Edible Book

Our lovely little town has so many wonderful features.  One of them is the public Library.  They have good authors in a lot, weird animals and tons of activities for the kids.  Well  one such activity was to create an edible book.  The awards were given to the Most Creative,  Most Appealing, and Weirdest Ingredients.  I'll tell you about our cookie and then you can guess which award we won.

YES WE WON!!!! WOO HOO

Here's the book and the progression of things including the ingredient list.

First we baked ourselves a sugar cookie out on a pizza pan.

Then we frosted it with white frosting, lined the bottom (the dirt) with crushed oreo cookies (take out the middle but don't eat them all...seriously, you will not feel good after having done so. I tried. I'm not proud). We also grated some English Muffin using a hand grater to sprinkle in with our 'dirt' to get it some color variation. 




Top the dirt portion of your cookie with lettuce that's been finely chopped and dry.  It is important to try the lettuce in a paper towel or else it will make your cake a sloppy, wet mess.

I added some redhots to act as lady bugs because as long as they're not living in my house lady bugs are cute.  Add some mushrooms.  Similar to the cover I attempted to position one of the mushrooms into a table where wormy could sit and write, but it still looks like a plain old mushroom.  Moving on.

Color some coconut with some blue food coloring to make a couple of clouds, add your worm (which is not picture here because I did not have a worm. I had gummy bears and sour patch kids but the book is not called 'Diary of a Bear' or 'Diary of a Sour Patch Kid' so you will have to improvise here.  My apologies.




I do not write well with a pen and paper so the frosting was VERY IFFY, but it turned out okay.   My daughter helped me reform some of the letters that got a little gloppy.  Here is the finished product (minus the worm).  Next I'll share with you what the little girl is made out of.  KIDDING. She's  human.  Well, most of the time.

We won ourselves $10 to the local DQ for our efforts.  We won for weirdest ingredients.  We have to put our thinking caps on for next year's contest and strive for  more weird and wild ingredient ideas.  This winning business is pretty fun!