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April Fools' Day Food

Miniature Hamburgers
Shamburgers
April fools' day is big at our house.  I love to make crazy foods for the kids.  We call these "SHAMBURGERS!"  They are made out of vanilla waffers' (the buns), peppermint patties (the meat),  red and yellow icing (ketchup and mustard), and coconut tinted green with food coloring (lettuce).  For the top I spread a little karo syrup and top with sesame seeds.  Fun.  It's really just a kids snack. 
Child with minature hamburgers
Nick with Shamburgers.
Child with minature hamburgers
Sam with Shamburgers.

April Fools' Day Dinner
Meat Loaf, Mashed Potatoes, Peas and Carrots.

April Fools Dinner meat loaf, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots
The meat loaf is made out of cocoa rice krispie cereal formed in a loaf pan.  The mashed potato is vanilla ice cream and the gravy is carmel sauce.  The peas and carrots is a candy mix. 

April Fools' Day Grilled Cheese Sandwich

April Fools Grilled Chesse Sandwich
The grilled cheese sandwich bread is made from pound cake.  You slice the pound cake and brown it in a pan with butter.  The cheese is buttercream frosting tinted with yellow and red food coloring. The instructions can be found at  http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/grilled-cheese-714997/

Christmas Cookies

cookies shaped as christmas lights
Strand of Chirstmas Lights Cookies.  I made these out of sugar cookie dough.  I made a christmas light template.  I rolled out the dough and cut the cookies  I iced them with white icing and used colored mini m and m's.  I used a stran of twizzlers for the electrical cord.  These were pretty easy.

Halloween
During October we have several little Halloween celebrations.  For lunch or supper I will make "Blood" soup in test tubes and a batch of "Bones" along with some molded milk to drink served in a beaker. I even pack surprises in their school lunches. 

Monster Cupcakes

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We made these Monster cupcakes from a picture on Pinterest.  It was fairly easy.  I used a devils food cake mix and store bought icing.  I thought the icing would need to be thinned out instead the icing needs to be thick so you can stand the m and m's on their side.  I used crushed chocolate wafers to make the texture on top of the icing.

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We crushed the chocolate wafers with a rolling pin.

Easter

What to do with leftover Easter ham.

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How about ham and eggs or....green eggs and ham?  Would you, could you?

Bunny Tails

Bunny Tails marshmallows




I got this idea from Pinterest. (It's allfiddlefart.blogspot.com) I changed it up by using large marshmallows as the tails.  The triplet's took this to school for their Easter party.

Easter Carrot Cupcakes

cupcakes with carrot decoration

I saw this on pinterest and they were so easy to make.  We made carrot cake cupcakes and frosted them with cream cheese frosting and with orange and green m and m's we made the carrot decoration.

Carrot Cake

Carrot Shaped Cake



I saw this in foodnetwork magazine. For insturctions click  http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/carrot-cake-recipe2/index.html

First Day of School - Candy Pencils

Pencils made from rolo candy












I saw these on Pinterest and they were easy to make.  You take rolo candy and wrap in yellow card stock.  For the eraser wrap in pink card stock. For the top I cut a circle of pink card stock and glued it to the top.  For the silver band I used foil tape (from Home Depot). Then  added Hershey kisses for the pencil lead.
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