After all
the Leprechaun mischief it would be impossible to allow April fool’s day to go
by without a little trickery.
For the past
few years, I have been playing food games with the kiddos. Now we are to the
point where they are looking forward to Mommy’s antics.
So far my
April fool pranks have been a twist on what they are giving at meal time.
This
year they started their day off with a fried egg…
That’s an egg, right?
Well, since they are not really fond of fried eggs, I gave them yogurt and half of an apricot. (Healthier than the white chocolate eggs they got last year.) Being that they were not sure what it was at first, there was some hesitation for the first few bites but then they caught on.
Ops, Mommy
forgot to pour your milk. Here ya go… What the????
A drop of
food color in the glass before they came down to the table and I was prepped for
trick number 2.
Off to
school after a few; “Your sock is untied” and “There’s a bug on your nose” and
then I was busy plotting my dinner plans.
Jell-o in a
drinking glass with a straw makes for some “hard to drink” juice. (I’ve done
this one before but they love it)
For the entrée I made “pasta” I put some off-white icing in a piping bag. I chilled the bowl first so the icing would hold shape nicely. Then I filled the dish with “squiggles” (that’s a technical term).
Now for the
meatballs and sauce I used Ferrero Rocher Chocolates and seedless red raspberry
jam.
The only
thing missing was a veggie. Oh but wait…I have the perfect fix.
Broccoli!!
I
grabbed a handful of green tootsie rolls from the “pick your own” candy bin, borrowed
a tablespoon of icing from the “pasta” (added a few drops of food color) and
then finished the look with some dark green jimmies.
I popped the unwrapped tootsies rolls in the microwave for 5 seconds to soften them up slightly. Then I sliced halfway down each one and pulled the side out like tiny tree branches. Dip the cut ends into colored icing then into the jimmies and you have...
broccoli tops!!
The kids
were thrilled with the not so healthy dinner. But what kind of Mom would I be
if that is all I had them eat??? They had to have dessert too!! What better
dessert than meatloaf cupcakes?
Sounds gross
right?
I make a
meatloaf but shaped it into cupcake sized balls and baked. Then when they were
ready, I put them into a cupcake paper and cover them with (blue) mashed potato
icing.
I did manage
to get the “pasta” away from them while we ate our “cupcakes”. After dinner, we
used Nilla wafers to scoop the pasta up for a tasty treat.
The effort
is well worth it to see those smiling faces and hear them laugh and joke
with each other. They have been warned that next year’s tricks will be slightly
more devilish… Mwahh ha ha haaa….
