Delicious Brains...

I made some lovely delicious brain for the party, and wanted to share how to do it!
This is what the finished brain looked like...nom, nom, tasty stuff!

What you need:

• Pack of Kanten - I don't know what this is in English, you often get it in fruit salads, it's got a jelly/jello type of texture and sweet (see picture below)
• Strawberry jam
• red and black food colour
• milk 50ml
• sugar (optional)
• brain mold available from amazon.com and amazon.co.jp
• small saucepan
• whisk

In a small saucepan, whisk together one sachet of kanten and 450ml water - I used less water than recommended because I wanted to set firmly. Continue heating and whisking for 2 minutes.

Add in the milk then the red food colour until it's a nice pale pink then a tiny bit of black to give it a nice grey hue. Stir in a dessert spoon of strawberry jam. Stir well until the jam has melted. You might want to add sugar or other flavouring now, mine wasn't very sweet. 

Pour into the mold then pop into the fridge for a couple of hours until it has set.

Once it looks like it has set well, turn the mold over and squeeze out - makes a suitably revolting sound when you do it!

Serve as is, or if you want to use in a bento, quarter the brain and serve with a side of fresh flesh ahem, strawberry jam! This is how I served the brains in the bento boxes at the party (see here)

Using 1 sachet will make you 8 brains, so let the first lot set then when you are ready to make the second set you can just heat up the mixture again, it will melt then pour it into the mold as before.

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Halloween Bento Boxes...

Halloween came early for us this year as we couldn't have the party next weekend, we had great fun and I have a lot to share so I have broken it down into smaller posts.

I decided to make some bento's up for the kids, yeah, you know these are going to be good - the kids know me too well and were hesitant to open the boxes *evil cackle*

I had a big pile of card egg boxes which were perfect for the job, just needed a bit of personalization first. 

Dreadfully Delicious Delicacies

Heavenly nibbles from body parts, fresh from the house of Ebi

And inside, ohhh how yummy.... We have zombie toenails, giant cockroach eggs, severed fingers, freshly picked eyeballs, flayed skin, poached brains with fresh flesh and witches warts. Delicious no?

Some of the kids demolished the lot, Ebi-kun asked for a second bento! The darling Disney princess wouldn't eat anything until I told her what it really was, then she was perfectly happen to munch on delicate fingers! I think in this picture they were letting one of the older kids sample some of the delicacies first!

No doubt some people are the same and want to know what is included...

Severed Fingers - wiener sausages with onion nails and ketchup (tutorial HERE)

Witches Warts - Japanese pickles

Brains and fresh flesh - A type of jelly with jam (will post the recipe tomorrow)

Giant Cockroach Eggs - Black beans

Zombie Toenails - Burdock chips

Flayed Skin - Parma ham

Freshly Picked Eyeballs - Boiled Egg (Tutorial HERE)

Using the egg cartons turned out to be a great idea - easy to transport and no washing up! If you liked this post feel free to pin it or share it or both!

I have put together my favourite Fun & Fast Ghoulish Halloween Treats into an ebook so you can whip them up at anytime (why just serve ghoulish food at Halloween?)
17 absolutely disgustingly delicious treat ideas...

All fast and fun to make
All pretty healthy, made from kitchen basics
Most of them suitable to make with the kids too

PLUS a bonus labels pack too!