Apple Butterflies

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 Show more

Ready In: 15 mins

Serves: 4

Ingredients

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Place 2 strips of celery at top of each carrot to form antennae. Sprinkle apple slices with decorator sugar (optional).
  4. Decorate wings with raisins, craisins, peas, fruit loops or Cheerios.
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