With April Fools’ Day around the corner, this 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.

Ice Cream Steak Frites

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.

Fried Ice Cream Crab Cake

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!

Rice Krispy Sushi Nuggets

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.

Cheese Wheel Cake

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!

Nacho Normal Cheesecake

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!

Giant Ice Cream Taco

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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