Ladybug steam cakes

Ladybug ladybird steam cakes. I have been playing with the electric steamer I got for my birthday.

There are so many things you can do with a steamer!

After trying a few savory things I am now trying sweet.

I saw some lovely steam cakes by bentomonsters and went looking for recipes and how to. I found a recipe at mimibakery

I had some of the ingredients to hand but not all so I improvised recipe below.


Recipe:

2 cups flour
1 cup sugar granulated because that's what I had
150ml skimmed milk regular milk is good but I didn't have any
3 eggs straight from fridge
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 tablespoon sweetened condensed milk


Directions:

Mix everything together on medium speed in mixer for 5 minutes.

Set aside 3 tablespoons color brown with food coloring put in a Wilton Squeeze Bottle or piping bag.

Set aside 1 tablespoon in a Wilton squeezy bottle or small piping bag

Color the of the mix red.

Fill silicone Cupcake cases about 2/3 full. (I am not sure how regular paper cupcake cases would hold up to steamer.)

Then draw a cross with the brown and fill half in.

Draw three dots each side.

Dot large dots of plain for eyes and then a small dot of brown.

Pop any big air bubbles with a tooth pick.

Gently place in steamer make sure they do not touch the sides.

Steam for about 16 to 18 minutes.

It will depend on your steamer my first batch came out gooey in the middle. They will rise nicely but need to steam a bit longer to set.

Best eaten warm and fresh.

I am going to try different designs so experiment and have fun.

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First actual lunch bento: Love snails

The lovely monbento black box came in the mail today. I bought it from amazon I will do a review when I have had chance to see how it holds up.

So first bento for middle kid (she is easiest as she will eat anything)

I had to go with what was in the fridge so base of French toast. Grass is spinach tortilla. Snails are rolled up cheddar and mozarella with spinach tortilla on a quarter of a frigo cheese stick. Spaghetti eye stalks with cheese and sesame seed eyes. Heart strawberry. Ladybug is half a babybel. Toadstool is other half plus other half of cheese stick.

This is my first attempt and I am not hopeful of it reaching the destination in one piece. I need to work on some items for tighter packing. Other layer of bento has fruit and mini cookies for treat.