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Fooling with your food
April Fools' Day food looks like something else
Rosie Tippetts and her daughter Shilo Johnson like to play with their food.
So on April Fools' Day at the Tippetts' house, be on the alert when you reach for a cupcake.
It could be you're getting meatloaf instead of a frosted treat or a cupcake that looks like spaghetti and meatballs.
Those green beans may very well be Airhead candy and those moldy rolls are actually probably delicious!
"Most of these are my own lame brain ideas," Tippetts said. "I'm definitely an April Fooler." (Tippetts runs the Pleasant Grove Macey's floral department when she's not mixing things up in the kitchen. She also teaches an occasional class in the store's Little Theater.)
"My daughter helps me think of them and then we just experiment."
Tippetts said her grandkids love eating the unusual foods and sometimes will even down a vegetable without realizing it.
"I have practice runs with them," she said. "It's a lot of fun."
Here are her recipes:
Fooled Ya Cupcakes
Your favorite meatloaf recipe or the one below:
2 lbs. lean ground beef
1/2 green pepper, diced
2 eggs
1/4 cup bread crumbs
1 small jar A1 Steak Sauce
1/4 cup catsup
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon pepper
19-20 cupcake holders with
foil
grape tomatoes or small
cherry tomatoes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix ingredients and scoop mixture in cupcake holders. Fill to top of holders. Place into cupcake tin. Bake 30-35 minutes. While warm, pipe or spread "Tater Frosting." Put a grape or cherry tomato on top.
Tater Frosting
8-9 potatoes, boiled until very soft
1 8-oz. package of cream cheese, softened
salt and pepper to taste
milk (as needed)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
clove of garlic, minced finely
Cook potatoes. With mixer, combine potatoes and cream cheese, add rest of ingredients, add milk to mixture if too dry. Whip to a frostinglike consistency. Place whipped potatoes in a frosting bag and pipe onto warm meatloaf cupcake or simply frost. Reserve some for Tater Sundaes.
Tater Sundaes
cream cheese, whipped potatoes
1 package pork gravy mix/1 package brown gravy mix
grape tomatoes
ice cream sundae dishes (optional)
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