19 Feb How to Make Mermaid Toast

Are you obsessed with all the amazing rainbow toast doing the rounds on Instagram and Pinterest? Well this is how you can make your own!

Makes: 4 pieces of toast

Ingredients
4 slices sandwich bread or square crispbreads
200 g cream cheese
2–3 drops each of natural blue, green and pink food colouring
Raspberry or blackcurrant coulis
1 pinch blue and green spirulina
1 pinch edible glitter

How To

Toast the bread.

Keep half the cream cheese plain and divide the rest into three, using the food colouring to create three different colours of cream cheese.

Spread a layer of plain cream cheese on each toast, top with a layer of coloured cream cheese, then a few drops of raspberry or blackcurrant coulis or sprinkle with blue or green spirulina. Spread with a palette knife. Sprinkle with glitter and serve immediately!

Tip: To make them even more fairytale-like, you can add dragon fruit slices cut into flower or star shapes using a cookie cutter, or cucumber shapes coloured with a drop of blackcurrant coulis.

This is an edited extract from Unicorn Food by Sandra Mahut, Murdoch Books, $19.95 and is available in stores nationally.