Totoro Rolls for Character Bento
- 2 Bread rolls
- 1 Any fillings you like
- 2 slice Sliced cheese
- 1 Nori seaweed
- 1 Toasted pasta
- Brown spaghettini in a oven toaster to make toasted pasta.
- Cut the back of the rolls diagonally like this.
- Cut the trimmed bread in half and make ears with scissors.
- The bottom part of the ears should be long because you will insert these parts into the bread.
- Make slits horizontally in the bread and add your favorite fillings.
- Hold the bread rolls with the cut part down.
- Make small holes on top to insert the ears.
- (I used a design knife, but you can do this with a normal knife.)
- Insert the ears into the holes.
- Hold the ears with tweezers and poke them into the holes.
- Take the tweezers out of the hole.
- Fold a piece of kitchen paper and make a template of Totoro's stomach.
- Cut the paper into a rice ball shape.
- Place the template on sliced cheese and cut the cheese by running a toothpick along the template.
- Place the cut cheese on the bread rolls and cover with cling film to stick together.
- Stamp out mouth shapes using a oval cutter twice.
- Stamp out eyes with a small round cutter.
- Stick the browned spaghetti at the back of these parts and stick the spaghetti into the bread rolls to make faces.
- Make the nori parts and use mayonnaise as glue to stick to the face.
- Break the browned pasta into 2 cm long pieces and stick in as whiskers.
- For a more detailed description about making the nori parts, see
bread rolls, like, cheese, pasta
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/171836-totoro-rolls-for-character-bento (may not work)