3 Healthy and fun recipes for the kids at Halloween

Are you looking for simple but healthy recipes to make with the kids at Halloween?

There is so much junk food around at Halloween, it’s nice to find a way to get some fruit and veggies into the kids!

It’s all go here at Halloween HQ, getting our Halloween food list together. Here are our 3 favourite spooky recipes that you can make with the kids or they can make themselves this Halloween!

Spooky pumpkin recipe
This is the simplest recipe of all. Your toddler could make this with you. In fact, it’s a perfect toddler recipe! And it’s a 2 ingredient recipe - who doesn’t love those eh? If you don’t have any celery knocking around, you could use cucumber instead.
Per child 1 easy peel mandarin orange
about an inch of celery stalk
Peel the mandarin. Using the safe knife - chop a slim piece of celery longways.
Stick the celery into the top of the mandarin and you’ve made a pumpkin!

2. Chocolate apple mummies

Your children will love making this easy but messy recipe. And yes, it does have chocolate but the star of the show will be the crunchy, juicy apple.

Per child 1 apple

20-30g dark chocolate

Small handful white chocolate chips

To make the spooky chocolate eyes, melt a few white chocolate chips and using a teaspoon, drop small amounts of the white chocolate onto a piece of kitchen paper. This makes the whites of the eyes! Let these set while we do the rest of the apple. Watch how to make the spooky eyes here .

To make the apple mummy, cut thick slices of the apple with your safe knife. Melt the dark chocolate and cover your apple slices with the chocolate. Allow these to set for about 20 minutes.

Grab your ‘eyes’! With a toothpick, take teeny amounts of any leftover dark chocolate and pop it into the middle of each ‘eye’ to make the pupils. You can also use dark chocolate chips for this job!

When the apples are set, add the eyes to them. Use melted chocolate to glue them on. Melt the rest of the white chocolate and using a spoon, drizzle it across the apple to resemble bandages! You can also use a piping bag for this job.

Allow to set before serving up as perfect Halloween party food!

3. Scary Sweet potatoes

These are a super way to offer sweet potatoes to your children. They are even suitable for weaning babies although you may have to take the skin off them first for very young babies.

They are prefect served on a Pick Plate or for your weaning baby, on a silicone plate from Accessories for Baby - more here

Ingredients:

For 2 children - 1 sweet potato

1/2 tsp olive oil

Smoked paprika (optional)

Wash and dry your sweet potato but don’t peel it. Slice it into thin circles and using the tip of a sharp paring knife or a kiddies food kutter, cut out some pumpkin faces into each slice of sweet potato.

Toss them in the olive oil and smoked paprika. Bake for 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes until soft. Dip in some bloody ketchup!

Recipe taken from my children’s cookbook, Chop Cook, Yum