Stars and Stripes Toast

Fisher Price Fun with Food All Year Round Cookbook, p. 38

1 slice white or wheat sandwich bread

About 1 tablespoon cream cheese, at room temperature

6 fresh blueberries

About 2 teaspoons red raspberry, strawberry, or cherry jam

Put a piece of sandwich bread into a toaster or toaster oven. Toast the bread. Put it on a plate to cool for a few minutes.

Cut off the bread crusts. Make the cuts straight across so that you end up with a rectangle of toast. Spread the toast evenly with about 1 tablespoon of cream cheese.

Rinse the blueberries and dry them on a paper towel. Turn the bread on the plate so that when it is facing you, the long sides of the rectangle are the top and bottom and the short sides are the right and left. Put 3 blueberries (stars) in a row in the upper lefthand corner of the toast. Leave a little space between the berries. Put 3 more berries in a row underneath the first row.

So this is how that looks in real life.

The recipe authors must have been working with unusually enormous pieces of sandwich bread if theirs came out looking like this.

To make the stripes, put a small amount of jam on a teaspoon. It should be about the same as the amount of toothpaste you would put on a toothbrush. Gently lay the jam in a line along the top edge of the bread beginning right next to the blueberries. Repeat until you reach the end of the bread. This will be 1 of the shorter stripes on the flag.

Leave space below the line of jam for a white stripe. Then make another short red stripe. Leave room for another white stripe. Now begin the long stripe. Start on the left edge of the toast and lay down a stripe of jam going across the toast. Leave a white stripe and make another red one. If you have room make 1 more red stripe. You will probably have room to make 4 or 5 red stripes altogether. When you have made all your stipes, the flag is done. 

That was the best I could do. It got the point across. 

My Rating: 4/5 "This actually didn't taste bad, for all it looked very little like the mock-up in the cookbook. The crunch of the toast is nice in contrast with the toppings. Hooray for a sweet, creamy treat that's great for Fourth of July and anytime you feel like eating a flag!