Enjoyable and Wholesome Halloween Snack Tray

This Halloween Snack Tray is filled with scrumptious and wholesome snacks, and makes a fully lovely and crowd-pleasing centerpiece for Halloween events or get-togethers! We’ll provide you with all the information and recipes it is advisable make your personal present stopping snack tray.

A black serving tray topped with assorted halloween snack foods with a black spider web linen in the background.

Wholesome Halloween Snacks Everybody Will Love

I really like placing collectively snack trays for events or get-togethers, and after seeing some enjoyable vacation themed ones on-line, I figured it was time to place my very own spin on a Halloween Snack Tray. Many of the components had been tremendous simple and fast to place collectively and I can’t even let you know how a lot everybody beloved it! The perfect half was that I used to be capable of incorporate so many wholesome components that my children love- and since it was so enjoyable it made them much more excited to dig in!

A close up image of halloween snacks on a charcuterie board with peppers, cheese, pretzels, and avocados.

Components we used for our Halloween Snack Tray:

  • Kiwi
  • Apple Slices
  • Caramel Dip
  • Assorted Crackers
  • Celery & Peanut Butter
  • Cheese Slices & Cubes
  • Mandarin Oranges
  • Mini Bell Peppers
  • Avocados
  • Black Olives
  • Chocolate Lined Pretzels
  • Cherry Tomatoes
A snack tray with a bowl of caramel dip with crackers, chocolate dipped pretzels, cheese slices, and kiwi peeled to look like frankenstein monsters.

The right way to Make a Wholesome Halloween Snack Tray:

  1. Make the totally different components. We made these Vampire Guacamole Cups, Halloween Pretzels, and Spiders on a Log. You can exchange these with totally different retailer purchased choices, if desired!
  2. Prep the fruit and greens. Slice apples, peel mandarin oranges, and peel the kiwi (leaving a number of the peel on the highest to appear like Frankenstein’s hair).
  3. Lower the cheese. Dice cheddar cheese, and use a small ghost cookie cutter on slices of pepper jack cheese.
  4. Begin constructing your board. Discover a good massive tray to start out constructing your snack board on. I choose utilizing one with sides- it actually helps with transportation! Begin including issues to your tray, attempting to evenly distribute the weather and colours across the board. Place bowls or bigger gadgets on first after which add smaller gadgets round them.
  5. Add sweet eyes. As soon as I’ve every little thing positioned on the board, I like so as to add the sweet eye components. I used a dab of guacamole so as to add the eyes to the mini bell peppers. They eyes caught on the kiwi simply fantastic with out utilizing any ‘glue’.
  6. Dig in!

Suggestions for Making a Nice Snack Tray

Maintain colour in thoughts!

A superb snack tray has numerous colour. Keep away from a bland board by utilizing fruit and veggies so as to add shiny pops of colour to your tray.

Don’t overdo it.

Extra isn’t all the time higher! Shoot for the 3-3-3-3 ratio. 3 totally different fruits, 3 totally different cheese, 3 totally different starches, and three accompaniments. Search for flavors that stability one another for a nicely rounded board. Try to supply selection.

Prep as a lot as you’ll be able to forward of time.

When potential, prep your elements forward of time. It’s going to make it a lot simpler (and quicker!) to assemble your board when it’s time to serve.

Use the suitable sized tray.

A 12×18″ tray is an efficient medium-sized board that can feed between 4-6 individuals. For a bigger group, shoot for a tray that’s no less than 18×24″.

Store your pantry.

Snack boards are an excellent use for that final sleeve of crackers or the quarter stuffed jam jar within the fridge! Nuts and dried fruits are additionally a tasty addition and ideal for filling these gaps with out spending a ton of cash.

Two avocado shells filled with guacamole and decorated to look like vampires and other assorted snack foods.

Extra Halloween Recipe Concepts for Your Snack Tray:

White chocolate pretzel mummies, sliced apples, and mandarin oranges peeled and decorated with a celery stalk to resemble a pumpkin.
Mini bell peppers with candy eyes, crackers, celery sticks with peanut butter, and cheese slice ghosts on a snack tray.
Caramel dip in a small striped bowl on a tray with cheese cubes, kiwi, chocolate covered pretzels, and assorted vegetables.

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