Peeps Marshmallow Pumpkins

Hi everybody! we have yet another Halloween themed treat, Peeps Marshmallow Pumpkins! :D

Peeps tends to have some form of festive mallow come whatever season, especially Easter, Halloween and Christmas. I'm quite a fan of their minty Christmas mallows but I decided to give these a go this time because well, why not.

They were going for RM 3.99, arguably the cheapest treat available this year at Cold Storage.

There was another variant available going for RM 12.99 that had the more iconic peep chicks that also had a milk chocolate coating. I gave it a pass because they looked too big plus 12+ Ringgit for just three birds was just too expensive for my liking.

I have to admit they do look fairly festive with their milk chocolate jack-o-lantern faces, orange colour and slightly-pumpkin-esque shape. Could have done better with the shapes but what can you do when they're all stuck together.

You get eight pieces so that's relative bang for buck in terms of quantity.

As far as taste goes, the mallows tasted like very soft marshmallows that weren't too sweet which I liked. Not too fond of the coloured sugar coating though, as it just made it feel weird and crunchy without contributing to the flavour whatsoever. The mallows are also relatively sticky so when I attempted to pull them apart they distorted a lot, and they tend to stick to things so I probably would eat them straight out of the box or toss one in a cup of hot chocolate or something.

They look more like disgruntled hearts than pumpkins

Spire sez: Considering they're just marshmallows dusted in coloured sugar, they're none too special everything considered. They barely look like pumpkins or jack-o-lanterns and taste wise they're a little on the boring side but it doesn't deviate too far from what a regular Peep tastes like. They make reasonably cheap treats though.

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 3/5

Price: 4/5

DIY level: Nonexistant

Fun: Nonexistant

Cadbury Screame Egg

Hi everyone, Spire here with the obligatory Halloween candy posting ^_^

Around Halloween, we do get a lot of imported candies for the holiday, though we don't exactly celebrate it in it's essence. As usual I went hunting around but since I was on a budget I only picked up a couple of items as opposed to the bigger range of stuff I get to try year after year. Here's the rather famous Cadbury Screme egg. It was going for RM 5.99 a piece (yikes!) but this is a very popular treat (so I hear) so I had to give it a go.

This is what it looks like after you peel off the crinkly metal shell. Because I was worried that it would get too melty to handle due to the hot weather, I had popped it in the fridge for an hour before cracking it open.

Wrapper off, it looks pretty much the same as any regular Cadbury creme egg.

When you get inside however is where you get the fun green festive 'goo' that makes this quite a Halloween treat. The taste and consistency is the same as any regular old Creme egg but it's a nice tie in to the holiday.

As far as the taste goes, you can't go wrong with the chocolate and the filling while tasty, I find it crazy sweet. Like I'll go into a diabetic coma level of sweet. It looks cool as hell though.

Spire sez: It's really cool that you get greenish goo spilling out of it but I have to say it was entirely too sweet for me to eat in one sitting. It wasn't too bad cold (because I'm a freak who likes cold chocolate) but I think I'll stick to just having this twice a year at Easter and at Halloween ^^;

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 4/5

Price: 2/5

DIY level: Nonexistant

Fun: Ugh, too sweet x_x

Crispy Mint M&Ms

Hi again!

Since it's now Summertime lets talk about another summer treat I got from Japan when I last visited. 

Mint treats are quite a hit during the summer time, with lots of different candies and treats featuring mint and their other cooling derivative flavours. I can't entirely remember the price but it's somewhere between 100-200 yen.

Of course you can find these year around in some countries, but I've yet to find this combination around here and that makes me sad. Because I love any and all things mint. But I have been seeing more M&M flavours pop up around these parts so maybe we will actually get some mint flavoured ones eventually ;)

The M&Ms themselves look like your bog standard crispy M&Ms, significantly larger than the regular chocolate ones and comes in shades of white, dark and light green. These unfortunately cracked because we're experiencing a heat wave and my candy took a bit of damage =\

They're nice and crunchy (but not like a malteaser, those are much tougher) but with a strong cool mint flavour from the moment it hits your tongue. The crisp is very slightly salty, the middle of it is green.

The chocolate however is not unlike what you get in a regular M&M, though they taste less sweet. The cooling effect is restricted to mainly the shell alone so it doesn't permeate the entire candy.

Spire sez: It's a cool candy (pun intended) which I wouldn't mind getting again (imagine it as an ice cream topping!) but I've yet to see it a 2^nd time.

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 4/5

Price: 4/5

DIY level: Nonexistant

Fun: Damn that's tasty!

Meiji 'Feel Mint' Kinoko no Yama Mushroom Cookie

Hello again!

As Summer draws near (for those of you who have seasons, I have horrible amounts of sun all year around :P) lets take a look at some cooling goodies as the temperature goes up.

Kinoko no Yama is a sort of cookie (I don't know what to call it, it's quite literally half chocolate candy and half biscuit D:)  with a chocolate mushroom 'cap' and comes in a variety of flavours with the most popular ones being chocolate, strawberry creme and banana. 

They've also got a DIY kit to make your own mushroom treats but I couldn't locate one before heading off from Tokyo. The box has an inverse design where it can be displayed in either horizontally or vertically depending on which face of the box is showing.

This is a special 'Feel Mint' edition of the candy for the Summer season, where you will find a lot of mint themed candies and chocolates on the shelves in Japan. I think it was somewhere around 200 yen at Lawsons. Not too expensive :)

I've heard reports of the chocolate melting together into a congealed mess when the temperature gets too hot but luckily it didn't happen to me despite hauling it all the way back in my luggage. Once opened you'll find maybe twenty-odd little cookies inside the bag.

The cookies themselves are pretty adorable, looking like little stylized bell mushrooms.

On to the tasting!

The mint was delicious, not overpowering but creamy too, pretty much the same way the Feel Mint chocolate candies taste like and the chocolate stems further complimented the taste. They taste fantastic when chilled too, and would look absolutely adorable adorning the top of an ice cream sundae.

Spire sez: Overall I really enjoyed them! I wish there were more cookies in the box. I'm definitely trying out more flavours when I can get my hands on them! :D

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 4/5

Price: 5/5

DIY level: Nonexistant

Fun: Damn that's tasty!