Fun Food Ideas for an Iditarod Party
Whether it's a Pre-race or Post Race Mushers Banquet, Red Lantern Party, a checkpoint party, a met your goals celebration or your day to bring in a snack, here are a few ideas:
Snowman Pancakes - or just take two small Eggo rounds, butter, and sprinkle with powdered sugar, add choc chip eyes, mouth, and buttons.
Tortilla snowflakes - chocolate tortillas - mmm! Also, good buttered and baked in oven with cinnamon sugar or powdered sugar.
Edible snowman - angel food cake, marshmallows, whipped cream.
Make tundra pudding
Snowman soup or for those of you who like silly things, look at snowman poop
Dog houses from graham crackers or try using the miniature gingerbread house recipe
Reindeer chow
1lb white chocolate or Almond Bark brand melting chocolate
3 cups rice Chex brand cereal
3 cups corn Chex brand cereal
3 cups Cheerios brand cereal
2 cups stick pretzels
2 cups dry roasted peanuts
1 12 oz bag M & M's candies
Slowly melt chocolate in double broiler over water. Combine rest of ingredients, then pour chocolate over top and mix well.
Candy dogsled - take 2 mini candy canes or 1 long twizzler, using cake icing in a tube as glue, place a mini Hershey's chocolate bar or a Heath bar and glue to twizzler - wrapping it around the front and down the other side. Place one or two large marshmallows and cover with a fruit roll-up for sled bag then add large oval cracker or cookie for back and handle (cut the bottom off).
Pawprint cookies - take sugar cookie dough, form into 1 large patty with 3-4 smaller patties (for toes). Good plain or with icing.
Pupcakes - make cupcakes and top with light chocolate icing. Add a small York peppermint patty to center and then 3-4 junior mints on one edge to make a pawprint. Don't care for mint? Then try brown m&m's and a small chocolate wafer.
Kamamik (Eskimo ice cream) - take red juice bars and cut the slush off and serve in mini-cups.
Dog Chow - rice chex and other dry cereals
Buffalo chips - make no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies
Doggie biscuits (dogbone shapes) - form sugar cookies or any other soft dough cookie mix into dog bones and bake.
Toasted doggie bones - toast bread then cut out dog bone shape with cookie cutter.
Frozen fish popsicles (fed to the dogs) - buy melon pops or other light colored popsicles... or try making your own popcicles with a gummy fish frozen into each one.
Snowballs - wedding cookies (aka Mexican wedding cake), or get those Hostess Snowball cupcakes with the coconut!
Play with your food - make edible playdough and sculpt dogs etc.
Rename your menu - Musher food
Moose stew instead of beef stew
Moose chili - beef chili
Sourdough biscuits - buttermilk biscuits (or any biscuit)
One school changed the menu in the school cafeteria for a mushers banquet of beef stew, cheese sticks, fresh baked biscuits, corn bread with syrup, and blueberries with whip cream. The class decorated the table by covering white paper with animals, the trail etc and adding mini-sleds they made.Rename your menu - Dog food
Dog chow - any dry cereal or pretzel nuggets
Slump - beef stew or chili
BR<> Fish snack - light colored popsicles or vanilla pudding pops
Pupsicles - popsicles
Where to Find...
Dog themed cookie cutters
Cloud 9
Bay Village Store
Happy Cookers (also have candy molds, aprons, etc.)
Sit Stay (also have a dog song cd, ice cube trays)
Cooks Corner (search keyword 'dog' to find selection)
Good Dog Express (nice pawprint cutter too)
Moose, bear, and snowflake cookie cutters
Eddie Walkers (look in Cookie Cutters, & Cookie Cutters 2)
cookiecutter.com (has a variety of snowflakes and 5 piece snowflake set, search 'snowflake')
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