How To Make a Tomato Bunny

So folks, here's the tutorial for the tomato bunnies featured in Takoyaki's bento yesterday.  

WARNING: some gory and bloodshed ahead. Do not proceed if you cannot bear to see a tomato get dissected.

Here are the stuff that you will need.  The paring knife is actually good enough for all steps, but I took the Hapimogu carving knife out since I have it.

Cherry tomato, black sesame seeds, a small sharp knife, tweezers.

First, slice off lengthwise, a side of the cherry tomato. Make sure the piece you cut off is less than half the tomato.

Slice off less than half the tomato

Next, cut out a triangular wedge from the cut off piece. Discard the wedge (or eat it). What's left will form the ears.

Ear piece is done

On the main tomato, with the cut side down on the board, carefully slice at a 45 degree angle halfway into the tomato, towards the stem end. Do not cut all the way through.

Just in front of the cut, right above the stem end, gently poke two slits with the tip of a small sharp knife to form the eye slits.

Ouch! I'm blind

With the tweezers, poke a black sesame seed into each slit.

I was blind but now I see

All that's left to do is to insert the ear piece into the flap and the tomato bunny is done!

 

Tomato bunny complete! (in lots of gore)

You can also try this technique on other fruits. Here's a grape bunny.