Bento #7: Emoticon Bento

A very "emotional" bento I made. It is not perfect, but I really like them. I think I perform the best under stress, when there is time constraint. >.<

This bento consists of sausage, tamago, brocolli, rice that topped with seaweed and cheese for face expressions.

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Colorful Cake-Pops

Aren't they lovely? Cake pops they are! I have always wanted to make cake pops because they look cute. But, cake pops looked very sweet to me, so I want to try to make it on my own to see if I could cut down the sugar. Apparently, not really, maybe just a little. Once in awhile is fine though.

Colorful Cake-Pops
Ingredient:
Cake base of your own (I am using the leftover from the totoro cake, no point in wasting them)
Buttercream:
1/2 cup butter
1.5 cups of powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
2-3 tbsp heavy cream/ milk

sprinkles of your choice

melted chocolate (I am using candy melts, easier to coat)

Steps:
Crumble all the cake base and set aside. Beat the buttercream frosting till combine. Mix frosting and crumbled cake pieces till form a dough. Make into individual dough, and poke a cake-pop stick dipped in candy melts into the shaped cake pop. Put into fridge for at least 1 hour. Take it out and coat with the candy melts and topped with toppings. Set aside to firm. It is ready to serve, or you can put into fridge till ready to serve.

Happy baking=)

Chocolate-Covered Frozen Banana

Chocolate covered frozen banana topped with toppings of your choice! I really love this combination,very yummy and COLD! I first ate this in Disneyland and fell in love, and it seems easy to make, so here you go!

Chocolate-covered Frozen Banana
Ingredients:
4 bananas, cut into halves
chocolate, melted
pistachios, chopped
rainbow sprinkles
almond, chopped

8 ice cream sticks

Steps:
Cut bananas into halves, and put a stick into each banana and freeze it. Melt chocolate, and prepare all the toppings. Set aside. Dip the banana into the chocolate and quickly topped with the toppings since it gets harden quite quickly. And set aside to till firm. Put it back into the freezer or it is ready to serve!

Happy eating =D

Totoro Birthday Cake

*FYI, please ignore all the backgrounds in the photos, I just realize there are not edited yet, and I'm lazy to edit right now, so here you go! LOL

I am sooooooo excited to introduce this cake to you! It is a Totoro Cake that I made for my bf's birthday! It is filled with strawberry fruit sponge cake, and covered with whipped cream and chocolates! I got his idea from google and it really wows me!

The Recipe is still the same for the fruit cake base, so I'm just going to put a link for you here for the cake base.
sponge cake recipe

Just prepare, the sponge cake recipe, white & dark chocolate, cocoa powder, whipped cream, strawberries.

*Really sorry for the mess behind! Please ignore those! >.<

Happy baking =)

M&M "Butterless" Cookies

This is a recipe I longed to try for, easy and delicious, topped with lots of m&m! (Decide the quantities for yourself, it is like eating m&m chocolates with a combination of something else to lower down the sweetness of the chocolate bits. So here you go for this recipe, down below:

M&M Cookies
Ingredients:
1 egg
200g cake flour
80g vegetable oil
80g sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
m&m chocolates (as much as you want)

Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line baking paper on baking sheet.
2. Mix all ingredients together except m&m till nicely combined.
3. Scoop dough and roll into balls. Flatten with your palm. Topped m&m onto the cookies. I like it this way so that all m&m can be viewed clearly instead of embedded inside the cookies. (It is a personal preference, any type of mixing is fine.)
4. Bake for 18-20 minutes till golden brown. Cool on wire rack and serve!

* I am not using butter here, because I do not have butter at home, plus my bf does not really like butter, so a cookie made out of butterless recipe, he is a fan of that! So, here you go! Also, butter is getting more expensive and I think that oil is more affordable, and the results are almost the same!

Happy baking =)

Crunchy Melty Baby Biscuit

Ooooo... what's that? It is very crunchy and melt-to-your-mouth small biscuits made out of corn starch. It reminds me of a biscuits I loved that could only be bought back home! Forgot the name of the biscuits, so I shall just name it on my own!

Crunchy Melty Baby Biscuit
Ingredient:
1 egg yolk
30g sugar
80g corn starch
3-4 tsp soy milk

Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 320F. Line baking paper on baking sheet.
2. Mix everything together till combine to a dough.
3. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
4. Let cool and serve!

Chocolate Nutella Macaroon *Failed*

This is a "kind-of-failed" macaroon, only 1-2 success macaroons which had been eaten by me, unfortunately, before I could take this picture! Arghh..@@. It should not have cracks on the top, which means too many air bubbles formed, which also means "kind-of-failed" as I have said earlier. But, the texture and taste is yummy! Anyway, I will still give you the recipe since it is a good one!

Chocolate Nutella Macaroon:
Ingredients:
1 egg white, large
2/3 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup almond flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
2 tbsp cocoa powder

Nutella, for filling

Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line parchment paper on baking sheet.
2. Beat egg white and cream of tartar till peaks formed.
3. Fold in sifted sugar, flour, salt and cocoa powder gently. Put into a piping bag to make desired shape.
4. Set aside for about 30 minutes, and bake for 12-14 minutes. Let cool on wire rack, and serve!

Besides the cracks, and "not so successful attempt", the taste is great! It is just like macaroons with cracks.Haha

Happy baking =)