Description
Date & Pretzel Spiders are one of our favorite vegan Halloween treats. They're spooky, sweet, and healthy all at once!
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 soft, room temperature Medjool dates, pitted
- 16-20 small pretzels(ideally the ones in the traditional pretzel shape and not pretzel sticks)
- 8 vegan chocolate chips for eyes
- sunflower seed butter (or any nut or seed butter) as needed for "glue"
- Spider web: 1 banana peel (reserve from making BOO-nanas) [more options in directions]
Instructions
- Make sure you are working with stick, soft, fresh dates. Hard dates will be more difficult to work with here. I find it best to use dates that are fresh out of a new package and have not been refrigerated. Be sure they are pitted. You can stuff them with any nut or seed butter if desired.
- Break the mini pretzel twists into smaller pieces and use the pieces as spider legs. Place 8 legs into each date (which is the sider's body). You may need to use nut or seed butter as "glue" to help.
- Place nut or seed butter where the eyes will go and then place the chocolate chips on top as the eyes.
- If desired, you can make a spider web out of the inside strands of the banana peel. You can also melt white chocolate chips, marshmallows or use vanilla icing and drizzle that into a spider web design.
- Place the date pretzel spiders on their web and serve!
Notes
You can stuff the dates with any nut or seed butter if desired.
- Prep Time: 5