Halloween Snack Board for Kids
This healthier snack board is full cute Halloween friends that your kids will just love! And if you can’t find the time to pull together the entire board, pick your favourite snack and just make that.
Equipment
- Knife + chopping board
- Piping bag + scissors or cake writing pen
- A plate
- Table knife
- Paper towel
- Clingfilm + resealable food bags / air-tight food storage containers
- Slate platter or large wooden chopping board / tray
Ingredients
CLEMENTINE PUMPKINS
- A few clementines
- A celery stick
MINI SWEET PEPPER GHOSTS
- Pack of sweet mini peppers
- 70 g icing sugar / ½ cup
- 2 ½ teaspoons cold water
- Edible sugar eyeballs
FRUIT & MARSHMALLOW SKEWERS
- Cantaloupe melon
- Black grapes
- White marshmallows
- Dark chocolate chips
SANDWICH GHOSTS
- White bread
- Simple filling of choice
- Black olives
BANANA GHOSTS
- Bananas not too ripe
- Dark chocolate chips
ZOMBIE APPLE MOUTHS
- 1-2 green or red apples
- Smooth thick peanut butter not oily and runny
- White mini marshmallows
EXTRAS
- Orange cheesy crisps
- Blackberries or blueberries
- Halloween chocolates or sweets
- Plastic spiders for decoration only, optional
Instructions
CLEMENTINE PUMPKINS
- Slice a stick of celery lengthways into 4. Then cut horizontally into about 1 ½ - 2 inch sticks. Peel the clementines and for each one take a celery stick and push it into the hole in the middle, leaving just a little poking out of the top of the clementine like a pumpkin stalk. Wrap carefully in clingfilm (saran wrap) and chill until ready to compile your board.
MINI SWEET PEPPER GHOSTS
- Mix your icing in a small bowl. Once it’s smooth and thick, scoop it up on spoon and add carefully to the bottom of a piping bag (near the tip of the bag). Use your hand and squeeze the icing off the spoon and into the bag. Then using scissors, snip just the very tip of the pointed end of the piping bag. You want the hole to be small. Then lay your mini peppers on a plate, flattest side facing up. Add two dots of icing onto each pepper where you want the sugar eyes to go. Then carefully transfer the plate to the fridge and chill for 10 minutes, so the icing starts to set. Then remove carefully and add the sugar eyes onto the icing dots. Make sure your hands are dry and try not to touch the black pupils or they could smudge. These can go back into the fridge until ready to serve.
FRUIT & MARSHMALLOW SKEWERS
- Halve the melon and discard the seeds. Cut into 1 inch wide slices. Then cut the peel off. Chop into roughly 1 inch cubes. Then feed onto your skewers a melon cube, followed by a black grape, followed by a marshmallow and so on. Then melt some chocolate chips in a small bowl in the microwave, in 10 second bursts, stirring in between each go. Add the melted chocolate to a piping bag or a cake writing pen. If using a piping bag, snip off just the very tip once you’ve added the melted chocolate. Draw faces onto the marshmallows immediately. Allow the chocolate to set and then you can cover with clingfilm (saran wrap) or store in a large air-tight container and chill until ready to serve.
SANDWICH GHOSTS
- Make simple sandwiches like cheese or ham. Lay your ghost cutter in the middle of the sandwich and press down hard, wiggling the cutter around to achieve a neat cut. Transfer to a resealable food bag or air-tight container and chill to keep fresh. Then slice a few olives, discarding the ends as the holes won’t be big enough for the eyes. If they have been in liquid, leave them to dry off on some paper towel, then add to a small bowl and chill until you are ready to build the board, and once you lay the sandwiches in place on the board you can add the olive eyes.
BANANA GHOSTS
- Make these second to last, just before you are ready to compile the board as peeled bananas will start to turn brown. Peel your bananas and cut both ends into about 2 ½ - 3 inch long pieces. Then melt some chocolate chips in a small bowl in the microwave, in 10 second bursts, stirring in between each go. Add the melted chocolate to a piping bag or a cake writing pen. If using a piping bag, snip off just the very tip once you’ve added the melted chocolate. Draw on a ghost/scream face to each banana ghost. Allow to set while you make your zombie mouths.
ZOMBIE APPLE MOUTHS
- Make these just before you are ready to compile the board as cut apple will slowly turn brown. Cut the apple into roughly 1 cm slices. Then spread the slices on one side with peanut butter. For each piece, wipe the apple peel and the peanut butter edge with some paper towel to clean it up. Then place the slice down peanut butter side up. Add on 5-6 mini marshmallows arranged like teeth. Then gently place on top another apple slice, peanut butter side down and on top of the marshmallows, pressing it down a little to secure it. You are now ready to start putting together your board.
COMPILE THE BOARD
- Watch my video below or use the first picture in the blog post to guide you on the best way to arrange the snacks on a rectangular board. Add plastic spiders last if using.
Notes
STORAGE
They mini sweet peppers leftovers can be stored for about a week in the fridge. The fruit and marshmallow skewers will be fine the next day if stored in a resealable food bag or air-tight container in the fridge. Made this recipe?Leave a rating & comment at the bottom of this page! If you’ve printed this recipe, scan the QR code below to get back to it quickly online. You could also post a picture on Instagram and tag @kidfriendlyfamilymeals to share it with me.
