Delicious and healthy Halloween recipes

In the night from October 31st to November 1st it’s that time again, the night of horror is just around the corner: Halloween. We’ve rounded up healthy Halloween recipes for your spooky snacks.

Trick or treat! This is probably the saying that is said the most by some and heard the most by others on the horrifying night of Halloween. Whether young or old, we celebrate together every year on October 31st . The scariest costumes are pulled out and spooky snacks are prepared. But the same snacks don’t have to be on the table every year, so on the following pages we’ve got eerily beautiful, but above all healthy Halloween recipes ready to scare you.

Tips and tricks for a great Halloween party

Are you planning a Halloween party with friends, family or children? Depending on who is celebrating, you can plan the spooky buffet and fill it with lots of goodies. With these tricks you can:

  1. Planning the spooky buffet in good time
    Many Halloween recipes look great and don’t need many ingredients. Nevertheless, some recipes can take a long time to prepare, since a lot has to be cut and prepared. So plan enough time or get together with friends who will also contribute something to the buffet.
  2. Planning the snacks
    Does anyone have an intolerance or is vegetarian or vegan? Find out about illnesses, but also the preferences of your guests. So you can put together a varied buffet. A mix of sweet and savory snacks such as pumpkin brownies or spooky fingers, as well as healthy appetizers and a spooky pumpkin soup with spiders as a main meal have something for everyone.
  3. Drinks round off the party
    A delicious punch, whether with or without alcohol, is a hit at every party. Red Grape Juice, Cherry Juice, and Cranberry Juice with spooky rubber eyes and gummy worms toppings all work particularly well. Milkshakes are also delicious, e.g. B. from 150 ml milk, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and some strawberry syrup as a decoration or a banana milkshake. You can turn light-colored drinks green, purple, or blood red with food coloring .
    For the grown-ups, you can experiment with alcoholic beverages like martini, vodka, gin, or various liquors. Here, too, colorful food coloring gives that certain Halloween look.

Which snacks and decorative items are suitable for the Halloween party?

To spice up your own creations, you can use numerous food and decorative items, e.g. e.g.:
Snacks and edible decorations
decoration and utensils
For the right Halloween feeling, pay attention to a suitable decoration, e.g. B. when you come up with a Halloween theme. Tablecloths, table decorations and the right light can create the right atmosphere.

Monster Faces

Ingredients for 12 faces:

  • 2 tomatoes
  • Olives, alternatively hazelnuts
  • 12 Basil leaves
  • 4 slices of cheese
  • parsley

Preparation:

  1. Wash and slice the tomatoes. Wash and pat dry the basil leaves and parsley. Cut the cheese into crescents.
  2. Place the basil leaves on a plate. Place tomato slices on top. Top the tomatoes with the cheese pieces and create the eyes with olives or nuts.
  3. Finely chop the parsley and place between the olives or nuts. It serves as hair.

ghost bananas and pumpkins

Ingredients for 10 ghost bananas and pumpkins:

  • 5 ripe bananas
  • 10 tangerines
  • a small piece of cucumber
  • small chocolate coins
Preparation:
  1. Peel the bananas and cut crosswise in the middle. Also peel the tangerines. Cut the cucumber into long pieces.
  2. For the tangerine pumpkins, stick a piece of cucumber into the top of the tangerine.
  3. For the ghost bananas, place a face on the bananas with chocolate coins or chocolate drops.

Monster Bites

Ingredients for 6 monsters:

  • 2 apples
  • 24 sunflower seeds
  • 1 strawberry
  • small chocolate beans
  • some powdered sugar

Preparation:

  1. Wash, quarter and core the apples. Cut out some of the side of the apple skin and place four sunflower seeds in the top half.
  2. Wash, dry and thinly slice the strawberries. Place a disc in each monster’s mouth.
  3. Mix the icing sugar with a little water, form small eyes from it and decorate the apples with them. Place the small chocolate beans on the white eyes.

Pepper Monster

Ingredients for four people:

  • 4 Spitz peppers
  • 300 g Quark
  • 4 tablespoons of milk
  • 1/2 cucumber
  • salt
  • Pfeffer

Preparation:

  1. Wash the peppers and cut in half lengthways. Remove the core and stem.
  2. Using a small knife, carve the pointed end of the pepper half into a narrow slit.
  3. Cut out the teeth in a zigzag and drill a small hole for the eyes.
  4. Peel the cucumber and cut into small cubes.
  5. Mix the quark with the cucumber, milk, salt and pepper.

vegetable skeleton

Ingredients:

