Hello Kitty & Friends Donuts

PHello!! I'm finally back to dust off the cobwebs from this space, lol. Sorry for the long hiatus, I don't really know why, was just feeling lazy after exams were over, just not motivated to switch on my laptop to update my blog. -_-


If you have been following my Instagram, you might have seen these Hello Kitty donuts I made last year. I am finally going to update the recipe for these in today's post, sorry for the long wait.


These donuts are baked, so the texture would be similar to cakes instead.


I happened to have matchy Hello Kitty nails that day. Sadly, my pretty nails can never last past a few days, due to all the housework I do. :(


I also went on to make Hello Kitty friends, Keroppi, Pompompurin and my melody on another day.


These batch was rather messy though, as I had some problem with the chocolate consistency.


I thought I'll share this Hello Kitty milkshake in this post as well, since there is a donut on it. I made this to share with my boys after their exams. I've seen lots of version of this ultimate milkshake and thought I'll try to recreate it.


There's strawberries blended with vanilla ice-cream and milk in the glass. I frosted part of the glass with white chocolate and sprinklers. For the layers on top, I added donut, Kit Kat, Pocky, Hello Kitty and bow chocolates. This was quite fun to make and fun to share, definitely would be too much for one person to finish this.


I used the Morinaga pancake mix for this recipe. If you can't get hold of them, you can use this old recipe of mine over here instead.

HELLO KITTY DONUT RECIPE

Ingredients:
150g Monrinaga pancake mix
100ml soya milk/milk
1 egg
3 tbsp honey
10g cold pressed coconut oil/vegetable oil/melted butter
Almonds
White chocolate
Pink chocolate/Wilton pink icing colouring
Chocolate
Yellow Chocolate/Wilton yellow icing colouring

Method:

1. Put pancake mix, soya milk, egg, honey and coconut oil in a bowl and mix until all the ingredients are evenly distributed. 

2. Lightly grease donut pan with vegetable oil. Spoon mixture into donut mould till around 80% full. Bake in preheated oven at 180C for 15 minutes.

3. Remove from mould and leave it to cool down fully.


4. Using a knife, make slits on top of the donut, just enough for you to insert the almonds for the ears.

5. Melt white chocolate either over a hot water bath or in a microwave.

6. Dip the almonds in white chocolate before placing them back in the slits. Dip the donut in white chocolate. If you find your almonds dropping when you turn over the donut to dip it in the chocolate, you can scoop the chocolate over the donut to coat it instead. 

7. Draw on Hello Kitty's nose using yellow chocolate. If you can't get hold of this, add on a yellow icing colouring to white chocolate to colour it yellow. Draw on the rest of the features using chocolate. 

8. You will need a ribbon mould to make Hello Kitty mould. Alternatively, you can also use two heart shaped sprinklers to form the bow. Melt pink chocolate, pour into the mould and leave it to set in the fridge before removing. If you can't get hold of pink chocolate, add on a pink icing colouring to white chocolate to colour it pink. 

Hello Kitty Strawberry Yoghurt Tart

I'm updating a strawberry tart recipe for today. Sorry, it took me so long to get this recipe up. I've been trying to sleep early lately as I've extra chauffeuring duties in the morning which needs me to drive onto the highway. Having not enough sleep always makes me feel like sleeping when I'm driving on the highway, so I'm trying to sleep earlier to prevent that from happening. Ended up not having any time left for updating the blog at night.


Back to the strawberry tart recipe I am going to share. Instead of making the usual strawberry tart, I decorated it into Hello Kitty.


I used a small tart mould to bake this, somehow I think smaller always looks cuter, lol.


Here's a slightly bigger version, but still smaller than the usual tart size. This one was made with the help of LT. He loves to help with my food preparation, he enjoyed cutting up and laying out the strawberries for this .


LT also helped me to fill another tart with raspberry, I ate this one because no one at home like raspberry. The recipe I share called for a glaze but I've left it out as I was out of strawberry jam and forgot to replenish it. It's optional but glazing gives the fruits a nice shiny finish.


This same recipe can also be used for making a fruit tart, simply use whatever fruits you fancy for the toppings.

HELLO KITTY STRAWBERRY YOGHURT TART RECIPE

Ingredients:
Tart:
125g cake flour
30g almond powder
60g butter, room temperature
50g icing sugar
1 egg yolk

Yoghurt:
250g plain yogurt
200ml whipping cream
60g sugar
20g gelatin powder
4 tbsp water

Topping:
Strawberries
Blueberries
Lemon peel
2 tbsp strawberry jam
2 tsp water

Method:

1. To make tart, sift together cake flour and almond powder.
2. Using a whisk, beat butter and sugar till fluffy. 
3. Mix in the egg yolks, one at a time. Mix well.
4. Use a spatula to fold in the ingredients form step 1. The mixture will become crumbly.

