Totoro Madeleines – Easy Kawaii Food

Totoro Madeleines

Fall is finally approaching! The terrible Texas heat has calmed down a bit, and I started to see more fall themed food in store.

When I went grocery shopping this week, I found a small box of pumpkin spice madeleines. Madeleines are one of my favorite food, so I couldn’t resist getting them… I had different baking plans for this week, but instead of baking something else from scratch, I decided to decorate these madeleines as Totoro! (Don’t you think Totoro and madeleines have similar shapes?)

With some almond slices, white chocolate, and dark chocolate, I transformed the ordinary looking madeleines into kawaii sweets! Here is how I did it:

Decorating Madeleines

Ingredients (makes 5 Totoro themed madeleines)

5 madeleines
1 cup White Chocolate Chips
A few pieces of dark chocolate squares – enough to draw Totoro’s facial features and markings on his chest
Black food coloring
Mint leaves (Optional)

Instructions

Attach almond slices on the madeleines by stabbing them into the cakes.

2. Put ½ cup of white chocolate chips in a small bowl and cover it with saran wrap. Microwave them about 30 seconds or until the chocolate chips are melted.

3. Add a drop of black food coloring to the melted white chocolate. Mix until the color turns light gray. (Add more food coloring if needed.)

4. Dip madeleines with almond slices into the melted chocolate. Cover the entire top of the madeleines and let them dry on a drying rack.

5. Once the gray chocolate coatings are dry, melt the rest of the white chocolate in the microwave.

6. Dip the madeleines into the melted white chocolate. Cover only the bottom half of the madeleines. Dry them on the drying rack.

7. Transfer any leftover white chocolate into a piping bag. Draw the white part of Totoro’s eyes on the madeleines.

8. Once the white chocolate coatings are dry, melt the few pieces of dark chocolate squares in the microwave. Transfer the melted dark chocolate into a piping bag.

9. Draw markings on Totoro’s chests, eyes and nose with the melted dark chocolate. Let them dry on the drying rack.

10. (Optional) Place mint leaves in between Totoro’s ears.

*To add more to the Totoro theme, I also made some acorn almonds. All I did was dip some almonds into white chocolate that is dyed in light brown, then dried them on parchment paper.

Summary

I’m pretty happy how the ordinary looking madeleines now turned into Totoro themed food! I hope you try this little project and leave me a comment if you do! Happy decorating!