  • 1 red pepper
  • 150 g Quark
  • 1 olive, alternatively 2 nuts
  • 1 cucumber
  • 4 cauliflower florets
  • 2 white mushrooms
  • 6 carrots
  • 2 Cherrytomaten
  • 2 cauliflower florets
  • 1 large lettuce leaf

Preparation:

  1. Wash and chop the vegetables.
  2. Put the quark in a bowl and put a lettuce leaf in it. Decorate the eyes on the quark with olives or nuts.
  3. Build a skeleton out of the vegetables.

spider eggs

Ingredients for 4 persons:

  • 4 boiled eggs
  • 6 black olives

Preparation:

  1. Halve the hard-boiled eggs and scoop out the yolks with a spoon.
  2. Wash, halve and stone the four olives and place them in the middle of the yolk.
  3. Cut the remaining olives into small strips and place them next to the halved olives as spider legs.

Healthy Pumpkin Muffins

Ingredients for 10 muffins:

  • 225 g pumpkin puree
  • 150 grams of buckwheat flour
  • 80 g virgin coconut oil
  • 60 ml unsweetened almond milk
  • 60 g maple syrup
  • 60 g gluten-free rolled oats
  • 25g naturally sweetened chocolate chips
  • 1 ripe banana
  • 1 tsp cream of tartar baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 EL Chiasamen + 3 EL Wasser
  • some sea salt
  • nutmeg
  • ginger powder
  • a take chilli
  • a pinch of ground cloves
  • vanilla bean pulp
  • pumpkin seeds
  • oatmeal​

Preparation:

  1. Preheat the oven to 170° and grease a muffin tin with coconut oil.
  2. Melt the coconut oil in a pan, mix the chia seeds with water in a bowl and set aside for ten minutes.
  3. Chop the oatmeal in a blender and set aside.
  4. Blend the maple syrup, coconut oil and the banana in a blender. Add the salt, vanilla, pumpkin puree, baking powder, almond milk and the chia mix.
  5. Stir in the ground oats, buckwheat flour, and chocolate chips. If the batter is too dry, add a little almond milk.
  6. Pour the batter into the muffin tin and decorate with pumpkin seeds and oatmeal. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes.

Mummies sausages

Ingredients for 10 mummies:

  • 10 sausages
  • 400 g Dinkel Pizza Dough
  • some cheese

Preparation:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
  2. Roll out the pizza dough and cut into ten ribbons that are about 1 cm wide.
  3. Wrap the dough bands around the sausages. Leave the mummy’s face exposed.
  4. Bake the mummies for about ten minutes, being careful not to overcook them.
  5. Cut out some cheese for the eyes and place on the sausages. Black food coloring provides the pupils. Alternatively, edible wobbly eyes are also suitable.

Frightening Monster

Ingredients:

  • 1 watermelon
  • 1/2 Pineapple
  • 300 grams of strawberries
  • 2 zucchini slices
  • 2 blueberries
  • powdered sugar

Preparation:

  1. Using a knife, cut a watermelon in the middle in a zigzag. Continue the cut for the mouth.
  2. Remove the flesh from the melon and cut into small pieces. Peel the pineapple and dice the flesh.
  3. Wash and halve strawberries.
  4. For the eyes, either cut two triangles into the melon or cut two slices from a zucchini and attach two blueberries to the melon with two skewers or some icing.
  5. Distribute the fruit in the mouth and in front of the monster.

witch broom

Ingredients for 10 people:

  • 1/2 pack pretzel sticks
  • Nori (seaweed)
  • cheese

Preparation:

  1. Cut the cheese into small, thick rectangles and the seaweed into long, thin strips.
  2. Stick the pretzel sticks into the cheese wedges and decorate with the thin strips of seaweed.
  3. Score the corners of the cheese with a knife to create a kind of broom.

melon brain

Ingredients:

  • 1 watermelon

Preparation:

  1. Peel the watermelon and use a knife to trace the convolutions of the brain on the melon.
  2. Scratch the brain convolutions into the melon.
  3. It gets bloody with fake blood or red syrup, which is poured a little over the melon.

eyeballs

Ingredients for 4 persons:

  • 8 tomatoes
  • 3 Mozzarellakugeln
  • 8 green olives
  • Ketchup

Preparation:

  1. Wash and halve the tomatoes. Scoop out the flesh and place a slice of mozzarella in each tomato halves.
  2. Wash and halve the olives. Cover each tomato half with half an olive.
  3. Put a drop of ketchup on the olives.

