Spooky Snacks and Healthy Halloween Treats!

Published: 10/05/2015
Updated: 05/06/2025
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Today I’ll be sharing some of my favorite quick and easy healthy halloween treats to help you spookify snacktime.

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Spooky Snacks and Healthy Halloween Treats

They’re REALLY easy!!! As in zero Pinterest skills required! Pinky promise.

I love Pinterest, I do, but what I’m not in love with is spending hours on an OMGSOFRUSTERATING project just to have it look like something out of a horror movie.

Halloween is probably one of the more forgiving holidays for cutesy foods and crafts because even the most henious of Pinterest fails can easily look like it was done on purpose.

Oh that half-melted cookie monster pile of goo? I was totally going for a scare-the-pants-off-your-kids vibe with those! Don’t judge meeeee!

These healthy Halloween snacks are quick, easy, and frusteration-free!

Ready to get started!?

Spooky Snacks and Healthy Halloween Treats

Halloween Cheese and Crackers

There are two fabulous ways to make this spooktacular snack and the amount you make can vary from a small snack plate to a full party platter!

Little hands can help with this one too so feel free to enlist some help.

You’ll want to use a few festive mini cookie cutters for this one. They can be purchased anywhere from Target to craft stores and can even be ordered on the interwebs.

These are the ones I have and I can’t wait to order the alphabet ones next!

Next choose your cheese:

option #1: Using an extra-sharp knife, cut a block of mild cheddar into thin slices, lengthwise.

option #2: Save time by snagging pre-cut cracker-sized slices of cheddar, they’re the perfect size for mini cookie cutters!

I tried both methods and have to admit I’m a fan of the cracker slices. I picked the one that was on sale  that week and couldn’t be happier with how easy it was to cut out spooky halloween shapes with my toddler! She loved helping create these cheesy snacks and of course eating them was pretty darn fun too! All you have to do is press the cookie cutters into the cheese and pop out the spooky shapes. Done deal!

tasty tip:

Save the leftover cheese from your cookie cutter palooza for tasty pizza night or taco night toppings!

Spooky Snacks and Healthy Halloween Treats: Spooky Apple Slices

Spooky Apple Slices

To make sure I really got my money’s worth out of those mini cookie cutters, I put them to use once more on a pile of apples. Simply slice your apple into thin discs and cut out the core using a cookie cutter.

Eat them straight up or dip them in peanut butter (With an optional halloween sprinkle topping! Hello festive!) or your favorite flavored greek yogurt.

You could even drizzle them with melted dark chocolate for an antioxidant boost and a burst of sweetness.

Another awesome option would be to to take the cheese squares you saved from your cheese and crackers snack (They’ll have a cute little halloween cut out in each square!) and serve them on top of their matching apple slices. This is totally how I ate mine; I LOVE apples and cheddar!

You can also cut shapes into cantaloupe and honeydew for more fruity fun.

Spooky Snacks and Healthy Halloween Treats: Jack-O-Lantern Fruit Cups

Jack-o-Lantern Fruit Cups

These win favorite snack of the year from the chickpea. She is obsessed with all things pumpkin and begs for these little jack-o-mandarins daily. The best part is that they’re essentially the easiest thing ever. Channel your inner Picasso and scribble pumpkin faces onto juice-packed fruit cups. Pack them in lunches, serve them at a party, or enjoy them all month long as a healthy and delicious snack!

Spooky Halloween Monster Mash Soup
Spooky Spiralized Zucchini Noodles

Halloween Monster Mash Soup

Halloween fun isn’t limited to just the sweet stuff! Sneak some veggies into your Halloween shenanigans with this Spooky Halloween Monster Mash Soup!

I love making little eyeballs out of sushi rice and nori sheets. They’re even fun to add to a bowl full of zucchini noodles (ZOODLES FTW!) to delight the little ones with veggies.

Spooky Spider Web Halloween Hummus Dip
Spooky Spider Web Halloween Hummus Dip
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Let's get spooky with this healthy Halloween Hummus Dip loaded with layers of fresh veggies and a fun Greek yogurt spider web!
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This healthy Halloween Hummus Dip loaded with layers of fresh veggies and a fun Greek yogurt spider web. You can mix and match with your favorite hummus toppings and this delicious appetizer can be made with both homemade and store bought hummus!

Frankenstein Halloween Sandwich Wraps
Frankenstein Halloween Sandwich Wraps
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One of my favorite Halloween lunch ideas, these fun Frankenstein Halloween Sandwich Wraps are a must-make for the kids!
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One of my favorite Halloween lunch ideas pretty much ever, these fun Frankenstein Halloween Sandwich Wraps are a must-make for the kids!

They’re perfect as a fun activity to pair with Halloween cookie decorating or as a spooky surprise lunch to pack your kiddos for school. You could even have a crafty little Halloween themed play-date and let all the kids decorate their own monster sandwich.

If you get a chance to try these healthy halloween treats or invent your own creation, let me know!

You can leave me a comment here (LOVE checking those daily!) or tag @PEASandCRAYONS on Instagram so I can happy dance over your creations. I can’t wait to see what you whip up!

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Jenn Laughlin

Jenn Laughlin has been creating and sharing recipes for over 15 years. After graduating with a B.S. in Dietetics from Florida State University and working as a Nutrition Educator for WIC, she created Peas and Crayons in 2009. The goal was simple: create and share delicious tested and perfected recipes with vegetables as the star!

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Questions & Reviews

  1. I’m planning a family halloween party, but am having trouble finding good appetizers! I’m trying to balance the meal so we don’t get sick before we can really get into the party – these are perfect!!! Thank you!

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  2. hi, love the cheese with cracker. Where do you get the cute cutter? I went to a few stored, the Halloween cutters are huge. Nothing this small and cute

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    1. Hi Loren! They’re made by wilton and you can get them on Amazon.com and also I believe the Wilton website sells them. xo

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  4. Hi there! I was just wondering where you had gotten your cookie cutters from to make the Halloween cheese and crackers. Thanks!

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    1. Hi Samantha! Wilton makes the cutest little set of minis! I ordered mine from amazon but I’ve also seen them at certain Target and Michaels in the past! I’ll include a link to the ones I ordered in the post! xoxo

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    1. This time around I used little black nonpareil sprinkles but I’ve also used poppy seeds and black sesame seeds too and all work great!

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  10. My favorite Halloween treat will always be the homemade cupcakes my aunt made every year. I can remember kids lining up to get one. 🙂

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  11. My favorite Halloween treat? That’s a hard one! I have a huge sweet tooth, and pretty much love all candy. I guess my answer is any and all candy, lol!

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  18. My favorite Halloween treat is more for fall. My mother in law calls it a harvest mix and it has peanuts, m&m’s, candy corn, golden grahams, and pretzels. The perfect amount of sweet and salty!

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  21. Great ideas! My favorite Halloween treat is Peanut M&Ms. I would like to try the Chocolate Beet Cookies!

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  26. So adorable and nice to see some healthy Halloween treats for a change! My fave Halloween snackies are anything to do with pumpkin! YUMPKIN! Thanks, Jenn 🙂

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  29. My favorite Halloween treat is the bite size 3 Muskateers and milky way candy bars and double bubble gum

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  35. This year I’m planning on making Halloween Rice Krispy Treats with some Boo Berry cereal for my coworkers. I love rice krispy treats!

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  37. Hi! I’m a sucker for chocolate on Halloween but especially now that I have kids I get so excited about all these healthier Halloween treat options!

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    1. I’m right there with you! I’m probably going to eat most of the kiddo’s trick or treat goodies and I’m a little excited about it 😉 Haha!

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    1. You’re super welcome! We are going to stock up on all the holidays – my tot begs to play with them daily! Such a fun activity for making everything from snacks to salt-dough ornaments to play dough shapes 😉

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  44. Last year for our halloween party I made little pumpkins with oranges and a small piece of celery for a stem. They were a hit!

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  54. These cookie cutters are adorable! My favorite Halloween treat is the pumpkin candy corn (yes, it has to be the pumpkin shaped ones…I’m weird like that)!

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  55. I love these they are so adorable, but I think the cheese and crackers would be my favorite 🙂

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    1. Thanks Beth! I keep a bucket of them under my kitchen sink for all kinds of crafts and recipes – they’re the best!

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