While there is room in every diet for sweets in moderation, you can still keep your spooky spirits up with nutritious Halloween treats the whole family will love.
Boo-nana ghosts
- 6 bananas
- 60g dark chocolate, melted
Peel the bananas, then halve across their middle. Pipe chocolate to make eyes and mouths.
Celery creatures
- 6 sticks celery
- 1/2 cup sugar-free almond butter
- 18 edible eyes
Halve the celery sticks across their middle, then fill the channel with almond butter. Arrange edible eyes on top, some with one eye, others with two.
Apple & strawberry monsters
- 6 red apples
- 1 Tbsp flaked almonds
- 1/2 cup almond, Brazil nut and cashew butter
- 6 strawberries
- 24 dried blueberries
Use a sharp knife to slice the cheeks off the apples, reserving the remainder for another use. Cut a wedge out of the middle of each cheek to make a mouth. Make a series of small incisions along the top side of each mouth, then insert an almond flake into each for teeth.
Spoon almond, Brazil nut and cashew butter into the mouths. Halve the strawberries and insert one into each for a tongue.
Cut small indentation above the mouth for eyes, then put a dried blueberry into each.
Mandarin jack-o-lanterns
- 12 small mandarins
- 1 stick celery
Peel the mandarins, leaving them whole. Cut the celery into 12 small sticks and insert into each mandarin to make a stem.
Kiwi Franken-fruit
- 6 kiwifruit
- 24 edible eyes
- 50g dark chocolate, melted
- 4 pretzel sticks
Use a small sharp knife to cut around the kiwifruit, 0.5cm deep, 1cm from the stalk end. Peel the large end with the knife. Halve the kiwifruit lengthways.
Press eyes on. Pipe chocolate to make mouths and scars. Insert pretzel pieces into each side.
Strawberry mummies
- 12 strawberries
- 75g white chocolate, melted
- 24 edible eyes
Use a small sharp knife to slice a piece off the side of each strawberry, so that it will sit without rolling. Pipe chocolate in strings across the strawberry to make bandages. Place eyes on.
Are sweet treats your favourite part of the holiday? Check out our recipes for Halloween treats too cute to spook.
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