Amie's Healthy Eating Tips

Amie Valpone

No tricks to healthy treats

It's hard to believe it's that time of year again. Here come the ghosts and goblins. Any great costume ideas for you or the kids? Whatever it may be, I'm sure you'll be looking festive in your Halloween attire, and this month we have some healthy treats to match!

There's no need to succumb to the candy corn or candy bars that abound the grocery aisles and our homes each Halloween season. You can create fun, homemade recipes that are healthier and tastier right in your own kitchen. It's always more fun when you make a treat with the family, isn't it? Try the exciting Spooky Spiders below, and serve it to your friends when they arrive to be spooked. Making these treats is a great way to get the kids involved and think outside the box of candy bars, that is!

Spooky Spiders

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 8 graham cracker squares
  • 4 Tbsp. peanut butter
  • 4 Tbsp. Musselman’s Apple Butter
  • 32 short, thin pretzel sticks
  • 1/4 - 1/2 cup white chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Spread one tablespoon of peanut butter on each of four graham cracker squares. Layer one tablespoon of Musselman's Apple Butter on to the four peanut butter-covered graham crackers.
  2. Top each bottom graham cracker with another cracker, as though you are making sandwiches or s'mores.
  3. For each of the spiders' legs: Poke 8 pretzel sticks (4 on each side) into the peanut butter of each graham cracker sandwich.
  4. For each of the spiders' eyes: Use the peanut butter as a 'glue' and stick two dots down on the top of each graham cracker sandwich, followed by two white chocolate chips. Make each spider's mouth the same way, using the peanut butter as glue for the white chocolate chips in the shape of a smiley face.

There's no need to let the kids have all the fun, when you can whip up an easy and tasty snack to hold even grown-ups over this trick or treating season. Serve the Parents' Pumpkin Dip with ginger snaps and warm Musselman's Apple Cider.

Warning: This Parents' Pumpkin Dip is delectable for young goblins, too!

Parents' Pumpkin Dip

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
  • 1 cup Musselman’s Apple Butter
  • 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
  • Ginger snaps, for dipping

Directions

  1. Combine yogurt, apple butter, canned pumpkin, cinnamon and ginger in a large bowl; mix well to combine. Serve dip in a hollowed-out, small pumpkin or festive dish with ginger snaps.

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