{"id":15407,"date":"2025-11-29T13:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=15407"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:22:38","slug":"what-is-a-bento-cake-and-how-to-make-one-the-trending-mini-cakes-that-come-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=15407","title":{"rendered":"What is a bento cake and how to make one? The trending mini cakes that come from the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/28\/8cf1ddf3-08a9-4703-a5d0-a8279e1ef126_21429781.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bento cakes are creative, look impressive and come from the heart. And these South Korean mini cakes have spread well beyond Asia thanks to social media.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The palm-sized cakes offer everything a large cake does, including a base, filling, coating and decoration. They often feature a short message to the recipient, such as a buttery \u201cLove yourself\u201d or an apologetic \u201cOops\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIn South Korea, people love colourful, playful and cute things,\u201d says Man Ahn B\u00fcschges, a master confectioner and operator of an online bakery.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The name bento is derived from the Japanese bento boxes, those lovingly assembled lunchboxes that enjoy cult status in large parts of Asia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Photos of bento cakes and videos of people surprised when opening a box are often shared on social media, but bento cakes do not need an online audience.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThey are easy for anyone to make and are a great gift,\u201d says Marid Lubenow, an author and food blogger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3334448\/what-bento-cake-and-how-make-one-trending-mini-cakes-come-heart?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bento cakes are creative, look impressive and come from the heart. And these South Korean mini cakes have spread well beyond Asia thanks to social&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11191,3303,6149,939,2842,1836],"class_list":["post-15407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-bento","tag-cake","tag-cakes","tag-heart","tag-mini","tag-trending","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}