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This week we read Warthogs Paint A Messy Color Book, by Pamela Duncan Edwards. This is a really cute story about some very messy warthogs and the fun that they have with Red, Blue and Yellow paint one rainy day. I love the great color concepts that this book teaches and all the wonderful art projects that is lend itself too!
This week we decided to use some of the color mixing concepts that are talked about in this book to make a very special Cheesecake rainbow.
First we made the crust and added some Fruit Loops to the graham crackers for a rainbow colored crust and fun fruity flavor.
Emily helped scoop and pour all of the ingredients into the mixer.
While it was mixing Emily worked on pointing out some of her letters. She knew all of the letters in Kitchen Aid!
Once the batter was ready I divided it into three bowls and added Red, Blue and Yellow food coloring to them.
Emily helped mix the food coloring into the batter.
Next, we mixed the different colors together to make Orange, Green, and Purple. (I added a little bit of food coloring as needed to get a brighter color)
Emily really enjoyed all the mixing :0)
Now we are ready to make our rainbow!
Emily helped pour the Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple batter on top of the graham cracker crust.
After waiting a whole day to cut into the cake and see how it came out Emily and everyone else that was over for our Family Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner loved the results!!
Warthogs Paint inspired Rainbow Cheesecake!
If you would like to make your own check out the awesome cheesecake recipe we used. I made a different crust since my husband is allergic to tree nuts.
Graham Cracker and Fruit Loop Crust:
- 2 cups c graham cracker crumbs (I made mine in the food processor)
- 1/2 cup fruit loop crumbs
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1/4 cup sugar
Mix all ingredients until well blended and press into a greased spring form pan or pie plate.
22 comments:
This looks like delicious fun! I especially love the idea of adding Fruit Loops to the graham cracker crust... how creative!
What a brilliant cheesecake! We had similar fun last summer with a rainbow cake:
http://www.playingbythebook.net/2009/08/03/colours/
Yummy!!!! It came out great :)
What alot of fun! Looks pretty & yummy! :)
I love your posts about cooking with your daughter! The book looks fun ;)
looks yummy we are making rainbow cupcakes today :)
Wow, that is so cool! Emily looks like she's having a great time!
Oh, wow, that looks good! What a good idea. Looks like a cute book!
What an awesome idea! I love it! I'm definitely going to have to try this with my daughter. Did you just split the batter into equal parts and color them? Any special technique when pouring them into the form?
Looks yummy! We did the same book today, too.
We love that book! Your cheesecake came out great. I love the idea of adding fruit loops to the crust.
Yummy, and the book sounds like fun. It looks like Emily is a great helper in the kitchen.
WOW!!!
so cute!! So yummy!!
Ok, so, I'm very, very impressed. What a beautiful cheesecake. Look out Martha!
What a fun idea.
I've never seen a rainbow cheesecake before. What fun!
This looks like so much fun!
That is the coolest thing - what a great idea!
I love how your cake turned out! I will definitely have to give this a try.
I have never seen that book. It looks really cute. We will have to check for it at our library.
I am such a dummy! I have been wondering why your updates do not come up, and than I tried to add you to my blog roll but you werent there! I wasn't following you, like I thought I was! I am really sorry! I LOVE your blog, and assumed I followed it a LONG time ago! Your button is on my blog, you are on my blogroll, and I am following! LOL
wow that looks delicious :D
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