Prep Time: 40 min.
These cucumber and carrot pumpkin bites are the cutest healthy appetizer you’ll make this Halloween or Thanksgiving!
You only need a vegetable peeler and a round cookie cutter to transform a few simple veggies into this fun and festive canapé!
Top cucumber slices with cream cheese and cut-out weaved carrot slices that resemble a pumpkin. It looks elaborate, but it’s easier than you think!
Arrange your pumpkins on a platter along with fake spiders and other fun Halloween decorations, or serve them on a platter with carrot leaves for a Thanksgiving appetizer.
TIP: If you prefer not to use candy eyes, make them using a metal straw, cheddar, and sesame seeds.
Ingredients
- 3 carrots
- 1 cucumber
- 3 tablespoons cream cheese
- 20 candy eyes
- vegetable peeler
- medium round cookie cutter
Instructions
Makes 10.
1. Wash and then peel the carrots using the vegetable peeler.
2. Now make long strips of carrot, leaving you with several equally long, equally wide pieces. You may need to trim them slightly.
3. Lay the carrot peels vertically next to each other in a row. I had 9 in total.
4. Weave a piece of carrot peel horizontally over and under the rows. Move this piece to the top.
5. Repeat with a new piece, but go over where you went under previously, and under where you went over, etc.
6. Continue this way until all the intersecting pieces are in place.
7. You may need to push the pieces together to tighten the weaves.
8. Place the round cutter on the pattern to press out the carrot shapes.
9. Slice the cucumber into discs. Dry them off on a piece of kitchen towel.
10. Top the cucumber with cream cheese.
11. Use some cucumber peel to shape a small rectangular stem. Place these on the top of the cucumber and cream cheese discs.
12. Now, top with the carrot shapes (I used a wide knife to lift them).
13. Add candy eyes.
14. Serve.
Notes
The cookie cutter and candy eyes I use are linked in my Shop.
