Seems like I’m getting a lot of traffic on “How to make Totoro cream puffs” from “boing boing.” I just want to say Domo Arigato to everyone! I feel extremely flattered by people’s positive comments, and it makes me so happy to see some people are saying how they can’t wait to make them. (And some of them have already made them! I’m asking their permission to post the images on my blog now…)
To show how much I appreciate everyone’s love for food, I give you Domo Arigato, Domo-kun marshmallow!
Do~mo~
Non-bento #14: Domo-kun
Created and eaten on: 4/16/2009
This wasn’t something I had planned. I had left over marshmallows from when I made “meringue Mario mushroom”, and I’ve been thinking about using them to make something. I was playing with it tonight, and just decided to try making Domo-kun and see what would happen.
I dipped the marshmallows in melted chocolate, and put it in the fridge. I squeezed red icing onto wax paper, put it in the freezer, and when it was hard enough, I drew teeth with white icing on it and put it back in the freezer. When it was hard, I took it out, carefully took each mouth off wax paper, and put it on each Domo-kun. Then I melted darker chocolate and put eyes on him.
Some of them came out cute, but some came out pretty scary and creepy. I think it’s because you can see the red part of the mouth from the top and the sides on some of them. It made it look like a vicious monster with blood dripping teeth or something.
Store bought icing doesn’t get that hard, so it’s hard to make the mouth piece. I should’ve made my own icing, but I wasn’t planning on making a lot of Domo-kun tonight, so I just used icing from the tube. So this was more like an experiment, and I wasn’t sure whether I considered this as a non-bento food, but since I have no bento to blog today, why not? 
EDIT: My boyfriend snapped only a couple of pictures, because it was just an experiment. I’ll make sure to take more pictures when I make a batch of Domo-kun!
Domo-kun:
- marshmallow
- chocolate (regular and dark)
- red icing, white icing
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
I was born in Japan, lived in New York for a while and now living in San Diego, California. I love creating things with my hands in my free time whether it’s making character bento or stuffing stuff! And now I'm working for 
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These are so cute! I actually did make your yeast version of steamed pork buns, but haven’t uploaded the picts yet to put it on my blog. I’ll update you when they are there and put a link to your recipe.
p.s. My husband absolutely loved the steamed buns, and has been raving about them ever since. Definitely a new favorite.
Oh wow, I just happen to have bag of 2″-diamater marshmellows lying around a nothing to do with them… maybe I have something to do with them now. :3
Totoros and these ones are so cute! I found out your blog because a friend linked it in Facebook.
See you!
I’m just making these now (great idea by the way
) and I can’t make the icing go hard D: It’s been in the freezer for about half an hour and it’s still very gooey. Unfortunately, I didn’t do a bit of homework and just bought Icing sugar >_< Any ideas to save me please? D:
Hi Felie!
Sorry to hear about the icing! (and sorry about a late reply) Well, as long as the icing doesn’t get too watery, you should be fine. Just try not to put Domo-kun too close to each other. Regular icing gets soft in room temperature too, so when I make them I usually keep them in the fridge until the last minute. Let me know how it turned out! (And send me pictures of them if you took some!)
Sorry for my late reply too! The domos didn’t quite goto as planned as I was hoping to give them to my friends when I went to school. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to remake the icing since I injured my arm earlier – my friends thoroughly enjoyed some chocolate marshmellows though
Next time I try to make ‘em I’ll have to look up a good icing recipe xD Thanks anyways <3 If you have time later I hope you can make a How To Make Domo-kun Marshmellows x3!
hi, this is so cute!!
im totally a beginner in baking and stuff, may i know how to make your own icing since u mentioned that store brought icing isnt good?
thank you!