Ingredients:
Apples
Slivered almonds
Preparation:
Ingredients:
1/2 cup fresh spinach
10 ounces hummus
Vegetables (we used broccoli and celery)
Pretzels
Hard-boiled eggs
Crackers
Black olives
Edible marker
Carrot sticks
Preparation:
In a food processor, puree the spinach and hummus.
To make the boiled-egg ghosts, cut slits and insert black-olive facial features. Use an edible marker to turn crackers into tombstones.
Mound the dip on a tray and top it with veggie trees, a pretzel fence, boiled-egg ghosts, and cracker tombstones.
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Melon Brain
Ingredients:
1 small seedless watermelon
Preparation:
Use a vegetable peeler to remove the entire green rind, exposing the inner white rind.
Slice off the bottom of the melon to create a flat base that will keep it from rolling. With a toothpick, outline squiggly furrows that resemble the folded surface of a brain.
Finally, carve narrow channels along the tracings with a sharp paring knife (a parent's job) to expose the pink fruit beneath the rind.
Just quarter and core an apple, cut a wedge from the skin side of each quarter, then press slivered almonds in place for teeth. Tip: If you're not going to serve them right away, baste the apples with orange juice to keep them from browning.
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Ingredients:
1/2 cup fresh spinach
10 ounces hummus
Vegetables (we used broccoli and celery)
Pretzels
Hard-boiled eggs
Crackers
Black olives
Edible marker
Carrot sticks
Preparation:
In a food processor, puree the spinach and hummus.
To make the boiled-egg ghosts, cut slits and insert black-olive facial features. Use an edible marker to turn crackers into tombstones.
Mound the dip on a tray and top it with veggie trees, a pretzel fence, boiled-egg ghosts, and cracker tombstones.
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Melon Brain
Ingredients:
1 small seedless watermelon
Preparation:
Use a vegetable peeler to remove the entire green rind, exposing the inner white rind.
Slice off the bottom of the melon to create a flat base that will keep it from rolling. With a toothpick, outline squiggly furrows that resemble the folded surface of a brain.
Finally, carve narrow channels along the tracings with a sharp paring knife (a parent's job) to expose the pink fruit beneath the rind.
