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.
Today, I will show you how to make wreath-shaped bread that is perfect for Christmas♡
1. Ingredients
250g bread flour
2 tsp yeast
2 tbsp icing sugar
1/2 tsp salt
50g unsalted butter
1/2 tsp matcha powder
1 egg (approx. 52g)
100ml lukewarm water
2.
Add the bread flour into the centre of a bowl. Add the sugar, yeast and matcha powder onto one side of the bowl as shown in the picture below. Crack and egg and add the salt onto the other side. Pour the lukewarm water over the yeast and mix everything with a wooden spoon. When everything is combined add the unsalted butter and knead with your hands. Roll into a ball and leave to ferment.
☆It will take take about 30 minutes at 40℃
☆If you own an electric mixer or home bakery it’s perfectly fine to do everything up to now in a machine.
3.
Once the mix has risen, divide into three equal parts and leave again for about 15 minutes. Cover with cling film or a tea towel to ensure the mix doesn’t become dry. Afterwards, gently roll into a spherical shape as shown in the photo.
4.
Roll the mix into a long shape that spans about 50-60cm. Line all three up on their sides and begin to braid. Once this is complete, tie them up into a wreath shape and leave to ferment again.
☆It will take take 20-25 minutes at 40℃
Once the second fermentation is complete, cook at 180℃ for 7 minutes, then lower the temperature to 150℃ and cook for a further 7 minutes. The timings may differ depending on your oven so be sure to make any necessary adjustments.
5.
Leave to fully cool and tie a ribbon around it.
Sprinkle with icing sugar, add some Christmas decorations like the mistletoe picks below and you’re done. The Hello Kitty decorations are modelling chocolates.
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!
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Kaori Kubota (@kaopan27)
I live in Hokkaido and I love to make character themed foods, desserts and pastries♡
I want to see my family smile, so I enjoy putting in a bit of effort to make character foods and changing food into something cute♡
You can see more of my character foods and character bento boxes on my Instagram page→@kaopan27
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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! Information
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Kaori Kubota (@kaopan27)
I live in Hokkaido and I love to make character themed foods, desserts and pastries♡I want to see my family smile, so I enjoy putting in a bit of effort to make character foods and changing food into something cute♡
You can see more of my character foods and character bento boxes on my Instagram page→@kaopan27
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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’ll learn how to make a “KITTY’s Strawberry Milk Pudding.” The strawberry jelly layer and the milk pudding layer look like KITTY’s costume!1:IngredientsStrawberriesSugar – 10gHoney – one teaspoonLemon juice – half a teaspoonGelatin – 2.5g☆Milk puddingMilk – 250ccSugar – 3 tablespoonsGelatin – 5g※Soak gelatin in one tablespoon of water
2： ① Put the strawberries into a blender and process them. Then, put the processed strawberries, sugar and honey into a pot. After the sugar melts, turn off the heat and add the gelatin and mix it well. Then, add the lemon juice.② Put ① into a container and wait until it cools. Then, put this into a refrigerator.③ Draw the face and ribbon using a chocolate pen. Lay the ingredients down so that you can draw the face and ribbon easily. The chocolate can be wiped off easily by using a kitchen paper. Put the ingredients into the reregister and cool it.3：Put milk and sugar into a pot and heat them. After the sugar melts, add the soaked gelatin and cool it. Pour the ingredient into the container (2) and cool it putting it into a refrigerator. After it hardens, add raw cream and strawberries on top. Kaori also invites you into her world of character-themed rice 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. I've received lots of comments from my followers asking if I have an easier recipe they can make without messing anything up. So today I'm showing you my simple Winnie the Pooh cheesecake recipe using items bought from Muji! 1: Ingredients/Equipment
・①Muji's baked cheesecake mix (above right) ②Muji's Thick-Sliced Baumkuchen (above left) ・Eggs, milk and unsalted butter needed for the baked cheesecake ・Cake mould (There was a paper mould inside the cheesecake mix box but I got myself 4 smaller ones) ・Round cutter for the ears ・Chocolate pen for the face 2. Put together all the necessary ingredients written on the back of the baked cheesecake mix box into a bowl. Mix together and cook. 3. Once your cakes are cooked, add the apricot jam that comes in the box as shown in the photograph and use the back of a spoon to spread it out. (Don't worry if there are cracks in the cakes when cooking. Once you put the jam on it'll look just like Pooh's face.) Slice the brown outer part of your thick-sliced Baumkuchen and shape into ears with your cutter. (If you don't have a round cutter then scissors or any other cutters will work fine.) Drawn on Pooh's facial features with your chocolate pen and you're done! The jam makes the face viscous so it's nice and easy to draw the face on even for beginners. If you mess up, just wake a short while for the chocolate to harden and take it off. If that happens just smooth out the jam once more with the back of a spoon so there aren't any peaks and try again! 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! Information
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Kaori Kubota (@kaopan27)
I live in Hokkaido and I love to make character themed foods, desserts and pastries♡I want to see my family smile, so I enjoy putting in a bit of effort to make character foods and changing food into something cute♡
You can see more of my character foods and character bento boxes on my Instagram page→@kaopan27
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