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.   Hinamatsuri is almost here, and I've got the perfect treat for this year's festival: Hello Kitty Sushi Cakes. These Hello Kitty decorations can be made with basic Japanese ingredients, so follow along and try making them yourself.   1: Equipment/Ingredients15cm cake tin   1 cup vinegared sushi rice200g tuna200g salmon3 Japanese rolled omelettes (dashi-maki tamago)20 beefsteak plantIkura salted salmon roeHanpen pounded fish cake   2:Line a cake tin with baking sheet paper like in the photo. Use a cake tin with a detachable bottom spanning 15cm. In the case that you don't have a cake tin with a detachable bottom, cover the bottom of your tin with cling film which will make it easy to remove everything afterwards.   3:Cut Hello Kitty, flowers and other shapes into some hanpen pounded fish cake.   4:Slice the tuna, salmon, and Japanese egg into cubes about 1.2cm each.Pile the ingredients in this order: rice→tuna, salmon, and egg→rice. Refer to the photo below. [video width="480" height="640" mp4="https://www.moshimoshi-nippon.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2dfdd49f533af9cbcb665eadfeb371dd.mp4"][/video]   5:Leave the ingredients exposed around the outside like so✨   6:Top with the rest of the ingredients as you like.   7:   Finish by adding your Hello Kitties and flowers which you can decorate with leftovers, like the noses and middle of the flowers. I also used cucumber and crab sticks for the head decorations.   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. For this edition of Kaori’s Easy Recipe, I used a recipe from the Disney dessert cookbook Oishii Disney Sweets Recipes to make "Mickey & Minnie Cookie Cupcakes" which make for the perfect Valentine's Day treat. It's a super easy recipe to follow - I even made the cookies and ribbon using ingredients readily available at the supermarket. So don't hesitate, give this easy recipe a go for yourself.   1: Ingredients (Makes 6 cupcakes measured 7cm) 2 medium eggs (40g egg yolk/60g egg white) 60g granulated sugar 2tsp vegetable oil 1-2tsp lemon juice 45g weak flour   2： ①Put the egg yolk, vegetable oil, and lemon juice into a bowl and mix well. ②In a separate bowl, whisk the egg white and gradually add in the granulated sugar. When adding the sugar, I recommend doing it in four portions. So add one quarter of the sugar, mix, repeat. ③Once you've added all the sugar, mix well to incorporate into the egg white. ④Gradually add the weak flour. Do this in three portions like in step ②. Please be careful as to not mix too vigorously when adding the flour as it will result in the dough losing its loose texture and becoming firm. 3: Pour the mix into the cups so that 70-80% of the cups are full. Bake at 190℃ for 12 minutes, then bring the heat down to 170℃ and cook for a further 3 minutes. 4: Now it's time to make Mickey Mouse. I used one big Oreo cookie and two little ones, the latter of which don't have filling. Like in the photo below, half the bigger cookie, place the smaller ones inside, and place the bigger half back on. If you don't have anything to stick the cookie back on, you can use the filling of the Oreo. 5: I used melted to chocolate to fix my Mickey Mouse together. If you add red M&M's like I did in the photo below, Mickey transforms into Minnie. 6: Once the cupcakes are done baking, make an incision in the top to place the Mickey and Minnie cookies into. 7: Add some fresh cream to decorate, and your Valentine's Day Disney cupcakes are complete! 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 or have access to Japanese books, then why not pick up a copy?   ©️Disney

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.   As strawberries are currently in season in Japan, today we’ll be looking at an easy recipe for delicious strawberry purin. All you have to do is mix the ingredients and you’re done! In previous recipes, we’ve looked at purin recipes that involve decorating the inside of the glass. Many people commented that this is quite difficult so today we’ve got a recipe that is easy enough for even kids.   Ingredients (For 2 Portions)Two small jars (this recipe uses Weck jars) 200g Strawberries with stems and leaves removed (approximately one small pack) 20g Sugar 20ml Fresh Cream (or milk to substitute) 5g Gelatin (dissolved in a tablespoon of water) ½ Teaspoon Lemon Juice   To Decorate Premade Chocolate Decorations or Chocolate Slices (as you like) Strawberries to Decorate (as you like) Fresh Cream (As you Like) Chocolate Pen   2: After removing the leaves and stems from the strawberries, blend them in a mixer.   3: Heat the mixture in a microwave on 600w for 50 seconds. Afterwards, add the sugar, gelatin solution and lemon juice in that order. Finally, mix in the fresh cream. 4: Meanwhile, press the premade chocolate decorations or sliced chocolate (white) into the inside wall of your jar. 5: Use the chocolate pen to draw the face, strawberries and ribbons from the outside of the glass. If you make a mistake, wipe it off using kitchen paper and try again. 6：Put the jar into the fridge for the chocolate to harden. Once the chocolate does not sink when the jar is placed upright, slowly add your strawberry mixture into the jar and put it back in the fridge until hard. After your dessert solidifies, you can add the finishing touches of whipped cream and strawberries. 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!