Halloween night isn't just for scares - October 31st is toolots of sweetseaten. But there is a healthy alternative to pitch cookies, rubber googly eyes, chocolate bars and the like: you can serve carved fruits and vegetables for Halloween.
Serve carved fruits and vegetables for Halloween
With a little creativity and skill you canCarve fruits and vegetablesor decorate appropriately for Halloween. In today's post we show you several suggestions for healthy snacks that family and friends will surely like.
Healthy snacks for Halloween: Carved muskmelon
It's not just pumpkins that can be carved for Halloween. A sugar melon can also be carved with a sharp knife. Carve eyes and an open mouth out of the cantaloupe. Carefully remove the pulp and seeds. For this purpose, you can cut it into small cubes or use a spoon. Then fill the “monster” with fruit through his mouth.
Vegetable snacks for Halloween: A witch and a Frankenstein monster
Prepare a guacamole dip and pour it into a small bowl. For the witch:
- Nose made of a small sour cucumber
- Mouth from a cherry tomato
- Green olive eyes
- Black olive eyebrows
- Carrot stick hair
- Hat made from black tortilla chips
- Eyes made from mini mozzarella balls and a black olive
- Nose from a carrot
- Mouth made of peppers
- Hair made from black tortilla chips
Finger food with vegetables for Halloween: witch fingers made from celery and almonds
Finger food is always a hit with children. For the creepy witch fingers pictured above you need the following ingredients:
- a celery stick
- Almonds
- Dip with roasted almonds
- red food coloring
Scary Halloween snacks: skeleton made of vegetables
A vegetable plate with a difference: For a creepy-sweet skeleton you need the following ingredients:
- Legs made from carrots, green beans, cherry tomatoes and cauliflower
- Ribs made from pepper sticks and cucumber
- Arms of green beans, cherry tomatoes, and cheese
- Avocado head
Fruit and vegetables for Halloween: smoothies
Smoothies are very popular in autumn. Surprise your guests with delicious and healthy drinks with pumpkin or berries and chia seeds and decorate them to suit Halloween.
For the smoothie with berries and chia seeds:
- Kiwi monster with sugar eyes, marshmallow and oatmeal
For the smoothie with pumpkin:
- dry fruit
- red pepper with sugar eyes
Halloween recipes: juice with blackberry monster
Serve juice (or alcoholic drinks for the adults) and decorate the glasses with cute blackberry monsters. You need: large blackberries and sugar eyes.
Serve fruit salad for Halloween
A fruit salad with a difference: the chocolate strawberries, kiwi Frankenstein, apple monsters and banana ghosts are sure to please the children.
For the Kiwi Monsters:
- Chocolate eyes
- Pretzel sticks
Surprise the kids with cute kiwi monsters. This idea was inspired by the movie “Frankenstein”.
For the banana ghosts:
- Chocolate eyes, small for the eyes
- Chocolate eye, big for the mouth
- Pineapple juice (brush the bananas with pineapple juice to prevent them from browning)
For the apple monsters:
- Sugar eyes
- Strawberries for the tongue
- Sunflower seeds for teeth
- Peanut butter
For the strawberries: melted white chocolate. You can color the white chocolate in fall colors like orange and yellow.
Creatively arrange a fruit plate for Halloween
You can have one for HalloweenArrange fruit plates creatively. Apples, strawberries, bananas, pears and grapes: these are the fruits that you can serve to your guests at the spooky festival.
For the apple monsters:
- Marshmallows for your teeth
- Sugar eyes
For the banana ghosts:
- Chocolate eye, large – for the mouth
- Chocolate eyes, small – for the eyes
- Lemon juice – for brushing. Lemon juice works similarly to pineapple juice
For the strawberry mummies:
- White chocolate
- Sugar eyes
You can also halve grapes and decorate them with sugar eyes.
Serving vegetables for Halloween: Another variation for a skeleton
A “skeleton” made of freshVegetables and a dip with itis guaranteed to delight family and friends.
- for the head: a bowl of dip, two olives, lettuce leaves
- for the arms and hands: cucumbers, carrots and cauliflower
- for the body: cucumber slices, pepper sticks, mushrooms
- for the legs and feet: cucumber, carrots, broccoli, cherry tomatoes
Fruit and vegetables for Halloween: How to prepare a cold vegetable platter
Onecold vegetable platterIt's actually not difficult to prepare for Halloween. You just need a bit of creativity and patience - because you have to cut the vegetables into bite-sized pieces for the children. Crackers that you can bake yourself go well with this. Some ideas for what can go on the vegetable platter:
- Witch fingers made from mozzarella sticks and pepper pieces
- Spiders made from cheese balls and pretzel sticks
- Witch's broom made from a pretzel stick and carrot sticks
- Pumpkins made from tangerines and cucumber pieces
- Cucumber skulls
Plus apples, ham and other seasonal fruits of your choice.
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