Dear Sanriotown friends, it’s Easter time and the home of Hello Kitty and friends is fully packed with new content! As usual, we will have a fancy new calendar and exclusive Easter e-cards for your beloved ones’ viewing pleasure. Make sure to check them out!

Again there is plenty of other new stuff such as brand new screen savers, cute wallpapers, emoticons and a new exciting fun game on our game center. What a treat! It obviously means that the time has come to enjoy yourself and have a good fun on Sanriotown again.

We wish you a happy Easter Time with your family and keep our fingers crossed for you too so you get the coolest Easter Eggs around!

SanrioTown Europe Team

Today is a very special day for our fluffy and dreamy friend Cinnamoroll, because he was born March 6th. Happy Birthday Cinnamoroll! Hello Kitty even baked a special birthday cake for her dear friend.

We found the following recipe at http://happyhomebaking.blogspot.com/2007/10/birthday-cake.html and share it with you, so you can make your loved ones happy too.

Ingredients:
(make a 18cm round cake)

3 eggs, bring to room temperature
90g caster sugar
100g cake flour
20g unsalted butter, melted
2 tablespoons fresh milk (I used low-fat fresh milk)
2 ~ 3 drops of vanilla extract

filling & frosting:
1 cup non-dairy whipping cream
1 can peach slices

Method:

1. Sift cake flour, set aside. Melt butter, set aside. Grease and line a 18cm round pan. Position rack at the lower bottom of the oven. Pre-heat oven to 170degC.
2. With an electric mixer, whisk eggs and sugar on HIGH speed for about 5 to 7mins, until the batter double in volume and is ribbon-like (the beater should leave a ribbon-like texture when the batter is lifted up). Turn to LOW speed and whisk for another 1 to 2 mins. Whisking at low speed helps to stabilise the air bubbles in the batter.
3. Sieve over the sifted cake flour in 3 separate additions, into the batter. With a spatula, gently fold in the flour each time the flour is added. Take care not to deflate the batter.
4. With a spatula, mix about 1/3 of the batter with the melted butter in a separate bowl. Fold in this mixture into the remaining batter. This method will help to ensure the butter will be fully blended and at the same time will not deflate the batter.
5. Add in fresh milk and vanilla extract, and fold in gently with spatula, until well blended.
6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Gently give the pan a few bangs on a work surface to release air bubbles that are trapped in the batter. Bake for 30 ~ 35 mins, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Unmold, invert the cake on cooling rack and cool completely.

Assemble the cake

1. With an electric mixer, whip the non-dairy whipping cream still stiff.
2. Slice the cake horizontally into 2 layers. Brush the surface of the sponge layers with the syrup from the canned peach slices. This helps to keep the sponge layers moist.
3. Place one layer of the sponge cake on a cake plate/board. With a palette knife, spread some whipped cream evenly over the layer. Arrange 2 concentric rings of peach slices on the sponge layer. Fill with some more whipped cream and spread it evenly all over. Top with the second cake layer.
4. Spread the whipped cream over the top and side of the cake. Decorate as desired.

Have fun!

Stop press! You know what, the long awaited days are here now for the highly anticipated online game of Hello Kitty finally! We are delighted to inform you that the Hello Kitty Online game closed beta version is currently online on Asia. Another fantastic news is that soon we will be having the Europe version of the Hello Kitty Online game on our website for the European Kitty lovers and Sanriotown friends too. More and detailed info about our favourite kitty’s online game will be released here so do not forget to check the “Online Game” section of our website every now and then. See you soon!

Have fun on Sanriotown.

Sanriotown Europe Team

A couple of days ago was a merry day for our curious but a little scatter-brained friend Pochacco. Why so? Because today February 29th is his birthday! Born on 1989, Pochacco is one of many celebrities on our Sanriotown world. If you are a fan of this cute doggie, you can check out his balloon game on our game section and help him give balloons to his friends at circus to wish him a Happy Birthday!

Have fun on Sanriotown.

Sanrio Europe Team