Beary Nutty Sandwiches Recipes

NUTTY STAR SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Spread 8 of the bread slices with cream cheese, and the remaining 8 with jelly. Sandwich cream cheese slices with strawberry slices. Using star shaped cookie cutters, cut out shapes. Place strawberry slice on top of the sandwich, for garnish.

"BEARY GOOD" SNACK MIX

Steps:

• In large bowl or gallon-size resealable food-storage plastic bag, mix ingredients.
• Store tightly covered.

BEARY NUTTY SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Spread peanut butter evenly onto 24 of the graham snacks.
• Top each with a second graham snack to make sandwich.

NUTTY SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment. Pulse the nuts, confectioners' sugar and granulated sugar in a food processor until finely ground. Add the flour, cinnamon and salt and pulse until combined. Add the butter and pulse to form a soft dough.
• Roll heaping teaspoonfuls of dough into balls and arrange 1 1/2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Lightly flatten the balls with your fingers. Sprinkle with coarse, raw, sanding or brown sugar. Press a whole nut into the top of some of the cookies or sprinkle with chopped nuts.
• Bake the cookies until lightly golden, about 15 minutes. Let cool 3 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer to racks to cool completely. Spread your choice of filling on the flat side of a cookie; sandwich with another cookie. Repeat with the remaining cookies.

BERRY NUT AND SEED CRUNCH

Steps:

• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Heat brown sugar in a saucepan over medium-low heat until melted; stir in walnuts and sesame seeds until walnuts are coated with sugar and sesame seeds. Transfer coated walnuts to the prepared baking sheet; set aside until cooled.
• Mix coated walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and cranberries together in a bowl.

SPOTTY SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Combine egg and mayonnaise in a small bowl and blend until well combined.
• Using a giraffe-shaped cookie cutter, cut out out shapes from brown and white bread. Cut out tiny rounds with the tip of a metal piping tube and replace the rounds with opposite colored bread circles.
• Spread egg and mayonnaise mixture over 1/2 of the bread shapes and top with the remaining shapes. Arrange on a serving platter with mustard for the sun and cress for the grass. Cut carrot slices into flowers and arrange in the "grass".

BERRY TURKEY SANDWICH

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mix cream cheese and pecans. Spread over two slices of bread; top with lettuce, cheese, turkey, strawberries and remaining bread.

BEARY NUTTY SANDWICHES

Steps:

• SPREAD peanut butter evenly onto 24 of the graham snacks.
• TOP each with a second graham snack to make sandwich.