How to Make Pop-Up Panda Toast & Bento Sandwiches

Creating Adorable Pop-up Toast Ponds: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hello and welcome back to another M-made how-to today! I'm excited to share with you a fun and easy project that's perfect for kids and adults alike - making cute little pop-up toast ponds using the Tokyo otako mode Bento kit. This kit is a great way to get creative in the kitchen, and it's also a wonderful way to spend quality time with your family or friends.

The Tokyo otako mode Bento kit comes with a few cookie cutters that can be used to create adorable pop-up toast ponds, as well as other fun designs like cute little frogs. The kit is available for purchase on the website mentioned in the description bar, and it also includes a bunch of other Japanese-themed items that you might find interesting.

In this video, I'll be showing you how to make these adorable pops using the Tokyo otako mode Bento kit. To start, we need to soften our slice of white bread and put it in the microwave for 10 seconds. This will make it easier to cut out the shapes. Next, we'll line up our cutter and press firmly to get a nice impression of the face or design on the bread.

Once we've got our shape, we'll separate the top of the bread and crisscross it behind the bear's head to create a pop-up effect. You can adjust the amount of crisscrossing to achieve the desired level of depth for your pops. One tip I learned during trial and error is that the ears of the bear tend to get a little bit dark, so we can use aluminum foil to cover them up.

Now that our bread is ready, it's time to toast it in the toaster oven until it's lightly browned and golden. You can also add some Nutella to the eyes, nose, and ears for extra flavor and detail. To make a sandwich using this kit, we simply cut our bread in half again, microwave for another 10 seconds, and then use the cutter to cut out the bear shape.

The best part about this kit is that it includes a few accent pieces like a crown, bow tie, and heart that can be used to add extra details to your pop-up toast. We can also use these to create cute little sandwiches for our favorite snacks. To assemble our Bento, we simply place the toasted bread on top of each other, add some lettuce, cheese, or other fillings, and voila! Our adorable pops are ready.

Before I move on to the next section, let's talk about bread in Japan. If you're planning to buy white sandwich bread in Japan, it usually comes in a small stack of four to six slices, which is square in shape, and very thick - similar to this Texas toast. In contrast, sandwich bread in the US is typically half as thick and sold as Texas toast, which is often used to make French toast.

For this project, I highly recommend using Japanese-style bread that's thicker than regular sandwich bread because it will give your pops a better pop-up effect. If you can't find it, just be aware that it might not work as well as it would with the right type of bread. And remember, when it comes to contrast and aesthetics, white bread is always the best choice for cutting out shapes.

Moving on to the finished Bento, I must say that it turned out adorable! Here's a close-up shot of the little froggy and bear, both of which were created using the Tokyo otako mode Bento kit. I added some grapes and pretzels as snacks because they're my son's favorite, but you can use whatever ingredients you like.

Now, here's the best part: Tokyo otako mode is giving away one of these adorable pop-up toast ponds to a lucky winner during the holiday season. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment in the description bar below and tell me what your favorite sandwich is. On Christmas, I'll announce the winner, so be sure to check back then for the exciting news.

Before we wrap up, let's talk about some other fun channels that are giving away their own cute goodies using Tokyo otako mode kits. Be sure to check them out and enter their giveaways as well because it's going to be a fantastic holiday season! And finally, I want to thank Tokyo otako mode for hosting this giveaway, as well as all of you guys for watching and participating in the fun.

And there you have it - our adorable pop-up toast ponds are now ready to share with friends and family. As always, I hope you learned something new today and had a blast making these cute little treats with me. Until next time, take care and see you in my next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engreetings up hi it's Emmy welcome back to another M made how to today I'm going to be showing you how to make this cute little popup toast Pond Panda Pop and so it's a little kit that includes a couple cookie cutters that can make up this little popup toast you can also use this kit to make a cute little Bento so I got this really cute kit from Tokyo otako mode and I'll put the link down in the description bar where you can find more information about that as well and they have a bunch of other Japanese kind of themed things as well besides just Bento kits and things but pretty cool stuff so be sure to check it out so this video is part of a little collaboration so be sure to check out these other channels and see what they do with their things they got from Tokyo Hot Taco mode all right so let's go in the kitchen and I'll show you what I did first thing we're going to do is take our slice of white bread and in this case I'm using the Texas toast we're going to soften the bread and put it in the microwave for 10 seconds after 10 seconds line up your cutter and then press really firmly and give it a good width to make sure it cuts through the bread so choose what face you want and then you're going to line up the ears and press firmly and then you should get a nice little impression of the face next you're going to separate the top of the bread and then just crisscross it behind the Bear's head and this is what will make the bread pop up after a little trial and era I found that the ears of the bear tend to get a little bit dark So to avoid this just take a little bit of aluminum foil and cover up the ears next place the bread in toaster oven and toast until mess and golden if you like you can add a little bit of Nutella to the eyes nose and ears for a little bit of detailing and flavor so to make the sandwiches is the same process just cut your bread in half again microwave for 10 seconds and then use the cutter to cut out the bare shape and again choose the face you like and make the impression and make your sandwich the cutter also includes a couple accent pieces a crown and a bow tie and a heart which you can just cut out of American cheese and then stick them onto your sandwich using a little mayo assemble your Bento and add your favorite snacks and you're done let's talk about bread in Japan so if you're going to buy a white sandwich bread it usually comes in a small stack of either four to six slices and it's usually square and the slices are very thick very similar to this so in the states it's usually sold as Texas toast this is called restaurant Texas toast and it's often used to make French toast which is battered with egg and then fried so here in the states sandwich bed is about half this thickness so this cookie cutter is made for Japanese style bread which is thick like this so if you can find it I recommend using this kind of bread because then your Panda will stand up better I tried using just regular sandwich bread and it was a little bit floppy so just an FYI I added a little Nutella for contrast and for flavor but of course you can keep it plain but super adorable and really easy to use and for aesthetic reasons I recommend using white bread you have more more contrast when you cut out the shapes rather than brown bread and okay here's the finished Bento and it too turned out adorable here's the little froggy and here's a little bear and I just added some grapes and some pretzels which are my son's favorite I'm not actually going to eat this because this is my son's lunch and because it's the holiday time of year Tokyo otaco mod is going to give one of these away all you have to do to enter is just leave me a comment down below let me know what your favorite sandwiches I want to know and on Christmas I'll announce the winner good luck to all of you guys and make sure you check out these other channels and you can enter their giveaways as well they're giving away some other fun cute stuff and thank you Tokyo takoe for hosting this giveaway and thank you guys so much for watching I hope you guys enjoy that I hope you guys learn something and I shall see you in my next video too take care bye so there it is up close and it is adorable front and back it's pretty big look it's like the size of my head and let's give this a taste here we go panda face pretty good\n"