Showing posts with label Aprils Fools Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aprils Fools Day. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Mock tv dinner cupcakes
http://zumfressen.blogspot.com/2010/04/april-fools-cupcakes-mock-tv-dinner.html
I mentioned that I've been searching for excuses to make cupcakes from my "Hello Cupcake" book and April Fool's Day lent itself the perfect opportunity. I had family in town, a dessert to make for Dinner Group and and willing helper in my brother. Only problem was that we couldn't decide which "fake out" cupcakes to make. So, the logical solution was to make two! We had so much fun putting these together and I was delighted with how they turned out. Often times, things simply aren't as cute as they are in a book or pictures... but I thought ours turned out just as cute. They were easy to make and the final product made them even more worth doing. I love how they turned out! I'll post the mock "spaghetti" cupcakes later this week.
TV Dinner Cupcakes
Serves 6
Supplies Needed:
1 aluminum muffin tray, with 6 spots
6 cupcakes, baked in foil liners
white frosting (at least 1 container)
green food coloring
3-4 Orange fruit chews (Starbursts, Tootsie Fruit Rolls), cut into 1/4 inch cubes
Green hard candies, such as Runts or Skittles (I liked the Runts best)
1/4 cup white melting chocolate
1 c crushed cornflakes
3 plain donut holes
1 Yellow Fruit Chew (Starburst, Toosie Fruit Rolls, Laffy Taffy), cut into a 1 inch cube
Caramel Sauce, slightly warmed for easier pouring
2-3 Tbsp. Chocolate frosting
Colored Sprinkles or Jimmies
For the Vegetables:
1. Tint about 2-3 Tbsp. of the white frosting bright green and frost 1 cupcake with the green frosting. Arrange cut up orange fruit chews and green hard candies on top, to look like peas and carrots.
For the Mashed Potatoes:
1. Frost 1 cupcake with white frosting, mounding slightly on top, and making a small well on top with a spoon.
2. Drop the yellow Starburst at an angle in the well, and pour heated caramel sauce over the frosting and Starburst, allowing it to drip down the sides, to look like gravy.
For the Dessert Cupcake:
1. Frost or Pipe chocolate frosting on top of one cupcake. Sprinkle with colored sprinkles or jimmies.
For the Chicken Legs:
1. Draw yourself a bone template. (I'll try to get my template up at some point. In the meantime, draw a long, skinny rectangle. Then place a heart on top of it, and a small triangle and the bottom. That should give you your basic shape.) Place it on a cookie sheet and cover with a piece of wax paper. Melt the white chocolate wafers in a small freezer duty Ziploc bag. Microwave in 20-30 second intervals, massaging the bag after each time. Repeat the process until the chocolate is completely smooth.
2. Press the air out of the bag, seal it, and snip a small corner form the bag, making yourself a piping bag. Pipe the bone outline onto the wax paper. Fill in the outline with the chocolate and tap the pan lightly to smooth the top of the chocolate. Repeat and make at least 3 bones, although I recommend making more, in case you break one. Refrigerate bones, until firm.
3. Lightly frost 3 cupcakes with white frosting.
4. Frost the donut holes with white frosting and place on top of the cupcakes. Now using the white frosting, frost around the donut holes to make smooth, rounded surface that tapers slightly at the top. (It's hard to describe... but you want to use the frosting to give the cupcake with donut hole on top the look of a chicken drumstick.)
5. Pour crushed cornflakes into a shallow bowl. Press donut topped cupcakes into the cornflakes, covering completely. Do this carefully. As I turned my cupcake sideways, my donut hole started to slide off. You may have to sprinkle the cornflakes over the top of the cupcake and lightly press it into the frosting with your hands. Place the cupcakes in the aluminum tray.
6. With a very sharp knife, make a slit along the top of the donut hole. It needs to be deep enough and wide enough for the chocolate bone to slide into at least 1/2 an inch. Carefully insert the chocolate bones into the slit you've made. I found this to be the trickiest part of the all the cupcakes. Once I slid in the chocolate, my cupcake started to collapse a bit. I had to use some extra cornflakes to hide the damage. But it worked!
MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2010
April Fool's Cupcakes-- Mock TV Dinner
I mentioned that I've been searching for excuses to make cupcakes from my "Hello Cupcake" book and April Fool's Day lent itself the perfect opportunity. I had family in town, a dessert to make for Dinner Group and and willing helper in my brother. Only problem was that we couldn't decide which "fake out" cupcakes to make. So, the logical solution was to make two! We had so much fun putting these together and I was delighted with how they turned out. Often times, things simply aren't as cute as they are in a book or pictures... but I thought ours turned out just as cute. They were easy to make and the final product made them even more worth doing. I love how they turned out! I'll post the mock "spaghetti" cupcakes later this week.TV Dinner Cupcakes
Serves 6
Supplies Needed:
1 aluminum muffin tray, with 6 spots
6 cupcakes, baked in foil liners
white frosting (at least 1 container)
green food coloring
3-4 Orange fruit chews (Starbursts, Tootsie Fruit Rolls), cut into 1/4 inch cubes
Green hard candies, such as Runts or Skittles (I liked the Runts best)
1/4 cup white melting chocolate
1 c crushed cornflakes
3 plain donut holes
1 Yellow Fruit Chew (Starburst, Toosie Fruit Rolls, Laffy Taffy), cut into a 1 inch cube
Caramel Sauce, slightly warmed for easier pouring
2-3 Tbsp. Chocolate frosting
Colored Sprinkles or Jimmies
For the Vegetables:
1. Tint about 2-3 Tbsp. of the white frosting bright green and frost 1 cupcake with the green frosting. Arrange cut up orange fruit chews and green hard candies on top, to look like peas and carrots.
For the Mashed Potatoes:1. Frost 1 cupcake with white frosting, mounding slightly on top, and making a small well on top with a spoon.
2. Drop the yellow Starburst at an angle in the well, and pour heated caramel sauce over the frosting and Starburst, allowing it to drip down the sides, to look like gravy.
For the Dessert Cupcake:
1. Frost or Pipe chocolate frosting on top of one cupcake. Sprinkle with colored sprinkles or jimmies.
For the Chicken Legs:
1. Draw yourself a bone template. (I'll try to get my template up at some point. In the meantime, draw a long, skinny rectangle. Then place a heart on top of it, and a small triangle and the bottom. That should give you your basic shape.) Place it on a cookie sheet and cover with a piece of wax paper. Melt the white chocolate wafers in a small freezer duty Ziploc bag. Microwave in 20-30 second intervals, massaging the bag after each time. Repeat the process until the chocolate is completely smooth.
2. Press the air out of the bag, seal it, and snip a small corner form the bag, making yourself a piping bag. Pipe the bone outline onto the wax paper. Fill in the outline with the chocolate and tap the pan lightly to smooth the top of the chocolate. Repeat and make at least 3 bones, although I recommend making more, in case you break one. Refrigerate bones, until firm.
3. Lightly frost 3 cupcakes with white frosting.
4. Frost the donut holes with white frosting and place on top of the cupcakes. Now using the white frosting, frost around the donut holes to make smooth, rounded surface that tapers slightly at the top. (It's hard to describe... but you want to use the frosting to give the cupcake with donut hole on top the look of a chicken drumstick.)
5. Pour crushed cornflakes into a shallow bowl. Press donut topped cupcakes into the cornflakes, covering completely. Do this carefully. As I turned my cupcake sideways, my donut hole started to slide off. You may have to sprinkle the cornflakes over the top of the cupcake and lightly press it into the frosting with your hands. Place the cupcakes in the aluminum tray.
6. With a very sharp knife, make a slit along the top of the donut hole. It needs to be deep enough and wide enough for the chocolate bone to slide into at least 1/2 an inch. Carefully insert the chocolate bones into the slit you've made. I found this to be the trickiest part of the all the cupcakes. Once I slid in the chocolate, my cupcake started to collapse a bit. I had to use some extra cornflakes to hide the damage. But it worked!
Aprils Fools Day Recipes
http://www.tipjunkie.com/april-fools/
Fools Meal Menu – Dessert is what’s for Dinner….APRIL FOOLS! Here are recipes for a fun theme for a family dinner “DONUT” know what it is”.
April Fools Day is April 1st and coming up quickly. Here is a mega list of 37 of the best April Fools pranks that you can do at home or at the office! These April Fools jokes are hysterical and family friendly and great for laughs.
April Fools
April Fool’s Cupcakes– Mock TV Dinner – How to make this darling and extra yummy chicken dinner, veggies, and cupcake complete with recipes.
Fools Meal Menu – Dessert is what’s for Dinner….APRIL FOOLS! Here are recipes for a fun theme for a family dinner “DONUT” know what it is”.
April 1st Cupcake - Make an apple look like a cupcake for April Fools Day. Here’s the recipe and how to make it.
