Simple Way to Prepare Favorite Lady Bug Crostini Snacks

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lady bug crostini snacks. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Take each olive and slice in half lengthwise, then in half again. This part you will be using for your lady bug head. Take your cilantro stalks and remove all the leaves from it. So cute and fun to make! :-) The kidos should have fun making and eating these, I know I did! lol :hungry.

Lady Bug Crostini Snacks is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Lady Bug Crostini Snacks is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lady bug crostini snacks using 7 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lady Bug Crostini Snacks:

1. Take fresh baby spinach leaves
2. Make ready cherry tomatoes
3. Make ready medium or large pitted black olives
4. Take cream cheese
5. Get cilantro stems (leaves removed) or small slivers of green onion for the bug antennas
6. Prepare small french bread, sliced thinly or crostini bread already sliced from your local deli.
7. Take olive oil

Here they are all arranged on the platter: These were super tasty and were gobbled up with the quickness, so you could do them for a non-ladybug party as well. Either dice the tomato and olive and make it more of a bruchetta, or skip the olive altogether and just use a cherry tomato half. Directions In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Place tinted cream cheese mixture in a small plastic bag; set aside.

Instructions to make Lady Bug Crostini Snacks:

1. Preheat your oven to 400°.
2. On a foil lined baking sheet, spread out crostini slices and drizzle with olive oil.
3. Bake for 5 to 8 minutes until bread is toasted and slightly browned. Remove from oven and cool.
4. Meanwhile, take cherry tomatoes and slice in half lengthwise.
5. Cut a "V" at the bottom of each cherry tomato to resemble lady bug wings.
6. Take each olive and slice in half lengthwise, then in half again.This part you will be using for your lady bug head.
7. Spread each crostini bread with some cream cheese and add 2 or 3 spinach leaves on top.
8. Add 1 cherry tomato lady bug body and half of an olive for a head.
9. Take your cilantro stalks and remove all the leaves from it. Cut the stalks about 1" long. Place under the ladybug head to resemble the antenna.
10. Next, cut an olive into really small pieces. Use these pieces to dot the cherry tomato or the ladybugs back with her dots.
11. Lastly, take a bit of cream cheese and put it into a piping bag or a ziplock bag with the corner tip cut off. Dot eyes for your ladybug onto the olive head. Walla! You have edible ladybugs!
12. Recipe courtesy of Funny Food Recipes

Directions In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Place tinted cream cheese mixture in a small plastic bag; set aside. In a small bowl, mix together the cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Place the black cream cheese mixture in a small plastic bag; set aside. Add the chives, garlic salt and parsley to the remaining cream cheese mixture.

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