So the kids are excited by the idea of April Fool’s but I never manage anything. It’s sad. I decided to plan ahead this year and we are hoping to pull off this!
For lunch we’ll do real grilled cheese (made in advance and packed up for a fieldtrip) and fake grilled cheese!
Cake (I’ll make in a bread pan) and orange frosting – the coconut oil frosting gives a nice shine like the processed cheese. 🙂
For dinner we’ll do fish & chips, two varieties – real and these:
The “fish” are sugar wafer cookies covered in peanut butter and crushed cornflakes (though I’ll do Joseph’s with crushed rice cereal.) The french fries are breadsticks cut thin and rolled in sugar crystals. Both are served with seedless strawberry jam – I’ll just blend some frozen strawberries with lemon juice and sugar and then strain it, that’s easy to make in advance. The peas in that photo are taffy but I’ll make some of our butter mints and those need to be made in advance. So the day off will be quick and easy to serve up. FUN! We’ll set out their plates with the fake foods and let them try it then set those aside until they eat their real food. 🙂 (Or we’ll just let them eat dessert first, I’m pretty flexible.)
I’m excited, those look really fun and simple.
The kids also asked if they could prank their swim teachers Friday morning – I think we’ll make up some more of the potato candies but we’ll do a half batch so I don’t eat them all:
4 oz cream cheese
1/4 c butter (I did 3 T)
pinch salt
1 t vanilla
Cream all, then stir in:
4 c powdered sugar
2 1/2 c coconut OR
1 c diced pecans & 1 1/2 c coconut
We did the coconut & pecans after toasting both.
Mix all together and chill if needed, or if it’s stiff enough dough then scoop (I used mini ice cream scoop) and shape into potato-ish lump. Then I rolled them in powdered sugar and cinnamon and then sprinkled more cinnamon over the top to make them more brown.
They are so cute!!! And painfully delicious.
