Spooky Halloween Fruit Snacks


Get ready to add some frightful fun to your Halloween with these super easy, healthy, and spooky snacks! 

Perfect for balancing out the sugar overload, these treats, inspired by our friends at Sweet Living Magazine, will be a big hit with your little ghouls and goblins.

 

Healthy spooky halloween snacks
Banana Ghosts

Ingredients: Bananas, chocolate chips, popsicle sticks (optional).

Instructions:

  1. Cut the banana in half. You can insert a popsicle stick in the bottom at this point to make them easy to hold and eat.
  2. Stick chocolate chips into the banana for the eyes and mouth.
  3. Serve immediately or freeze for a chilling ghostly effect.

 

Tip: Apple Mouths & Faces Snacks 

Keep these apple treats fresh by preparing them just before serving and drizzling lemon juice on the cut sides to prevent browning.

Creepy Green Apple Mouths

Ingredients: Green apples, lemon juice (see tip above), peanut butter (or nut-free alternative), yogurt-covered almonds or sunflower seeds.

Instructions:

  1. Cut green apples into slices and spread peanut butter on one side of each slice.
  2. Place two slices together with peanut butter in between to form a “mouth.”
  3. Insert yogurt-covered almonds or sunflower seeds for teeth.
  4. Optional: Replace the bottom teeth with a slice of strawberry to create a tongue.
Red Monster Faces

Ingredients: Red apples, lemon juice (see tip above), slivered almonds, toothpicks, chocolate chips, peanut butter or jam.

Instructions:

  1. Cut apples into quarters and remove the core.
  2. Cut a slot in the centre of the apple quarters to form a mouth.
  3. Make small slits on the top and bottom of the “gums” and poke in slivered almonds to create teeth.
  4. Use a sharp knife to cut out circular eye shapes from another apple (you could also try using a melon/fruit baller spoon). 
  5. Attach these “eyes” to the mouth with toothpicks.
  6. Add chocolate chips to the eyes using a dab of peanut butter or jam as “glue”.

 

Pumpkin Mandarins

Ingredients: Small mandarins or clementines, celery

Instructions: 

  1. Peel the mandarins, keeping them whole.
  2. Insert a small piece of celery at the top to create a “pumpkin stem.”

 

 

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