Fun and easy, Halloween Witch Apples are simple to assemble and double as edible party decor and delicious holiday treats.
Part healthy and part sugary sweet, this cute kid-friendly craft features fresh fruit, cookies, candy, and string cheese to create a “costumed” apple, complete with a chocolate-covered strawberry hat and cheese stick broomstick.
Healthy Halloween Treat
These Witch Apple Snacks make an adorable healthier Halloween food that’s as much fun to eat as it is to make.
Thanks to my easy recipe and simple craft instructions, kids will love dressing up fresh fruit with a chocolate-covered strawberry hat, candy eyes, and a string cheese broom.
While bobbing for apples may be a classic Halloween game, it’s always fun to eat your fruit when it’s dressed up for the holiday as a deliciously decorated treat.
Edible snack crafts are perfect for classroom parties or playdates with friends – they are the best form of finger food because everything tastes better when you’ve made it yourself!
Why We Love This Apple Witch Snack Recipe
- Quick and easy to make in 15 minutes.
- Uses simple ingredients that you can customize with your favorite colors.
- Kid-friendly craft that creates the cutest edible witch character.
- Semi-healthy Halloween snack.
- Perfect for witch themed parties, school celebrations, or serving before or after trick-or-treating.
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Ingredients
- Strawberries
- Sugar cookies
- Dark melting chocolate
- Candy eyes
- Green apples
- Mini yellow M&Ms
- Halloween colored sprinkles
- String cheese
- Chocolate Twizzlers
- Chocolate pocky sticks
- White, orange, purple, and green icing
Substitutions and Additions
- Choose Your Chocolate: You can substitute dark chocolate with semi-sweet chocolate or milk chocolate.
- Swap The Sugar Cookie: Feel free to swap the sugar cookies for any other smooth, round type of cookie, such as chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, snickerdoodles, or chocolate cookies.
- Pick Your Produce: You can substitute green apples with red apples or yellow apples.
Recommended Tools
- Small knife
- Small bowl
- Spoon
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Jump to RecipeHow to Make Witch Apple Snacks
- Make The Hats: Cut the tops off each strawberry. Add a dot of white icing to each cookie and place the strawberries, cut side down, on top. Cover the hats with melted chocolate.
Pro Tip: It will take a few minutes for the chocolate to harden, you can place them in your refrigerator to speed up this process. - Add The Eyes: Cut a small slice from the bottom of each apple. Use white icing to adhere the candy eyes onto the witch’s face.
- Decorate The Hat On Each Head: Spread a thin layer of icing around the top of each apple and place a witch hat on top. Decorate with colored icing, M&Ms and sprinkles.
Pro Tip: If the icing layer is too thick, the hats may slide. - Chill: Chill the apple witches in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
- Make The Brooms: Cut each string cheese stick in half and make small cuts or peel it about ¾ of the way up. Insert a stick of pocky into the uncut end. Cut each Twizzler in half lengthwise, tie it around the top of the cheese, and trim the excess Twizzler.
Pro Tip: Do not pull the knot too tight or it will break. - Serve: Serve and enjoy chilled or at room temperature.
Tip From Our Recipe Developer
- You can substitute the colors of icing to best fit your preference. Popular Halloween colors are green, orange, purple, black, brown, yellow, or red.
- You can substitute the chocolate Twizzlers with licorice Twizzlers if you prefer.
- You can substitute the chocolate pocky with chocolate-covered pretzel sticks.
Storage
- To Store: These witch apple snacks can be stored in an airtight container in your refrigerator for up to 3 days.
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Halloween Witch Apples
Serves — 6
Halloween Witch Apples are a fun way to eat your fruit, especially when dressed for Halloween. This kid-friendly craft easily makes edible witch hats and broomsticks and is perfect for classroom parties and playdates.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Chill Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Ingredients
- 6 strawberries washed
- 6 sugar cookies
- 1 cup dark melting chocolate
- 12 large candy eyes
- 6 green apples Stems removed, washed
- 6 mini yellow m&ms
- Halloween colored sprinkles
- 3 sticks of string cheese
- 6 chocolate Twizzlers
- 6 chocolate pocky sticks
- ¼ cup each of white, orange, purple, and green icing
Instructions
- Using a small knife, cut the tops of each strawberry off creating a flat even top.
- Place a dot of white icing on each sugar cookie and place the strawberries cut side down onto the white icing to form the witch hat.
- In a small bowl, melt chocolate according to the instructions on the package. Use a spoon to cover the strawberry hats with melted chocolate and then place them carefully on a non-stick surface. It will take a few minutes for the chocolate to harden, you can place them in your refrigerator to speed up this process.
- Cut a small amount of apple from the bottoms of each apple to create a level bottom for the apples to sit on, this will prevent them from rolling around.
- Using the white icing, place small dots where you would like the eyes to go on the apples, and then place the large candy eyes over the dots.
- Spread a very thin layer of white icing around the top of each apple and then place one chocolate-covered strawberry witch hat on each apple. If the icing layer is too thick, the hats may slide.
- Place a ring of colored icing around where the strawberry meets the cookie on each hat. Place a m&m in the icing on the front of the hat and sprinkle each icing band with colored sprinkles. Chill the apple witches in your refrigerator for at least 30 minutes for the icing to harden and set.
- For the string cheese brooms- cut each string cheese stick in half and make small cuts or peel the string cheese about ¾ of the way up. Place a stick of pocky into the uncut end about ½ inch.
- Cut each twizzler in half lengthwise using a small knife or clean scissors. Tie each half around the top of each string cheese broom, being careful not to pull the knot too tight or it will break. Trim the excess twizzler.
- Serve and enjoy them chilled or at room temperature.
Jenn’s Notes
Storage :
- To Store: These witch apple snacks can be stored in an airtight container in your refrigerator for up to 3 days.
- You can substitute the colors of icing to best fit your preference. Popular Halloween colors are green, orange, purple, black, brown, yellow, or red.
- You can substitute the chocolate Twizzlers with licorice Twizzlers if you prefer.
- You can substitute the chocolate pocky with chocolate-covered pretzel sticks.
Nutrition Info
Calories: 335kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 9mg | Sodium: 135mg | Potassium: 425mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 116IU | Vitamin C: 15mg | Calcium: 46mg | Iron: 4mg
That is so CUTE! Can’t wait to try this out!