Totoro Pancake Tutorial: Easy Totoro Pancake Food Art

Totoro Pancake Tutorial: Easy Totoro Pancake Food Art 🍽️🐾

If you love Studio Ghibli and delicious pancakes, why not combine the two? This Totoro Pancake Tutorial will help you create an adorable Totoro-shaped breakfast that’s as fun to make as it is to eat! 🥞✨

Ingredients 🛒

1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup buttermilk (or milk + 1 tsp vinegar)
1 egg
1 tbsp melted butter
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Cooking spray or additional butter (for cooking)
Chocolate chips & banana slices (for decoration)

Tools Needed 🛠️

Mixing bowls
Whisk
Non-stick skillet or griddle
Pancake batter dispenser (or spoon)
Spatula
Toothpick (for precise detailing)

Instructions 🥄

1. Make the Pancake Batter

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, mix the buttermilk, egg, melted butter, and vanilla. Combine wet and dry ingredients, stirring just until blended. Don’t overmix—lumps are okay!

2. Heat Your Pan

Set a non-stick skillet or griddle over medium-low heat and lightly grease it with butter or cooking spray.

3. Create Totoro’s Body

Pour a large oval-shaped pancake for Totoro’s body. Cook for about 2 minutes until bubbles form, then flip and cook another minute until golden brown. Remove and set aside.

4. Make Totoro’s Ears and Belly

Pour two small pancakes for Totoro’s ears and one smaller, round pancake for his belly. Cook as before and set aside.

5. Assemble Totoro 🐾

Place the large pancake as the base, then attach the two ear pancakes at the top. Add the smaller pancake to the lower half of the body for Totoro’s belly.

6. Add Facial Features

Use banana slices for the eyes and place chocolate chips on top for pupils.
Make Totoro’s nose with a single chocolate chip.
Use melted chocolate or a toothpick dipped in chocolate syrup to draw his whiskers and chest markings.