From Hearts to Hens and Snails Bentos

Again, today’s title sounds weird! Anyway, you will know what I mean later.

My gal requested that I fixed her some mini heart, so I thought of decorating the hearts, instead of just packing them as plain heart sandwiches. I spread some jam on the bread and cut and sealed the bread with 2 heart cutters as shown below:

The cutters are slightly different in sizes. Make sure that the smaller one is used “upside down” so that it will seal the bread instead of cutting through.

Then, I proceeded to decorate the jam sandwiches. I fixed two hens for my gal by adding picks and cheese as wings.

They will be hens, after adding nori and kamaboko as their rosy cheeks.

As for my boy, I cut 3 pieces of cheese with 3 different sizes of round cutters to create the shell of the snails.

I stacked the cheese to create the spiral effect.

So, here are the bentos:

My gal’s Two Little Hens Bento. Let’s pretend that the hens are hatching eggs.

There are quail eggs, oranges (hidden under the strawberries) and rose apples in the bento too.

These snails belong to my boy.

Pretty simple huh?

Comments: 14

KidsDreamWork August 25, 2010 at 9:59 am

Love these, especially the snails, the cheese stack spiral are so cute!

bobo August 25, 2010 at 10:48 am

You are just so creative, love the ideas of the snails.. I will copy your idea to make the heart sandwiches one day..keke..

shoppingmum August 25, 2010 at 11:19 am

Thanks KidsDreamWork and bobo.

tona-mama August 25, 2010 at 12:59 pm

So cute! They are just so pretty! Love your ideas as always!

Btw, which brand of cheese do u use cos they look so ‘stiff’ and thick.. mine usually melt and gets soft rather quickly.

Nomadic Mom August 25, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Cute. Cute….

shoppingmum August 25, 2010 at 2:40 pm

tona-mama, it’s Kraft.

Thanks Nomadic Mom!

Lia Chen August 25, 2010 at 2:43 pm

Great ideas as always! Same question with tona-mama … The cheese melt so quick and now I’m very rare to put it in my kids bento

shoppingmum August 25, 2010 at 2:48 pm

Lia Chen, you can try cutting the cheese and wrap up, and keep them in the freezer. Only take out when you need them for decorating. That’s something I learned from Yum Yum Bento.