Get spooky with less sugar: Healthy Halloween treats that bring the yum!
Peanut butter is the perfect way to indulge the senses of your little ghouls ... without the sugar crash!
By Practical Parenting Team
October 27 2020
Halloween is going to look a little different this year but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the spooky festivities at home. These recipes are super fun for families to have a go at making and aren’t overloaded with sugars typically found in normal Halloween candy.
In addition to decorating the home and dressing up in costume, Halloween provides a great occasion for the kids to have some fun cooking in the kitchen and experimenting with their own spooky snack creations - just like Dr Frankenstein.
And, using Mayvers peanut butter as the main ingredient also means kids will receive a slower release of energy from the treats, instead of the impending sugar high, and the inevitable crash that follows!
Check out the spookiest Halloween recipes below ...
Peanut Butter Eyeballs
Recipe by nutritionist Susie Burrell
Serves 12-15 eyeballs
Ingredients:
- 2 cups oats, blended
- 1/2 cup honey
- ½ cup Mayver’s Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter
- 100g milk chocolate, for melting
- 100g dark chocolate, for melting
- 15 white chocolate buttons
- 15 milk or dark chocolate drops
Method:
- Combine oats, honey and peanut butter and roll into balls. Refrigerate until firm.
- Dip each ball into melted dark or white chocolate.
- Top with one white chocolate disc button and chocolate drop to complete eyeballs.
Batty Bliss Balls
This recipe was provided by @nataliemewing
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients:
Dairy Free / Vegetarian
Bliss Balls:
- 1 cup rolled oats
- ½ cup LSA
- ¼ cup mixed nuts (e.g almonds, walnuts, cashews)
- 3 medjool dates, pitted
- ½ cup Mayver’s Dark Roasted Crunchy Peanut Butter
- 2 tbsp coconut oil, melted
- 1 tbsp cacao powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup water
Decoration:
- ¼ cup desiccated coconut
- ½ tbsp cacao powder
- Candy eyes
- Small handful sunflower seeds
- 6 squares dark chocolate (needs to be thin shards of chocolate e.g. 85% dark Lindt)
Method:
- Combine all ingredients, except water, in a food processor and process until smooth.
- Slowly add small amounts of water to the mixture, processing after each addition, until the mixture holds together when shaped into a ball (you may not need to use all the water).
- Roll teaspoon amounts of mixture into balls. Combine desiccated coconut and extra cacao on small plate and roll half of the balls in this.
- Use a sharp knife to cut chocolate into wing-like shards and insert into balls to create bat wings.
- Decorate with candy eyes and sunflower seeds as fangs. Store in container in fridge.
Apple Monsters
This recipe was provided by @nataliemewing
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
Gluten Free / Dairy Free / Vegetarian
- 1 green apple
- Mayver’s Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter
- 6 cashew nuts
- Candy eyes (for decoration)
Method:
- Slice apple into 12 wedges (6 pairs), and split cashew nuts in half, lengthways.
- Spread Mayver’s peanut butter on bottom wedges of each pair and arrange split cashew nuts on top to look like fangs. Spread peanut butter on top wedge and place onto bottom wedge to look like a mouth.
- Use a very small amount of peanut butter to stick candy eyes onto top wedge.
