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Updated Mar 3, 2005
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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
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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

  • Step 
    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.
  • Step 
    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.
  • Step 
    3
    Place 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;
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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