With just a small bit of ingenuity, turn everyday food into something cute using Kaori’s easy recipe! With a few simple ideas, an ordinary recipe magically transforms into a cute dish.   In this recipe you'll learn how to to easily make a Pikachu Pumpkin Purin using a blender!   1: Ingredients Weck glass 200g pumpkin (Skin removed, mashed soft) 125ml milk 125ml fresh cream (Substitute with milk if you don't have fresh cream) 30g-40g sugar (Adjust according to the sweetness of the pumpkin) 5g-7g gelatin (Soak in advance)   2: Blend the pumpkin, sugar, milk and fresh cream together. Add the soaked gelatin and blend again. ☆After soaking the gelatin, heat gently in the microwave and melt completely. 3:  ①Draw a face on the glass with melted chocolate. ②Make ears, eyes and cheeks with coloured modelling chocolate. Make the ears by adding melted chocolate to the tips. ③Paste the parts in step ② on the inside of the glass. Affix well making sure not to let air in. Once attached, cool in the refrigerator until the parts have fully solidified. ④Once the parts in step ③ have cooled, pour in your pumpkin purin liquid from earlier. Place into the refrigerator. Once it has set, add fresh cream and the ears and you're done!   Kaori invites you into her world of character-themed food dishes in her recipe series. Be sure to check out her Instagram where she has uploaded many pictures of her character dishes!    

With just a small bit of ingenuity, turn everyday food into something cute using Kaori’s easy recipe! With a few simple ideas, an ordinary recipe magically transforms into a cute dish. In this character recipe you will learn how to make a “Pompompurin Steamed  Cheese Bread” (labeled CHEESE STEAM UP BREAD). Did you know that recently decorating a “steamed cheese bread” is the in thing to be doing right now? So, in this recipe I will explain about how to decorate a steamed cheese bread in a Christmas fashion.   1：Ingredients 1 steamed cheese bread 1 sheet of nori (dried seaweed) Chocolate plastic Red coloring powder   2： Trace an illustration of your favorite character onto a baking sheet. I chose Pompompurin. Next, I thought it would be cute to indent the face and highlight the ears so I cut out these parts from the baking sheet. 3： Next, place the face cutout onto the surface of the cheese bread and cut the bread in line with the cutout. Remove this part and set it aside. This part will be used to make the ears and hands. The surface below the removed part might be a bit uneven so using the back end of a chopstick make this area flat. 4： Turn over the removed part and flatten this surface using the back end of a chopstick. Place the ear cutout onto the surface and cut the ears out. Using the remaining part cut out some round hands. 5：Color the plastic chocolate red and form the hat and boots. Using the white plastic chocolate, add the white parts. Using a puncher, cut out the eyes, nose and mouth from the laver seaweed. Place all of these parts on the surface of the cheese bread, and voila, your “Pompompurin Steamed Cheese Bread” is complete. Kaori invites you into her world of character-themed food dishes in her recipe series! Please check out her Instagram where she has uploaded many pictures of her character dishes!

With just a small bit of ingenuity, turn everyday food into something cute using Kaori’s easy recipe! With a few simple ideas, an ordinary recipe magically transforms into a cute dish. For this edition of Kaori's Easy Recipe, I used a recipe from the Disney dessert cookbook Oishii Disney Sweets Recipes to make cute Mickey Mouse-shaped ice box cookies. Ice box cookies are made by forming the dough into a cylindrical shape, leaving it to set in the fridge, and cutting into slices. This means you can make cookies even if you don't have a specific cookie cutter, for example one in the shape of Mickey. You can create lots of different kinds of cookies using this method. They're light, crunchy and best of all, delicious.   1. Ingredients (Makes: Approx. 30) 100g unsalted butter 80g powdered sugar 180g sieved weak flour 20g egg yolk (1 medium size egg) A pinch of salt 10g pure cocoa   2. Bring the unsalted butter to room temperature until it's soft. Break into small pieces until it turns creamy then add the powdered sugar and salt. Mix well until everything is blended together. 3. Add the egg yolk into the mixture and mix well with a whisk. 4. Slowly add the sieved flour. Add about a quarter at a time and mix well before adding the rest to avoid clumps. After all the flour is mixed in, divide in half and mix one of the halves with cocoa powder. 5. Shape both halves into a rectangular shape at 12cm x 6cm. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes. 6. Divide each half like in the picture below. 7. Put ⅞ of the plain dough to one side, and roll the rest of the plain dough and all of the cocoa dough into 15cm rods. 8. Roll the ⅞ of plain dough you put to one side into a 17cm x 15cm square. Referencing the pictures above and below, place plain "C" dough in the middle between the cocoa "B" dough. Ensure there are no gaps when pushing them together. 9. Place the cocoa "A" dough on top of the "C" dough. Take both sides of your rolled out square dough and bring together ensuring there are no gaps. Wrap in cling film and leave in the fridge for 20 minutes. 10. Take out of the fridge and cut about 5mm off the ends. Make sure to handle with care - if handled too roughly the dough will collapse. 11. Slice into single cookies and bake at 160℃ for 20-25 minutes. Your cookies are done! Kaori invites you into her world of character-themed food dishes in her recipe series. Be sure to check out her Instagram where she has uploaded many pictures of her character dishes! There are many other cute Disney recipes available in the book that Kaori used too, so if you're in Japan then why not pick up a copy?   ©️Disney