Aside from starting with the letter H, Halloween and health don’t have much in common! The upcoming candy-filled holiday often results in your kids loading up on sugar, which isn’t good for them or fun for you. While it’s difficult to encourage healthy Halloween recipes, it’s not impossible–especially when better-for-you foods have a fun twist.
Try these cute, spooky and downright tasty treats to get kids excited about healthy Halloween recipes!
1. Chocolate Dipped Fruit
Directions:
Finely chop a bar of dark chocolate; microwave on 50% power until almost melted, about 2 minutes. Stir until smooth. Dip dried mango, papaya and/or apricot pieces in the chocolate, place on a parchment-lined baking sheet and chill until set, about 10 minutes.
2. Dark Chocolate Bark
Directions:
3. Apricot Coconut Balls
INGREDIENTS
TOPPINGS/DECORATIONS
Spider mini paper cups
DIRECTIONS:
4. Silly Apple Bites
INGREDIENTS
2 green apples, each quartered
Sunflower butter
32 sunflower seeds
2–3 strawberries, sliced
1–2 homemade googly eyes per apple bite
INSTRUCTIONS
Cut the middles out of each quarter of the apple to create a mouth. Don’t worry about perfection, you are filling this gap with sunbutter anyway so if you cut too deep, you can always just cover it up and no one will know.
Coat the inside of the cut gap with a filling of sunflower butter.
Place 4 sunflower seeds on the top of the “mouth” for the teeth.
Place 1 sliced strawberry inside the mouth for the tongue.
“Glue” each eye above the mouth with a dab of sun butter to stick.
5. Spooky Pumpkin Cupcakes
Makes 24 pieces
Ingredients
Cupcakes:
- 1 box butter cake mix
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs (at room temperature)
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 cup canned pumpkin (or pureed pumpkin)
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 cup sour cream (at room temperature)
- 3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
Frosting:
- 250g unsalted butter, softened
- 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar (icing sugar)
- 1/4 cup cream or milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Orange and green food colouring
- 24 Tootsie Rolls for decoration