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.
Citrus Sensations: Creative Ways to Use Dracula Citrus in Cocktails
Unleash the enchanting elixir of Dracula Citrus and explore our latest captivating cocktail concoctions. Use Dracula Citrus in cocktails for zesty brilliance with a playful twist. Not to mention it’s delicious and perfectly timed for your Halloween hangouts.
Whether hosting a haunted soirée or seeking to add mystique to your mixology, Dracula Citrus is the secret ingredient for immortalising your taste buds in a fantastically fruity, sweet and sour way.
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Bright Bite
Enjoy a bright and bitey cocktail, with honey, dry gin and lemon juice. Garnished with lemon, it’s simply the zest!
Ingredients:
- 2 tsp honey
- 50ml dry gin
- 25ml lemon juice
- Ice
- Lemon zest strip, to serve
Method:
STEP 1
Put the honey in a small jug or cup and add 1 tsp freshly boiled water. Stir well until smooth and the honey is nicely thinned down.
STEP 2
Pour the honey mixture into a cocktail shaker along with the gin, lemon juice and a large handful of ice. Shake until the outside of the shaker feels very cold.
STEP 3
Double strain into a cocktail glass or a coupe and garnish with a curled strip of lemon zest – you can do this by wrapping it tightly around a spoon handle.
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Kraken Summer
Our tropical, rum-based Kraken Summer cocktail is easy to make and sure to get your party started. Garnish with a slice of fresh orange for an extra citrus zing.
Ingredients:
- 50ml dark rum
- 50ml white rum
- 1 passion fruit
- 1 orange, juiced
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 50ml sugar syrup
Method:
STEP 1
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice then add the rums. Scoop the flesh and seeds from the passion fruit and add to the shaker along with the orange and lemon juices and sugar syrup.
STEP 2
Shake well until the outside of the cocktail shaker feels icy cold. Fill two glasses with fresh ice then double strain the drink into the prepared glasses.
STEP 3
Garnish each cocktail with a slice of fresh orange and enjoy in the sun.
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Crimson Creeper
Don’t let this deliciously sweet and refreshing cocktail trick you into a false sense of safety. As the name suggests, the tequila hit will creep up on you if you’re not careful!
Ingredients:
- ice
- 50ml tequila
- 15ml Cointreau
- 1 large blood orange, or 2 small ones, juiced
- ½ lemon, juiced
Method:
STEP 1
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add the tequila, Cointreau and fruit juices. Shake until the outside of the shaker feels cold.
STEP 2
Fill a serving glass with ice cubes then carefully double strain the cocktail into it. Add more ice if needed to fill the glass and enjoy!
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Drac’s Golden Ambrosia
This classic bourbon cocktail takes a chilling turn with a splash of orange juice and edible gold glitter – perfect for the fancy, the fun and the freaky festivities you have coming up.
Ingredients:
- Honey
- Edible gold glitter
- Ice cubes
- 45ml bourbon
- 15ml fresh lemon juice
- 15ml fresh orange juice
- 15ml sugar syrup
- Crushed ice
Method:
STEP 1
Using a small paintbrush (or your finger), brush some honey around the rim of a lowball tumbler. Pour a layer of edible gold glitter onto a plate, turn the tumbler in your hands, sticky side down, and dip into the glitter until it sticks to the honey and coats the rim of the glass.
STEP 2
Pour the bourbon into a cocktail shaker with ice along with the lemon juice, orange juice and sugar syrup. Shake until the shaker is frosted.
STEP 3
Fill the lowball tumbler you prepared earlier with crushed ice. Strain your cocktail into your tumbler, stir to create a slurry and serve.
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Sink your teeth into Dracula Citrus
To make these citrus sensations find the juiciest citrus – Dracula Citrus! Find your nearest store to buy Dracula Citrus or contact us to become a part of our growing international network of Dracula Citrus™ distributors.
For sales, contact Daniel Newport:
+61 488 023 679
daniel@pinnaclefresh.com.au