Totoro Cheese Toast 龙猫芝士吐司

Bread Based Food Art - Totoro Cheese Toast 龙猫芝士吐司. Easy to make, nice to see and fun to eat! 

This is a quick and easy method to transform an ordinary toast into an interesting toast. No drawing required, all I did was to toast the bread and let it coloured naturally when toasted.

This was made for my 8yo son. 

Although I said it's easy, there's still some preparation need to be done before you can get a nice Totoro printing on your toast. 

Here are some quick notes, hope it helps:

I made this cute Totoro Cheese Toast using my home baked bread, tap the link below to get the bread recipe.

<< Click/ Tap here for Light & Fluffy Japanese Sweet Bread recipe >>

1. First, get a piece of aluminium foil, cut out Totoro shape. 

2. Place the aluminium foil onto the bread and toast the bread. 

3. Assemble and add details using cheese and seaweed. Optional: Draw the Totoro outline with chocolate spread.

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Basic French Toast 基本法式吐司

Basic French Toast 基本法式吐司 - Make your morning special with a delicious french toast that can be whipped up in minutes with any type of bread. 

Can be cooked in a skillet, air fryer or oven. 

French Toast cooked in a non stick pan.

Air fried French Toast.

Serve it up with fresh fruits, honey, butter, caramel or anything that you can think of... ;)

The little boy loves it with Sakura Honey.

Ingredients:
材料

2 slices Thick Bread 厚切面包 2片

1 Egg 鸡蛋 1粒

60ml Milk 牛奶 60毫升

Pinch of Salt 盐 少许

1 tbsp Sugar (optional) 细砂糖 1汤匙，可省略

Some butter for cooking 牛油 适量

Note: omit the sugar if you're serving the french toast with syrup.

Simple yet yummy breakfast, these are comforting, sweet and tender.
Serving the french toast with strawberries and maple syrup.
Photo updated: Nov 2023.

Honey French Toast, lightly sweetened and pan-fried with butter, tastes so good!
Photo updated: 31 Dec 2023

Made Ham & Cheese French Toast for our breakfast using the same recipe. 
This sweet and salty combo is one of our favourites!
Photo updated: July 2024

French toast with creamy peanut butter filling for breakfast, made using my homemade bread. 
Photo updated: August 2025

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Method: 步骤 

1. In a bowl, lightly whisk egg, milk, sugar and salt to combined.
将鸡蛋，牛奶，糖和盐拌均。

2. Dip the bread into the egg mixture. 
面包沾上（1）。

Cook in a skillet: Heat some butter in a skillet, pan fry the bread until both sides are golden brown. 

Cook in air fryer: Grease the air fryer pan with butter, place the bread onto the pan, cook for 4 minutes, flip and continue to cook another 3 minutes.

3. Serve warm with your favourite toppings. 烧热牛油，将面包两面煎香即可。也可以用气炸锅，气炸4分钟翻面，继续炸3分钟或至熟。若喜欢我的食谱，可以LIKE和追随我的面书专页，不要错过最新食谱发布。If you like my recipe, click here, LIKE & follow Miki's Food Archives Facebook page or follow us on Instagram: mfa_dingoozatfood  to receive more recipe updates. Remember to favourite my pages if you wish to see my posts on your news feed. Enjoy!

Little Chicks Onigiri Lunch Box/ Bento 可爱小鸡蛋黄饭团

Rice-Based Food Art - Little Chicks Onigiri Lunch Box/ Bento 可爱小鸡蛋黄饭团: A healthy, pretty and colourful meal made with no artificial colouring. Specially made for a picky kid who hates egg yolks. 

My son appetite changes from time to time. Now it's the time that he had that "sudden hate" of eating cooked egg yolks. Whenever I cooked hard boiled egg for him, he'd picked out the egg yolks. So I thought I would make a change in my food preparation. 

The simplest way is to add the egg yolk in rice, just like how I normally add pumpkin in his rice. Cooked and mashed, mix in the rice, that's it. In order to make it more exciting to eat, I mould the rice into cute little chicks for him.... Just hatched! Aren't they cute? :)


Here are some quick notes of how I made these little chick lunch box/ bento:

1. First, get everything cooked. In this lunch box, we had Coca-cola Chicken Wings, Stir Fry Kai Lan with prawns, hard boiled egg and rice. The Coca-cola Chicken Wings were so yummy, get recipe here >> Coca-cola Chicken Wings Recipe >>

Learn how to cook Coca Cola Chicken Wings

2. Mash the egg yolk, season with a pinch of salt, mix with rice. Mould into little chicks. Add details - I used sweet corn to make the beak. Just poke a little hole on the rice ball and place the sweet corn in it. The sweet corn can fit in quite well. 

3. Add facial expression details using seaweed. You may use a puncher or trim out with a pair of scissors.

4. Assemble. 

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Purple Sweet Potato Sago Dessert 紫薯椰汁西米露

Purple Sweet Potato Sago Dessert 紫薯椰汁西米露 - A delicious dessert made with purple sweet potato gives it a beautiful and vibrant purplish colour. Added coconut milk made it so creamy and aromatic. A simple and humble dessert that you can easily replicate at home.

In the past, I used the conventional method to cook this dessert that required steaming, blending and cooking. It's nothing difficult but I hate the washing! Now that I have got my Song Cho Soup Maker, everything seems a lot easier. All I need to do is to prepare the syrup and cook the sago, then put the ingredients in the soup maker and let it do all the work for me. It's mess-free and the result is good, really tasty!

