Halloween Fruit Tray
A darling tray of healthy treats and fruit tray ideas for kids for Halloween. This Halloween inspired fruit tray has all the fun of the holiday, and not all the added sugar.
You get Frankenstein Kiwis, Ghosts made from bananas, cute dipped strawberries meant to look like candy corn, and my personal favorite, Monster Mouthes.
Serve this fun fruit tray alongside your Monster Cupcakes, Witches Hats, Boo Bark and Caramel apples for the perfect Halloween party spread!
How cute is this? I really had fun making this fruit tray with my kids because I knew it was one Halloween “treat” I could really feel good about.
And the funny thing is, my kids ate it just as quickly as they did when we made the sugar options like Halloween Sugar Cookies. I have to say that I think we sometimes underestimate our children.
Needless to say, a few of these were a little less hands on for the kids. I did all the cutting. They helped to assemble. But they loved dipping and decorating!
Tips For Halloween Fruit Tray
- Melt your candy melts in batches so they stay nice and smooth.
- This is best served immediately, so you can prep ahead by assembling ingredients, but wait to make until you are ready to serve.
- If you are NOT going to be serving this right away, be sure to dip your apples in sprite, or spritz with lemon to keep them from browning.
- Make the boo-nanas just before serving, or they will brown.
- Get creative!
- Add extra fun Halloween Fruits to the mix, like a Jack-o-lantern made from a cutie orange.
- Make sure your fruit is ripe, as cute as it is, it won’t taste good if the fruit isn’t ripe.
When to Serve a Halloween Fruit Tray or Healthy Halloween Treats
- Halloween Party: These healthy halloween snacks are great for adults and kids alike! When it comes to healthy halloween party food, these cute fruit tray ideas are the best!
- School Party: Most schools have rules about treats these days, and these healthy halloween treats for school class are the perfect party idea. The kids can make them during the party, or they can be served at the party. Check your school rules.
- Hand out: These are not the best healthy halloween treats to hand out, but you could hand out a kit with an apple, candy eyes, sesame seeds and peanut butter with a picture so kids can make the monster mouthes themselves at home.
- Family Fun: These easy kid friendly halloween treats are a fun activity to make together in preparation for your Halloween festivities. Make them as an after school snack, or at a party.
Halloween Fruit Ideas
Frankenstein Kiwi’s
These darling little Frankenstein’s will be the hit of the fruit tray. They are so simple and cute. Just be sure to have an adult help with the cutting.
Tips: Use a peeler instead of a paring knife if kids are doing the cutting.
Monster Mouthes
Apples and peanut butter are already the perfect combination, but making them super cute for Halloween just takes this healthy Halloween treat up a notch.
Tips:
- Have an adult do the cutting.
- Core the apple first to make it easier.
- Use marshmallows and a food decorating pen to make the eyeballs if you can’t find googely candy eyes, or want them to be easier to eat.
- Use your favorite nut butter!
- Get creative! Monsters are cute with 3 eyes! Or use other nuts for the teeth!
Boo-Nanas
These darling boo-nananas or healthy banana Halloween treat are the simplest treat ever and just so much fun.
The biggest problem with them is they start to brown fairly quickly.
Once you peel and cut bananas, they will start turning brown almost immediately as the air will oxidize them. Stop them from browning for your fruit tray by dipping or brushing them in lemon or lime juice. Or even pineapple juice. Basically any acidic juice will work. Just remember it can impact flavor!
Tip: Brush bananas with pineapple juice for fun flavor and to keep from browning.
Candy Corn Strawberries
This is the most time intensive healthy Halloween treat to make from this group, but is so cute and fun.
The biggest tip is to use the fridge between dipping, and be sure to not overheat your candy melts.
Candy melts can be finicky, and if you over heat them they will get harder and lumpy. So heat in 20-30 second intervals, stirring well between each heating cycle to get a nice, melty, and not clumpy, result.
Tip: Melt candy melts just before dipping for best results.
How to Make Halloween Fruit Tray Video
Halloween Fruit Tray
Ingredients
Banana Ghosts
- 3 Bananas
- 18 Chocolate Chips mini, and regular sized
Candy Corn Strawberries
- 1 pound Strawberries washed and dried
- 4 oz Yellow candy coating
- 8 oz Orange candy coating
- 12 oz White chocolate candy coating
Kiwi Frankensteins
- 6 Kiwis
- 12 Mini chocolate Chips
- 6 Pretzel Sticks thicker and thinner
Halloween Monster Apples
- 2 green apples
- 1/2 cup almond butter or peanut butter
- 32 sunflower seeds
- 3 strawberries sliced
- Googly eyes
Instructions
Banana Ghosts
- Cut bananas in half
- Gently poke 2 small chocolate chips into the banana to make "eyes" for your ghosts and one larger chocolate chip to make the "mouth".
Candy Corn Strawberries
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or waxed paper and set aside.
- Wash and dry the strawberries and dry.
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt the white chocolate in 30 second intervals, stirring between each to prevent overheating. Continue until the chocolates are completely melted and smooth, about 1-2 minutes. Don’t overheat or the candy melts will seize up and clump.
- Dip a strawberry into the white chocolate almost the top of the strawberry. Allow excess white chocolate to drip off the strawberry into the bowl. Once excess chocolate is off, set on wax paper.
- Put the white chocolate covered strawberries in the refrigerator.
- Melt the yellow candy melts the same way you melted the white chocolate -- heat in microwave safe bowl in 30 second intervals, stirring between, should only take 1-2 minutes.
- Once white chocolate is set, dip the strawberries into the melted yellow candy melts, ⅔ of the way up the strawberry. Let excess drip off.
- Set on wax paper, and return to the fridge while melting the orange candy melts.
- Melt the orange candy melts. Heat in microwave safe bowl in 30 second intervals, stirring between, should only take 1-2 minutes.
- Once the strawberries are set, remove from fridge and dip ⅓ of the strawberry into the candy melt, let the excess drip off, and set on wax paper to set up.
- Refrigerate strawberries to allow them to set up before serving.
- Covered strawberries will keep in the refrigerator for 1-2 days, but are best served fresh.
Kiwi Frankensteins
- Cut one end off the kiwi
- Use a peeler to partially peel kiwis from cut off end toward other end. Do not peel all the way. You want to peel a bit more than half way, leaving some of the peel to act as your Frankenstein hair. See photo
- Insert pretzel sticks in the sides of the kiwi, just below the left on hair by simply pushing them in, this forms the bolts.
- Gently press mini chocolate chips into the kiwi for eyes, in the appropriate place. See photo
- Cut a small piece of the thinner pretzel sticks to act as the mouth for the Frankenstein, and gently press the pretzel into the kiwi in the appropriate place.
- Serve within a few hours.
Halloween Monster Apples
- Cut apples into quarters.
- Cut out the core, then flip the apple over, and cut out a little section in the middle to create a mouth. Be careful not to cut all the way through, as you will want the back and sides to stay connected, but want an opening for the mouth. See photo
- Take your peanut butter or nut butter and carefully coat the inside of the gap you just created. Use lots, but don't have it spill out.
- Now use your sunflower seeds as teeth by placing them into the mouth opening, the peanut butter will act as a glue to hold them in place. Have fun with this.
- Slice your strawberries, and place 1 sliced piece of strawberry inside the mouth to resemble the tongue. See photo
- On top of the apple, carefully attach the candy eyes with almond butter, or toothpicks to create the monster eyes! Marshmallows work too.
Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.
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