With Halloween just around the corner, we have some deliciously spooky kid-friendly Halloween themed recipes from Mitsubishi Electric ambassador, “Fast” Ed Halmagyi! With these recipes, anyboo-dy can master Halloween cooking!
Halloween snack platter
BANANA GHOSTS
Preparation time: 5 minutes | Makes: 12
Ingredients:
6 bananas
60g dark chocolate, melted
Method:
1. Peel the bananas, then halve across their middle. Pipe chocolate to make eyes and mouths.
CELERY CREATURES
Preparation time: 5 minutes | Makes: 12
Ingredients:
6 sticks celery
½ cup sugar-free almond butter
18 edible eyes
Method:
1. Halve the celery sticks across their middle, then fill the channel with almond butter. Arrange edible eyes on top, some with one eye, others with two.
APPLE AND STRAWBERRY MONSTERS
Preparation time: 5 minutes | Makes: 12
Ingredients:
6 red apples
1 Tbsp flaked almonds
½ cup almond, Brazil nut and cashew butter
6 strawberries
24 dried blueberries
Method:
1. Use a sharp to slice the cheeks off the apples, reserving the remainder for another use. Cut a wedge out of the middle of each cheek to make a mouth. Make a series of small incisions along the top side of each mouth, then insert an almond flake into each for teeth.
2. Spoon almond, Brazil nut and cashew butter into the mouths. Halve the strawberries and insert one into each for a tongue.
3. Cut small indentation above the mouth for eyes, then put a dried blueberry into each.
MANDARIN JACK-O-LANTERNS
Preparation time: 5 minutes | Makes: 12
Ingredients:
12 small mandarins
1 stick celery
Method:
1. Peel the mandarins, leaving them whole. Cut the celery into 12 small sticks, and insert into each mandarin to make a stem.
KIWI FRANKEN-FRUIT
Preparation time: 5 minutes | Makes: 12
Ingredients:
6 kiwifruit
24 edible eyes
50g dark chocolate, melted
4 pretzel sticks
Method:
1. Use a small sharp knife to cut around the kiwifruit, ½ cm deep, 1 cm from the stalk end. Peel the large end with the knife. Halve the kiwifruit lengthways.
2. Press the eyes on. Pipe chocolate to make mouths and scars. Insert pretzel pieces into each side
STRAWBERRY MUMMIES
Preparation time: 5 minutes | Makes: 12
Ingredients:
12 strawberries
75g white chocolate, melted
24 edible eyes
Method:
1. Use a small sharp knife to slice a piece off the side of each strawberry, so that it will sit without rolling. Pipe chocolate in strings across the strawberry to make bandages. Place eyes on.
WHITE CHOCOLATE PRETZEL GHOSTS
Preparation time: 10 minutes | Cooking time: 20 minutes | Makes: 24
Ingredients:
150g white chocolate melts
24 mini pretzels
edible eyes, to decorate
Method:
- Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and set over a saucepan of barely simmering water, until just melted.
- One at a time, dip the pretzels until well-coated, then put on a sheet of non-stick paper. Decorate with edible eyes, then allow to set.
*recipes thanks to Ed Halmagyi, Mitsubishi Electric Australia Ambassador