APPLE BUTTERFLIES

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Your kids will fly right home for these delicious after-school nutritious snacks that look like beautiful butterflies. Add a few raisins on each "apple wing" and they transform into butterflies with spotted wings. Spice up the flavor by adding 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon to the peanut butter. From Pillsbury.com

Provided by NcMysteryShopper

Categories     Lunch/Snacks

Time 15m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 5

1/2 cup peanut butter
4 fresh baby carrots
1 large red apple
8 pieces celery, thin strips (2-inch-long)
colored decorator sugar (optional)

Steps:

  • Spoon 2 tablespoons peanut butter onto center of each of 4 individual plates. Shape peanut butter on each plate into a mound about 2 inches long and 1 inch wide. Place 1 carrot down center of each mound of peanut butter.
  • Cut apple into quarters; remove core. Cut each quarter into 7 thin slices; cut 1 slice in half crosswise. Fan 3 apple slices on each side near top of each carrot to form upper wings. Place 1 half-slice on each side near bottom of each carrot to form lower wings.
  • Place 2 strips of celery at top of each carrot to form antennae. Sprinkle apple slices with decorator sugar (optional).
  • Decorate wings with raisins, craisins, peas, fruit loops or Cheerios.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 206.1, Fat 16.3, SaturatedFat 3.3, Sodium 156.1, Carbohydrate 10.6, Fiber 2.7, Sugar 6, Protein 8.2

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