Animal Toast (6 Designs and Nut Free)
These animal toast faces put a fun twist on mealtime with just a few simple ingredients. With avocado, cream cheese, sunflower butter, and fruit, you can whip up adorable owls, cats, bunnies, birds, fish, and bears. These animal toast faces are as cute as they are delicious and only need four or five ingredients.
Quick Look: Animal Toast Faces
• 🥣 Ingredients: Bread (your favorite type), a spread such as cream cheese, avocado, or sunflower butter, plus fruit toppings like strawberries, blueberries, and bananas.
• ⏱️ Total Time: About 5 minutes. Just toast and decorate!
• 💡 Top Tip: These are nut-free and egg-free. Use sunflower butter or swaps like Greek yogurt or hummus to fit allergies or preferences.
• 🐻 What Animals: Cute faces include bear, cat, owl, bird, fish, and bunny.
Silly animal toasts are perfect for a quick breakfast, lunch, or snack. They’re also a fun activity to make with your kids. For my kids, I show them the picture collage above and they pick their favorite and assemble the faces. It is a great way to get them excited about eating healthy.
While the animal options are endless, pictured above are a few of our favorites.
All of these toasts are nut-free, using sunflower butter as one of the base spreads. With tree nut allergies in our family, we need a delicious nut free option. The other base spread is avocado or cream cheese, which adds a creamy contrast to the fresh fruit. Feel free to mix and match to suit your taste or what you have on hand.
The crunch of the toast, the creaminess of the spread, and the sweetness of the fruit make for a perfect combo. It’s a fun and easy way to whip up a nutritious snack for kids.
Ingredients
Base: Bread (wheat, sourdough, or your favorite type).
Spread: Sliced avocado, cream cheese or sunflower butter.
Face components: All of these use a combination of strawberries, blueberries, and bananas.
Substitutions
Toast: Can be swapped for a rice cake, English muffins, waffle, or bagel.
Sunflower Butter: Wowbutter or biscoff cookie butter.
Cream cheese: Greek yogurt, hummus, or avocado (remember that the color will impact the look of the animal).
Bear Toast
Bear toast is made by spreading sunflower butter on bread. Use a sliced banana for the ears and nose. Then blueberries for the eyes and nose.
Cat Toast
To make cat toast, spread cream cheese on bread. Use two strawberries for 3 different components of the face: triangle ears, rectangle whiskers, and a semi-circle nose. Place two blueberries for the eyes.
Owl Toast
To make owl toast, spread cream cheese on the bread. Slice two strawberries for the wings and a semi-circle for the nose. Use bananas and blueberries for the eyes!
Bird Toast Face
To make this side profile of a parrot face, use sliced avocado and a strawberry triangle for the beak. Place a blueberry for the eyes.
Fish Toast
To make the fish animal toast, use sliced strawberries and form an oval. Place a strawberry on the top for a fin and two large triangles for the tail. To finish it off, use a blueberry for an eye.
Bunny Toast
To make the bunny face toast, use cream cheese as the base. Sliced bananas for the ears and whiskers. Two strawberries for the eyes and one blueberry for the nose.
Note from Lexi
One of my favorite things about simple recipes like this is how easy they make it to bring kids into the kitchen. This recipe is always such a hit, and it turns into even more fun when they help make it. Teaching my kids the basics of cooking start with little things – spreading cream cheese, chopping soft fruit, and their personal favorite, pushing the toaster down. It does not have to be complicated to be meaningful. These small moments in the kitchen build confidence, skills, and sweet memories, and this is such a fun way to get your kids involved right alongside you.
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– Lexi with Our Slice of Home
FAQ
If you want another base, you can swap regular toast for a rice cake or waffle.
The toast will get soggy, so these are best enjoyed right after preparing
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– Lexi with Our Slice of Home
Animal Toast
Equipment
Ingredients
Select the ingredients based on which animal toast you are making:
- 1 Piece of bread toasted
- Cream cheese, avocado, or sunflower butter
- Fruit toppings blueberry, strawberry, bananas
Instructions
Bear Toast
- Spread sunflower butter on bread. Slice a banana for the ears and nose. Place blueberries for the eyes and nose.
Bunny Toast
- Spread cream cheese as the base. Use two long slices of bananas for the ears. Slice 6 long rectangles for whiskers. Use two small strawberries pieces for the eyes and one blueberry for the nose.
Cat Toast
- Spread cream cheese on the bread. This one typically requires two strawberries for the following: Two triangle ears, 6 long rectangle whiskers, and a semi-circle nose. Place two blueberries for the eyes.
Fish Toast
- Spread cream cheese on the bread. Slice small semi-circles out of a strawberry for the fish scales. I prefer to cut out about 20 small ones. Lay them on the bread and form an oval. Place a small slice of strawberry on the top for a fin and two large strawberry triangles for the tail. Use a blueberry for an eye.
Bird Toast (Parrot)
- Use 5 slices of avocado for the feathers. Cut out a triangle from strawberries for the beak. Place a blueberry for the eye.
Owl Toast
- Spread cream cheese on the bread. Slice two strawberries for the wings, a semi-circle or the nose. Place bananas and blueberries for the eyes.
Notes
- Greek yogurt instead of cream cheese.
- Wowbutter or biscoff cookie butter instead of sunflower butter. If you do not need this snack to be nut free you can use your favorite nut butter.
Such a fun idea!
Thank you!
So fun and a perfect breakfast idea!