Rice Crispy cake......not!

Hello Gentle readers.
Welcome to another Thomson family taste test. In fact 2 taste tests.

Yesterday we tried some sponge snack cakes again and I am afraid that these cakes left us pretty uninspired. We tried 5 varieties and the pretty much all tasted the same. One type had fruit in.

Today we tried 8 different varieties of chinese rice crispie cake.

The first one we tried which is the bottom left in the pictire was awful and it tasted like a weird fusion of peanut and sunflower seed flavoured asbestos.

Its like someone took some cardboard boxes and soaked them in peanut flavoured toilet water.

The second (bottom right) was better but still god awful. It was sweeter but I could still taste it minutes later.

The popcorn variety was next and tasted ok. It was really hard and reminded me a bit of peanut brittle. It had raisins inside it and it nearly broke my teeth.

The next 2 types were both sesame seed crispy cakes. They were basically just black or white sesame seeds held togetherby sugar. These were probably the best.

In Russia there is a treat made from sunflower seeds called Kazinaki, Lena was very excited to see a snack that looked similar. Unfortunately looks can be decieving. This had chilli in it.

The next was actually made of rice with sunflower seeds, honey and.....chilli. Good heavens China.....why so much chilli? 

The final cake had black sesame seeds and seemed to be covered in egg wash. Not the worst but definitely not good.

The best were the sesame seed snacks. The worst was the peanut loft insulation.

I will leave you with an image of what a rice crispie cake should look like.

#china #ricekrispiestreats #kazinaki