Banana Ghosts

Since we’re still newcomers in our neighbourhood, I thought it would be a fun idea to invite the other neighbourhood children and their parents over for a Halloween treat-making party. However, by the time I had the party organized in my head, I realized it was too close to Halloween to actually expect anyone to come over. So instead I decided that the girls and I should make treats anyway and then go and deliver them to our neighbour’s houses. Especially since we might not be here for Halloween.

I have decided that the best way to deal with my Halloween Candy Dilemma is to skip town. Literally. Even though I just printed out the Our Candy Bowl is Nestle Free Poster from the Boonestle Blog, I think we’ve decided to take the girls to the nearby Waldorf School (close to where we used to live) for their Halloween Celebration. Waldorf festivities are magical. For Halloween, an angel leads you and your costumed little ones (no scary costumes allowed) along a pumpkin and lantern lit path to different dressed up people who talk about who they are and give you a treat at the end of their story. We went a few years ago and there was a farmer who handed out apples, a carpenter who handed out half circle wooden bridges (which we still play with), a baker who handed out hot buns, etc.

Since I am a fan of home made treats but know I can’t get away with it on Halloween night, we thought this would be a nice way to connect with the parents and safely get out of our neighbourly Halloween obligations so we can celebrate in our own way.

How To Make Banana Ghosts

• Last night we took our nice organic yellow bananas (not too ripe, not too green), peeled them and cut them in half and pushed a craft stick part way up the cut end. Then we wrapped them in plastic wrap and froze them over night.

• This afternoon we melted some white chocolate and some organic dark chocolate in separate bowls. You can do this in the microwave (1 minute per cup of chocolate) or over a double boiler, but be sure not to get any water in the chocolate or else it won’t work.

• Then we took our frozen half bananas and dipped them in the chocolate. We tried to make devil bananas with the dark chocolate, using red jelly bellies for horns and yogurt covered raisins for eyes, but take my word for it - they looked stupid – so we just made plain chocolate-dipped bananas after that.

• The ghosts turned out great. The chocolate will melt fast so before it does put two chocolate chips on for eyes and one for a spooky mouth.

Ta da! You’re finished. Keep frozen until you eat them. They taste so good and I had no guilt around them eating one. Hooray!

Oh, and our neighbours loved their treats. They were very surprised by our backwards Halloween treat delivering ways, but I think touched too. And the girls were thrilled with being able to give away their small tokens of new friendship.

I’m sharing this at Foodie Friday at Designs by Gollum, Recipe Swap at Grocery Cart Challenge, Friday Food at Momtrends, Food on Friday at Ann Kroeker, Wholesome Whole Foods at Health Food Lover, Friday Potluck at EKat’s Kitchen, Family Food Fridays at Get Healthy Cheap, Tempt My Tummy Tuesdays at Blessed With Grace

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