13 Healthy Halloween Treats (No food dye!)

These healthy Halloween treats are a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth, without relying on processed candy bars and artificial food dyes. Everything below is ridiculously easy to make, and is sure to get you into the Halloween spirit!

1. Frankenstein Smoothies

How do you make your favorite green smoothie even more fun? Use a dry erase marker to draw a Frankenstein face on your glass!

Tip: Draw the face on the outside of the glass before pouring the smoothie in. It will only work when the glass is very dry, and then be careful not to touch the face before serving, so it doesn’t wipe off!

Here are more green smoothie recipes that will work:

• Shamrock Shake
• Detox Smoothie
• Creamy Zucchini Smoothie
• Energizing Matcha Smoothie
• Flax Seed Smoothie
• Spirulina Smoothie (for a blue-green color!)
• Kale Smoothie

I topped my smoothies with an easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate sauce for Frankenstein’s “hair” but that’s totally optional.

2. Cemetery “Dirt” Cups

Take your favorite healthy pudding recipe, like avocado pudding or chocolate chia pudding, and turn it into a “dirt” cup!

I use matcha cookies to make the RIP tombstone, and crumbled a chocolate almond flour cupcake on top.

You can also use a crumbled brownie bite (which is date-sweetened), a crumbled brownie, or chocolate cookies to make the dirt layer on top. And any cookie recipe will do for the tombstone!

I figured this was easier than trying to make gummy worms out of homemade jello.

3. Banana Ghosts & Orange Jack-O-Lanterns

This literally takes less than 5 minutes to assemble. Stick a few mini chocolate chips into half of a banana, and it looks like a ghost! I stick mine on popsicle sticks, and my daughter is obsessed!

You can freeze them for frozen treat on a stick, too. Frozen bananas have the texture of ice cream!

Draw a cute little jack-o-lantern face on your mandarin oranges for a fun lunchbox treat, too. No carving necessary!

4. Mummy Granola Bars

Here’s another fun snack that doesn’t take much extra effort. Drizzle homemade granola bars with melted dark chocolate, and then stick some crunchy coconut flakes on top for a “mummy” look.

I added a few candy googly eyes on mine for the cuteness-factor, but I know my kids won’t actually eat those. (They are too hard for their teeth, so they just pick them off.)

You can also use blueberries as the eyes, 2 chocolate chips, or mini marshmallows, if you prefer!

5. Apple Monster Mouths

You’ve probably seen these on Pinterest, and this is my slightly lazier (and faster) take on it. Take a quarter of an apple, then slice a little wedge out of the outside.

Spread peanut butter or date caramel inside the wedge you just cut out.

Instead of attempting to stick the sunflower seeds physically into the apple to look like real teeth, I just lay them down in the caramel sauce. I think it gets the look across, without as much effort. You could also add some eyeballs to these, but again… that’s extra effort.

Add a sliced strawberry for a “tongue” if you’d like to!

6. Frankenstein Cookies

Take my mint matcha cookies (which are naturally green!) and give them a Frankenstein makeover! You can use a cookie cutter if you have it, or just slice them into rectangles for a more monster-shaped head.

I used a full tablespoon of matcha powder in this version, to give the cookies an extra-green hue, and I can’t taste the matcha flavor at all, thanks to the addition of peppermint.

I use melted dark chocolate for decoration, just like the original recipe calls for, but feel free to use those candy googly eyes again, if you want to save some time!

I’m including a printable tutorial for these at the bottom of this post, if you want more guidance.

7. Witch Fingers

Matcha makes these Witch Finger cookies green, too!

Add a dark chocolate chip at the end, and when the cookies are done baking you can press a sliced almond into the melted chocolate as a “finger nail.” The almond will stick in place once the chocolate hardens!

8. Date Caramel

If you want to host a healthy Halloween party, serve this naturally-sweet date caramel dip with sliced apples.

You get to control the texture of this recipe, so add less liquid for a thick caramel (like one you could use in a candy bar), or add more liquid to make it dip-able.