April Fools Food!

A few years ago my friend Katie introduced me to the April Fools Food ideas at familyfun.com ...

So this year it was "apple pie" for dessert -- you won't find that one at the above link, I made it up -- and spaghetti & meatballs & garlic bread for dinner. Or wait, the other way round. :-)

The Main Dish:

Apple Pie made with chicken and potatoes. It looked amazingly realistic, if I do say so myself. I made a clear gravy sauce. The only thing that didn't turn out was that I couldn't get the pieces out in neat picture-perfect pieces (I have that issue with real pies, too) so I don't have a plated with mashed potato "ice cream" topping to show you ...

And Dessert:

The meatballs are chocolate covered donut holes. On hindsight reflection, I wish I'd gone with the chocolate *flavored* clear glazed donut holes, instead, because these were too dark. And I'm not totally happy with the transparency of the jelly spaghetti sauce.

Like other years, the meal was quite a hit for novelty's sake, but not so much for enjoyment. The Grand Lunar assured me the pie was actually very good, but the kids, being NOT-fans of potatoes, weren't so impressed. Sometimes you have to sacrifice happy palates for the art of foolery.

For anyone interested in making such things:
I used regular store bought pie crust, cut up poached chicken pieces, cut up canned white potatoes, and a cornstarch-thickened gravy for the pie. It would've been much better with homemade crust, but I was in a hurry.

The spaghetti has a single layer cake cooked in a bowl (for the mound shape) covered with round-extruded frosting, with the donut hole meatballs and mostly strawberry jelly (I added a little apricot, and a little food coloring, to bring it closer to what I'd envisioned). I was going to make cocoa-cripsie "meatloaf" meat balls from the other familyfun.com recipe, but didn't have time. I really should plan this ahead a bit more. Shopping the afternoon of April 1 limits my creativity a bit.

The garlic bread is sliced pound cake with yellow-tinted frosting and some green sprinkles mixed in before spreading.

Next year I should really do it on March 31 or something, since the children have come to expect it and were hoping to be food-fooled.