Apple Butterflies

Apple Butterflies
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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.

Prep Time:
30 Min
Total Time:
Makes:
4 servings
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INGREDIENTS
1/2cup peanut butter*
4fresh baby carrots
1large red apple
8(2-inch-long) thin strips celery
Colored decorator sugar, if desired
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.