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, we'll be combining bitter matcha with anko red bean paste to create a delicious matcha cake. Each ingredient its mixed in sequence, so as long as you follow the recipe tips, you're sure to have your very own moist and tasty pound cake by the end of it.   Ingredients (Makes One 18cm Pound Cake) 100g butter (room temperature) 90g granulated sugar 2 large eggs (room temperature) 100g wheat flour 5g Uji matcha powder 4g baking powder Anko to taste   Making Keroppi's Face Eyes: Sliced White Chocolate Eyes & Mouth: Sliced Chocolate Cheeks: Strawberries Check out my video from this article for tips where I made Keroppi's face: https://www.moshimoshi-nippon.jp/ja/41842   1: Bring the butter to room temperature. Slowly add the granulated sugar to the butter while beating air into the mixture with a hand whisk until it turns a whitish colour and fluffy.   2: Beat an egg and bring to room temperature. Slowly pour into the mixture from Step 1 while mixing with the hand mixer. If you add it all or too much at once the egg will separate.   3: Sieve flour and mix and incorporate that, the matcha powder, and baking powder into the mixture.   4: Remove half of the mixture. Add the anko red bean paste into the remaining mixture, and then re-add the mixture you removed like a lid. Flatten the mixture's surface. Bake in the oven at 170° for approximately 40 minutes. If it starts burning at any point, cover with aluminium foil.   5: Once cooked, leave to cool a bit. Then wrap tightly while it is still warm. Leave to rest like this for about a day and your cake will be super moist and delicious. I didn't take any step-by-step photos this time around, but if you follow the instructions I promise you'll have a really tasty cake at the end. Try it yourself!   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.   We're all locked up at home right now as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and so I want to show you a fun character ice cream recipe that can be made with things you have at home! In this recipe, we'll learn how to make a Japanese parfait made in the image of the Little Green Men from Toy Story. This recipe is taken from the recipe book Disney Tsum Tsum Sweets Recipes.  

Ingredients

Matcha Ice Cream Chocolate Pens Fruit Toppings of your choice, such as red bean paste or soy flour  

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Draw the eyes, ears, and antennae of your little green men onto a baking sheet using a chocolate pen. Place into the freezer to chill.  

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Let the ice cream come to room temperature so it's easier to scoop, then scoop out with a round ice cream scoop.You can get an ice cream scoop from a dollar store. If you don't have one, place the softened ice cream into something round, and then let it harden again in the freezer. Afterwards, remove and place it into some cling film to shape it roundーthe same method you use for making onigiri rice balls in Japan. Then let it solidify in the freezer once more.  

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Before letting your ice cream from Step ② fully solidify, first place on the face parts from Step ①. If your ice cream is completely solidified and not soft enough, the parts will break when you try to fix them on, so make sure to take note. Once the parts are on, place into the freezer to harden. By doing this, the eyes, ears, and antennae will affix to the head.  

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In the recipe book, they top their parfait with rice flour dumplings, but I'm using the outer part of a large daifuku for my toppings. It's something I saw on the TV recently.Add a tablespoon of granulated sugar and two tablespoons of potato starch into a bowl and slowly add hot water until it becomes transparent. This is a super easy way to make gyuhi, a type of soft Japanese confectionery like mochi and daifuku.  

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Add the gyuhi on top of the red bean paste and top with soy flour.  

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Add your Little Green Man and fruit of your choice, then tuck int!   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!   ©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.   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!