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These Halloween-themed snacks are the perfect healthier option to add to your next Halloween party tray or even to set out as an afternoon snack! With festive faces and shapes, they’re always a hit and are super quick to make.
Every year, I have fun making Halloween treats like my Halloween dessert dip, caramel apples, and Halloween bark. However, I also try to incorporate nutritious options like my Halloween fruits and veggies, and these Halloween themed snacks.
Crisp and refreshing, they’re always a welcome addition to all the sweets and come together with everyday items from the grocery store. When hosting, I set out a large platter for guests to munch on and pack any leftovers in lunchboxes as a fun surprise for my kids!
Recipe Tip
Top the platter with plastic spiders to make it even more creepy (and fun).
Halloween Themed Snacks Ingredients
- Kiwi Brains: Kiwi, white chocolate, and candy eyes.
- Spooky Peppers: Mini peppers.
- Pretzel Spiderwebs: Pretzel sticks, white chocolate, and candy eyes.
- Carrot Pumpkins: Large carrots and candy eyes.
- Cucumber Monsters: Persian or English cucumber, cashews, and candy eyes.
Possible Variations
- Kiwi Brains: Use any color chocolate you want. You can even leave the skin on the kiwis (it’s delicious).
- Spooky Peppers: Fill the peppers with cream cheese, crumbled feta, guacamole, or your favorite dip.
- Pretzel Spiderwebs: Top with a chocolate button spider and add sprinkle legs for even more fun!
- Carrot Pumpkins: Feel free to omit the candy eyes, or make the eyes out of black sesame seeds instead.
- Cucumber Monsters: If you don’t have a round cookie cutter, keep the slice intact, and have the nuts sticking out. Pine nuts or pistachios would work here, too.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep them in an airtight container in the fridge and enjoy the fruit and veg within 1 day. The pretzel spiderwebs will stay fresh for up for 5 days.
FAQs
Yes, you can make everything a few hours ahead but wait to top with candy eyes until you are getting ready to serve. Cover it with plastic wrap and store in the fridge.
Yes! This is a fun platter to make with little ones. They’ll love to pipe the white chocolate spiderweb, cutout the peppers eyes and mouth, or top with candy eyes.
You can make them with white and dark chocolate, use sesame seeds, black icing, or omit.
Add my ghost bites, mini Nutella spiderwebs, cheddar brooms, mummy dogs or other fun ideas.
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Halloween Themed Snacks
Ingredients
- 3 kiwis
- 100 grams white chocolate
- 6 mini peppers, red and yellow
- 28 candy eyes
- 1/2 cucumber
- 4 cashews
- 1 carrot
- 8 pretzel, sticks
Instructions
Kiwi Brains
- Peel and halve the kiwis.
- Dry them with a kitchen towel.
- Melt the white chocolate.
- Add the chocolate to a piping utensil or bag.
- Pipe the brain doodle detail on the left and right half of the kiwi. There’s no right or wrong here.
- Leave a tiny space free from chocolate between the two chocolate halves.
Spooky Peppers
- Cut the top off the peppers.
- Using a small knife, make the triangular eyes and mouth detail.
- Remove the pieces through the top of the peppers.
Pretzel Spiderwebs
- Place eight pretzel stick halves on parchment paper.
- Melt the white chocolate.
- Place the melted white chocolate in a piping utensil / bag.
- Seal the eight pretzel sticks in the center with melted white chocolate.
- Now, create the web detail by going around and around with white chocolate.
- Top the center with candy eyes.
- Allow to set.
Carrot Pumpkins
- Peel a carrot.
- Slice the carrot into discs.
- Cut two v-shapes with a small space in between to resemble a pumpkin.
- Top the pumpkins with candy eyes.
Cucumber Monsters
- Slice a cucumber.
- Use a round cutter to remove the center.
- Cut small chips of cashew to mimic teeth.
- Stick these into the center of the cucumber.
- Top with candy eyes.
- Arrange the platter and serve.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
