Easy Sheep Sandwich & Bento Lunch

Today marks the start of the Chinese New Year, and with 2015 being the year of the sheep (or goat, depending on which website you read!) I thought that today would be a good day to share an easy sheep sandwich and a sheep themed bento lunch that I made for Small Child recently.

The sheep sandwich would be a fun one to make at Easter too, and would also be a good one if you're looking for cute animal themed party food!

This sandwich was really easy to put together, with the help of my nesting circle cutters, a mini circle cutter and tiny oval shaped bento cutter. To make, I used the crinkled side of my largest circle cutter to cut two circles from white bread. Using the mini circle cutter, I cut a circle from the centre of one of them, then used the tiny oval cutter to cut out the two ears. At this point I popped the sandwich filling on top of the second circle, then topped with the first.

I then cut a circle and two ovals from a piece of brown bread, and slotted them into place in the top circle of bread to make the face. I finished the face off with a couple of icing eyes (see my easy icing eye recipe) and a sliver of raw red pepper for the mouth.

As well as the sheep sandwich, which I filled with grated cheese and marmite, I also packed chunks of cucumber, cut into grass shapes, carrot flowers, a sheep shaped silicone cup filled with black grapes, and a little container full of dried fruit (dried mixed vine fruits and chopped dried apple rings) which I topped with a cute little sheep food pick. I finished the lunch off with a fun sheep cupcake pick. This lunch was packed in our TUMTUM lunch box.