Christmas Snacks: Healthy and Easy!
These five festive Christmas snack designs turn everyday ingredients like fruit, crackers, and cream cheese into a snowman bagel, Christmas light grapes, a guacamole tree, cracker ornaments, and a reindeer apple. Each design takes about 5 minutes and makes healthy eating genuinely fun for kids during the holidays.
Ingredients
For the Snowman:
- 1/2 a bagel
- Cream cheese
- Unsweetened coconut flakes
- 1 cherry tomato
- 1 carrot there will be leftover carrot
- 7 raisins
For the Christmas Lights:
- Strawberries
- Green grapes look for larger sized ones
- Black licorice string
- Black round shaped jujubes
For the Guacamole Tree
- Guacamole this is the best recipe I've EVER tasted
- Yellow bell pepper
- Carrot
- Cherry tomatoes
- Stick shaped pretzels
For the Tree Ornaments:
- Round 2-3" crackers like Breton
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese
- 2.5 oz cream cheese
- Frozen peas defrosted
- Bell peppers cut into strips
- Small carrot coins
For the Reindeer:
- An apple there will be leftovers
- 1 rectangle shaped snack bar
- 2 two chocolate chips
- 1 raisin
Instructions
For the Snowman:
- Spread a layer of cream cheese on the bagel.
- Sprinkle with coconut.
- Slice the tomato in half and place on bagel for cheeks.
- Cut 2 inches off the pointy tip of the carrot. Place in the bagel hole for the nose.
- Grate strips of the carrot and create a hat.
- Press the raisins in to create eyes and a mouth.
- Cut the remaining carrot into sticks and serve alongside the snowman bagel.
For the Christmas Lights:
- Slice the stem and a little bit of the top of the strawberries off to get a flat top.
- Slice a little bit of the stem side of the grapes to get a flat top.
- Arrange the licorice on a plate.
- Press a jujube on the cut side of the fruit and arrange along the licorice.
For the Guacamole Tree:
- Spread the guacamole on a plate into a tree shape.
- Using a sharp paring knife, cut out a star from the yellow pepper.
- Using a peeler, peel long strings of carrot. Twist the carrot strands and arrange on the guacamole to look like garland.
- Cut the cherry tomatoes in half and use to decorate the tree.
- Take 5 pretzel sticks and place vertically underneath as a tree stump.
For the Tree Ornaments:
- Stir together the cottage and cream cheeses. If you a mini food processor or an immersion blender you can use this to get a smooth consistency.
- Spread the mixture onto the crackers.
- Cut carrot coins and cut two diagonal mirrored lines to make the ornament top.
- Decorate the ornaments with frozen peas, strips of pepper, small carrot coins, and sliced cherry tomatoes.
For the Reindeer:
- Cut the snack bar in half.
- In one half, cut out a little square shaped notch for the head to rest in.
- Cut the other half in half again.
- Cut one of the quarters into quarters (for the legs).
- Place the other quarter into the notch as the head.
- Place the cut-out notch as a tail.
- Arrange the quartered quarter as legs.
- Cut the apple in half, just shy of the core.
- Cut a slice out of the part without the core.
- Cut the slice in half and then cut out little squares in the cutside like the top of a fortress castle.
- Add chocolate chips for eyes.
- Cut a half circle out of another slice of apple and place as a snout.
- Cut the raisin in half and arrange as nostrils in the snout.
- Cut up the rest of the apple and serve alongside the reindeer.
Nutrition
Calories: 270kcal
Servings: 4
Calories: 270kcal
