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Halloween Fruit Salad with shapes of cats, pumpkin,ghost and bats with edible eyes
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Halloween Fruit Salad - Healthy Party Food Idea

Looking for easy healthy party food ideas for the kids this Halloween?
Get the kids involved to make this super cute and fun buffet-style Halloween Fruit Salad, full of fruit including melon & pineapple cut into cat, ghost, bat and pumpkin shaped treats using cookie cutters.
All the sweetness without the sugar normally associated with Halloween snacks.
Allergy free from dairy, egg, nut and gluten, also Vegan and Vegetarian friendly so suitable for all!
Prep Time20 minutes
Active Time0 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Course: Dessert, Fruit, Party, Snack
Cuisine: British
Keyword: cutters, dairy free, dessert halloween fruits, fruit halloween, fruit halloween ideas, Gluten free, halloween food ideas, healthy, kids, Nut Free, vegan, vegetarian
Yield: 8
Calories: 353kcal
Author: Luke and Kay - Flawless Food

Equipment

Ingredients

These are the fruits we used, but you can switch for your own choices?

  • 2 Passion Fruit
  • 1 Apple
  • 2 Pear
  • ½ Bottle Soda Water used to stop apple and pear turning brown
  • 2 Kiwi
  • 1 punnet Blueberries
  • 1 punnet Grapes
  • 1 punnet Blackberry
  • 4 Satsumas
  • 2 slices Cucumber cut into for pumpkin stalk chunks

Below fruits are used for Halloween cut out shapes (check blog for pictures & advice of how to cut)

  • 1 Pineapple
  • 1 Cantaloupe Melon
  • 1 Honey Dew Melon
  • ½ Watermelon
  • 1 tub Edible Cake decorations for eyes

Instructions

  • Slice apple & pears into thin slices.
    Cutting slices of apple on a wooden chopping board
  • Soak the apple and pear in a bowl with soda water, keep in fridge until ready finished the other steps (the soda waters stops them from turning brown)
    Pouring soda water over sliced pear in a white bowl
  • Remove skin from all of the melon's and the pineapple
    Peeling the skin off a pineapple with a green knife on a wooden chopping board
  • Slice melons and pineapple, lengthways to maximise the number of shapes able to cut from it. Check out the blog post for more info on how to cut each fruit
    Sliced up honeydew melon on a wooden chopping board
  • Use Halloween cutters to cut out shapes in the melon and pineapple slices.
    Cut the leftover melon and pineapple into chunks.
    Cutting out bat shapes into a slice of watermelon with a silver bat shape cutter
  • Prepare the other fruits (see blog post for further advice)
    Slicing kiwi into slices with a black and silver knife on a wooden chopping board
  • Start layering the leftover chunks of melon or pineapple on to a plate or shallow bowl, then start adding the other fruits.
    Large black platter plate with slices of cantaloupe melon, clementines,passion fruit,blackberries, pineapple,blackberries, sliced apple
  • Once plate/bowl starts filling up place your Halloween Shapes on top. Use the smaller fruits, such as red grapes and blueberries behind them to help stand them up.
    Adding a Halloween cut out shapes of cats,pumpkins,bats and ghosts onto our fruit salad on a black platter plate
  • Use a cocktail stick to make holes ready to stick in eyes.
    Making eye shapes with a wooden tooth pick into pineapple Halloween ghost shape
  • Push your chosen decoration as eyes into the holes (we used edible balls, normally used for cupcakes)
    Placing green edible balls into the melon cat shape to give the shape eyes. For Halloween fruit salad
  • All done, keep covered and refrigerated until ready to consume.
    Halloween Fruit Salad with shapes of cats, pumpkin,ghost and bats with edible eyes

Video

Notes

Inspired by The Devil wears Salad's, beautiful Fresh Fruit platter.

Nutrition

Calories: 353kcal | Carbohydrates: 89g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 64mg | Potassium: 1459mg | Fiber: 13g | Sugar: 69g | Vitamin A: 5900IU | Vitamin C: 194mg | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 2mg