Bento Fun #166 – 3 Little Apricots
Happy Monday everyone!
The time we have been looking forward to for months ended without us reliazing… So fast a week has gone by and my friend and her family’s vacation here ended yesterday when we dropped them at the airport around 7.30pm. It was a fun weekend for us with lots of food and fun catching up. We only meet once a year. Most of the time we will go to Singapore but I was glad that they could come this time round as we might not have the chance to go Singapore this year.
We are back to our regular routine this morning.
I bought a loaf of orange bread from Roti Boy last weekend when we popped by QueensBay Mall. Looking at the color of the bread, it prompted me to make something fruity stuff so the ideas of making little apricots came to mind. Thinking that this could be the perfect time I show the ‘how to make bread onigiri’ since some of my readers asked me once when I did these little chickies some time back. 
First, get your biggest round cutter and cut out a circular bread.
Then lay that piece of circular bread on a cling wrap and put the desired filling.
Then put it onto your palm and slowly wrap the filling with the bread.
Once the sides meet, gently turn the cling wrap and tighten it into a ball just like how you will normally do your rice balls.
When you are done with all the ‘bread onigiri’, you do some ‘make-up’ on them and they will look like this…
In today’s box, the little apricots are filled with seaweed meat floss, a cherry tomato, carrot slices in flower shape, some flower shape apples in the little bucket and for treat, I gave the little devil a snack size bar of Cadbury Dream! 
Hope all of you enjoyed the sharing today and wishing you a great week ahead!
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I saw this method at a blog some time ago, but I forgot about it! You have just reminded me! LOL! It’s a great way to do kyaraben with bread. Thanks for sharing!
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Issit so??? I’ve not seen it any where before though when I first did it months back… but after I bought Karenmama’s book, I saw she did something similar but instead using circular shape bread she used square which can yield a bigger ‘ball’ from it.
Cute bread onigiri! Saw this on the Japanese bento book too but as I rarely put bread for kids’ bento then forgot about this hehehe :p … Great way to remind us to use this technique
Lia Chen recently posted..Bentolicious 107
Thanks Lia!
This idea is cool…. will give it a try. Thanks for the tutorial (^.^)
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Glad you like it Vanessa!
Looking forward to seeing some bread onogiri from you!
Great and thanks! Was going to ask you how to do it d…
But orange bread will definately be out of my “menu”.. surely don’t want any phone calls from d HM again.. haha!
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Aiyo… what is so strange about orange bread leh??? YOu must train Zoey to eat more ‘funny’ food! kekekekeke
How very clever! I really like this idea and plan to try it for the neighbor children who visit.
Kuusou recently posted..Bento 138 & 139 Tetris- Hello Kitty- and Grammas Bento
Thanks Kuusou! Hope you have fun trying them!
So finally you did the tutorial!
I did the other way for my bread onigiri previously, use the whole square bread just like in kaerenmama’s book. I think round shape should stick better right? Let me try this again with your tutorial.
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Yalor… since I woke up early might as well… else I’ll never get to do it if I continue to procrastinate!
I find that round is better coz less bread to fold in.
Oh I like this! I usually run out of ideas of making a bread bento. Will surely try this one. Thanks for sharing….
Jenny recently posted..Bento 19 – Mission to get Cinderella eat Strawberry
Your are most welcome Jenny!
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Thank you so much! I’ve seen them a few times and just recently wanted to use it! ^^
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