Song Cho Soup Maker

紫薯营养价值高，含抗氧化成份，能抗衰老及改善皮肤肤质。含纤维素，可促进胃肠蠕动。紫薯可以保肝护肝，含有大量黏液蛋白，能够防止肝脏和肾脏结缔组织萎缩，提高免疫力。



Ingredients:
材料


(A) 

60g Sago (you may adjust the amount to your own preference) 沙谷 60克，可以自行加／减份量

2 Pandan Leaves 班兰叶 2片


(B) 

80g Rock Sugar 冰糖 80克

500ml Water 水 500毫升

4 Pandan Leaves 班兰叶 4片


(C)

360g Purple Sweet Potato (peeled, cut into chunks) 紫薯 360克，去皮切小块

200ml Coconut Milk 椰奶 200克

300ml Water 水 300毫升

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Method: 步骤

1. Bring a small pot of water to a boil, add in (A). Simmer for 6 minutes, stir constantly. When the cooking is over, remove from heat, keep the pot covered, let it sit for 30 minutes. Discard pandan leaves. Strain and rinse the sago under cold running water to remove any residual starch. Set aside.
煮滚一锅水（食谱份量以外），加入(A) 煮6分钟，不断搅拌。离火，盖上，静置30分钟。班兰叶丢掉。沙谷过筛，用冷水冲洗多余的淀粉质，备用。

2. Add (B) in another pot, bring to a boil. Reduce to low heat and simmer until the rock sugar fully dissolved. Set aside and leave it cool to room temperature. 
另一个锅里，加入（B）煮滚。转小火将冰糖煮溶。待凉备用。

3. Add (2) and (C) into Song Cho Soup Maker, it should reached 1300ml mark. Add some water if the water level is below 1300ml. 
将（2）和（C） 加入松厨浓汤机。如果水位未达1300毫升，可以加水。

4. Cover with the lid. Press MENU, select SOUP and press START. 
盖上。按 MENU 》 选择 SOUP 》按 START 》。

5. The soup maker will alert you with the "beep" sound when it's ready. Remove the lid, stir in the cooked sago. Serve warm or chilled.
浓汤机会开始运作，音乐响了后把盖打开，加入沙谷，即可享用。若喜欢我的食谱，可以LIKE和追随我的面书专页，不要错过最新食谱发布。

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~ Special thanks to Song Cho Singapore ~ 

Some feedback from those who have tried this recipe:

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Cola Sticky Chicken Wings 可乐鸡翅膀

Cola Sticky Chicken Wings 可乐鸡翅膀 - This is a classic Chinese recipe where soft drink is used as main ingredient in the sauce to add sweetness and tenderised the meat. Just a few ingredients used, the result is heavenly! 

The same recipe that I used to cook chicken drumsticks.
Cola Chicken Stew

Ingredients: 
材料


12 Mid-joint Wings 鸡中翼 12只

1 tsp Corn Flour 玉米粉／粟粉 1小匙


(A)

10g Shallot 小葱头 10克

4 clove/ 10g Garlic 蒜头 10克

6 slices/ 15g Ginger 姜 6片 


(B):

200g Coca-Cola 可乐 200克

2 tbsp Soy Sauce 酱油 2汤匙

Dash of Garlic Pepper 大蒜胡椒 少许

1 tbsp Shao Xing Hua Tiao Wine 绍兴花雕酒 1汤匙

1/2 tsp Dark Soy Sauce 黑酱油 1/2小匙

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Method: 步骤


1. Add corn flour to the chicken, mix well and let marinate for an hour.
鸡翅膀加入玉米粉／粟粉，拌均，腌 1小时。

Sometimes I would add a slice of lemon, it's more appetising.
However, kids may not like it with lemon. 

2. Heat oil in a pan, add in (A). Add in chicken wings, pan fry both sides. 
烧热少许油，加入（A），加入鸡翅膀两面煎香。

3. Add in (B), bring to a boil, simmer till the sauce is thick and glossy. Remove from heat and serve.
加入（B），煮滚。转小火焖煮至收汁，即可享用。若喜欢我的食谱，可以LIKE和追随我的面书专页，不要错过最新食谱发布。

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3D Bear Peanut Butter & Cheese Sandwich 可爱小熊花生酱芝士三明治

Bread Based Food Art - 3D Bear Peanut Butter & Cheese Sandwich 可爱小熊花生酱芝士三明治. This cute little bear sandwich looks like plush toy, it's assembled from homemade soft Japanese bread with peanut butter filling and cheese as topping/ decoration. Adorable breakfast that kids will definitely love!

Here's another creation of mine, a simple one as I do not want to spend too long time in the kitchen when my boy was at home with me during school holiday. Although I know he is willing to wait for his special + limited edition breakfast. It's limited edition because for each design, I will only make once! 物以稀为贵 :)

I baked some bread 2 days ago, a tall and fluffy bread. The bread was soft even on the third day, no cooking/ reheating required, so I can spend some time in food decorating.

<< Click here for Light & Fluffy Japanese Sweet Bread recipe >>

Here are some quick notes of how I made this cute 3D Bear Sandwich:

1. Prepare the striped/ bi-colour heart shape cheese.

2 types of cheese needed for the bi-colour heart shape.Stack up to yield the bi-colour layers. 
You can use a few slices/ more cheese so it's easier to handle.
I only used 2 slices of cheese because I do not want to keep the leftover.

Carefully slice the striped cheese block and lay it flat on the board.
Use a heart shape cutter, cut out the cheese and it's ready.

 2. Assemble.

Trim a slice of bread as shown in this picture.
Add peanut butter spread. Place a piece of cut-out on the bread as support.

Trim another slice of bread into bear shape.
Place on top of the peanut butter bread, gently bend the bear bread to make it into siting position.
Add details using cheese and seaweed and it's done!

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