Peace, Love and Flower Power

Up for a groovy time!?!?! Throw on your tie-dye shirt, skip the shower, grab your guitar (well maybe don't skip the shower), and throw a hippie-inspired love fest at your joint (no pun intended).  In the spirit of the psychedelic 60s fashion that is making a full circle and coming back into style, we decided to throw a flower power party.  These are some very far out treats to make, so invite your friends over and in the words of the Beatles "all you need is LOVE!"   
So get the party started and "MAKE FOOD, NOT WAR!" peace and love.

Flower Power Paninis

Rosemary herb sourdough bread

Pesto

Tomato

Mozzarella 

Pesto

Turkey

Brie

Honey Mustard

Mayonaise

Flower Cookie Cutters

Make your sandwich up, leaving out the tomatoes (Really, you can put anything you want on these little sandwiches), then cut them out with your flower shaped cookie cutters, then toast them up in a Panini machine (or if you don't have one you can just use the oven or toaster)  

Ice-cream Flower Power Pots

Mini flower pots

Straws

Mint Chip Ice Cream softened

Smashed Up Oreos

Flowers

Get your flower pots cleaned and ready (if there are holes in the bottom on the pot cover them with seran-wrap).  Cut the straw so that it is a little shorter than the height of the flower pot, then place the straw in the middle of the flower pot.  Fill up the pot about three-fourths of the way full with the softened ice cream while your straw is still in the middle (so that it makes a little tube in the middle of the ice cream.  Put these in the freezer until the ice cream is hardened up most of the way, then pull them out and sprinkle the smashed up Oreos on top so that it looks like dirt.  Make sure not to fill the straw up with Oreos, then put the flower in the straw.