If you are concerned that your kids eat too many sweets during Halloween, try these non-candy snacks. Dried and fresh fruit like apricots, mangoes, and grapes are so much more appealing when they look at you!
Ingredients
- 4 ounces dried apricots
- 4 ounces dried peaches
- 0.5 pounds seedless green grapes , halved
- 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon water , or as needed
- 0.25 cups small candy eyeballs
Instructions
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Arrange apricots and peaches on a platter. Skewer a few grapes on a toothpick vertically and the last one horizontally (for the head).
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Mix confectioners' sugar with water to make a thin, slightly sticky icing. Use icing to glue 2 candy eyeballs on each piece of fruit and on the horizontal "head" of the grape caterpillar.
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