Penguin Themed Food & #FunFoodFriday

Yesterday in my creative Christmas sandwich ideas post I shared a penguin sandwich, so today I’m going to share the lunch that it went into and also a couple of other easy penguin themed foods, because penguins are always cute and provide a perfect theme for fun winter or Christmas food! Today is also Fun Food Friday, so as is usual in my Friday blog posts, there is a linky at the bottom of this post. If you’ve written any foodie posts, whether it be toddler meals, creative cakes, lovely lunches or a yummy recipe you’ve blogged, do feel free to join in and add your link! I try to comment on and tweet every post that’s linked up, and I pin them all to my special Fun Food Friday Pinterest board too.

First up is a penguin Babybel! This is very similar to my penguin sandwich and even easier to make. To make it, simply grab a round mini bento cutter, use it to remove a little circle of wax, then add edible icing eyes and a tiny triangle cut from a piece of carrot to make a beak. (You can find my tutorial for homemade icing eyes here, or alternatively buy them from Amazon UK).

Next up is a penguin clementine.  This went down very well with both Small Child and Small Baby, who cooed at it for a while before showing any interest in eating it! To make, use the tip of a sharp knife cut a rough circle into the skin of the clementine, leaving a small triangle at the top for the beak, and leaving it attached at the bottom. Peel away to expose the fruit underneath, then cut the skin that is left into two rough feet and discard the rest.  Cut two rounded flaps from the sides and peel away slightly to make the wings.  Dot on the eyes with any pen – I used a sharpie (the skin will be discarded before eating so that bit won’t be eaten). I served it up with a  few snowflake shaped sugar sprinkles.

Here are my penguin sandwiches, made using circle cutters – you can find full instructions for how to make these in yesterday’s Christmas sandwich post.

Finally, here is the lunch that I made the penguin sandwiches for. Small Child is a big fan of penguins so this one went down very well with him! In this lunch I packed the penguin sandwiches (filled with roast chicken slices), a cheese string, carrot fishes in a cute silicone cup which I thought looked a little like a snowflake, a clementine, broken into segments, a penguin shaped silicone cup filled with raisins and a few marshmallows and some organic strawberry yoghurt, which I topped with a few snowflake sprinkles.

Now it’s your turn to share! Have you been making any fun food recently? Please link up your foodie posts below and share the inspiration around. You can also link up Instagram, Facebook or Twitter pictures if you don’t have a blog of your own.

A few quick reminders before you link up; please visit some of the other blogs that have linked up and leave them a comment – we all love comments! If you are linking up from your blog, please grab the button below too, and put it either in your blog post or somewhere on your blog. Both old and new posts are very welcome, and do feel free to link up several posts if you’d like.

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Thank you in advance for linking up, I hope you find some fun inspiration!