Ghosts of bananas, mandarins-pumpkin, apples-vampire teeth: here is the perfect snack for October 31st, even for intolerant or vegan people
Autumn rhymes with … Halloween! And if supermarkets are filled with industrial sweets and candies of forms, colors and ingredients that inspire fear, we think about make fruit scary too. Ready for "trick or treat"?
Why make scary fruit at home?
That is because there are details dietary needs (children with intolerances or vegan families, for example), because we prefer limit the consumption of packaged products or because we simply want to give one looks different to the fruit of the snack afternoon, making ghosts, monsters and enchanted pumpkins is quick and easy. In addition, by making the scary fruit we will have the opportunity to entertain and pass the time with our children, perhaps during the first rainy weekends of the season.
Frightening fruit: the ghosts of bananas
Peel the bananas and cut them in half. Sprinkle them with a little lemon juice so as not to make them blacken. Melt del dark chocolate in a bain marie or in the microwave and "draw" on the bananas with a toothpick eyes and mouth wide open.
Tangerines-pumpkin
Cut some stalks celery in long and narrow rectangles. If you want you can also remove the celery filaments with a potato peeler before making the cubes. Peel i tangerines leaving them whole. Insert a rectangle of celery in the top of each mandarin: it will be the stalk of the pumpkin.
Apple-monster
Cut some green apples into four wedges and sprinkle them with del lemon juice, so that they do not blacken. With the help of a sharp knife, cut a pocket in each segment and stuff it with del peanut butter (pay attention to the ingredients, it should only contain peanuts). Then aligned inside the opening of the blanched almonds to recreate sharp teeth. If you want to make this snack even scarier, insert a Marshmallow into a toothpick and insert it on top of the dentures. Create the pupil by drawing it with del melted dark chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave.
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