Pandas get a lot of love from the public, as they should, and I was amazed to hear about the 1-2 minute time limit you get at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo to view them due to the high volume of visitors they receive. If you want to celebrate those bamboo loving cuties at any time, then why not make some yourself!
The pandas in these macarons from Sugar Bean have swapped the bamboo for ice cream and they are adorable.
However, if the full body seems a little complicated for what you’re after, then Jasma Fusion Cuisine has some simpler faces to try out instead, that come complete with little blushing cheeks too.
Little Blog of Vegan never disappoints with her designs and I love these doughnut holes that utilise Oreos for the black features. If you want to simplify this recipe even further, you could buy the doughnut holes and just use the decoration inspiration from this post.
While the pandas at the zoo may look cute, I wouldn’t advise trying to snuggle with them. However, if you make this amigurumi panda from The Amigurumi, you can have all the panda cuddles you want.
This video & blog post from Rosanna Pansino contains THREE panda recipes, but I think the panda pannacotta might be the best one as it’s sat on top of a layer of chocolate brownie…delicious!
This panda cream puff recipe by Sweet Essence has little cream pandas peeking out of choux buns and I don’t think there’s much that can top this. Would you choose to make the ones with the smiley mouths or the ones without?
Art IDEA shows you how to make a pom pom panda in this tutorial, and I can’t help but think that these might make the most adorable bag charms. You could have a panda with you wherever you went…
Yuki Kitchen teaches us how to make shiratama pandas ready to top anmitsu (a traditional Japanese dessert) or another type of pudding or parfait, like their Panda Chia Pudding. The step by step instructions make these beautiful decorations look easy and now I want to top all of my desserts with little panda faces.
When we were in Yokohama last year, we made sure to stop for panda buns in Chinatown and they came served piping hot and filled with red bean or chocolate. Cooking with May Lynn shows how you can decorate mantou buns to look like pandas too, so you can make similar ones at home!
I have never tried to make a bath bomb before, but these pandas from A Pumpkin & A Princess look like they’d be so fun to do. You can modify the scents to make them smell just as you’d like and they’d make a great gift too.
These panda cookies from Bento Monsters look fabulous and I love how there are two shades of cookie dough to make them. The cookie cutters are available to buy, but if you can’t get hold of these specific ones, then Petite and Minimal have some gorgeous matcha panda cookies that don’t require a cutter and are made in a roll so you can make lots.
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