New Recipe Completes Challenge and Is Enjoyed At Hayride

The Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats Challenge, in cooperation with Scholastic.com, allowed us to create a new recipe to later be enjoyed at a hayride we were invited to.

This month's Challenge is "Creative Moments". As we were going to a hayride tonight, we needed something else to go along with the crackers and cheese we were taking. We found a recipe called Apple Berry Salsa with Cinnamon Chips. After lunch, the girls and I put this very simple, yet very good fruit salsa together, thus accomplishing two goals (completing October's first mission and fixing a dessert for the hayride). This salsa was a big hit at the party!

 

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Apple Berry Salsa with Cinnamon Chips

Chips:

  Cut flour tortillas into strips (we used kitchen scissors). Place them on a cookie or pizza pan, spray lightly with cooking spray, and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar (we keep this on hand at all times because the kids love it on toast:  mix enough cinnamon into a cup of sugar to make it a dark, rich brown color). Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 8 - 10 minutes until nicely browned and crisp. Remove from oven, allow to cool, then store in an air-tight container or bag until needed.

Salsa:

  Chop 2 apples (we peeled ours, you don't have to), 1 cup strawberries, and 1 kiwi (peeled). Combine in a large bowl.

  In separate small bowl, zest an orange. Then cut that orange in half and squeeze juice into bowl with zest. Add to fruit.

  Add 2 tablespoons brown sugar and 2 tablespoons apple jelly. Mix well. Cover bowl and put in refrigerator for at least 6 hours (can be made the night before, too). Serve with cinnamon chips.

And we had a fun time at the hayride, enjoying chili, hotdogs, chips, cookies, and our fruit salsa and cinnamon chips.