Tsum Tsum Easter Food Art

I'm updating my Tsum Tsum Easter creations today. I want to get this done before Good Friday, as I'll "disappear" for the next few days to catch my K-drama, the new episodes I've been waiting for all week is finally coming again, lol. I did not managed to make much Easter creations this year, if you need more Easter ideas, you can check out all my past ones here.


The first Easter Tsum Tsum I made were these chiffon cakes. They are meant to look like Easter eggs.  I actually wanted to make a rice version of this too, but did not have time to work on it. Maybe next year, if I'm still into Tsum Tsum then.


I've no recipe to share for this as they did not turned out very well, I think I was a little too ambitious to make so many different designs and colours at one go, lol. Never mind, I'll try again next time, already have the next design in mind, I need to start collecting egg shells. -_-


The basic recipe I used is the same as the Gudetama chiffon cake recipe I shared earlier here, I just split the batter and colour them in different colours before folding in the egg white.


Tsum Tsum Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore Easter eggs on bread cups. Here's the link to make the bread cups. This time I filled them with some minced pork curry.


The quail eggs were all coloured naturally, beetroot for Piglet, curry powder for Pooh, mixture of beetroot and curry powder for Tigger and mixture of beetroot and red cabbage for Eeyore. A little troublesome though, a faster way would be just to colour them using food colouring.


Ingredients used to make Pooh and friends were just nori and quail eggs.

Tsum Tsum Deco Sushi

Hello! I'm back to update my blog today with more recent creations. I got a copy of Tsum Tsum deco sushi book in Japan, and tried my hands on making some using the recipes in the book. The book is in Japanese, but there are pictures, and it's not difficult to guess how to make the sushi from there. I will probably be exploring more creations in the book again.


The first set I made was Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet. You might have noticed that the sides aren't neat, it was due to the fact that the knife I'm using is not sharp enough. I actually don't have any sharp knifes at home, I've a phobia of them, I'm so accident prone, I think I'll easily slice off my fingers with a sharp knife.


The colors were done using mashed egg yolks, deco furi and sushi mix. It's not that difficult making these as the recipes in the book was very precise, I just need to work harder on the neatness part.


The second set I made was Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Pluto. I accidentally mixed in a little too much grounded black sesame with the rice, the rice turned out too dry and not sticky, so the grey portions were tough to roll, lol. Never mind, I'll learn from my mistake, so hopefully next time will be better.


Ingredients used to get the different colours were ketchup, deco furi, mashed egg yolk and grounded black sesame. The pink portion of Kamaboko was used for Daisy's bow and Donald and Daisy's cheeks.


And here's a shot of the different characters from the two sets I made together. Which one do you like?


I don't think I'll be making so many different designs at one go the next time, probably at most just two or three different ones next round.

Pooh bear & Friends Donuts

It has been a long time since I last shared about donuts on my blog. I started experimenting with various designs last school holidays. The ones I'm sharing today belongs to one of my earlier batch. I recently made an updated glazed version of this, I like the look of that one better but that recipe will be shared another time instead.


Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore donuts, which one do you like? These donuts are baked, not fried, so the texture is similar to cakes. You would need a donut mould for this recipe, I'm using a silicon one but the metal ones are fine too.


I used Morinaga pancake mix to make this, but if you can't get hold of it, you should be able to substitute with other pancake mix.


I'm only sharing the recipe on how to make Pooh, since he's the easiest. However, you can use the same basic recipe to make the Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet.


I used soya milk and cold pressed coconut oil for this recipe and the donuts turned out really fragrant, I recommend these two combi, but I've also provided alternatives you can use in the recipe.

POOH BEAR 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
A little Wilton yellow icing colours
A little black charcoal powder

Method:

1. Put pancake mix, soya milk, egg, honey and coconut oil in a bowl and mix until all the ingredients are evenly distributed. Scoop out 2 tbsp of batter, add in black charcoal powder and mix well, fill in a pipping bag (A) and set aside. 

2. Add in some yellow icing colours and mix well. Scoop out 4 tbsp of batter and fill in a piping bag (B) and set aside. 

3. 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.

4. Use pipping bag (B) to draw out circles on a tray lined with baking paper. Bake in preheated oven at 180C for 2 minutes. This will be for Pooh's ears.

