Creamy Butterflies

Name: Creamy Butterflies
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 baby English cucumber; 1 stalk celery; 6 small cocktail tomatoes; 24 RITZ Crackers; ¼ cup garlic and herb cheese spread; 72 frozen peas (1/3 cup)

Kids are more likely to eat what they help make, so combine efforts and let your kids help build these fun butterfly snacks with garden fresh veggies.

Well-being Choice

Nutrition Bonus

Kids will love creating these delicious topped crackers that resemble butterflies. And they can fit into a healthful eating plan too!

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Servings:

Makes 6 servings, 4 topped crackers each.

Ingredient list

1 baby English cucumber
1 stalk celery
6 small cocktail tomatoes
24 RITZ Crackers
¼ cup garlic and herb cheese spread
72 thawed frozen peas (1/3 cup)

Directions

Cut cucumber lengthwise in half, then cut each half crosswise into 24 slices. Repeat with celery. Cut each tomato into 4 slices, then cut each slice in half.

Spread crackers with cheese spread.

Top each cracker with 2 EACH cucumber slices and tomato pieces to resemble butterfly wings as shown in photo.

Add 2 celery pieces to each for the antennae and 3 peas to each for the body.

Recipe Tips

Substitute
Substitute thawed frozen edamame for the peas.
Substitute
Substitute 48 toasted slivered almonds for the celery pieces.
Food Facts
Cocktail tomatoes are small sweet tomatoes. Often sold on the vine, these juicy tomatoes are roughly the size of golf balls - smaller than traditional tomatoes but larger than cherry tomatoes.
Substitute
Prepare using your favorite flavor of cheese spread.