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Peanut Butter Cracker Butterflies
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Peanut Butter Cracker Butterflies
Prep Time
30 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 
Butterfly shaped crackers filled with peanut butter are dipped in colorful candy melts then are decorated with M&M's and colored licorice laces.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: butterfly treats, peanut butter crackers
Servings: 12
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • 1 - 1 ½ cups peanut butter
  • 24 butterfly crackers
  • 12 ounces colored candy melts yellow and/or orange, melted
  • 24 regular yellow and/or orange M&M's candies
  • 24 mini yellow and/or orange M&M's candies
  • 12 regular green M&M's
  • 36 mini green M&M's
  • 24 1 inch pieces of colored licorice laces
Instructions
  1. Spread some peanut butter on 12 of the butterfly crackers then set another cracker over top.
  2. Dip a peanut butter cracker into the melted candy melts.
  3. Use a chocolate dipping fork to remove the butterfly and allow the excess candy melts to drip off.
  4. Set on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
  5. Immediately press two regular yellow or orange M&M's on the upper portion of each wing.
  6. Press two mini yellow or orange M&M's on the lower portion of each wing.
  7. Press one regular green M&M at the top of the mid section creating the butterfly's head.
  8. Arrange three mini green M&M's in a row below the head.
  9. Insert two candy licorice pieces into the top of each cracker creating antennae.
  10. Pop the cracker into the freezer for 3-5 minutes until the candy coating hardens.
  11. Repeat.
  12. Remove the crackers from the freezer and let sit at room temperature for 10 minutes.
  13. Draw two eyes and a smile on the green butterfly heads.
  14. Serve!