Today I'm sharing a fun food tutorial for cheese and carrot coins. This is an update of one of my very earliest blog posts with new (hopefully better!) photos and a fun little video tutorial too. These carrot coins are very quick and easy to make, and are great as a fun snack, or to pop in a lunch box too.
All you need to make them is the following;
Ingrdients:
- 1 large carrot, washed.
- small block of cheddar cheese
Equipment:
- vegetable peeler
- small sharp knife
- mini bento cutters
Peel the carrot, then cut into thick slices or rounds. Cut slices of cheddar cheese to a similar thickness to the carrot rounds. From each carrot round, cut a shape using a mini cutter.
From a slice of cheese, cut a shape using the same cutter. Slide the cheese shape into the carrot round.
Repeat until you have as many 'coins' as you need. Mix them up with different cutter shapes, or you could hunt out some rainbow carrots to make them even prettier!
You could cook the carrot before you use it, but we preferred them raw. You could also apply this technique to other vegetables - we like to put carrot shapes into cucumber rounds too.
As I mentioned above, I've also made a fun little video tutorial to show you how I make these. If you enjoy it, do subscribe my YouTube channel, I hope to have lots more videos for you over the coming weeks and months.
If you’re having trouble loading this video, you can also watch it on YouTube here.
If you’d like more fun food ideas, you can also follow Eats Amazing over on Pinterest, where I am often to be found hunting down the best creative food from all over the web!
Grace
Cheese and Carrot Coins
Ingredients
- 1 large carrot, washed.
- small block of cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Peel the carrot, then cut into thick slices or rounds. Cut slices of cheddar cheese to a similar thickness to the carrot rounds. From each carrot round, cut a shape using a mini cutter.
- From a slice of cheese, cut a shape using the same cutter. Slide the cheese shape into the carrot round.
- Repeat until you have as many 'coins' as you need. Mix them up with different cutter shapes.
Diana says
AMAZING tutorial! I have to try this! Thanks for linking up to PIN MEme! I've pinned & tweeted this! I'm also following you via Pinterest & FB now!
Diana
Diana Rambles
Bento Blog Network
Link Rink
Christine - Yogaberry says
this is such a great idea! Will definitely have to try this x
Dawn says
what a great idea!
Siobhan says
Hi there, great idea for school lunchboxes for September. Just looking at ordering one or two things on website but can't find mini bento cutters...like ones in video. Could you please point me in right direction. Thanks