Birthday Bento

Name: Birthday Bento
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 3 slices bread (preferably shokupan); 3 slices bread (preferably shokupan); 2 to 3 slices ham; 1½ teaspoons mayonnaise (preferably Japanese); 1½ teaspoons mayonnaise (preferably Japanese); 2 slices provolone cheese; 1 slice Cheddar cheese; 5 very thin slices cucumber

Preparation info

Yield:
1
Serving

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
15 min

Appears in

Simply Bento

By Yuko and Noriko

Published 2018

About

Make a special sandwich lunch for someone’s birthday! Here, a simple ham sandwich is transformed into a tiered birthday cake. There is a lot of cutting (even using cookie cutters), but it’s easy to do.

Ingredients

Sandwich Cake

3 slices bread (preferably shokupan)
2 to 3 slices ham

Asia
Japan
Cake
Sandwich
Birthday

Method

From the bread, cut out two 3½-inch (9 cm) rounds and two 2-inch (5 cm) rounds with cookie cutters. Repeat this step with the ham slices. Spread the mayo on one side of each round of bread. Sandwich the large ham rounds between the large bread rounds, and the small ham rounds between the small bread rounds. Set aside.
Cut out 2 rounds of provolone cheese, one s