Pancake Flower - Breakfast

Breakfast this morning was pancakes and fruit made into a flower shape.  

I started out making petal shaped pancakes (long ovals).  I used Krusteaz Wheat and Honey pancakes and instead of water, we used milk.

Then I chopped up the strawberries and bananas.

Added some vanilla yogurt to a small bowl, sprinkled it with some multicolored nonpareils and added some Yogurt O's (available at Fresh & Easy).

Then I arranged everything on the plate.  Fruit went on top of the pancakes and I drizzled them with honey.  Th yogurt bowl went into the center of the "petals".

Yum!

Fun Snack Tray

The boys were ready for snack so I decided to put together a fun snack tray.  Something like this would be great for those of you who have picky eaters that don't like their food to touch, it's still fun and different but each food stays with it's group.

I started out just gathering what I wanted to give the boys for snack.  We like to do finger foods for snacks so I decided on grapes, carrots, strawberries, apples, ham, waffle pretzels, cucumber and provolone cheese.

First I cut everything into flat disks and used my fondant cutters to punch out shapes from the food.  For those of you who don't know, fondant cutters are like mini cookie cutters, they also do make mini cookie cutters but they are harder to find.  I found both the fondant cutters I used, and these mini cookie cutters (Noah's Ark Set and Romantic Set) at Michael's.

After I punched everything out and arranged it on the tray, I drew on the provolone with Wilton FoodWriter Pens.  I kept it simple: I <3 U, Gabe, Rique and a bunch of smiley faces.  I've used the pens with great success on other foods, but apparently cheese is too soft because it was a lot harder to use them on the provolone.  I think next time I'll just use food coloring and a toothpick or thin paintbrush.

Here's the finished product:

My boys love fun food, even when it's just one of my simple creations.  My favorite part of snack was watching my boys being sweet with each other and sharing their food.

Happy Eating!

Spring Theme Breakfast

The last couple days have been gray, windy and rainy so I thought we needed a nice, colorful meal to remind us that it's spring time.  

The flowers are bell pepper with scrambled eggs poured in and a cheese (cheddar and provolone) center with  a spinach leaf and a chive as the stem.  I got the idea for these flowers from this picture.

There is also bacon "dirt" with a gummy worm and 2 strawberry ladybugs.  Butterfly toast with grape jelly, a banana body and antennae made of two slivers of beef jerky.

Yum!