Sweet April Fools

So we started off our day with lots of April Fools.  Mother Nature pulled out all the stops with a nice little snow storm for us...Breakfast was 'Bacon and Eggs' with cereal of course being that my children will only eat cereal for breakfast.  But our bacon wasn't bacon and our eggs were not eggs and our milk changed colors when it was poured upon the cereal.  Both of these are really cute and easy idea.


To get the milk to change colors add a few drops of food coloring to the bottom of the bowl, pour the cereal over the top and add milk.  As the kids eat or stir the milk will change colors.  My boys loved it!  Miss Prissy cried and refused to eat red milk.

Eggs
White Chocolate Chips

Yellow M&M's ----you can buy a small package if you are only making a few, I bought the BIG one, can't imagine what I will have to do with all the left overs.. ;-)

Wax Paper

Bacon

1 caramel square

1 Tootsie Roll

Per piece of bacon

 

For the eggs, pour 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips in a glass microwave safe bowl.  Heat on medium high, really who knows how to change the settings on their microwave, for about 30 seconds remove and stir.  Heat until melted stirring every 15 seconds following the first round. Do not just put it in there for a minute chocolate WILL burn and YUCKY it will be! Think I've seen one too many episodes of Star Wars the week...oh the joys of having boys.

Pour the melted chocolate into a parchment paper bag or into a Ziploc.  I use parchment paper bags because I keep them on hand for my cake icings.  But this is a trick for getting hot runny chocolate into a bag without burning yourself.  Place your bag in a cup, fold the edges over the top and then just pour into it.  Zip it up and snip a SMALL corner off the bottom. 



Terrible lighting sorry

See the big mess at the top???  ignore that the bag I was using busted, you would think this was my first attempt at this...  Anywho they look all lumpy and bumpy right at first but once they sit for a few minutes they get all smooth and perfect looking.  I place mine on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for about 20 minutes.

Bring home the bacon now...

On a small microwave safe plate place one half of a piece of caramel and one tootsie roll. And heat for about 5 seconds or until pliable. (glass plates work best so when you forget to check it and it melts, it wipes right off)



Not that I would do such a thing ;-)



This is what you do next, cut each candy in half and press together.  Careful if you heat them too long it hurts.



Press the two halves together again. Then work the soft candy flat till it looks like a small piece of bacon.

This is what it will look like.

And our day just kept getting trickier.

I delivered Popcorn to the kids' classrooms and the hubby's.  Well he took his in but you get the picture.

These are really mini cupcakes with marshmallows for popcorn.

Very simple, in white mini cupcake cups fill about 3/4 of the way full with any white cake mix.

Bake for about 15 minutes or until lightly golden and toothpick comes out clean.

While they are cooling on a wire rack cut mini marshmallows in thirds.  You need both yellow and white marshmallows.  About 1 cup of each.  Arrange the three slices into a petal looking shape and add a drop of vanilla icing and top with a whole marshmallow.

Mix up the colors don't do them all the same.

Ice the top of the cupcakes, I did something I never only do once in a while, I used store bought can frosting. YUCK. Add about 3 sets of the marshmallows to the top of  each cupcake.  In my defense I did make 8 and 1/2 dozen cupcakes last night.  I was not going to spend the time mixing all that buttercream.

Fill a popcorn bag or bowl with paper filling and add the cupcakes till they peek out of the top.

Oh then there was dinner...I do love April Fools Day :-)

For dinner we had cupcakes and peas with spaghetti and meatballs for dessert.

Once again both are very simple.  Of course the cupcakes aren't really cupcakes.  And I so wish I had had a video of the hub's face.  I wasn't so sure I was going to get him to try them.

It is just meatloaf baked in cupcake cups.  It works best if you use the little foil cups inside a muffin tin.  And the icing is mashed potatoes with food coloring mixed in swirled on top.

The Spaghetti and Meatballs are really white cupcakes with buttercream icing piped on with a number 3 tip.

The sauce is strawberry preserves and the meatballs are Ferrero Rocher Fine Hazelnut Chocolate 5.3oz dipped in the preserves.

So needless to say we had a fun day and I hope ya'll did also.

Happy April Fool's Day!