Rice cake owls

Here’s how to make a fun little rice cake owl snack or light lunch for the kids. They won’t even catch on to the fact that it is healthy!

Ingredients

  • 1 slice meat of your choice

    e.g., chicken, ham

  • 1 rice cake

  • 1 boiled egg

  • 2 sultanas

  • 1 slice cheese

  • 2 slices cucumber

  • 1 carrot stick

Equipment

  • 1 Knife
  • 1 Plate

Instructions

  1. Lay meat on top of rice cake.
  2. Carefully slice your boiled egg and use the two middle slices as eyes, place sultanas on for eyeballs.
  3. Using a knife cut a small triangle for the beak and fashion feet out of cheese, as shown in picture.
  4. Cut one cucumber slice in half and use as wings, then with another slice make ears.
  5. Once positioned on a plate, place a carrot lengthways underneath the owl to serve as a tree branch.

Notes

Tip
It's really all about the shapes.
Variation
I used sliced chicken for this owl but you can use whatever your kids like.
Variation
You can swap some vegetables in this recipe like zucchini for cucumber.

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