Lady Bug Crostini Snacks.
You can cook Lady Bug Crostini Snacks using 7 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Lady Bug Crostini Snacks
- You need 1/4 cup of fresh baby spinach leaves.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of cherry tomatoes.
- You need 1/4 cup of medium or large pitted black olives.
- Prepare 4 oz of cream cheese.
- You need 3 of cilantro stems (leaves removed) or small slivers of green onion for the bug antennas.
- You need 1/2 loaf of small french bread, sliced thinly or crostini bread already sliced from your local deli..
- You need 1 of olive oil.
Lady Bug Crostini Snacks step by step
- Preheat your oven to 400°..
- On a foil lined baking sheet, spread out crostini slices and drizzle with olive oil..
- Bake for 5 to 8 minutes until bread is toasted and slightly browned. Remove from oven and cool..
- Meanwhile, take cherry tomatoes and slice in half lengthwise..
- Cut a "V" at the bottom of each cherry tomato to resemble lady bug wings..
- Take each olive and slice in half lengthwise, then in half again.This part you will be using for your lady bug head..
- Spread each crostini bread with some cream cheese and add 2 or 3 spinach leaves on top..
- Add 1 cherry tomato lady bug body and half of an olive for a head..
- 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..
- Next, cut an olive into really small pieces. Use these pieces to dot the cherry tomato or the ladybugs back with her dots..
- 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!.
- **Recipe courtesy of Funny Food Recipes**.
