Awhile back I got an adorable book called Yum-Yum Bento Box: Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches. It has been sitting on my shelf for a few years, waiting for the day when I had some supplies to create cute food.

Thanks to some Amazon giftcards, the day finally arrived! I have a Panda bento box, and many fun shaped molds to make boiled eggs with. My first attempt was a Hello Kitty boiled egg, which turned out cute, except the egg was too small so it really didn’t mold. Further attempts at other shapes have worked out much better, and we are thinking of making some as a fun twist on the traditional Easter egg (we will still color eggs though).

One of my favorite YouTube shows, Cooking With Dog, has a very good video about making bento:

What about you? Have you tried making cute foods for bento boxes?

Aren’t they great? And of course for our first use we had to make gingerbread cookies. We even tried to decorate them, but most of them found their way into our stomachs before they really got decked out in frosting.

But never fear, one cookie was caught hanging out before getting eaten, and as you will be able to see our decorating skills need some help.

Yeah, a girl ninja! The photo quality is almost as awesome as the decorating job! But that’s not the fault of the totally fun cookie cutters! You can get your own at ThinkGeek. Next time I am going to try making sugar cookies, or even brownies! There will be so many different kinds of ninja running around our house (until they are eaten of course).