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Use festive cookie cutters to make these Christmas Apple and Peanut Butter Sandwiches. A fun, delicious and healthy holiday snack.
Why We Love This Snack
- Fun and Healthy - So much candy circulates around the Holiday season which makes it harder to make healthier food appealing. Adding a little Christmas touch to this snack ups the fun factor, making it more appealing to kids.
- Complete Snack - The fibre rich apple, paired with the healthy fats and protein from the peanut butter will keep your little ones satisfied for longer.
- Easy to Make - It takes very little time to whip up these Christmas Apple Sandwiches. The kids can help too.
- Delicious - Apples and peanut butter are one of those classic food combinations that just work together.
What You Need
- Apple: use your favourite variety.
- Peanut Butter: Natural peanut butter is great as it contains no added sugar, salt or oils.
- Christmas Shaped Cookie Cutters: Stars, trees, bells, holly etc. Whatever you have available.
- Sharp Knife: To make clean slices.
How to Make
- Slice your apples. Place the apple horizontally (so you are cutting through the core) on a chopping board and cut into slices approx 0.5 cm / ¼″ thick. Each apple should yield 6 slices.
- Match the apple slices into pairs that are most similar in size.
- Add a Christmas touch by removing the centre core using small Christmas shaped cookie cutters. Make sure to use the same shape on the matching apple pair.
- Spread approx 1tbsp of peanut butter on one slice of each matching pair
- Top with matching apple slice to form a sandwich
Top Tip
This is the kind of snack I'd make and serve straight away. Once cut, apples can brown pretty quickly due to a large amount of the enzyme polyphenol oxidase. With the help of oxygen, enzymatic browning takes place which not only alters the appearance but also the flavour, texture and smell.
If you do wish to make these ahead of time then I would suggest that you rub each apple slice with a cut lemon to prolong browning.
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Christmas Apple and Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Equipment
- Small Christmas Shaped Cookie Cutters
Ingredients
- 1 Apple
- 3 tablespoon Peanut butter
Instructions
- Place the apple horizontally (so you are cutting through the core) on a chopping board and cut into slices approx 0.5 cm / ¼″ thick. Each apple should yield 6 slices.
- Match the apple slices into pairs that are most similar in size.
- Remove the core from the centre of the apple by using small Christmas shaped cookie cutters. Make sure to use the same shape on the matching apple pair.
- Spread 1tbsp of peanut butter on one slice of each matching pair
- Top with matching apple slice to form a sandwich
Karen
any ideas for nut free version?
Amy
Hi Karen, you could use a seed butter or some chia jam or both?
Amy
I stumbled across your website while searching for low-sugar, healthy, easy-for-little-hands-to-pick-up recipes for my 15 month old and am LOVING all of the recipes on your site!!! My son has recently begun boycotting the plain roasted veggies I used to make him so I'm thinking that incorporating veggies into patties, etc is the way to go. And I can't wait to try the banana cookies and oat bars...why do all prepackaged baby snacks have so much sugar?! It's so frustrating. We don't have quite enough teeth yet for these apple pb sandwiches, but will certainly keep them in mind when the time comes 😉
Amy
Thanks Amy! I'm glad you found my blog and I've had a quick peek at yours and will be checking it out more later, looks great.
I'm with you on the sugar in baby foods - just don't understand it at all!
You should try my cinnamon apple wedges for your 15 month. My son loves them. They are softened in coconut oil and so are easy for them to eat. 🙂
Tracey
Very pretty. You seem to have such good lighting in your place!
Amy
Oh thank you! Quite the opposite though, limited light and for a very shot time period at the moment! - Roll on summer 🙂
Katerina
How fun! Perfect for little and big kids!