Trick or Treat: Fantastic Halloween Treats Using Cheese

Halloween is usually the holiday which kids OD on candy. Stores sell huge bags for trick-or-treating, and large containers for the kids to collect it in. But with an emphasis on the health of both children and adults becoming more in vogue, there other treats that you can serve that are healthier than the usual fare of sugar and more sugar. Consider the following ways to include cheese on this Halloween.

Party Treats
Planning a Halloween party? Whether it’s for kids, adults, or a mix, here are some cute tricks for making your next Halloween party menu healthy as well as fun.

Pretzel & Cheese Broomsticks

Take a slice of cheese—a softer cheese such as Monterey Jack or Mozzarella will probably work—and cut a fringe on one side of it, cutting over half of the slice. Take a straight pretzel and wrap the uncut side around one end of the pretzel. Secure it with a very narrow piece of gummy worm, or some other edible, flexible thing that will tie and hold. The fringe that you cut forms the broom bristles. These look very cute.

Ghost Cheese Balls

Form cheese balls from your choice of cheese, then roll in finely grated coconut. Decorate with black jellybean eyes.

Witch’s Sauce

Make your favorite cheese fondue and serve it in a miniature black cauldron. Apple chunks, a variety of bread cubes, or even raw veggies, all skewered on party toothpicks will make good dippers.

Cheese Shapes

Using Halloween design cookie cutters or presses, cut cheese into shapes of jack o’lanterns, cats, skulls, tombstones, or whatever you desire. Use orange cheddar for pumpkins, and a white cheese for skulls and tombstones. You could even use the same cutters to cut out bread shapes to match for small sandwiches.

Cheese & Crackers

Decorate wheat crackers with small round pieces of cheese for the eyes, with a strip of red pepper for a mouth. Use the cheese spread in a can to draw facial features on the cracker.

Trick or Treats
As it is an unacceptable practice to hand out homemade or unwrapped treats, there are only a couple of ways to offer cheese to all the little ghosts and goblins, witches and werewolves that are bound to show up at your door on Halloween. Individually wrapped string cheese is one choice. Another is the small individual packets of cheese and crackers or breadsticks.