HEALTHY HALLOWEEN TREATS
Halloween doesn’t always have to mean tricks and sweet treats.
If you’re looking to decrease your sugar intake this Halloween, our Kitchen Team have gathered their favourite healthy Halloween treats that are very easy to whip up at home!
Sweet Potato Pumpkin Face Chips
This is one the easiest Halloween treats, and also extremely healthy. Simply grab a sweet potato, slice it thinly and cut out your favourite pumpkin designs. Sprinkle with a little salt and coconut oil, before popping it into the oven at 200 degrees to crisp up for 20 minutes.
2. Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Spiders
The combination of strawberries and chocolates is always a winner, and these spiders add a fun Halloween twist!
Ingredients
1 punnet of strawberries
Goji berries, enough for 2 on each strawberry
Batch of raw chocolate recipe or organic dark chocolate
Raw Chocolate Recipe
3 tbsp coconut oil, melted
1/3 cup raw cacao powder
2 tbsp maple syrup
1/2 tsp vanilla
Pinch of salt
Method
Whisk together your raw chocolate ingredients or melt dark chocolate over boiling water, bain-marie style.
Dip strawberries into the chocolate and place on a tray lined with parchment paper, and save a little bit of extra chocolate to stick goji berry eyes on.
Decorate with plastic spider legs.
Using a toothpick, spot a tiny bit of melted chocolate in the place of the eyes and attach goji berries.
Place into the freezer to allow the chocolate to set.
3. Raspberry Blood Gummies
Ingredients
1 cup raspberries
1 cup water
3 tbsp raw honey
½ cup grass-fed gelatin powder or agar-agar
Method
1. Blend raspberries into a purée, pour into saucepan.
2. Add honey & gelatin or agar-agar. Whisk until thick. Low heat 5-10 minutes.
3. Pour into moulds and refrigerate for 1 hour until set.
4. Chocolate Mousse Jack O' Lanterns
Everyone loves the creaminess of chocolate mousse, which means everyone will love scooping this out of Jack O' Lanterns and won't even realise how healthy this is!
Ingredients
6 mandarins/oranges
2 cups soaked cashews
1 cup coconut cream
3 tbsp maple syrup
1/2 - 1 cup Food Matters Superfood Chocolate or raw cacao powder (1 cup will have a much richer flavour)
Handful of mint leaves
Method
Prep the mandarins by slicing off the tops (save these) and scooping out the fruit to leave an empty skin.
Draw faces on the Jack'O'Lanterns.
Make the chocolate filling by adding soaked cashews, coconut cream, maple syrup and Superfood Chocolate or raw cacao to the food processor and process all ingredients in the food processor until smooth and creamy.
Fill the emptied mandarins with chocolate filling and place in the fridge to set for 1-2 hours.
Slit a small cut in the top of the mandarin tops with a sharp knife and slot in 1-2 mint leaves.
Once the chocolate has set, remove from the fridge and serve with the mandarin tops.
