Doraemon Bento

Recently I had a few people who has asked me to make Doraemon, and most recently a colleague mentioned that she likes Doraemon.

So here it is, a Doraemon Bento. I not only made Doraemon but also Dorami-chan, she is the sister of Doraemon.

Like Doraemon, Dorami chan is also a robot from the future, in fact she often display far more advanced abilities than Doraemon. Yellow in colour, her red ears resembles a huge bow on her head. 

To make Doraemon, I coloured the rice using some blue pea flower extract when I cooked the rice.

While Dorami chan is coloured using egg yolk that was mixed in with Japanese rice.

Doraemon Ingredients

• Japanese rice
• Blue Japanese rice (rice cooked with blue pea flower extract)
• Crabstick
• Seaweed
• Canned peach

Dorami chan Ingredients

• Japanese rice
• Yellow Japanese rice (rice + egg yolk)
• Blue Japanese rice (rice cooked with blue pea flower extract)
• Seaweed
• Crabstick
• Red sausage

Using super yummy Koshihikari rice (my current favourite!) from Thinkrice.sg.

The side dishes for today’s Doraemon Bento included laksa meatballs, sauteed broccolin with baby corn, lettuce and carrots.

Yes, laksa meat balls! Using Dancing Chef’s laksa paste, I mixed some of it into my minced meat, seasoned it and grilled the meatballs. They smell so good and I can’t wait to try them!

Packed this in my Noda Horo white enamelware bento box, which is now available at Tokyu Hands.

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As promised, here is a Doraemon Bento.

So you like Doraemon?

I didn’t use rice this round to make Doraemon Bento as this is a one dish item – fried rice. So for Doraemon character, I used mashed potatoes instead.

I woke up a little later than usual so I needed something pretty quick and decided to just make fried rice with leftover rice and ingredients from my fridge. I added mushrooms, crabstick, vegetables, bacon and egg to the fried rice.

For Doraemon, I steamed the mashed potatoes then coloured them with some icing colours. I use icing colours as I only need to use very little to achieve the colours.

Method of shaping and colouring the mashed potatoes is as per the technique shared in my Kawaii Bento cookbook.

I also added some carrot flowers to the bento, lettuce as well as some pasta alphabets.

Since this is Doraemon Bento, the pasta alphabets spelt ‘Doraemon’.

Today’s Dorameon Bento was packed in the bento box from Afternoon Tea Japan.

I love the mix of the wooden lid cover which doubles up as a mini tray and the white box.

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I made Doraemon Deco Steam Cakes (or Deco Mushipan). It has been a while since I made such deco and character design steamed cakes.

Recently Daniel Food Diary was really kind to purchase 5 of my Kawaii Bento Cookbook for giveaway (now closed) on his Facebook. And in his question posted to the participants, he asked the readers to share what bento they would like me to make. Several mentioned Doraemon.

While this not a Doraemon Bento, I hope those who like Doraemon characters will like this creation!

Plus I also included the recipe in this post and step by step photos to make these Doraemon deco steam cakes :)

I decided to make these deco steam cakes this morning partly because I have yogurt left in the fridge and I needed something for breakfast.

And somehow, the Doraemon character came to my mind. Plus it is round in shape, which makes it easier to create the character design on the steam cakes.

If you do however wish to see Doraemon Bento, here is one!

I promise I will make more Doraemon Bentos soon!

Japanese steam yogurt cakes (mushi pan)

**Doraemon Deco Steam Cakes Recipe**

Ingredients

• Morinaga hotcake mix 1pkt (150g) (some of my readers have used other ready pancake mixes too but I usually stick to morinaga cause I like the taste)
• sugar 20g
• eggs (small) 2
• yogurt (I used marigold plain yogurt with sugar) 100g
• baking powder 5g
• salad oil 1tbsp (if you do not have salad oil, you can use usual cooking vegetable oil, you can also omit the oil entirely if you prefer a healthy recipe)
• vanilla essence 3-5drops (optional)
• blue icing coloring (for Doraemon’s head)
• red icing coloring (for Doraemon’s nose)
• dark cocoa powder (for outlines) 0.5tsp
• plain flour 2tsp

Method

1. In a large mixing bowl, add in the eggs, sugar, yogurt, baking powder, vanilla essence, salad oil and hotcake mix and mix well.

2. In three smaller bowls, add in (A) 0.5tsp dark cocoa powder (B) 0.5 tsp plain flour (C) 1.5 tsp plain flour, respectively

3. From step 1, scoop out the following batter into the the small bowls (A) add in 2 tsp batter (B) add in 2 tsp batter + some red icing colouring (C) add in 6 tsp batter. Mix well. These are for piping the designs and outlines.

4. To the remaining batter in the large mixing bowl, add in some blue icing colour to create the blue colour batter.

5. Fill small muffin cups (about 6cm in diameter) with the blue batter up to about 75%/80% full. It should yield you at least 5 cups. 

6. Transfer the various batter into small piping bags.

7. Start create the white base for Doraemon’s head. Followed by the outlines and nose.

8. Be creative! You can create different expressions~

9. Place a steamer rack in a large pot with water, bring to boil. Then steam the cakes for about 12mins under low heat.

10. Important notes:

- The pot should be big enough to ensure space for the rising of the steam cake

- Please use a steamer cloth to wrap the pot lid, this is to prevent water from dripping onto the cake and spoiling the designs or causing sinkage

- Please use low heat when steaming the cakes, too high heat might cause the cakes to split and destroy the designs

- As my muffin cups are very thin, I used double layer when I steam them so that it will not expand too much and the design will stay. 

I hope you enjoy this fun Doraemon Deco Steam Cake recipe!

Its great for breakfast, picnics and parties too! As yogurt is used in these steam cakes, please try to consume the cakes within the next day of making them.

Not a fan of Doraemon?

Why not check out my other deco steam cake recipes

- Totoro Steam Cakes

- My Melody Steam Cakes

- Kiiroitori Steam Cakes

- Brown Bear Steam Cakes

- Minion Steam Cakes

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Doraemon Bento for breakfast!

I believe this is my first Doraemon Bento I have made! Haha, can’t believe that in my almost 4th year of making bento I have not made Doraemon.

On the plane ride on JAL airlines to Japan, I watched the latest 2014 Doraemon movie – ‘Stand By Me Doraemon‘. A 3D computer animated film based on the Doraemon manga which was released in August 2014.

The movie was touching and I was cried especially towards the ending of the film.

Doraemon is the main character of the manga series. A robot cat, he was sent back in time to aid Nobita. Known to possess a cool pocket from which he could pull out all sorts of high tech and futuristic tools and gadgets. A friendly and kind personality, Doraemon loves to eat dorayaki.

I wanted to make a Doraemon Bento when I got back. Since I have a lunch appointment today, I decided to pack a breakfast bento instead.

Using round bread buns and cheese, I created both Doraemon and Dorami-chan . The smaller details and the features were made from egg sheet, red egg sheet and seaweed.

Dorami-chan is the younger sister of Doraemon. Yellow in color, she has red ears that looks a little like a red bow on her head and she loves eating melon-pan.

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