Come Back Bento - Manny The Red Dog

Hello again! As I said in my post before, I miss to do a charaben bento, so today I managed to make one of it. Yippie… Today’s theme is a dog, a red dog. My daughter named it Manny and I just know from her  teacher’s  that recently she mentioned Manny the dog. 

Last Sunday, I got order to make Elmo Cupcakes from my friend. This is my first time to make Elmo cupcakes and I really enjoy to make him. :D

Tickles the Happy Dog

Actually I was planning  to make one of the Sanrio’s character, but turned out it was out of shape. Can you guess what it is?  At the last minute, I decided to make a yellow dog because it is the nearest character that suit with the shape. Hihihi… Thankfully, Elaine said it was “Tickles the Happy Dog”

Cupcake Order

This is my first cupcake order..and you know what.. it's not for human, but for dogs...yes, for dogs. My Ob-gyne order it for her dog's birthday, at first i was surprised  when she asked  about it, because i never made cupcakes for dogs. The cupcake is also special, and i used ingredients that are safe for dogs.

Curious about it? Let's see what it is looked like..

 Carrot and Peanut Butter Cupcakes

and

Chicken and Bacon Cupcakes

with

Mashed Potato as frosting

 

Which one do you like? ^^

Spotty Dog

Glad to be back again, after almost 3 weeks not doing any bento. I made this Spotty Dog bento, because suddenly i remember about my cousin's dog whose name is Spotty. Hopefully my bento resembles to it. Inside the box: dog rice onigiri, stir fry greenbeans with corn and red pepper, blanched potato and carrot, and beef stew.

Last week, i was busy baking birthday cake for my daughter Elaine, she turned 3 years old on Aug 16, 2011. Time really flies so fast, i still remember when i did my labor. She was so red, tiny, and cried a lot. hihihi.. Until now, sometimes i still treat her like a baby. :p

Well, i baked Lapis Surabaya for the cake because my husband requested it. Until now i can't spread buttercream smoothly, so i used fondant to cover it. There were many cake idea, from Pororo, Princess, Mario Bros..but 2 weeks ago, McDonald gift Smurf Toys for the happy meal. Elaine loves them since the first time she saw it, so my husband and I came with an idea, why don't we make Smurf birthday cake from it. So can you imagine, how many happy meal we bought in order to collect all the Smurf ? lol

I baked the cake on Saturday, spread the buttercream at night and put in the fridge a whole night. This is Elaine's Smurf Birthday Cake

I also made Cakepops and Butter Cookies for Elaine's classmates and her teachers. Her teacher's said the kids were really excited to bring home the giveaway. I also had feedback from some of the teachers and parents, that the cookies and cakepops were yummy. So glad that they liked it. ^.^

I made the cakepops one day prior to the birthday party. I was afraid that the cakepop will fall off from the lollypop stick the next day, but thankfully they were still stick firmly.

For the butter cookies, i made them 4 days prior to the party, and i put them in a food container. I made Winnie Pooh and Miffy this time. 

Blow the candle, Elaine...

I'm so glad that everything went well from the preparation until the big day, the birthday girl really enjoyed the day and her birthday cake. All of tiredness suddenly disappeared, when she said "Mama, Elaine suka Smurf birthday cakenya. Bagus.." ( Mama, Elaine likes the Smurf birthday cake. It is very nice ) and she kissed me.. ^.^

Yellow Ear Dogs

 

First of all, i want to say sorry for the blurriness picture. All my photo are blur today. :'(

Today's bento was inspired from Akinoichigo's bento book, but i modified a little bit. hehe.. As you know, dog is Elaine's favorite animal, so i think why i don't make one for her. And my expectation is true, she was thrilled by her lunch today. So glad that she likes it!

Helly...Guk..Guk..Guk..

 

Now it's Helly turn... Helly is also a title from one of Indonesian Nursery Rhymes, the song is about a girl who adores her little puppy named Helly. Nowadays, almost everyday she asked me to play the Indonesian nursery rhymes dvd and she really enjoys it. Sometimes i can hear she is trying to sing the song. Good job, Elaine!

Hello dog...

 

Today i made dog theme bento again because Elaine really really loves dogs..all kind of dogs..from the smallest one to biggest one. Everywhere we go, if there are dogs, she will approach them and try to play with them. If the dogs ignore her, she will just squat in front of it and try to speak with it. She has no fear at all, even the K-9 dogs that is bigger than her.

So, when she found out dog bento as her lunch, she gazed it for a while and said: "Hello, dog". :)

Inside the box: rice, potato verkedel, pork and red bean soup, broccoli, and carrot.

Woof..Woof...

I prepared egg mayo sandwich for my husband's breakfast today and using bread mould to shape it.

Elaine really likes her book "Bath time for Biscuit" . Biscuit is a dog's name, and he is a cute brown dog. So, today i tried to make dog's bento for Elaine's lunch. Woof..Woof..

Inside the box: rice, chicken balls, broccoli, young corn, carrot, kani (underneath carrots), cherry tomato, chocolate chip ( for the nose ), and nori.

It's a dog... It's a bear

Nothing special about today, I just do my routine activities. 

Last night, my daughter sang 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' oftenly, the song inspired me to make lamb on her papa's sandwich This morning, i tried to make sandwich with lamb character on top of it, but when it was done, seems like the lamb had moustache :)

As for my daughter, i made a simple dog shaped rice for her lunch.. When she came back from school, the first things she did was looking at the dining table and kept on asking: "What's this, What's that?" while she pointed her finger to her plate and then she said "Wow...it's a bear..."  I kept on laughing at that time and confirmed to her that it was a dog, but she kept on insisting that it was a bear.. Maybe it was my fault, the shape was confusing her..