Happy April Fool's Day!!

Here's a fun April Fool's Day dinner! We take Shepherd's Pie and make cupcakes instead!!

{Shepherd's Cupcakes}

4 medium potatoes
2 tbsp margarine or butter
1/4 c milk
1 medium onion
1 tbsp oil
16 oz beef crumbles/browned ground beef
1 c gravy




First you cut up the potatoes to make mashed potatoes. Mama likes to use an apple cutter 'cause she says it's easier.












Now you put the potato slices in a pot and cover them in water. Boil the water for about 20 minutes. Then drain the water, add margarine {or butter!} and milk, and mash them up.












While the potatoes are boiling, you can chop the onions. Mama uses the apple slicer for that too, then cuts them up nice and small-ish. After your onions are cut up, put them in a pan with oil to saute them.












Once your onions cook and become almost see-through, they are done. Add the beef crumbles or browned ground beef and gravy. Then you get to mix it altogether!!












Now that your meat mixture and mashed potatoes are done, it's time to put them together! Scoop the meat into a cupcake pan {an icecream scoop works great!}, and scoop mashed potatoes on top. To make them more "cupcake like", mama adds food coloring to the potatoes to make them pinkish red.












Now it's time to bake your cupcakes! Bake them at 350 degrees for about 25-30 minutes. After you take them out, you can make them more "cupcake like" by adding salt sprinkles. But be careful not to use too much salt like mama did!! Just use an itty bitty little bit.












To make salt sprinkles, measure 1/8 cup of salt and mix 3-5 drops of food coloring in.












Then spread it on a plate and put it in the microwave for a few minutes until it dries. Once it's done, you can put it on your cupcakes or art projects!!