Get ready to squeal kawaii. The talented Count3D directed/edited a video (starring La Carmina and Count D) in the style of a silly Japanese cooking show! I demonstrate how to make a cheeseball that looks like a Super Mario puffer fish, similar to those adorable character bento boxes from Japan. Please watch, comment, and spread the word!

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“You may have seen Japanese school lunches decorated like Hello Kitty or Pokemon. I like to think outside the bento box – so I’m going to show you how to make an apple, walnut and blue cheese cheese ball. But we don’t want it to look like something your grandma made – so we’re going to turn it into a Nintendo-style blowfish.”

Ingredients: 300g white cheddar, 250g cream cheese, 125g blue cheese, 2 Granny Smith apples, 1 cup walnuts

Chop up the apples and shred the cheese. Mix together the cheddar, blue cheese, cream cheese, and apples. Shape the mixture into a ball. Cover it with wrap, and refrigerate overnight. The next day, take out the cheese ball. Roll it over a plate of chopped walnuts.

“Now let’s turn this lump into a Nintendo baddie.”

Ingredients: 4 heads of endive, 2 radishes, white cheddar, fresh tarragon, dried apple ring

Cut off the root of the endive. Arrange the spears on the cheese ball to look like spikes.

To make the eyes, slice the cheese about a centimeter thick, and cut out circles or semi-circles with the help of a shotglass. Add expression by pressing on fresh tarragon leaves. You can also use strips of other herbs or seaweed.

Use two slices of radish to give him rosy cheeks. You can turn the extra radishes into baby mice. “Kawaii! Oishii!” ( Cute! Yummy! )

A dried apple ring forms the blowfish’s mouth. Serve the cheeseball on a platter along with crackers and apple slices… and pray that you don’t keel over and die!