Keiki Snack: Witch’s Brooms and 5 Other Halloween Snack Ideas
Looking for more healthy Halloween treats? Try cheese witches brooms and 5 other neat ideas to dress up everything from your pizza to fruit cups.
Photo: Michele Aucello
Ingredients
- Pretzel sticks
- Sliced cheese, such as Swiss or Provolone
- Chives or green onions
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Directions
- Unwrap a slice of cheese. Cut it in half.
- Use a knife to make slits almost to the top of the half piece of cheese.
- Wrap the cheese around the end of the pretzel stick.
- Use a piece of chive or green onion to secure the cheese.
Photo: Michele Aucello
Thanks to bedifferentactnormal.com for the idea.
In years past, we have made these Halloween snacks:
Photo: Michele Aucello
- Use a ghost (or gingerbread girl) cookie cutter and slices of mozzarella cheese to make ghosts to top a pizza.
- Decorate containers of mandarin oranges or peaches, or add faces to clementines.
- Use gauze or white electrical tape and some googly eyes to transform a drink box into a mummy.
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Use mini Bundt pans to bake some pumpkin donuts. Add a green licorice stem and a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar.
Pumpkin doughnuts with a green licorice stem. Photo: Michele Aucello
Add a touch of icing to gingerbread men and turn them into skeletons.
Photo: Michele Aucello
Michele Aucello and her husband Kevin live in the Wilhelmina Rise area with their children Isabella and Luca, some chickens, and the occasional elf and leprechaun. You can reach Michele via email, Facebook, or via her personal blog, Leprechauntricks.com. You can also follow her on Pinterest, where she gets many of her ideas.
