Healthy Halloween snack recipe: Ghost Bananas

Halloween is the holiday where the candy calories and sugar don’t count, right? Right?? As much as we can wish that was the case, it is not true. There are healthy alternatives to serve at your Halloween party or gathering, though.

Melanie Marcus is a Registered Dietician and the Nutrition and Health Communications Manager for Dole Food Company. She appeared on QC@3 to show off a few recipes for us, including the steps to make Ghost Bananas. You can find that recipe from Melanie below.

Ingredients

1/4 cup vanilla lowfat yogurt
1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
3 DOLE® Bananas
6 lollipop sticks
18 semi-sweet chocolate chips, regular and/or mini chips
Floral Foam or Styrofoam

Directions

Place yogurt in shallow plate and place coconut on a piece of wax paper.
Cut bananas in half, crosswise. Insert lollipop stick into the cut end of each banana.
Roll bananas in yogurt until coated. Roll in coconut, picking up edges of wax paper to help coat each banana with coconut. Press chocolate chips at pointed end of bananas to make the face. Press sticks into Styrofoam to display.

Making Mummies: Unwrap fruit leather and cut crosswise in half. Wrap one piece of fruit leather around one banana leaving the top open for the eyes. Press chocolate chips for eyes. Press mummies into Styrofoam to display.

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