5. Using pipping bag (A), draw out Pooh's features on the baked donut, return the donut to the oven and bake for 1 minute. Stick on Pooh's ears using melted chocolate.

6. The same basic dough can be used to make Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger.

Tsum Tsum Ice-Cream & Kebab

This week is going to be a really short school week, all thanks to our upcoming Jubilee celebration for our Nation's birthday. :) I've been wanting to make some Singapore themed food art, I've been toying with two ideas, hopefully I'll get at least one of them done this week.


Meanwhile, here's some Tsum Tsum Pooh Bear, Tigger, Piglet & Eeyore rice-cream. This is my second rice-cream creation, the first one was made using Sanrio characters.


I used deco-furi to colour the rice for Tigger and Eeyore. Then, for Pooh, I used mashed egg yolk, and lastly beetroot water was used for Piglet.


Moulding the rice on sticks does makes it more fun for kids to eat. Side dishes for that day were lemon fried chicken and stir-fried fish with veggies.


Here's a kebab version of the Tsum Tsum Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet. Side dishes to go along were chicken yakitori and fishball and spinach egg drop soup.


The rice were coloured using the same way as the Ice-cream ones. Other ingredients used to make these were nori, cheese and ham.


This was actually a last minute idea, I coloured the rice with the intention of moulding them like macarons, only to realised there was no potatoe at home, had wanted to use the mashed potato to substitute for macarons fillings. Never mind, I will keep that idea for another time.

Tsum Tsum Pooh & Friends Cookie

This post has been sitting in my draft folder with all the photos for two weeks, wanted to get it done end of last week, but I was busy with my bento project, so still did not managed to do so. It's a short school week for my boys this week, they have no school this Thursday and Friday, yay. However, we will probably be stuck at home most of the time revising for IT's upcoming exams, but we are still looking forward to the break.

Pooh, Tigger, Piglet & Eeyore Tsum Tsum

TSUM TSUM is a plush toy that is sold in Disney stores in Japan. There are TSUM TSUM plush toys for most of the Disney characters. The soft toys are really kawaii, somehow Japanese just have this talent to make everything extra cute. TSUM TSUM also has a game you can download and play on your phone/tablet.


TSUM TSUM has been on my to do list for sometime. I decided to start off with making Pooh and friends first. Will continue to make more characters, after I get some Easter bentos done.


These onigiri are mini versions and my favourite out of the four is Eeyore.


From left to right, Pooh Bear, Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore. Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore were coloured using deco furi, Pooh Bear was coloured using mashed egg yolk. Other ingredients used to make these were crabstick, nori and ham. Oops, just realised much later, after my boys ate the onigiri, that I forgot to add on the stripes for Tigger. -_-


Here's an idea how you can pack them into your bento. :)


It's mini sized, held in my palms for you to see.


I only did a tutorial to make Pooh Bear Tsum Tsum, details below.


First, mix in mashed hard boiled egg yolk to your rice. You can add in a pinch of salt if you like, suppose to be tastier this way. I usually omit since my boys have no complains about the egg yolk rice. Alternatively, you can also colour your rice using yellow deco furi, sold at Daiso and Meidi-ya.


Using cling wrap, mould an oval rice ball and two small round balls for Pooh Bear's head and ears respectively.


Remove the top red strip of cooked crabstick using a toothpick. Trim/cut away the excess portion.


Wrap crabstick around the oval rice ball and wrap with cling wrap to secure.


Add on Pooh's ears using pasta.


I used this puncher for Pooh's eyes, the rest were cut out using a pair of sharp tipped scissors.


If you find it difficult to trim nori into small pieces, you can make a bigger Pooh, it's much easier to trim bigger pieces of nori. :)

Where to get same or similar item used in today's post:

Eeyore Bento

I'm still making the usual lunch and snack bentos for the boys on School days. I've delayed sharing some of the snack bentos, because I'm saving them for a product review post. Here's sharing the Eeyore lunch I made today, snack bentos will be shared on another day.


Eeyore made from glutinous rice bread, nori, cheese and ham.


Lunch today is salmon mayo sandwiches, meatballs, grapes and strawberries.

Items used in the bentos: