Healthy Halloween Treats With Dracula Citrus™
It’s our favourite time of the year at Dracula Citrus™ – Halloween! We spend all year hiding out waiting to celebrate the peak of our citrus distribution! Dracula Citrus™ Blood Oranges, Navel Oranges, Pink Cara Cara Oranges, Mega Mandys, Baby Mandarins and Tangelos are all out for devouring! There’s no hiding that we like to celebrate citrus at Halloween! Try our spooktacular Healthy Halloween Treats – they’re a cute and delicious way to enjoy some fun with food this Halloween season.
Don’t worry about Jack-o-Lantern pumpkins! Bring on Dracula Citrus™! Oranges and mandarins dress like pumpkins but make for healthy and sweet treats! When prepping for your Halloween celebrations, don’t go past our spooktacular mandarin “pumpkin” treats or mandarin “pumpkin” chocolate mouse.
Mandarin “pumpkin” treats
Mandarin “pumpkin” treats will be a favourite Halloween snack for kids and adults! They’re perfect to pack in lunchboxes and to serve at parties. With only two ingredients, this is a quick and easy food option. They’re the ideal alternative to candy and lollies!
Ingredients
- Mandrins
- Cucumber/ celery
Steps:
- Peel your mandarins.
- Thinly slice a cucumber or a celery stalk. Lay the slice down and cut small stalks, cutting slices for as many “pumpkins” as you’re making.
- Push one stalk down into the top of each mandarin and that’s it!
** Optional – melt a little dark chocolate and use a chopstick or similar to dab chocolate eyes on to your mandarins.
There you have it! A wickedly simple and healthy Halloween citrus treat!
Web-a-licous Chocolate Orange Mousse
Get into the Halloween spirit with our webby chocolate orange mousse. This delicious recipe is easy to make and a crowd favourite – from Baby Dracula to Vladimir himself! It brings together the magical flavours of chocolate and orange – a tried and true match made in heaven.
Ingredients :
- 200g dark chocolate, chopped
- Zest and juice of 2 medium sized Dracula Citrus™ navel oranges
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs, separated
- 450ml thickened cream
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 6 lowball glasses
- 50 grams of melted white chocolate
- Ziplock plastic bag
- Foil
- Mint leaves
** Optional – if you have the time and want to get a little more festive, you can ‘carve’ oranges like pumpkins. Cut a top off 4 – oranges and empty the flesh. Use these as a replacement for your glasses. You can also leave some of the orange flesh to accompany the mousse filling!
Steps:
- Place the dark chocolate, 3 quarters of the zest, orange juice and vanilla in a medium heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water (do not allow bowl to touch water). Stir for 3 mins or until mixture is smooth. Remove bowl from heat. Set aside for 20 mins to cool. Stir in egg yolks. Your chocolate mixture will look like it has a lot of liquid but rest-assured, it will all come together.
- Reserve the remaining zest.
- Use an electric mixer to beat cream in a bowl until soft peaks form. Fold the cream into chocolate mixture.
- Beat egg whites and sugar in a bowl until thick and glossy. Gently fold into your chocolate mixture. Be careful not to stir the mixture as this can reduce amount of air in your mousse making it dense.
- Carefully spoon your mixture evenly into each glass. Chill for 2 hours or until set.
- Place your white chocolate into a heatproof bowl and heat in the microwave in 30 second bursts. Stir between each burst and stop when your chocolate is runny and smooth. Transfer it into your ziplock back and remove as much air in the bag as possible.
- Cut a tiny hole in the corner of your ziplock back and pipe cobweb designs onto your foil.
- Leave until hardened and peel each web off the foil.
- Decorate by sprinkling each set glass of mousse with the reserved orange zest, one white chocolate web and a mint leaf.
- Enjoy!
It’s a terrifyingly mouth-watering Halloween citrus dessert!
At Dracula Citrus™ we take the best citrus from the top-growing regions around Australia and bring them together under one roof. That’s how we get the best variety and quality citrus with the sweetest flavour and share it with the world! Look out for Dracula Citrus™ in your local supermarket this Halloween.
