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Celebrate spooky season with this festive Halloween snack board! With festive faces and shapes made from fresh fruit and veggies, it’s a fun way to bring a little extra nutrients to a sweet-filled holiday.
My kids love getting to choose different snacks and have fun decorating the fresh fruit with different faces. Quick to make with zero actual cooking required, this platter has become a go-to for afternoon snacks and holiday parties. I serve it alongside my spooky snack platter, fruit snacks, and other festive treats and never have any leftovers!
❤️Why You’ll Love This Snack Board
- Fun, festive, and colorful plate for kids (and adults).
- Delicious way to enjoy fruits and veggies.
- Perfect for parties or nights in.
Halloween Snack Board Ingredients
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- Fruits: Watermelon, kiwi, kiwi berries (or grapes), and blueberries.
- Veggies: Yellow mini peppers.
- Other: White chocolate, dark chocolate, and pretzel sticks.
- Details: Curved sprinkles and candy eyes.
Recipe Tip
Add a few plastic spiders!
Tips for Success
- Make sure to dry the fruit with a paper towel before adding chocolate, or it won’t set.
- Use melted chocolate to glue the candy eyes on.
- Kiwi berries can be hard to source, so swap for grapes.
Possible Variations
- Watermelon: Try cantaloupe, Galia melon, or mango.
- Kiwi: Strawberries or apples.
- Kiwi berries: Grapes or blueberries.
- Blueberries: Raspberries, blackcurrants, or red currants.
- Mini peppers: Apples, kiwi, or strawberries.
- White chocolate: Use dark chocolate instead.
- Candy eyes: Swap for black sesame seeds, black olives, or sprinkles.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep them covered in the fridge with plastic wrap or transfer to an airtight container.
FAQs
Make one of two of the ideas, and serve them on a platter with your favorite snacks such as cheese, crackers, pretzels, chips, chocolates, candy corn, celery, carrots, apple slices, hummus, and dips. It will still be festive and fun.
It’s best to eat it within 4-6 hours, as the candy eyes and chocolate may start to dissolve.
Yes, a few hours ahead is fine. Store it in the fridge, so it stays fresh.
Cut out a mouth using a small sharp knife (as you would a pumpkin).
Slice the watermelon in flat chunks, and pipe the white chocolate skeletons on top.
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Halloween Snack Board
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 slices watermelon
- 100 grams white chocolate
- 7 kiwi berries, or grapes
- 2 mini peppers, yellow
- 4 kiwis
- 12 pretzels sticks
- 50 grams dark chocolate
- 21 blueberries
- 23 candy eyes
- 14 mini candy eyes
- curved sprinkles
Instructions
Knocked-out Frankensteins
- Cut a line along the top third of the kiwi.
- Use a vegetable peeler to remove the kiwi skin underneath the line.
- Halve the kiwi and dry it with a piece of kitchen towel.
- Cut a v-shape into the middle of the kiwi skin hair.
- Melt some dark chocolate.
- Use the melted chocolate and a toothpick to shape the eye and mouth details on the Frankensteins.
- Stick pretzel stick ends into the side of the kiwis.
Blueberry creepy crawlies
- Make sure your blueberries are the same size.
- Melt some dark chocolate.
- Shape the dark chocolate legs onto parchment paper using a piping utensil or bag.
- Top a small blob of chocolate onto the side of a blueberry and stick it together with another blueberry.
- Place these on top of the legs you made.
- Continue for three or four blueberries (the longer it is, the more fragile it will be).
- Use melted chocolate to stick the mini candy eyes onto the first blueberry in line.
- Allow to set.
Vampire mouth peppers
- Shape a hole in the peppers similar in size to the vampire’s mouth you have.
- Remove the insides of the pepper to make room for the vampire’s mouth.
- Insert the mouth carefully.
- Notes: Be sure to remove the vampire’s mouth before eating.
Watermelon skeletons
- Slice the watermelon.
- Use the gingerbread man and woman cutter to shape the skeletons.
- Dry the fruit with a piece of kitchen towel.
- Melt some white chocolate.
- Add the chocolate to a piping utensil or bag.
- Pipe the skeleton details onto the shaped melon.
- Allow to set.
Kiwi berry eyes
- Melt some white chocolate.
- Using the tip of a small spoon, add a small amount of white chocolate to one end of the berries.
- Top with candy eyes and allow to set standing (you can use some foil to shape a little folded holder).
Kiwi mummies
- Peel and halve the kiwi.
- Dry it off with a piece of kitchen towel.
- Melt some white chocolate.
- Place the chocolate in a piping utensil / bag.
- Pipe the kiwis with the white chocolate to resemble mummy bandages.
- Top with candy eyes (you can use some white chocolate to stick them on).
- Allow to set.
Kiwi aliens
- Peel and halve the kiwi.
- Dry it off with a piece of kitchen towel.
- Use some leftover melted chocolate to stick on three eyes.
- Stick two pretzel stick ends into each side of the kiwi.
- Top with a curved sprinkle for the mouth.
- Arrange all on a platter and serve.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
