being able to get around to the next bit, we have Popin' Cookin; Doughnuts Part 2!

[Part 1 can be found here]

Also, for those checking, the price was RM 15.90 from Shojikiya. Most of this stuff can be found there and/or bought from Isetan KLCC as well, in the candy section.

Picking up where Silvy let off, while the doughy stuff was 'setting' I set about to handle the icings. You get three sachets of icing, in the flavours of vanilla, strawberry and chocolate.


As expected, it was the usual goopy stuff. Just add a little water using the supplied cut-off plastic measuring-cup-triangle-thing and dump it in. The strawberry was very strong smelling, as expected, and also as expected, the vanilla and strawberry icings didn't have any redeeming qualities.

 They just plain tasted weird. Creamy, but weird.

 The chocolate icing on the other hand (not pictured) came out a lot more liquid after mixing, and it was surprisingly tasty! Which pretty made it the saving grace of this kit.


After the doughnuts had set, we opened up the two other sachets that had the obligatory sprinkles and little cookie crumbs so we could get started.


Decorating got a bit silly, as you only get the mixing spoon and a small icing bag to distribute the icing. The whole while we had to actually control ourselves from eating up the chocolate icing because, dammit, it was freaking tasty. THE TASTIEST thing I've ever had that came out of a sachet.


Well here we are, the finish product. There's one less in the picture because we gave one to the nice gentleman that let us sit at his store well after closing time to let us finish this up. The icing is a funny thing. It tends to liquidize slightly after applying them onto the little spongy doughnut candies and then drip.


 Suffice to say, they didn't taste too bad. Of course, they didn't have the texture of real dougnuts, but it was a pretty fun kit. And we wish there was more chocolate stuff. Really, we do.

Also, a newer version of this kit has since hit the market under the same brand, so keep an eye out for different packaging.

Spire sez: This is a very nice kit, and if it weren't for the weird tasting vanilla and strawberry icing, I would recommend it in a heartbeat. The doughnuts themselves are a bit fiddly to get out of the molds because they tend to fall apart a bit, but overall I give it a thumbs up.

Silvy says: This kit was surprisingly fun and entertaining for me. The doughnut molds were rather fiddly (the 'dough' kept breaking up) but once they've popped out, it's pretty much smooth sailing all the way. Vanilla and strawberry icing tasted horrible, but the chocolate was divine! Give this a try when you can, you'll love it :D
Spire's Ratings
Flavor: 4/5
Price: 3/5
DIY level: Moderate
Fun: 5/5

Silvy's Ratings
Flavor: 3/5
Price: 3/5
DIY level: Moderate
Fun: 5/5

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Popin' Cookin' Doughnuts Part 1

It's been awhile, but Silvy is back with a quickie!

This time both Spire and I decided to have a seat and work on our next project: Doughnuts!

Of course, like everything else, these doughnuts are made of nothing but sugar, sugar, and more sugar!

Hyperactivity and headaches, anyone?


The box that is a lie! The doughnuts look too perfect here hahahaha
Instructions galore! I just wish the sticker did not cover part of the instructions =/ 
A close up of the ingredients and nutrition facts. 
The box has been unboxed! 
Snipping open the yellow packet, and uncovered the awesome packets of sweets 
Clockwise from top upper left:
Piping bag, cookie crumbs, vanilla icing, chocolate icing, strawberry icing, rainbow sprinkles, chocolate dough, vanilla dough (orange packet) 
The utensils. Bottom left is for the dough, bottom right (both slots) are for the icing, upper half as doughnuts molds. The teeny container on the bottom right corner is used to measure the water needed for each mixture 
And off we go! *snips* 
We started off with the vanilla dough 
So water was poured in, and we dumped the whole lot in there CAREFULLY (man, the powder sure loves to cry for freedom!) 
The wet powder showing its true colors here already! 
This was the tricky bit. It took quite some time for us to stir this mixture together as there was more powder than water in this concoction. Rather fiddly too, since the powder tend to fly everywhere if we're not careful. 
After some rigorous stirrings, we finally got it! Look how clumpy the mixture is. Doesn't it look almost like real dough? XD 
A close up on the not-dough. I think it looks like coconut gratings mixed with caramel in this photo. Hahaha 
Let the molding begin! It's not as easy as it looks, cause the dough refused to stick together properly and kept springing out from the mold. The worst was the middle mold cause the dough kept springing out and it was rather fiddly to remove it from the mold without breaking it =_=; 
Lo' and behold, the doughnuts are *cooked* 
And then they are removed from the *oven* 
We made 10 doughnuts in total, though only 9 are shown in this photo :) 

So now, you have seen how the basic doughnuts have been made with this DIY set.

Up next: The Icing!

See you in our next blog post (with our ratings). Till then, g'bye

**Part 2 is up! The continuation continues...**