Banana Ghosts with Healthy Chocolate Dip (Dairy Free, Vegan)
 
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These banana ghosts with healthy chocolate sweet potato dip couldn't be cuter--or tastier!
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Recipe type: Appetizers & Dips
Ingredients
  • 1 recipe of Healthy Chocolate Frosting
  • 4 Tbsp almond milk
  • 2 c shredded sweetened coconut
  • food coloring: artificial green OR DIY green + blue food coloring (DIY natural food coloring instructions here)
  • 2 strips of fruit leather (or 4 oblong crackers/cookies)
  • White decorator icing with writing tip
  • 4 bananas (or more, depending on the size of your plate or platter)
  • handful of chocolate chips (a combo of mini and regular works best)
Directions
  1. Make a batch of healthy chocolate sweet potato frosting, adding 3-4 Tbsp almond milk at the end to turn the frosting into a dip. You'll have 3 cups of dip. Place in a serving bowl.
  2. In a ramekin, mix your food coloring: DIY natural food coloring: 4 tsp green + 2 tsp blue OR Artificial food coloring: 24 drops green + 8 drops yellow.
  3. Add food coloring to coconut in a mixing bowl. Stir to evenly distribute.
  4. Cut each fruit leather strip in half to make tombstones. Using decorator icing, pipe on "RIP."
  5. Decide where you want your tombstones to go in the dip and mark those locations with the bottom of a "stone." (Use 3 or 4 tombstones depending on how big your bowl is.) Sprinkle green coconut at those locations.
  6. Insert tombstones.
  7. Cut your bananas, slicing some into even halves and some into uneven pieces. (This will give you ghosts of different heights.)
  8. Move to the serving table. Place bowl of dip on serving plate. Place bananas around dip as desired. I like having them fly out in all directions!
  9. Add chocolate chip faces. Gently press chocolate chips into each banana for the eyes and mouth. Replace each ghost as you finish.
  10. Place coconut "grass" between your ghosts. A teaspoon and a clean pair of tweezers make this much easier.
  11. Done! A silly, spooky graveyard for a Halloween get-together.
Recipe by Veggie Quest at https://www.veggie-quest.com/2015/10/banana-ghosts-with-healthy-chocolate-dip-dairy-free/