Instructions

Decorations:

1. Using the Hello Kitty nori punch, punch out the full design from the nori seaweed 4 times, so that you end up with 4 sets of Hello Kitty faces. Keep all pieces except for the nose.
2. Using the nose (AKA small oval) cutter located on the Hello Kitty food cutter, cut out 4 noses from the orange cheese – these will become the Hello Kitty cherries’ noses.
3.  Pour the plum sesame salt furikake into a small bowl, and pick out 4 of the flower chips to use in place of Hello Kitty’s bow. Pour remaining unused furikake back into the packet.

Dying the Rice:

1. In a small bowl, mix beet powder with 1 – 2 tablespoons warm water until dissolved. Feel free to add more beet powder as needed to achieve desired color.
2. Add your homemade pink dye to warm rice, and mix until rice becomes evenly colored.

Assembly:

1. Fill mini rice ball mold with pink rice, secure the lid, and shake for 30 seconds. Carefully remove rice balls from mold, and wrap each one in plastic wrap until ready to decorate. Repeat this entire step until you have a total of 4 pink rice balls.
2. Using tweezers, apply nori facial features (eyes & whiskers) to a pink rice ball.
3. Using tweezers, apply the orange cheese nose to the pink rice ball.
4. Using tweezers, apply 1 flower furikake chip just above either the left or right eye, where Hello Kitty’s bow would normally sit. Feel free to use some honey or mayo to help it stick better.
5. Repeat Steps 2 – 4 on remaining 3 rice balls.
6. Take 2 Hello Kitty rice “cherries” and connect them to each other by inserting the double leaf stem food pick into the top of each one. Repeat on remaining 2 Hello Kitty rice cherries.