Adorable Toast Art

When I was just a kid, I'd always get in trouble for playing with my food. Now that I am old (-er), and old habits die hard, every now and then I still find myself enjoying the ever unnecessary but also oh-so-fun session of decorating my toast before eating it. I mean sure, you could just slap that peanut butter on top and get on with life but honestly, what's the fun in that? People are always saying " you must have so much free time on hand, with the funny toast and everything." Truth is, I really don't. I have the same 24 hours of never ending works and the misery of lack of sleep like everyone else. But this is also the exact reason that keeps me going, because creating yummy and cute foods makes me happy. Anyways, I have digressed. Back to cute toast! I don't really have recipes for each of them, because I usually just work with whatever ingredients I have on hand. A piece of white bread is basically like a blank canvas, after all! So have fun and go wild with your creations. Have a great week ahead everyone!    

Totoro Toast made with white chocolate and black sesame cream cheese spread!

Pompompurin toast with chocolate and peanut butter!

Pikachu toast with cheese and strawberry jam!

Cute turtle toast with panda kaya spread and fried quail egg!

Gudetama toast tugged warmly under a crispy bacon!

Recipe: Totoro Black Sesame Cookies!

After a much-dragged laziness, I am back! Now don't get me wrong, I have not been lazy in making the delicious treats, just writing it down takes a little more motivation than I have anticipated (guilty as charged).

Now on with the Totoro cookies! Just the other day when I was deciding what should my next project be, I came across Bento Monsters adorable Totoro Black Sesame German Cookies ( thank you Melody for tagging me on instagram), and BAM! Inspiration struck-ed. It just so happened that I had everything I needed to make the cookie, and hey everyday is a cookie day, am I right?

So adorable!

Instead of following Bento Monsters' recipe for the cookie dough, I have decided to use my own recipe, purely because I am more familiar with it and it has worked perfectly for cookies that needed shaping. Feel free to follow whichever you are more comfortable with, I am sure both will taste wonderful.

Overall, this was a really fun and easy cookie to make, my family loved it and I'll be more than happy to make more in the future. As usual, check out the recipe after photos, and happy baking!!

Fresh out from the oven!

Lining up to the plate!

Which is your favorite?

More shots of it!

Totoro Black Sesame Cookies

Recipe adapted from Bento Monsters, modified by Ashley Ooi

Super adorable Totoro Cookies!

Prep time: 1 hour
Cook time: 10 minutes
Total time: 2 hours (including cooling and sculpting time)

Ingredients

• 120g Butter (softened)
• 100g Icing sugar
• 1 Egg
• 270g Soft Flour/ Cake flour
• 3 Tbsp Toasted and grounded black sesame powder
• 1 tsp Charcoal Powder

Cooking Directions

1. Whisk the butter in a bowl until soft.
2. Add in the sifted icing sugar, whisk until creamy
3. Add in the egg and whisk again.
4. Add in sifted flour, use a spatula to fold the flour into the mixture. Keep folding until the mixture turns doughy.
5. Divide dough into 3 portions, around 300g, 50g and 20g. Colour 300g of it using black sesame. Colour 20g of it using charcoal powder. Leave the 50g plain.
6. Wrap the dough with a plastic wrap, let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
7. After 30 minutes, take out the dough and start sculpting your Totoro. (Follow Bento Monsters' detailed step-by step instruction, it works wonders)
8. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
9. Place the sculpted dough on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
10. Once done, set the cookies aside and let it cool completely.

Enjoy!

Love, 

Ashley