Springtime Crafting & Snacking with Halos

Springtime Crafting & Snacking with Halos

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. All opinion should are my own.

Wonderful Halos mandarins are truly Mother Nature’s perfect snack: sweet, juicy, seedless and super easy for little hands to peel and eat. Plus, they are 100% California ben and raised and Non-GMO project verified!

In preparation for Spring, we got to craft and eat at a super fun Wonderful Halos family playdate hosted by Momtrends at the Children’s Museum of Art. The afternoon was filled with yummy food & drinks and some fun crafts!

Halos Chick

Materials:

• Wonderful Halos mandarin
• yellow paper
• yellow pipe cleaner
• googly eyes
• glue dots

Instructions:

1. Cut the chick’s wings from yellow paper. You can create a featured effect by cutting little slits into the paper’s edge. Fold them back at the base and secure to the sides of the Halo with glue dots.
2. Use a yellow pipe cleaner to form the legs and feet.
3. Fold yellow paper and cut a little triangle for the beak. Use glue dots to add the beak and googly eyes.
4. Post a photo of your sweet Halos chick with #halosfun

 

The boys were pretty excited to actually get a chance to “play” with their food and the Wonderful Halos, really seemed to get their artistic juices flowing! They created the suggested crafts: Halos Chick, Halos Bunny and a bunch of their own creations too!

Using small terra-cotta flower pots, paper straws, cupcake liners and Wonderful Halos, they created their own versions of a mandarin flower adding googly eyes and pipe cleaner mouths for added personality.

Crafting with Wonderful Halos could go on and on and the boys created an army of silly creatures using the mandarins including aliens, a “snow-woman”, a caterpillar, bunnies and a host of other creations. Get your little ones crafting and use #HalosFun to show off their creations!

 

All the snacks on hand incorporated Wonderful Halos in a variety of ways, there was salsa, salad, smoothies and spiced cider! Here are a few of my favorite recipes.

Chocolate Dipped Wonderful Halos

Ingredients:

• Wonderful Halos mandarins, peeled and divided
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1 tsp sea salt

Method:

1. Place a bowl of chocolate chips over a small pot filled halfway with water over medium heat. When the chocolate chips begin to melt, stir until smooth.
2. Line a baking sheet or small plate with parchment paper. Dip the top third of Wonderful Halos mandarin slices into the melted chocolate. Place on the baking sheet and then sprinkle with sea salt.

 

Wonderful Halos Prosciutto Bruschetta Bites

Prep: 20 minutes          Time To Table: 45 minutes          Makes 25

Toasted crostini is topped with a little slice of savory prosciutto, Wonderful Halos mandarin segments and shallot chutney for a sweet and salty appetizer bursting with flavor.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Wonderful Halos mandarin segments roughly chopped
• 1 baguette, sliced and toasted olive oil, bowl for brushing baguette
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 2 cups shallots, sliced
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 cup white balsamic vinegar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 bayleaf
• i teaspoon crushed coriander seeds
• 13 slices of prosciutto
• 1/3 cup toasted hazelnuts, crushed
• 1 tablespoon fresh thyme

Method:

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Slice baguette thinly, brush with olive oil and bake until just toasted. Let cool.
2. Make Wonderful Halos mandarin chutney: In a skillet over medium heat, sauce the shallot and alt in 1 tablespoon olive oil until soft and translucent, about 20 minutes. Add the vinegar, brown sugar, bay leaf and coriander seeds and let simmer until vinegar is reduced and almost gone. Add the Wonderful Halos mandarin segments and stir, remove from heat.
3. Top toasted baguette slices with 1/2 slice of prosciutto, a spoonful of the Wonderful Halos mandarin chutney and sprinkle with hazelnuts and thyme.