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March 14 is White Day in Japan - it is customary for guys to gift chocolates to girls from whom they had received chocolates on Valentine's Day a month before. At Splatoon's Squid Research Lab, the male researchers got together to make some squid cookies, but they didn't turn out quite as expected...
PSA from the Squid Research Lab: Please do not worry, these are not going to be made available to the general public
明日はホワイトデー。
— Splatoon（スプラトゥーン） (@SplatoonJP) https://twitter.com/SplatoonJP/status/708954824834809856">March 13, 2016
イカ研究所の男性研究員がバレンタインデーのお返しにクッキー作りに挑戦したそうだ。
作り方を訊いて同じようにやってみたらしいが……結果はご覧の通り。
なお、このクッキーは一般販売されないのでご安心ください。 https://t.co/4dSZecjTXW">pic.twitter.com/4dSZecjTXW
Seeing their male counterparts' complete failure, the girls at the lab got together and made a super kawaii guide for them to challenge those squid cookies again...if they're brave enough.
The instructions are simple even for those who do not speak Squid Language (or Japanese):
1. Mix sugar, egg, flour, almond powder and butter. (Though the proportions were not specified..!)
2. Color the dough with purple sweet potato, pumpkin, chocolate and dark chocolate.
3. Shape into squid following the pictures as shown. (click on the pictures to expand)
女性研究員がクッキーの作り方を図解してくれたのでご紹介しておく。
— Splatoon（スプラトゥーン） (@SplatoonJP) https://twitter.com/SplatoonJP/status/708955329648676864">March 13, 2016
男性研究員に訊いたところ、
・材料の混ぜすぎ（サクサク感が無くなる）
・オーブンの予熱が不十分（溶けてしまう）
が失敗の原因だそうだ。
挑戦される際はご注意あれ。 https://t.co/pUyReY0nOc">pic.twitter.com/pUyReY0nOc
The recipe is certainly super cute - but we wonder how easy it'd be to recreate the ideal Squid Cookies. Will you be up for the challenge?
This is a Tokyo Otaku Mode original article.