Bread and Butterfly (A Tasty Treat)

Submitted by COOKGIRl

"The staff here at CGTD Institute found the inspiration for this recipe from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' story. A fun yet simple cooking project designed for the wee tots."

 

• Ready In: 5mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Yields: 1 Bread-and-Butterfly

ingredients

• 1 slice bread (white, wheat, etc. I used crumpet bread.)
• whipped butter, for spreading
• dyed sugar, your choice of colors (I used natural food dyes)

• Garnish

• candy sprinkles, for garnish or non-pareils
• grated coconut
• mini chocolate chip

directions

1. Note: if you wish, you can dye the butter. Also, for special effects, feel free to garnish sprinkles, non pareils or other choices like shredded coconut on the butterfly. Substitutions for butter would include: frosting, cream cheese, peanut butter or other nut/seed butter, etc. Also, if you wish, you can flavor the butter or substitute with extract of your choice: almond, vanilla, coconut, etc.
2. First decide if you want your bread untoasted or toasted.
3. Use a butterfly shaped cookie cutter to cut the bread. If toasting the bread, cut out the bread first.
4. Place the dyed sugar on a plate.
5. Spread a generous amount of butter on the toast then press the bread onto the dyed sugar OR, it may be easier (especially for very young children), for them to sprinkle the sugar on top of the bread instead.
6. ~TD~ tested-Mother approved!

Reviews

[iewe7726]

I used toast -- this was so cute for the kids!!! Great idea for a little girls tea party especially.

 

[Susie D]

Boys like these too. :-) We used random cookie cutters & sprinkled our way to a fun afternoon. Thank you for the recipe!

 

[littlemafia]

Finally got to make these! I loved seeing my DD making them.Still didn't get the butterfly or flower cookie cutters,but we made them into hearts and sprinkled cake sprinkles and coconut on them.Made for ZWT6.

 

[Tinkerbell]

OMG! I've been wanting to try out this recipe & finally all the planets were aligned! :) DD (3) & I cut our butterfly freehand but we used cookie cutters to make flowers as well (since it's the flowers singing the song about bread & butterflies in Alice in Wonderland). We used butter, white chocolate peanut butter & plain cream cheese as spreads. We had so much fun putting on colored sugar sprinkles & DD especially liked the Cinderella themed candies (apples, slippers, pearls & castles). :) Thanks for such a fun after-nap treat, Cookgirl! We'll be making these again. (My favorite was the PB ones!) Made for Ramadan tag.