Feed and Fool your Family
Time to get naughty on April Fool’s Day!
Now we wouldn’t want to give you recipes that weren’t worth eating and waste food but it doesn’t mean that we’re not up for you pranking those in your house with some creative food pranks (but which also taste delicious).
Here are our top 4 foodie pranks to try out on your nearest and dearest… share with us on Facebook any pranks you do today.
Sunny-side-up Breakfast
Total time: 10 mins
Serves 4
179 kcals
Trick your family and serve this for breakfast, watch their faces when they realise it isn’t an egg on toast!
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter, softened
- 4 sliced pound cake
- Vanilla yoghurt
- 4 tinned apricot halves
Method
Spread butter over both sides of cake slices. In a griddle pan, toast pound cake over medium-high heat for 15-30 seconds on each side or until golden brown. Transfer to dessert plates.
Spoon yoghurt over the cake to resemble fried egg whites. Top with apricots to resemble yolks.
April Fools Lunchtime Tacos
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 5 mins
Serves 4
Fool your family for dinner with these dessert tacos!
Ingredients
- 2 wraps
- Cinnamon sugar
For the meat
- 110g cooked quinoa
- 60g milk chocolate chips
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
For the salsa
- 5 strawberries, cubed
- 1 apple, cut up into cubes
- 2 tbsp fresh basil, chopped
For the cheese
- 2 1/2 tbsp shredded coconut, divided
- Yellow food colouring
Additional toppings
- 2 tbsp fresh basil, chopped
- Squirty cream
- 8 black jelly beans, sliced in half
Method
Preheat your oven to 180C.
Cut your wraps in half and using a knife, cut the edges to make a large circle for each half.
Brush lightly with olive oil and then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
Turn a muffin tray upside down and place the shells in the groove of the pan in order to maintain the taco shell shape. Bake for 5-7 min or until the shells get lightly browned. Keep an eye on them as they cook fast. Allow to set by fully cooling.
Place the peanut butter and chocolate into the pan with the cooked quinoa. Over low heat, stir until the ingredients have melted evenly into the quinoa.
Place the ingredients for the salsa into a small bowl and set aside.
For the cheese, take 2 tbsp of the shredded coconut with one drop of yellow food colouring and mix until evenly coloured. Add the remaining half of coconut and fold in to look like a Mexican cheese blend.
Place 2 tbsp of the “meat” filling into each taco shell.
Evenly pile in the remainder of the toppings into the shell, top with jelly bean “olives” and watch your family freak out when you serve them dessert for dinner.
Dinnertime Sweet Pizza
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 15 mins + cooling
Makes 8-10 slices
Enjoy pizza for dinner and dessert!
Ingredients
- 1 tube of chocolate chip cookie dough, softened
- 250g sweetened shredded coconut
- 1 1/2 tsp water
- 8 drops yellow food colouring
- 1 drop red food colouring
- Large green, red and white jelly sweets (fruit pastels)
- 230g milk chocolate chips
- 230g peanut butter
- Small black jelly beans
Method
Preheat oven to 180°C. Press cookie dough onto a greased 12-in. pizza tray. Bake 15-20 minutes or until deep golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.
Place coconut in a resealable plastic bag; add water and yellow and red food colouring. Seal bag and shake well to tint; set aside. Cut green jellies in half. Flatten red and white jellies. cut out the centre of each white jelly
In a microwave-safe bowl, melt chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Place peanut butter in another microwave-safe bowl; microwave, uncovered, on high for 1 minute or until slightly softened. Spread chocolate over cookie crust; spread with peanut butter.
Sprinkle with “cheese” (tinted coconut). Top with “green peppers,” “tomatoes” and “onions” (green, red and white jellies) and “olives” (black jelly beans); press down gently.
Meatloaf Cupcakes
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 1 hr
Makes 12
Nothing is quite as it seems with this cupcake! Make cupcakes out of meatloaf and top them off with mashed potato frosting.
Ingredients
- 900g lean mince beef
- Small white onion, diced
- 110g dried bread crumbs
- 235ml milk
- 1 large egg
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp basil
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
- Potatoes
For the glaze
- 6 tbsp ketchup
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Method
Preheat oven to 180C. Lightly grease a muffin tin.
Make your meatloaf mixture: In a large mixing bowl, knead together the minced beef, onion, bread crumbs, milk, egg, Worcestershire sauce, salt, basil, oregano, pepper, and chilli flakes.
Mix ingredients for glaze (keep aside to add after served).
Form meatloaf into large meatballs that fill a muffin tin hole. Bake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes.
Once baked, remove from muffin tin and place in cupcake liners.
Meanwhile, make a batch of mashed potatoes
Transfer mashed potatoes to a pastry bag with a piping tip.
Frost “cupcakes” with mashed potatoes and serve.
