Your kids will fly right home for these tasty afterschool nutritious snacks that look like colorful butterflies. Add a few raisins on each "apple wing" and they transform into butterflies with spotted wings.
Apple Butterflies
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 0 min
- Ingredients 5
- Servings 4
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup peanut butter*
- 4 fresh baby carrots
- 1 large red apple
- 8 (2-inch-long) thin strips celery
- Colored decorator sugar, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Spoon 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.
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Step2Cut 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.
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Step3Place 2 strips of celery at top of each carrot to form antennae. Sprinkle apple slices with decorator sugar.
Nutrition
250
Calories
17g
Total Fat
8g
Protein
16g
Total Carbohydrate
11g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1/4 of Recipe
- Calories
- 250
- Calories from Fat
- 150
- Total Fat
- 17g
- 26%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 15%
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 150mg
- 6%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 16g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 4g
- 16%
- Sugars
- 11g
- Protein
- 8g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 60%
- 60%
- Vitamin C
- 6%
- 6%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1 Fruit; 1 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Tips from the
Pillsbury Kitchens
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