Silly deviled egg creations – Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Adorable, right? “Devil”-ed eggs taken literally, a cute chick, and a simple basket turn deviled eggs into a much more fun dish.
The chick looks like it’d take some time, so I’d probably only make a few of those for looks and then make the rest plain. The devil horns would be a cinch, though. I suppose the basket is really only fitting for Easter egg leftovers, but I still like the idea of spicing up the dish.
How to make yours: Family Fun
Meat loaf baby with bacon diaper – Don’t eat the baby!
Yep, that’s meatloaf shaped into a baby, complete with bacon diaper. I originally saw it on This is Why You’re Fat. Of course, this should be reason ‘not’ to make it, but come on, it’s a meat baby!
Mine isn’t as fat as the one on TIWYF. The meat is also half ground beef and half turkey. I was afraid that using all beef would cause it to shrivel up and become deformed (and I like mixing in turkey anyway because it’s healthier, so all the more reason here). That also explains the slightly lighter, more yellow color as it browned.
The diaper is made of bacon, the eyes of sweet pickle ends (I had also made some potato salad, so I just used the ends I cut off), and the mouth is drawn on with ketchup.
As this was finishing up, a friend of mine kept sending me pictures via text of the foods they were eating. They went out to a lovely restaurant and all the pictures were of drool-worthy foods placed perfectly on their beds of lettuce on white plates.
Typical.
And I, being the one that gets jealous and envious of everyone else’s delicious food, popped into competitive mode and said “I can do that!”
I chopped off the arms and legs, and served those for supper. The baby already reminded us of the Gingerbread Man, but as I started cutting the arms/legs off, it became clear that it was just like the Gingerbread Man in Shrek.
I almost felt bad for it, but my food envy got the best of me and I moved forward with my plans to have the same thing someone else had.
So.
I chopped off the head and placed it carefully on my own bed of lettuce and white plate.
Pfft. Mine’s better. ;)
Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes
Part of getting the last year’s worth of silly creations means that things like these Thanksgiving Day cupcakes get posted in January. Oops!
I don’t usually do anything Thanksgiving-themed for the holiday. The turkey is enough, right? But this year, in the midst of being overwhelmed with tons of ideas all over the web, I saw these and had to do them. They’re adorable! The best part was, I knew the kids would enjoy being able to decorate the turkeys themselves, so I made it an activity for one of their days out of school. Talk about a blast!
(Notice the replicate in the back has the candy corns sticking in the opposite way. And they have wings!)
Now these weren’t just ordinary cupcakes either, so that made for some interesting results.
No, these cupcakes come from a box mix (gasp! me? not making it from scratch?? ahh!). And instead of the oil and eggs, they have pumpkin puree in them. This makes for insanely moist, delicious cupcakes that everyone raved over (before ‘and’ after knowing I’d put pumpkin in them). Oh, and did I mention that it makes them quite a bit healthier, too? Win-win situation.
“Insanely moist” means they melt in your mouth, but they also do in your hand a little bit, too, hehe. I didn’t have much trouble with them, but B*, being 7 and overly excited with slightly less coordinated fingers, had some major issues with hers.
Her turkey most definitely had some extra junk in the trunk and that created what could only be seen as a chocolate and candy corn mudslide. Under the weight of the candy and the pressure of her fingers trying to put them in so carefully, the whole back end of her turkey collapsed and started to fall off. Moist cupcake and icing to the rescue, we were able to piece it back together, though.
Some cupcakes were easier created than others. Some done with more care, and a few hurried because of utter excitement of getting to work with icing for the first time. They all managed to turn out with their own unique characteristics, though. “Mine has the most beautiful feathers.” “Mine has the biggest butt!” “Mine’s the cutest. Look at those cheeks!”
And boy did that one have some fat cheeks! In the end, though, the only thing left was to debate which to eat first. Head or tail?
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