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.

Kid-Friendly Citrus Activities and Recipes

There are so many ways to get your kids to love citrus fruits, not only by eating them but through play. The Dracula citrus range isn’t just spookily sweet and delicious to eat, it’s a fantastic addition to playtime! The possibilities are endless, from crafting citrus stamps to concocting smoothies or exploring sensory play with citrus. These simple activities spark imagination and provide a hands-on way for kids to learn about different fruits and flavours while having a wickedly good time!

DIY Citrus Stamps

It’s time to bring out the “fun art parent” and thrill your kids with an easy paint project. This activity gets kids excited about exploring their senses and expressing their creativity. It also introduces them to the wonderful world of citrus fruits in a fun and interactive way.

What you’ll need

Any Citrus – try oranges and lemons.
Paints – at least a couple of different colour options are ideal. Ensure that they’re non-toxic.
Paper or fabric for your canvas.
A knife and spoon to remove the citrus pulp.

Step-by-step instructions

Cut your citrus fruits in halves.
Use a spoon to scoop or a knife to cut the flesh from your citrus. You can remove the flesh completely. Or you can cut in and around the white fuzzy layer between the skin. Note, if you decide to do this it’s best to let your stamps dry out for a day or so.
Squeeze the juice from the citrus to put aside for later.
Use a hair dryer to express dry your citrus!
Place your paint directly onto your citrus stamp and stamp your canvas. Or dip the cut side of the citrus into the paint.
Explore the different colourful patterns you can create with your citrus.
Hang up your masterpieces to dry and revel in your accomplishments!

While you’re waiting for the paint to dry, let’s whip up some citrus smoothies!

Citrus Smoothie Making:

Get kids involved in making citrus smoothies by squeezing fresh citrus! Provide a variety of fruits along with yoghurt and/ or milk, and let your kids experiment with different flavour combinations. Smoothies are a delicious and nutritious way to enjoy citrus!

What you’ll need

Citrus fruit
Smoothie-making ingredients: yoghurt/ice cream/ berries/ mango/ banana/ milk.
Smoothie-making equipment: knives, spoons and a blender.

Step-by-step instructions

Chop your fruit and squeeze your citrus.
Add your ingredients to the blender.
Blend away!
Serve your smoothie in funky glasses and present them with citrus pieces on top!

Looking for something a little more indulgent? Why not try our choc-orange smoothie recipe? You can find the recipe here

Smoothies are great during the warmer months! Looking for more fun ways to keep cool with citrus? Try sensory citrus water play.

Sensory citrus water play

When you’re looking for a fun way to keep kids busy whilst keeping them cool, there’s wicked fun that can be had with a simple tub and citrus. Filling a tub or bowl with water and placing pieces of citrus that beautifully float around in the water is wondrous for kids. The touch and smell are exciting experiences on their own. You can even use tongs, scoops, colanders or sieves and collect the citrus pieces!

What you’ll need

Bowl, storage tub/ bucket of water or a play pool.
Sliced citrus.
Optional: tongs, scoops, colanders or sieves

Step-by-step instructions

Fill your container with water and place it outside on a nice patch of grass.
Cut the citrus into thick slices, leaving the peel on so that they’re easy to pick up.
Place the fruit into the tub.

Remember to supervise kids closely at all times around water! Handy tip – if your kids are sitting in the water have a drying area ready with a towel and fresh clothes ready to go. Also, remember to stay sun-smart when outdoors.

Lifelong citrus lovers

Letting our kids make messes amid our already messy lives isn’t always the easiest thing to do. As we embrace these experiences, our home transforms into a space where our children feel empowered to think, create, and explore new horizons with confidence. Citrus fruits inspire a variety of creative and engaging activities for children. Let’s encourage lifelong lovers of citrus!

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. Look out for Dracula Citrus™ in your local supermarket.