Mini Lunch Box Cakes - Bento Cakes

In this video, I make 3 bento cakes from scratch using a super easy vanilla batter—perfect even if you’re a beginner!
It’s also a relaxing ASMR-style bake, so turn the sound on and enjoy the soft kitchen sounds 🎧

⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Vanilla cake batter
01:23 Leveling & layering cakes
02:34 Filling the round cakes
03:19 Crumb coating the round cakes
04:20 Filling the heart-shaped cake
05:09 Crumb coating the heart
06:20 Coloring the buttercream
07:23 Coating the cakes with color
09:00 Piping the decorations

Cake Ingredients:
-3 eggs
-250 ml Greek yogurt (≈ 1 cup)
-150 g sugar (¾ cup)
-70 g sunflower oil (⅓ cup)
-250 g all-purpose flour (2 cups + 2 Tbsp)
-16 g baking powder (1 Tbsp + 1 tsp)
-1 tsp vanilla extract

Bake:
Preheat to 175 °C (350 °F) and bake for 35 minutes in 10 cm (4 in) cake tins.

Fillings:
-Strawberry jam
-Caramel sauce

Buttercream:
-500 g soft butter (2 cups + 3 Tbsp)
-500 g icing sugar (≈ 4 cups)
-50 g heavy cream (≈ ¼ cup)
-1tbsp vanilla extract

Decorations:
🍒 Cherries Cake
ColorMill: Yellow, Red, Burgundy, Olive
Nozzles: 3 mm round (red), 2 mm round (green)

🎀 Bows Cake
ColorMill: Tiffany, Sky Blue
Nozzle: 1.5 mm round

❤️ Hearts Cake
ColorMill: Baby Pink, Red, Burgundy
Nozzles: 2 mm round, 3 mm star

Sorry for the focus issues toward the end—I only noticed after filming. Still learning!

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