How to Construct a Car Made Out of Food
If you've ever been frustrated by the instruction not to “play with your food,” chances are you'll enjoy a little playful defiance in the form of food sculpture. Food sculptures are edible works of art that are just as fun to eat as they are to see. Transform a combination of veggies, cheese and crackers into a miniature car featuring ingredients that represent several food groups and taste great together. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Non-serrated cooking knife
- Cucumber
- Brick cheddar cheese
- Tooth picks
- Round crackers
- Salami slices
- Bamboo skewers
- Carrot
Instructions
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Cut a long slice off the side of the cucumber, creating a flat plane across its length. Use a sharp, non-serrated knife to slice a strip between 1/8 and 1/4 inch. This will create the shape for the car's undercarriage.
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Make the car's cabin from cheese. Cut a cube of cheese about 2 inches square from the larger block. Spear it with partial lengths of toothpick to attach it to the rounded top of the cucumber about a third of the way in from its round, stem end.
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Poke wheel spokes through the bottom of the cucumber. Above the flat plane you made in step 1, drive two bamboo skewers through the cucumber flesh from one side to the other, leaving the skewer wood poking out in four edges where the wheels will be located.
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Create the car's wheels. Cut four cross sections of salami and pair them up with four round crackers, centering the salami slices on the crackers. Skewer the crackers and salami through the center to make the wheels. If you have trouble inserting the skewers through the crackers, rub a little water on the center of each cracker to soften them.
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Trim the bamboo skewers so that they're just long enough to hold the wheels.
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Form the car's headlights from carrot slices. Cut two cross-sections from the tip of a full-sized carrot. Take them from from sections next to each other to ensure they're nearly the same size. Cut the ends from two toothpicks. Insert the sharp ends in the carrot cross section and the blunt ends in the front of the “hood” of the cucumber car.
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