28/10/2024
Healthy Halloween Treat Ideas
Halloween goes hand-in-hand with candies and other unhealthy snacks — which can be a super challenging time if you’re trying to encourage your family to eat healthy.
It’s not as hard as you might think to come up with super healthy versions of Halloween treats.
Try these healthy Halloween treat ideas:
Apple “Teeth”:
Cut apples into slices and sandwich two slices together with nut butter. Add a few yogurt-covered raisins or berries to resemble teeth. You can even include chopped strawberries as a tongue too. It looks like a ton of fun but it’s super healthy.
Spooky Spiders:
Grab some hard-boiled eggs and cut them into slices. Decorate each slice with pieces of licorice and arrange them to look like spiders.
Spider Cupcakes:
Add scarily realistic-looking spiders to the top of your cupcakes with some melted chocolate and decent piping skills. They look super impressive and they’re not hard to create.
Avocado Zombie Toast:
Spread avocado on toast and top with radishes, olives and pepper to create zombie faces.
Mummy Toast:
Top slices of toast with jam or tomato puree and add shredded cheese. Strategically place a couple of olives for eyes and you’ve got “mummy-style” toast!
You can easily turn this into more of a pizza-style snack by popping the toast under the grill so the cheese melts.
Veggie Skeletons:
Arrange pieces of raw veggies in the shape of a skeleton for a spooky, healthy treat. You can use carrots, bell peppers, celery or any other raw veggies you have to hand.
Halloween-Style Stuffed Peppers:
Add a Halloween theme to stuffed peppers by cutting spooky shapes in the skin before you fill them.
Bonus points if you use an orange pepper — it can resemble a mini pumpkin!
Spooky Roasted Vegetables:
Roast some veggies and give them a Halloween makeover. Pumpkins, witches hats and ghosts are just a few ideas you can try out. Grab some Halloween-themed cutters and get creative! Carrots, potato, sweet potato and beets all work great for this.
White Chocolate Banana Mummy Popsicles:
Dip banana popsicles in white chocolate and drizzle with peanut butter for a mummy effect. Add a couple of chocolate drops to each popsicle as a finishing touch.
You can also create “ghost” popsicles by leaving off the peanut butter drizzle and keeping everything white.
Pumpkin Cookies:
Add some pumpkin puree to your cookies for a Halloween vibe and break out the Halloween cookie cutters to create some fun shapes.
A coating of yogurt can turn them into ghost cookies.
Make some bat and spider cookies by adding a liberal amount of sesame seeds to turn them black.
Use orange (or a red and yellow combination) food coloring to add Halloween decorations to your cookies.
Apple Mummy Pie:
Okay, this one isn’t quite so healthy but it’s perfect for Halloween and fall. You’ll need apples (and any other seasonal fruit you want to include) and spices for the filling and pastry for the pie itself. If you’re feeling super creative, try making your own pastry.
Mummy Cookies:
Decorate your cookies in slashes of icing to give it a mummy vibe. Add a couple of chopped nuts to each cookie to give it eyes too.
“Blood” Falafels:
Give your falafels a Halloween twist by smearing this with a heap of ketchup for a fake blood effect.
Shape your falafels into fingers rather than balls and use flaked almonds as fingernails.
Fruit and Nut Halloween Balls:
For a sweet but super healthy Halloween snack, make some fruit and nut bites. Apricot and coconut are perfect combinations for this but you can use any fruit and nuts. Just blend your preferred choices in a food processor with some almond meal (or oat flour), coconut oil and a touch of vanilla.
Witches Fingers:
Put a scary twist on traditional cookies by shaping them and decorating them to resemble witches fingers.
Add some strawberry jam to the “knuckles” of the fingers for a blood effect and use flaked almonds for fingernails.
Eyeball Cakes:
Whip up a brownie base and top with frosting. You can frost with coconut cream or even yogurt if you don’t want to use icing. For the eyeballs, you can use a combination of glace cherries and jam.
Monster Sushi:
Even sushi can get a Halloween makeover. Decorate it to give it a scary twist and add monster faces. Get creative and make them super frightening!
Other Healthy Halloween Treat Ideas:
● Honey roasted pumpkin seeds
● Blood orange punch for the adults
● Pumpkin spiced smoothies
● Caramel popcorn
You get the idea, just be creative 🧡