April Fool's Day Fun - Dessert for Dinner and Dinner for Dessert!

Sundaes for dinner and grilled cheese with fries for dessert?! The perfect April Fool's Day trick, your kiddos won't believe their eyes or their taste buds! 

Sundaes for Dinner: 

• Mashed Potatoes 
• BBQ Pulled Pork (pulled chicken, chopped brisket or pot roast work well too)
• Coleslaw
• Plantain Chips
• Small Red Peppers or grape tomatoes
• Sundae Glasses
• Piping bag, with large star tip 

Assembly: 

1. Fill the piping bag with mashed potatoes
2. Fill one third of the parfait glasses with mashed potatoes
3. Add a layer of pulled pork
4. Add a layer of coleslaw
5. Pipe more mashed potatoes on top in a circular as if you were piping whipped cream on a sundae 
6. Add the small red pepper as a “cherry” and the plantain chip as a “banana”
7. Serve hot and tell your kiddos to dig in!

"Grilled Cheese and Fries" for Dessert! 

• To make the fries all you need is all purpose flour and sugar cookie dough (store bought or homemade) 
• Your choice of "dipping sauce" ... for this, you can use anything red that looks like ketchup! We used strawberry jam with a little chocolate sauce mixed in.

Assembly: 

1. Preheat oven according to cookie dough recipe.
2. Lightly flour work surface and roll out cookie dough.
3. Cut dough into a log strip 2 - 3 inches wide. Slice the strip into pieces that resemble thin french fries.
4. 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.
5. Remove cookies from baking sheet and set aside to cool.
6. While the cookies cool, assemble your fry holder. It's super simple - take a letter size envelope and seal it. Then cut he envelope in half and now you have a perfect holder for your fries!
7. Once cool, place fries in fry holder (directions above) and serve with a dipping sauce! 

For the grilled cheese: 

• Pound cake 
• Yellow/orange "cheese" colored frosting 
• Cinnamon 
• Piping bag 
• Clean paint brush 

Assembly:

1. Slice the pound cake to resemble 2 slices of sandwich bread
2. Using a paint brush, brush cinnamon onto the outside of each slice of pound cake - this will make it appear "grilled or toasted" 
3. Pipe or spread icing on the inside of one slice of cake.
4. Place the second slice of cake on top as you would a grilled cheese.
5. Slice in half and serve with fries!