Yields1 Serving
Prep Time20 mins

Ingredients

Sunflower:
 2 large yellow bell peppers
 12 oz lowfat ricotta cheese
 Honey
 Vanilla
 Blackberries
Bees:
 1/4 c sesame tahini
 1 T honey
 1 big shredded wheat biscuit, crushed up
 2 T skim milk powder
 (cocoa powder)
 (spray oil)
 Chex cereal – hexagon-shaped ones would look better than square
 Currants

Directions

Bees:
1

In medium bowl, stir together tahini and honey.

2

Stir in crumbled shredded wheat biscuit and milk powder.

3

Work with hands, and divide into 6 or 7 portions.

4

Shape into bee body shape.

5

Spray one end very lightly with oil.

6

Dip back of fork in cocoa powder, make dark marks in oil (bee stripes)

7

Dip cereal in honey, and stick into bee body for wings.

8

Cut currants in half for eyes, stick into place with toothpick dipped in a little honey.

9

Set aside.

Sunflower:
10

Mix ricotta cheese with about 1 T honey and 1 t vanilla - to taste.

11

Wash and dry blackberries.

12

Wash and slice yellow peppers into "petals."

13

Mound cheese in center of serving platter, stick petals into mound.

14

Pile blackberries in center, and arrange bees around the flower.

Ingredients

Sunflower:
 2 large yellow bell peppers
 12 oz lowfat ricotta cheese
 Honey
 Vanilla
 Blackberries
Bees:
 1/4 c sesame tahini
 1 T honey
 1 big shredded wheat biscuit, crushed up
 2 T skim milk powder
 (cocoa powder)
 (spray oil)
 Chex cereal – hexagon-shaped ones would look better than square
 Currants

Directions

Bees:
1

In medium bowl, stir together tahini and honey.

2

Stir in crumbled shredded wheat biscuit and milk powder.

3

Work with hands, and divide into 6 or 7 portions.

4

Shape into bee body shape.

5

Spray one end very lightly with oil.

6

Dip back of fork in cocoa powder, make dark marks in oil (bee stripes)

7

Dip cereal in honey, and stick into bee body for wings.

8

Cut currants in half for eyes, stick into place with toothpick dipped in a little honey.

9

Set aside.

Sunflower:
10

Mix ricotta cheese with about 1 T honey and 1 t vanilla - to taste.

11

Wash and dry blackberries.

12

Wash and slice yellow peppers into "petals."

13

Mound cheese in center of serving platter, stick petals into mound.

14

Pile blackberries in center, and arrange bees around the flower.

Sunflower & Buzzy Bees