Ham and Cheese Croissant Bento Box - BLW Recipe
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I love a simple and effective recipe!
A cheese and ham croissant is so delicious, so I thought I would try and re create a croissant but by using bread!
You can get creative with the ingredients you use, for example you could use sliced chicken and cream cheese, or simply just cream cheese and some grated cheese!
If you find the croissant pops open, just take some cream cheese and use it like glue and it will keep the croissant edges in place!
If you have a toaster you could lightly toast this as well which is really yummy! But this is not necessary!
This is such a fun delicious recipe that will hopefully excite your little ones at lunch time! A usual cheese and ham sandwich made fun!
Everyone eats with their eyes especially kids, so this one is sure to be a winner!
Ingredient information
Sliced bread - You choose the sliced bread of choice, i on this occasion have used half and half bread!
Cream cheese - This is great for this recipe as it works as a good sticky base to hold everything together! You could add in a sprinkling of cheddar cheese as well if you wish!
Ham - I have used some ham to make this an authentic cheese and ham croissant!
Olives - You could swap olives for something else if your little one doesn’t like olives!
Grapes - Cut into quarters from 6 months old!
Raspberry - Great for a sweet hit of vitamin C!
Serving suggestion
This bento box is lovely on its own, if you did want to serve the bento box with anything else you could serve with some full fat Greek yogurt as a creamy treat, or you could swap the olives for some delicious avocado slices!
Storage instructions
This bento box can be kept in the fridge and made ahead of time for up to 3 days in the fridge. You can also freeze the sandwich croissant part of the bento box in a freezer bag or airlock container for up to 3 months in the freezer!
Recipe | Ham and Cheese Croissant Bento Box
Ingredients
Makes 1 bento box
2 slices of sliced bread of choice, crusts removed
2 teaspoons full fat cream cheese
1 slice thin ham
6 olives, halved
6 grapes, halved or quartered
Instructions
Start by cutting the crusts off your slices of bread.
Roll the 2 slices of bread very thinly with a rolling pin.
Spread the cream cheese over one slice of the rolled bread, place the ham on top, and then place the other slice of bread on top!
Press down firmly, and roll one corner to the other, this should look like a rolled up croissant. Place in the bento box.
Pop the olives and the grapes into the bento box!
Hope you and your family enjoy!
Recipe notes
If you wanted to make this bento box gluten free, you could use slices of gluten free bread! Equally if you wanted to make the bento box vegan you could use vegan ham and vegan cream cheese!
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