Sundaes for dinner and grilled cheese with fries for dessert?! The perfect April Fool's Day trick, your kiddos won't beleive their eyes or their taste buds!
What you will need to make Sundaes for Dinner:
What you will need to make Sundaes for Dinner:
Mashed Potatoes
BBQ Pulled Pork (pulled chicken, chopped brisket or pot roast work well too)
Cole Slaw
Plantain Chips
Small Red Peppers or grape tomatoes
Sundae Glasses
Piping bag with large star tip
Assembly:
- Fill the piping bag with mashed potatoes
- Fill one third of the parfait glasses with mashed potatoes
- Add a layer of pulled pork
- Add a layer of cole slaw
- Pipe more mashed potatoes on top in a circular as if you were piping whipped cream on a sundae
- Add the small red pepper as a “cherry” and the plantain chip as a “banana”
- Serve hot and trick your kiddos!
"Grilled Cheese and Fries" for Dessert!
For the fries you will need:
Sugar cookie dough (store bought or homemade)
All purpose flour
To make the fries:
- Preheat oven according to cookie dough recipe.
- Lightly flour work surface and roll out cookie dough.
- Cut dough into a log strip 2 - 3 inches wide. Slice the strip into pieces that resemble thin french fries.
- Gently lift off of work surface with a spatula and place onto a baking sheet.
- Bake according to package, but check often - the cookies may cook quicker because they are cut into small pieces.
- Remove cookies from baking sheet and set aside to cool.
- Once cool, place fries in fry holder (directions below) and serve with a dipping sauce!
Dipping sauce - anything red that looks like ketchup! We used strawberry jam with a little chocolate sauce mixed in.
To make a holder for the fries:
Take a letter envelope and seal it. Cut the envelope in half and now you have a perfect holder for your fries!
For the grilled cheese you will need:
Pound cake
Yellow/orange "cheese" colored frosting
Cinnamon
Piping bag
Clean paint brush
To make the grilled cheese:
- Slice the pound cake to resemble 2 slices of sandwich bread.
- Using a paint brush, brush cinnamon onto the outside of each slice of pound cake. This will make it appear "grilled or toasted".
- Pipe or spread icing on the inside of one slice of cake. Place the second slice of cake on top as you would a grilled cheese.
- Slice in half and serve with fries!
For more great recipes, check out Macaroni Kid EATS!
