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Looking for April Fools Food? I’ve got some fun ideas to fool your kids – make any of these recipes as an April Fool’s prank! Dinners are desserts and desserts are dinner – these are simple and easy recipes.

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It’s so much fun to make prank food for your kids – food they think is one thing but actually isn’t! These ideas span from dinner to dessert and everything in between.

  • Make fries with cake or cookies!
  • Make eggs and ham out of cookies and fruit leather!
  • Cupcakes that look like ice cream cones!
  • Cupcakes that are actually dinner!
  • Sushi that’s actually dessert!
  • Chips made out of pie crust!
Dr. Seuss Snacks
Make green eggs and ham out of cookies and fruit leather and make cat in the hat parfaits out of strawberries and greek yogurt – these are a fun treat for Dr. Seuss day!
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dr seuss snacks
Green Eggs {and ham} Donuts
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green eggs donuts on white plate
Banana Split Cupcakes
Fun banana cupcakes filled with strawberry filling and decorated to look like ice cream!
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banana split cupcakes in a clear ice cream tray.
Doughnut Cookies
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Full April fools Day Dinner
From Chicken Nuggets to mashed potatoes!
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Clams on the Half Shell
These clams are actually cupcakes!
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Sunny Side Up Eggs
…that aren’t really eggs!
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Fake Fries
Made out of pie crust!
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Fake Grilled Cheese
That’s actually pound cake!
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fake grilled cheese cake with orange frosting in middle
Hamburgers that are actually Cupcakes
with a side of cookie fries!
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Hot Chocolate
These cups of hot chocolate are actually cookies!
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Ice Cream “Cones”
that are really cupcakes with no ice cream!
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ICEE Cupcakes
ICEE Cupcakes – this easy and fun cupcake recipe has a cherry ICEE frosting! Mini cupcakes with icing and a free printable label – kids LOVE THESE!
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Up close picture of an ICEE cupcake
KFC Chicken and sides
…but that’s not chicken!
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Meatball Subs
…That’s really cake!
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PB & Nutella Sandwich Cakes
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peanut butter and nutella sandwich cakes with title
Pizza
That’s a giant cookie!
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sugar cookie pizza made to look like pizza for April fool's
Fake Fries
that are really pound cake!
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Meatloaf Cupcakes
with mashed potato frosting!
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BBQ Cupcakes
that are really dessert!
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Dessert Sushi
that looks totally real!
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Sweet Guacamole Dip
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Sweet Guacamole Dip in a glass bowl with Pie Crust Tortilla Chips around it on a serving plate with recipe title on top of image
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April Fools Food to fool your kids this April 1! Learn to make dinner into dessert and dessert into dinner with this funny list of april fools food!



Dorothy Kern

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  1. These are all such cute & sweet ideas! I was never a fan of the “mean” pranks, but the harmless ones where everybody laughs are always fun. 🙂

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  2. Love these ideas that you posted, Dorothy! Very creative! Maybe I could prank my husband with one of these! 🙂

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  3. Lol! Is it weird that these creep me out? I can’t eat something that looks like something entirely different…It’s my one food quirk. Ok, it’s one of several food quirks!

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  4. These are too fun! I’m always at a loss during this holiday. Thanks for all the inspiration!

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  5. What a fun roundup! I don’t have kid’s at home, but who needs them when you’re married to a big kid! 😉

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