Ground Beef & Mashed Potato Cupcakes – Actually our dinner contained ground beef and mashed potatoes and the food colored pretzel salt only looks like sprinkles.
April Fools Day Recipe: Is This Really a Bowl of Cereal? – Did we fool you? Did you think that’s a bowl of cereal and milk in the photo? It’s really cauliflower soup with garam masala-spiced toasted-Os cereal!
Could’ve Fooled Me: April Fools’ Day Recipes – Trick your friends on April Fools’ Day with these fake-out desserts complete with food pictures and recipes.
April Fool’s Cupcakes– Mock Spaghetti and Meatballs – The meatballs looked so realistic, it was almost gross! The added bonus of this recipe was that the cupcakes tasted so good with the extra strawberry jam. They lookedand tasted great!
Sneaky, trick-egg and bacon – All you need for these sweet eggs and bacon are white chocolate chips, yellow M & M’s, caramels, and Tootsie Rolls.
April Fools’ Cake Recipe - This recipe is the so easy to put together and is so tasty it will be requested more then just on April Fool’s day. Made with pizza sauce and pizza crust.
April Fools Pranks
Make jello look like juice - Pour your favorite flavor of Jello into drinking glasses and insert a straw in each glass. Let set in the fridge. Your kids will say “huh?”
15 April Fools’ Day Pranks – Fifteen Silly, kid-friendly ways to have fun with your family this April 1st.
Family Fun April Fools Ideas
Freaky Food Recipes – While she’s not a fan of pranking people on April Fools Day, there is one tradition she LOVES to continue with her kiddos. It’s the freaky/crazy/surprising food choices of the day!
Aprils Fools At The Office
- Balloon cubical - The benefit of working with good friends means some healthy trickery at the office when this day rolls around like balloon cubical or newspaper desk.
- Top 10 Harmless Geek Pranks – On the eve of April Fools’ Day, when you’ve got local network access to your coworkers’ and family systems, cubicles just crying out to be filled with packing peanuts, and webapps that can do all sorts of things automatically, there’s no better time to baffle, confuse, perplex, and just plain mess with your loved ones and associates.
- At work, pop the keys off computer keyboards and switch them all around.
- Office CSI Crime Scene - construct a murder crime scene with fake crime scene tape and a person marked out on the floor. This prank will have your whole office laughing!
- Find a box about the size of a cake. Then cover it with frosting, making it look like a cake. Then put it out in the office kitchen, or wherever people leave free food. Sit back as people try to cut themselves a slice.
- Go to husbands and move his car to another parking lot so he’ll think it is stolen.
- 23+ Crazy Funny Cubicle Pranks – Creative and hilariously funny images of cubical pranks for April 1st.
More Jokes you can do:
- Serve things backward; dessert first or breakfast for dinner.
- Use large bowls and utensils to eat with.
- Stretch Cling Wrap in the doorway of your front door – when the kids come run in from school they bump into it.
- Sneak into your victims bathroom and fill their hair-dryer with baby powder. When they turn it on, their head will be pure white just like an old person!
- Get a small alarm clock and set it for 3:00 a.m. Put it under the victim’s bed so once it goes off they won’t be able to find it.
- Stuff shoes with tissue paper down in the toe so you can’t get them on all the way.
- Make good use of a rubber cockroach or spider.
- Switch out food in wrappers in your child’s lunch.
- Switch out drawers in dresser.
- Switch out cereal in cereal boxes for breakfast
- 8 April Fools Practical Pranks
- Kids April Fools Prank Ideas
- April Fools Day Pranks
What jokes are you doing? We’d love more suggestions. If you have a fun April Fools’ Day prank over on your blog, we’d love to see it! Feel free to leave the blog link in the comments or on the Tip Junkie Facebook page or right here in the comments, and I’ll be happy to find it and upload it for you! {{I’ve got your back!}}
Aprils Fools Day Recipes
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Holiday---Celebration-Recipes/April-Fools-Day-Recipes
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Kids--Sushi
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Tricky-Taco-Cups
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Kids--Sushi
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Tricky-Taco-Cups
Tricky Taco Cups Recipe
100% would make again
Fools of all ages will fall in love with these sensationally sneaky sweets that look like taco salads. Crunchy waffle bowls are filled with chocolate ice cream, then topped with tinted coconut "lettuce" and "cheese", maraschino cherry "tomatoes" and black licorice "olives".
This recipe is:
Quick
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)