Halloween fruit

Ingredients for 4 persons:

  • 4 apples
  • white blanket
  • bittersweet blanket
  • Nuss-Mix
  • Caramel Candies

Preparation:

  1. Lay out two strips of baking paper and set aside the nuts.
  2. Melt the couvertures in a water bath. Melt the candy gently in the microwave or on the stovetop over low heat.
  3. Wash and dry the fruit. Peel and halve the bananas. Insert popsicle sticks or small skewers into the fruit.
  4. Now dip the fruit into the containers with chocolate and caramel. Caution: the caramel will harden quickly.
  5. Dip the fruit in the nut mix and let it dry on the piece of baking paper.

scary punch

Ingredients:

  • 1 liter red grape juice
  • water

Preparation:

  1. Fill a disposable glove with clear water, close the opening at the top and freeze for a few hours.
  2. Pour red grape juice into a bowl and put your icy hand in just before the celebration.

Stuffed scary peppers

Ingredients:

  • Paprika
  • Sun-dried tomatoes
  • sheep cheese
  • spring onion
  • Quinoa

Preparation:

  1. Decapitate and hollow out the peppers.
  2. Wash and cook quinoa according to instructions.
  3. In the meantime, cut the sun-dried tomatoes, the feta cheese and the spring onions into small pieces.
  4. When the quinoa is done, mix everything together and stuff into the peppers. Season the quinoa salad with just a little balsamic vinegar and pepper. However, any dressing can also be used.
  5. Of course, the scary face should not be missing here!

Scary salad oranges with buttermilk vinaigrette

​Ingredients:

  • lamb’s lettuce mix
  • oranges
  • grain mix
  • buttermilk
  • White Balsamic Vinegar
  • pepper and salt

Preparation:

  1. Cut the oranges open in the upper third and remove the lid, then hollow out the oranges completely. Carve a scary face into the orange peel.
  2. Cut some of the flesh into small pieces and mix into the salad. Fill this into the oranges and top with the grains.
  3. For the dressing, mix some freshly squeezed orange juice with twice the amount of buttermilk, add a tablespoon of Aceto Balsamico Bianco, season with salt and pepper – done!

Edible fake blood

Ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 Kakao Plug
  • red food coloring
Preparation:
  1. Mix the honey with a pinch of cocoa in a bowl. The more cocoa it contains, the thicker the fake blood will be.
  2. Gradually add the red food coloring until the desired shade is reached.

Baked pumpkin slices with sheep’s cheese and pumpkin seed dip

ingredients for 4 persons

  • 1 Hokkaido pumpkin (approx. 1.2 kg)
  • salt
  • Pfeffer
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 40 g pumpkin seeds
  • 120 g feta cheese
  • 200 grams of yoghurt
  • 2 EL pumpkin seed oil
  • 1 tsp lemon juice

preparation

  1. Wash the pumpkin thoroughly, cut in half and remove the seeds and fibres. Cut the halves into wedges. Preheat the oven to 200 oC, cover a tray with baking paper. Arrange the pumpkin slices on top, drizzle with oil, season with salt and pepper. Bake in the oven for approx. 30 minutes, turning halfway through.
  2. Roast the pumpkin seeds in a pan and let them cool. Crumble the feta cheese and mix with yoghurt, pumpkin seed oil and lemon juice. Roughly chop the pumpkin seeds and mix in. Season the dip with salt and pepper and serve with the pumpkin wedges.

Preparation: 25 min. Baking: 30 min.
Per person approx.: 424 kcal, 13.5 g E, 32.1 g F, 23.9 g KH

Halloween Sandwich

Ingredients for 8 servings:

  • 8 sandwich toast slices
  • tomato sauce
  • cheese slices
  • olives or nuts
Preparation:
  1. Toast the toast slices and spread with tomato sauce. Cut the cheese slices into strips about 1 cm wide and wrap them around the toast slices. But leave small gaps for the mummy look.
  2. Bake the toast slices at 180 degrees for five to ten minutes until the cheese has melted slightly.
  3. Olives or nuts serve as eyes.
  4. Tip: You can top the toast slices with other ingredients before wrapping them.

Monster Spaghetti

Ingredients:

  • 1 packet of spaghetti
  • tomato sauce
  • cheese, e.g. B. Babybel
  • olives
  • onion
Preparation:
  1. Cook the spaghetti according to package directions and prepare the tomato sauce to your liking.
  2. Then spread the spaghetti on the plates and spread a large dollop of sauce in the middle. Cut out cheese with a round shape or halve a babybel and place on the sauce for eyes. Dab some tomato sauce, ketchup or food coloring onto the cheese. This causes bloodshot eyes. Two olives make the pupils.
  3. You can cut small triangles out of an onion and arrange them as teeth on the sauce.

Crystal Waston MD

Crystal Waston has a degree in Cross Media Production and Publishing. At vital.de she gives everyday tips and deals with topics related to women's health, sport, and nutrition.

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