Recipe: Food-related April Fools Recipes

Sugar in the salt and salt in the sugar are pretty old ideas. Besides, I believe jokes on others are not at all funny unless the "others" find them funny. Here are some food-related April Fools pranks. The first two I have done myself, the rest I found on the web.

Anyone else have some???

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CHOCOLATE-COVERED *COOKIES*

Cut corrugated cardboard pieces into even pieces approximately 1" X 1-1/2". Prepare the
following chocolate mixture:

12 oz Semisweet chocolate pieces
6 tb Butter or margarine
1/2 ts Vanilla (optional)

Melt chocolate pieces in top of double boiler. Blend in butter and vanilla.

Use a sheet of waxed paper as your working surface. Place a small dollop of melted chocolate on the waxed paper. (This is the bottom side of your treat.) Place a piece of cardboard on top of this chocolate while it is still warm and cover the top of the cardboard with more chocolate. You may want to put shredded coconut or chopped nuts on top of the cardboard before the top layer of chocolate to distract from the cut edges of the cardboard (if any.) Let the cookies harden and place on a nice serving plate. April Fools!

Note: I have seen these made with pieces of wood, however, you risk broken teeth by using a material that hard.

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HOME-MADE SPONGE CAKE

Purchase a five- to six-inch thick, 12" to 14" round of FOAM RUBBER at a fabric store or hobby shop. I suggest you pick the size according to your favorite cake dish (or cake transporter if you are going to take this out of the house). Frost your cake generously with thawed non-creamer type cool whip.

April Fool? Give your {{victim}} a knife and some small plates and ask him/her to please cut the cake. I have seen so very many reactions by the person attempting discretely to cut my home-made cake that appears to be a bit tough. You can repeat this with a number of folks by smoothing the cool whip back on the cake as if it has not yet been touched. The first year we did this at work we caught five or six folks before the word got around. After that, of course, it was only the new employees. It was quite a tradition until the company went broke and shut down!

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I found the following ideas on the WWW:
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CAT LITTER CASSEROLE

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 c Bisquick
1 c Shredded Cheddar cheese
1 lb Ground beef, turkey or pork Sausage

-----TO MAKE LITTER-----
2 c Long grain rice
3 3/4 c Water
2 ts Salt
2 tb Butter or margarine

Preheat the oven to 350F.

To make dumps:
Using clean hans, mix together the dump ingredients in a large bowl. Mold pieces of this mixture into various size/shape dumps.

Place so they don't touch each other in an ungreased baking pan. Use two if they don''t all fit. Bake the dumps for about 20 minutes or until they are all brown, firm and slightly
crusty.

While the meat cooks, put all four litter ingredients into a large saucepan. Heat on high until the water comes to a boil. Stir, turn heat to low and cover the pan. Simmer without lifting the cover for fourteen minutes.

Remove the saucepan from the stove and "fluff" the rice with a fork and set pan aside.

When dumps are done, carefully transfer them onto paper towels to drain.

Spoon the rice and dumps into the now empty baking pan, leaving some dumps partially
uncovered, the way Kitty does when he/she is in a hurry. Serves 8-10
litterbox lovers. Use ppper scooper to serve.

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This recipe was originally for Halloween; therefore, the orange color. Obviously you can
pick your own color for April Fools day.

Orange-Ooze Cupcakes

Serving Size : 36
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

-----FILLING-----
8 Ounces Cream cheese -- softened
1 Egg
1/3 Cup Sugar
Yellow and red food coloring
6 Ounces Chocolate chips

-----CUPCAKES-----
3 Cups Flour
2 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup Cocoa
2 Teaspoons Baking soda
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
2 Cups Water
1/2 Cup Plus 2 tablespoons vegetable -- oil
2 Tablespoons Cider vinegar
2 Teaspoons Vanilla

Preparation time: 20 to 25 minutes Cooking time: 25 minutes

Preheat oven to 350F. Line cupcake baking pans with paper cupcake liners.

In small mixing bowl, use electric mixer to combine cream cheese, egg and
sugar. Blend in 2 drops yellow food coloring and 1 drop red food coloring,
adding more coloring if necessary to reach desired shade. Use mixing spoon
to stir in chocolate chips; set filling aside.

In large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt; set
aside.

In second small mixing bowl, combine water, vegetable oil, vinegar and
vanilla. Add contents of small mixing bowl to large mixing bowl and stir
with mixing spoon to combine.

Fill cupcake liners half full with cupcake batter, then place 1 teaspoon filling at center of
each. As cupcake bakes, the batter will rise to surround the filling.

Bake approximately 25 minutes or until cupcakes test done.

If desired, frost with orange icing--or just let the orange filling ooze out
as a surprise.

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Litterbox Cookies

Chocolate ingredients:

1/2 cup honey
2/3 cup 1 and 1/3 stick) butter or margarine
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla -- or peppermint extract
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
grape-nuts(tm) cereal

Gingerbread ingredients:
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup molasses
2/3 cup (1 and 1/3 stick) butter or margerine
1 egg
7 cups whole wheat flour
spices-ginger, cinnamon, cloves to taste(maybe 1/2 tsp)
grape-nuts

Mix-ins:
coconut
chocolate chips
butterscotch chips
peanut butter chips

To make:
Microwave the honey till it bubbles(about 1 minute). add the butter, and
the molasses, if any. Add the egg, mix well, then mix in all the other
stuff. A dd mix-ins of your choice to some or all of the batter.

Chill 1 hour in the freezer or several hours in the fridge. Roll dough
logs of random length and the diameter of cat poops. Roll logs in grape-
nuts and bake at 350 degrees till done (10 to 15 minutes).

Serve in a disposable cat litter box on a bed of grapenuts, with a cat
litter scoop. I hear you get lovely effects by decorating the box and
scoop with melted chocolate or pudding.

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Enjoy!