traditional japanese candies
What is a kompeito? If you’ve ever seen the movie, Spirited Away, these little candies may seem familiar. The little soot creatures working in the boiler room are given these spiky balls of colored sugar as their meal. (It took me a few weeks to figure out what the actual package says… then I finally got s-m-r-t and looked it up online. :)Â )
These adorable sweets are mainly comprised of sugar and flavoring. The package I picked up from Mitsuwa has these white, pink and blue spikes. After a few minutes of trying to figure out flavors, Steve and I deciphered them to be: peppermint, watermelon, and blue raspberry. The flavor is very subtle, and the sweetness is not overpowering. If you like to chew on candies (like I do!), it has the texture of a dense sugar cube.
These are absolutely addicting… I can’t stop eating them!
creative use of candies and art supplies by http://beibalai.deviantart.com/
