Veggie Teens

Kids Cook: April Fools Day TV Dinner Cupcakes

For April Fools Day, make your family these "TV Dinner" cupcakes - they'll love them and you'll love making them!

Make a batch of cupcakes using paper liners in foil cupcake pans. Here are a few ideas but be creative!

Spaghetti with Meatball Cupcakes

Pasta: Tint vanilla frosting with a couple of drops of yellow food coloring. Squeeze strands of pasta from a plastic bag with a small corner snipped off.

Meatballs: Ferrero Rocher chocolates

Spaghetti Sauce: Strawberry jelly.

Parmesean Cheese: Grated white chocolate

Garlic Bread Cupcake

Partially slice top off white cupcake and "butter" with vanilla frosting colored with yellow food coloring. Sprinkle lightly with green sugar to look like parsley.

Peas and Carrots Cupcake

Frost cupcake green and decorate with green Runts and orange Starbursts cut into quarters.

Cherry Pie Cupcake

Frost with vanilla frosting that you used for the spaghetti. Stir a small amount of strawberry jelly with red Skittle "cherries" and put on top. Make swirl "crust" with the frosting by squeezing it from a plastic bag with a small corner snipped off. Sprinkle with crushed graham crackers or corn flakes.

Chicken Drumstick Cupcake

Frost a cupcake and top with a donut hole. Frost then coat with crushed corn flakes. Make "bone" shape by drizzling melted white chocolate from a plastic bag with a small corner snipped off onto waxed paper and refridgerate until hardened.

Mashed Potato Cupcake

Frost cupcake generously with vanilla frosting and create a well in the middle. Place a yellow Starburst in the center and spoon caramel ice cream topping over the top for gravy.

Corn Cupcake

Frost cupcake with vanilla frosting tinted yellow. Trim yellow parts off of candy corn and place on the top to look like corn kernels.

Pudding Cupcake

Frost with chocolate frosting and add sprinkles.

 

The Kids Cook Monday features VeggieTeensCookbook

We are excited to announce that we are a featured website on The Kids Cook Monday, an initiative that encourages families to set aside the first night of every week for cooking and eating together as a family. The Kids Cook Monday provides examples of family friendly recipes and video demonstrations along with a free starter family dinner toolkit - making it easy for families to cook and eat together every Monday.

We will be contributing recipes and cooking techniques on a regular basis. Plan a family meal - and cook with your kids!

 

Meatless Monday: Walnut Streusel Pancakes

Post by Elyse May (aka Veggie Teen), author of  Veggie Teens: A Cookbook and Guide for Vegetarian Teenagers.

Walnut Streusel Pancakes

Serves 4

Ingredients

Pancake mix, prepared as directed to make 12 pancakes
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped

Directions

1. Prepare pancake batter according to package directions.
2. Combine next three ingredients for streusel topping.
3. Heat griddle over medium heat. Add one tablespoon of vegetable oil and heat.
4. Pour 1/4 cup pancake batter for each pancake.
5. Top each pancake with two teaspoons of streusel topping.
6. When the edges are dry and one side is golden, flip onto streusel side. Watch closely to avoid burning brown sugar.