dessert

Non-bento #44: Chocolate covered strawberry Totoro

December 25, 2011 bento

After I got my job at the Behemoth, I’ve been traveling back and forth between New York and San Diego. I have a fully functional kitchen at my temporary living space in San Diego but Derek (the person I cook cutesy food for) is in New York, and it just hasn’t been fun making character food for myself. :/ But! I came back to New [...]

Non-bento #39: ilomilo cookies

May 17, 2011 Baking

After I made Totoro cookies with the Totoro cookie cutter/food shaper I made, I still had some cookie dough left. So I decided to have fun with it. I wasn’t going to do a post about this, but Derek took some photos of it and we do love these little guys, so I thought why not? Non-bento #39: ilomilo cookies Created and eaten on: 5/8/2011 [...]

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Non-bento #36 & 37: Totoro egg in the blanket & cookies

May 9, 2011 Baking

It’s so much fun to play with the Totoro cookie cutter/food mold I made, I couldn’t stop playing with it. I made two different dishes with the Totoro food cutter/food shaper, but I’m going to post both of them in here. Non-bento #36: Totoro egg in the blanket Created and eaten on 5/5/2011 Whenever I see an egg shaper, I see an “egg in the [...]

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Strawberry Daifuku

February 18, 2011 Blog

The other day I went to my friend’s house for a very small get-together. I’ve known her for about 10 years. Since she became a mom we don’t hang out very often, but she’s one of those friends whom you don’t see or talk to everyday but when you meet them you can just chill and chat. There was also another friend coming, and I wanted [...]

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Non-bento #24: fun with Rabbid #2 – cake

April 17, 2010 Baking

Okay, so after making bavarois with the mold, I decided to bake a cake with it! Non-bento #24: fun with rabbid #2 – cake! Created and eaten on: 3/17/2010 I was looking for a recipe for simple sponge cake and I found this modified Castella sponge cake recipe. Regular Castella only uses egg, flour, sugar and honey, but this one uses a little bit of [...]

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Non-bento #23: fun with Rabbid #1 – bavarois

April 14, 2010 Baking

This was part of my “wonderful things” post, but I got sidetracked by other wonderful things and events and plush making, so I couldn’t do this until now. So here I go! A little while ago, I received an email from someone who works at Ubisoft, the company that created the Rayman Raving Rabbids series. She liked my bento, and asked me if I could [...]

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non-bento #20 & How to make Slime Marshmallows

December 20, 2009 Baking

My company does a potluck for its Christmas party. It’s fun that you get to taste the dishes cooked by people you know. This year, one of my friends/graphic designer at the company decided to make a recipe book of everyone’s potluck food. I thought of making Totoro cream puffs, Domo-kun chocolate covered marshmallows, but I wanted to make new kyara-sweets. (Kyara-sweets mean “Character themed [...]

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how to make domo-kun marshmallow

April 19, 2009 characters

My boyfriend and I went to New York aquarium today. We watched fish, sharks, walruses, sea otters, penguins, the sea lion show, and the “4-D experience”. 4-D experience was cool but a bit short and confusing at some point. I heard a kid shouting “What is happening!?” during the show, which I found it pretty funny. (Read my boyfriend’s comic about our 4-D experience.) Anyway, [...]

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non-bento #14: domo-kun

April 16, 2009 bento

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 [...]

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non-bento #13: makkurokurosuke cream puffs

April 9, 2009 Baking

The other night, I realized that I had forgotten to make this very obvious Ghibli character with cream puffs, and I had to make them. Non-bento #13: Makkurokurosuke cream puffs…? Created and eaten on: 4/9/2009

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how to make custard cream by stove top

April 5, 2009 Baking

I did how to make custard cream with a microwave before, but for those who don’t have a microwave, here’s a recipe for how to make custard cream by stove top! There are so many of custard cream recipes out there, and regular recipes for custard cream usually tells you to add certain ingredients at a certain time, and have milk at room temperature or [...]

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how to make custard cream with a microwave

April 2, 2009 Baking

This is a custard cream recipe I used for my Totoro cream puffs! I’ll be doing a how-to on Totoro cream puffs soon, so I thought I’d put a recipe and how-to for the custard today. Have this made (and in the fridge) before you start making cream puffs! [How to make custard cream with a microwave] – 1 whole egg OR *2 egg yolks – [...]

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non-bento #12: Totoro cream puffs

March 31, 2009 Baking

Today was my friend/co-worker’s last day (for full-time) at work. I’ve known her since art school, and she’s the one who made me the picture book of my bento. She had a baby last year, and recently she decided to work part-time from home and be with her baby. So it’s a good good-bye. I know she loves sweets, but cookies seemed a little boring… [...]

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how to make Cylon Raider cookies

March 20, 2009 Baking

EDIT: Looking for BSG bento? See “bento#34: Battlestar Galactica bento!” This is something I made for my Battlestar Galactica fans. Nothing very special, I just cut cookie dough in the shape of a Cylon Raider. I used the cookie cutter I made out of a soda bottle (see the cookie cutter in “how to make Totoro peanut butter sandwich”) because with this cutter, you can [...]

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Valentine Meringue Mario Mushrooms!

February 12, 2009 Baking

I really wanted to do this how-to on the 8th, but I was attending NY comicon, and just didn’t have the time, so I’m doing it today! Last year, our company decided to have a pot-luck style office Christmas party. I knew a lot of people were making entrees, so I wanted to make a dessert. Then I remembered the meringue mushrooms I’d had at [...]

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non-bento #3: Raving Rabbid cookies

January 8, 2009 Baking

After making the rabbid cookie cutter, I decided to actually try using it to make some cookies! non-bento#3: Raving Rabbid cookies Created and eaten on: 11/18/2008 and 11/19/2008

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