Prank Your Kids This April Fools Day

April Fools day isn’t just for kids anymore! Personally, I’m not good at pranks, keeping secrets of keeping in laughter so maybe these aren’t for me… I honestly don’t think I have successfully pranked anyone in my life but these seem super easy to me. BuzzFeed came up with a fabulous list of pranks to prank your kids with – and they’re pretty funny. This is next level pranking involving food, ladies, let’s try them out:

The Dessert Grilled Cheese

I DO love a good prank, though I have never really been good at pulling them off. I’ve done the easy pranks on April 1st – you know, saying I was fired, or pregnant, or moving, but I longed to do better. And then this year, inspiration struck in the form of a grilled cheese sandwich. It was really easy to do. Just take a loaf of Entenmann’s pound cake and slice it to look like bread, get butter cream frosting, and use yellow and red food coloring until it looks like the color of melted cheese…

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You’ll Need

Entenmann’s pound cake | Orange Buttercream Icing

Mashed Potato Sundae

For some reason, we never really celebrated April Fool’s Day until a few years ago. Now we’re having the best time with our “funny food.” This year, I’m serving “sundaes” for dinner… Kiddo is going to be so disappointed when he realizes we are not having ice cream for dinner, but that it is, in fact, mashed potatoes and gravy. To make things super easy, we’re using instant mashed potatoes and jarred gravy. I know, I know…not the healthiest, but I won’t tell if you won’t. And how cute is that “cherry?” I was SO excited to find that jar of Peppadew peppers at the grocery store! I might have squealed… [read more]