Monster Sandwiches

I have been having a lot of fun creating monster sandwiches for my first grader.  They are very easy to make and you can get creative with the items you have on hand. I am going to keep adding photos as the monsters are "born".

PB&J Monster Sandwich

Ingredients:
One peanut butter and jelly sandwich cut on the diagonal
apple sliced dipped in lemon juice & water (teeth,nose, eyebrows)
freeze dried banana slices (eyes)
2 chocolate chips (pupils)
1 green fruit roll-up (eye and tongue


Cheese Monster Sandwich

Ingredients:
One cheese sandwich cut on the diagonal.
apple slices dipped in lemon and water (eyebrows, teeth, nose, pupils)
cream cheese flattened and shaped into a circle (whites of the eyes)

slice of ham cut to fit (tongue)



More Monsters:

Apple Cupcakes

A is for Apple. You could eat an apple - but why not a yummy apple cupcake? Inspired by the ever popular Pinterest posts of delicious cupcakes I tried my hand at my own version of apple themed cupcakes. 

Ingredients:

Betty Crocker Gluten Free Devils Food Cake Mix  ( I like gluten free BC because the cupcakes are more moist and dense then other store bought mixes).

3 sticks of butter

3 eggs

water

Red sugar crystals

Fruit Roll-up in green. ( I used Target brand speckled tropical)

4 cups of powdered sugar (sifted)

Milk 

vanilla

pretzels (thin sticks)

Directions:

1. Make cupcakes as directed but make sure you fill your cupcake liners pretty full - you don't want flat cupcakes but ones that are nice and round. I made large and mini-cupcakes because the small cupcakes fit nicely into my daughters backpack.

2. Make frosting by mixing 4 cups of sifted powdered sugar with 2 sticks of butter + a splash of vanilla and a splash or two of milk. Beat until smooth.

3. Frost the cooled cupcakes with just enough frosting to cover.  Then roll into a bowl of red sugar sprinkles. I put my sprinkles in a ramekin.

4. cut or tear leaf shapes from the fruit roll-ups

5. snap off the top 1/4 of a dozen or so pretzels. 

6. put the leaves on the cupcake and then poke the pretzel stick in at the edge so it curves up the leaf

a tad. 

7. Enjoy!