Scare starvation away with funky apple slice monsters! These easy-to-make snacks are good for teenagers (and youngsters at coronary heart!) this Halloween and may even add a wholesome ‘boo’-st to your blood sugar.
The next is an excerpt from The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Household Cookbook by Leah Webb. It has been tailored for the net.
RECIPE: Funky Apple Slice Monsters
These enjoyable and wholesome snacks are produced from one hundred pc whole-food elements.
It’s the proper recipe for a Halloween gathering, as a novel faculty challenge, or on days while you’re feeling like placing a little bit of creativity into your youngster’s snack. The elements solely record what you’ll have to make eight monsters.
You’ll possible need further blueberries and strawberries if youngsters are serving to, as a result of they’ll possible munch on these elements as you construct. You should utilize any nut or seed butter to connect the tongue and eyes, however SunButter retains the flavour in line with the sunflower seed tooth.
Assembling Apple Slice Monsters in a faculty setting can be a enjoyable and manageable challenge to do with a big group of youngsters, however make sure you keep away from any SunButter that was processed on shared tools with nuts or peanuts, if any college students within the classroom have nut allergic reactions.
Components
- 2 inexperienced apples
- 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds 3 strawberries
- 2 tablespoons SunButter 10–16 blueberries
Process
- Quarter the apples and thoroughly take away the seeds, leaving as a lot of the apple flesh as doable. Minimize a wedge out of the peel aspect of the apple, maintaining the wedge barely off heart. This leaves extra room for the eyes on the highest, and fewer area for the mouth on the underside.
- Place roughly 10 sunflower seeds into the highest of every mouth, poking the pointed aspect of the seed into the apple flesh.
- Take away the tops of the strawberries and reduce them into skinny slices. Use a small dab of SunButter to stick the strawberry into the mouth as a tongue. Adhere the blueberry eyes with a small dab of SunButter. Every monster can have one, two, and even three eyes.
- Repeat with the remaining apple quarters and take pleasure in.
Funky Apple Slice Monsters: Batch Cooking and Leftovers
If saved within the fridge, apples will begin to brown over time. Higher to prep 4–6 hours upfront and so they received’t lose any of their coloration. Spritz them with a lemon water combination if you happen to’re attempting to stop them from browning.