5. Use your hands to bring the mixture together and cling wrap it. Let it chill in the fridge for an hour.

6. Roll out dough using a rolling pin

7. Butter a tart mould and place on top of the dough .Flip the dough over onto the mould. Use your finger to press the dough into the tart mould.
8. Cut off excess dough. Poke dough with a fork.

9. Line the top of the dough with baking paper, then fill with baking stones. Bake in an oven preheated to 180℃ for 18 minutes.
10. Remove the stones and bake at 180℃ for another 10 minutes. Leave to cool down.
11. To prepare the yoghurt filling, start by beating whipping cream with mixer at high speed until peaks form. Set in the chiller.

12. In another bowl, add in the plain yogurt and sugar, stir to dissolve.

13. Add in the gelatin powder and water in a bowl. Heat in microwave for 15 seconds for gelatine to dissolve.
14. Fold in the whipped cream into the yogurt mixture and add in the gelatin.

15. Pour the mixture into the tart shell. Chill in the fridge for at least an hour.

16. Cut out Hello Kitty's eyes and whiskers from blueberries. Cut out her nose from lemon peel.


17. Cut out Hello Kitty's bow from strawberry.

18. Assemble the cut-outs on top half of the tart. Fill the bottom half of the tart with strawberries. Heat up jam and water over low heat till it become loose, let it cool before brushing onto the fruits.

Sanrio Baguette & Somen

If you have been following me on Instagram, you might have seen my post about my bento book, which is coming out on 1 September 2015. My book is now available for pre-order. I've updated a list of links on where you can pre-order the book here. In the post, I've also included a brief about my book writing journey, as well as some sample pages from the book. If you are just looking for the links to order, you can skip what I wrote (It's brief for me but might be a little lengthy for you) and just scroll to the bottom of the post for the links.


Open-faced sandwiches I made to share with my boys for afternoon snacks during the June school holidays. I used baguette to make these, I sliced and toasted the baguette before topping them with assorted fillings like smoked salmon, lettuce, cheese, ham, eggs, etc.

Can you spot 4 Sanrio characters in there? The four Sanrio characters are Hello Kitty, Keroppi, Pom Pom Purin and My Melody. I used cream cheese, tomato, cheese and nori for Hello Kitty. For Melody, I used smoke salmon, cream cheese, cheese, ham and nori. Ingredients used for Pom Pom Purin were mango, mushroom and nori. Keroppi was made using mashed peas, cheese, nori and ham.


I allowed my boys to choose the sandwich first and they left the tomato and radish for me, lol. -_-


Another version of the four Sanrio characters, this time using coloured somen. I did not colour them, they are available for sale in different colours.


Ingredients used in the food art, other than the noodles were, cheese, capsicum, nori, ham, mushroom and bow pasta.


These noodles were served cold with a dipping sauce, quite refreshing to eat these during the hot weather.

Hello Kitty Steamed Chicken Bun

Hello! I'm back again to update with a recipe. Been missing in action a little due to the school holidays, I've not been making food art this week, whatever postings you see me sharing on Instagram were actually done earlier. I might make something tomorrow, IT's friends are coming over for a playdate, so I'll have time to do my own stuff. :)

Sheep Cookie & Hello Kitty Bento

Happy Chinese New Year, I wish you good health and happiness in the Year of the Sheep. :) My kitchen has been closed since wednesday, happy to take a break from cooking and washing up, lol. My boys are going back to school tomorrow, so my kitchen will be open again, feeling a little lazy after the short break though.

Cornell Hello Kitty Sandwich Toaster

Do you remember I shared about the Hello Kitty sandwich toaster from Cornell last year? The toaster just got a makeover and I love this new revamp version.

Hello Kitty Ice Cream Bento

I have no idea what to update today, not because I've no bentos to update, but there are too many in my backlog, I've can't decide which one to choose. Sign. :(

Hello Kitty Living Room & Bedroom

I've been sleeping early the past two nights, felt a little feverish and thought I better rest more in case I come down with flu. Thank goodness I feel a lot better today. :)


Remember the Rilakkuma living room I shared before? You can click HERE to take a look if you missed it. This is the Hello Kitty version of that living room. This time, I added in a grand piano as well. I had wanted to make Hello Kitty, but I ran out of time.


Yah, I know the proportions are kind of wrong, the sofa looks gigantic next to the grand piano. :P Ingredients used to make this food art were sandwich, nori, ham and cheese. Rather simple ingredients. The bag, shoe and food on the coffee table were all from my Re-Ment set.


I let my boys create their own sandwich, I gave them lettuce, ham, smoked salmon and tuna mayonnaise for the fillings.


This Hello Kitty bedroom food art was done on a different day. I made Hello Kitty and her bear plush out of mashed potato. Ingredients used to create the bedroom were bread, egg, ham and nori.


My boys ate this with a beef patty and lettuce. It's like a burger, except I swapped the burger bun with bread instead. I also made some asparagus soup for them.


I think I will be making Rilakkuma's bedroom next. :)

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