April 20 – Look Alike Day

To celebrate “Look-Alike Day” ponder this thought for a moment. No one person looks exactly alike, identical twins may be the exception to that rule, but most species of animals have offspring that appear to be replicas of each other. Some people desire to look like someone else, while others can’t stand the thought of it. In life we often take for granted how much time and effort is put into making identical products. Some factories, for example, hire people to check every item on a production line to make sure each one looks the same. This is a very important process because if you purchased, lets say, a pack of gum, and all the pieces, but one, looked the same, you might question the safety or quality of that piece. Therefore in a lot of ways look a-likes are an important part of our society.

Lets have some fun on “Look Alike Day.” Put together a look a-like contest impersonating your favorite role model or character. Dress alike and take pictures. Another fun game to play on “Look Alike Day” is Concentration or Memory. If you do not have this card game, you can make your own concentration game with a deck of cards. lay cards face down on a flat surface. Turn over two cards each turn. The object of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards.

For dinner tonight you can make these recipes and have a blast as you watch your children discover how their meal looks like one thing, but taste like something else.

Fake Out Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Meatloaf that looks like cake
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup quick cooking oats
1 tsp Italian seasoning
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 pound ground beef
3 tbsp ketchup

Mashed Potatoes that look like frosting
3 cups mashed potatoes
Red, yellow and blue food coloring

Directions:
1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees. 2. Line 12 muffin tin cups with foil bake cups.
3. In a large bowl, mix together all of the meat loaf ingredients until well combined.
4. Divide the mixture evenly among the lined cups (the liners should be about three quarters full).
5. Place the filled muffin tins on cookie sheets and bake the cupcakes for about 15 minutes or until cooked through.
6. Divide the mashed potatoes among three small bowls and stir a few drops of food coloring into each batch to create blue, yellow, and pink pastel frostings.
7. Spread a generous dollop on each cupcake.

Makes 12 cupcakes.

Sweet Thin Crust Pizza

Ingredients:
2 teaspoon strawberry jam

Flour tortilla, individual size

Black licorice stick

Fruit Roll-Ups, 1 green and 1 red roll

1/4 cup white chocolate chips

Cashew halves

Directions:
1. Spread the jam on the tortilla, staying away from the very outer edge so it will resemble a pizza crust.
2. Slice the licorice stick to resemble black olives and cut the fruit rolls into pepper strips.
3. Microwave the white chocolate at half power for 30-second intervals, stirring the candy each time to see if it's melted.
4. Drizzle the melted chocolate on the pizza to look like melted mozzarella. Quickly pile on the olives and peppers, then arrange the cashews to look like mushrooms.

This recipe makes one pizza.