April Fools’ Day Recipes for the Kids (or Kids at Heart) in Your Life
They’ll never see it coming!
Ralph Smith
April Fools’ Day is the perfect time to have some fun with your food! Whether you’re making a crazy dessert or looking to prank someone with an unexpected dish, this is your chance to get creative with recipes (just make sure with the person you fool doesn’t have any food allergies). Here are six fun recipes that will have kids and grown-ups alike laughing for days.
Kat Teutsch
Imagine getting ready to bite into a nice, juicy steak, only to find out that it’s ice cream! That’s the trick behind this realistic-looking chocolate ice cream steak — with a side of pound cake French fries. As an added touch, serve some “ketchup,” which is really strawberry jam, alongside. It’ll be a pleasant surprise for dessert lovers.
Your kids will be in for a treat (literally) when they realize what these crab cakes are made of: ice cream and coconut! The white bread cubes and shredded coconut are made to look like a crispy crust, while the side of “tartar sauce” is actually pistachio-white chocolate sauce. Your treat? The look on their faces when they bite into one!
This recipe will allow your creativity to shine! Use rice cereal treats as sticky rice (and a beautiful assortment of gummy candies as raw fish and seaweed) to fill your plate with this sweet sushi. Served with some chocolate soy sauce, this recipe looks like the real thing, which makes it perfect for a nice, “gotcha” moment.
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To get the look of a wax-coated wheel of cheese, cover a rounded-edge layer cake with red fondant — and disguise the sliced edge with pale yellow frosting. The added touch that takes this over the top: sugared grapes. Talk about a sweet surprise!
Kat Teutsch
This cake is all about the details. Use your favorite candies to make classic nacho toppings — olives, lettuce and salsa — and top it all off with pie crust chips. The end result is so beautiful that you won’t want to bite into it! This is the perfect April Fools’ treat when you want to show off your artistic side!
Ralph Smith
Imagine the look on your kids’ faces when you walk in carrying a giant taco! This amusing ice cream cake is made from chocolate ice cream, dyed coconut shavings, circus peanuts and cherries. Enclosed in two large cornmeal cookies, this taco is sure bring a lot of laughs into your home.
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