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Kids will go nuts over this creepy Halloween Fruit Tray and what better way to sneak in a healthy snack.
This platter consists of a Mellow Melon Pumpkin, creepy Cyclop Spiders, spooky Cucumber Ghouls, and Grape Googly eyes.
You can make a mixed platter with all of them or even individual platters, as you prefer!
Most of these items take minutes to prepare. Only the Cyclops Spiders are a bit more time-consuming, given some chocolate piping is involved. You can make them first, so the chocolate will have time to harden while you prepare the rest.
Halloween Fruit Tray
Ingredients
- half a cantaloupe
- 1 cucumber
- 11 green grapes
- 50 grams dark chocolate
- 50 grams white chocolate
- 9 candy eyes
- metal straw
- parchment paper
- piping utensil / bag
- small petal-shaped cookie cutter
Instructions
- Instructions for the Mellow Melon Pumpkin:
- Halve the cantaloupe.
- Peel the outer layer off the melon using a knife or vegetable peeler.
- Remove the seeds with a spoon.
- Slice the melon into five pieces and arrange them on a platter.
- Use some cucumber peel for the stem.
- Top with candy eyes.
- Instructions for the Cucumber Ghouls:
- Cut the cucumber slices at an angle.
- Make the eyes using a metal straw.
- Cut out the mouth with the small petal-shaped cutter.
- Trim or zig-zag the bottom of the ghosts by hand (I used a dress cookie cutter I have).
- Instructions for the Cyclop Spiders:
- Melt the dark chocolate. You can melt it in a bain marie, microwave or directly in a pot on low heat, just be sure to stir constantly.
- Place the chocolate in a piping utensil / bag.
- Add a blob of chocolate on one side of a grape and attach it to another grape. I placed them on an ice cube to make the chocolate set faster.
- Pipe the eight legs onto parchment paper and top with the double grapes.
- Use a bit of dark chocolate to make the candy eye stick to the spider.
- Allow to set and remove carefully from the parchment paper.
- Instructions for the Grape Googly Eyes:
- Melt the white chocolate. You can melt it in a bain marie, microwave or directly in a pot on low heat, just be sure to stir constantly.
- Halve the grapes and dip the tips of each half into the white chocolate.
- Top with candy eyes.
- Arrange all the components on a platter and serve.
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