Penguin Ice Cream Bars

Looking for a way to have some fun with your kids? Or if you just love penguins, here is an easy way to make a regular ice cream bar even more fun! Not that ice cream really needs any help…

Penguin Ice Cream Bars from Handmade Charlotte

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Ingredients:
Chocolate Covered Ice Cream Bars (as many as you would like to make, those with a curved top make a more convincing penguin but any bar would work)
Candy Eyes (two for each bar)
Orange Slice Candy (only a couple should work out for quite few depending on how you cut them)
Oreos – cookie halves removed (each whole oreo makes wings for two bars)
White Candy Melts (one bag should be enough unless you are making a lot)

Instructions:
1. Wait to remove the ice cream bars from your freezer until you have everything prepared.

2. Take the oreos and remove the cream center. Cut each cookie half down the center with a knife to make the wings for your penguin.
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3. Make beaks for your penguins by cutting the Orange Slice into triangles with kitchen scissors.
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4. Melt 6 ounces of the candy melts in a microwave safe dish, and put into a small piping bag or squeeze bottle.

5. Remove ice cream bars from freezer and remove from individual packaging.

6. Using the candy melt draw a large oval on the front lower portion of the bar to be the penguins tummy.

7. Use the candy melt to attach the wings, eyes and beak by dabbing on the back of each and then pressing lightly onto the bar.
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8. Place the bars back into the freezer to set up before serving.

9. Enjoy!

These are super cute, great for parties or just because!

-Fizz

Cute Food Website

Today I discovered a website dedicated to sharing photos of cute food, cutestfood.com.

Here is the website’s logo:

Not all of the food is cute in the sense that it features cute animals, but there are a lot of adorable foods. I suggest taking a look at the site if you have a chance.

Here are some of the cute animal themed foods featured on the site:

Bear Ice Cream

Curry with an Alpaca on top

Bento Piggies

Dog Cake Pops

Elephant Pancake

Chick bread

Bento Puppy

Bento

Bento, according to Wikipedia, is “a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cooked vegetables, usually in a box-shaped container.”

This food can be quite an art form. Today I found some wonderful pictures of different bento meals that I do not think I could eat because they are so cute!

And for Nintendo fans:

To see a few more different examples of bento, see Random Good Stuff (warning, not all the bento pictures in that article are cute or appropriate).