Easily turn an apple into a Halloween ghost chocolate apple for a really fun dessert. It only takes three ingredients to make it!
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Apples are the quintessential fall fruit. And Halloween is in the fall. So the perfect combination of these is making Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples.
These are actually really easy to make at home … as long as you have a little bit of patience. They do take a little bit of time and practice, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll love making these for your kids or for your upcoming Halloween party.
You can make these Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples with either store bought apples or apples you get from apple picking, which is great because there’s only so much apple pie you can make after you go apple picking, right?
These Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples aren’t the only Halloween treat we have on Drugstore Divas.
After you’re done learning how to make these ghost apples, be sure to check out our full list of Spooky Halloween Treats.
Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples
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This tutorial is how to make one Halloween ghost chocolate apple. If you need to make more of these, just scale the recipe accordingly.
Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples Ingredients:
- 1 apple
- 5-inch bamboo lollipop sticks (specifically the ones with a pointed end)
- 4 oz. vanilla almond bark
- 5 semi-sweet chocolate chips
How To Make Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples:
Wash and dry the apple.
Stick the pointed end into the top of the apple (where the stem is).
This is why you specifically want to purchase the bamboo lollipop sticks with the pointed end. Those will easily stick into the top of an apple. The lollipop sticks with two flat ends won’t do this.
Melt one cube of the vanilla almond bark according to the package.
The easiest way to do this is to melt the vanilla almond bark in a microwavable safe bowl for one minute. Stir the almond bark. Put it back in the microwave at 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until the vanilla almond bark is completely melted.
Roll the apple in the vanilla almond bark until the apple is completely covered.
Use a spoon to ladle the vanilla almond bark on to the top of the apple, where the stick is.
Let it cool on a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet.
Melt the second cube of the vanilla almond bark.
This time, spoon all the melted almond bark on top of the apple, letting it drip down and pool at the bottom of the apple to make it look more like a ghost and less like an apple.
Let it cool completely.
Melt the chocolate chips in a microwavable safe bowl.
Using a flat-edged item, draw two eyes and a mouth onto the apple to make a ghost face.
I used a splash stick, which is that piece of plastic that you put into a coffee cup to keep the coffee warm. If you don’t have one of those handy, the back of a utensil (like a fork, spoon, etc.) would work. The flat edge of a toothpick would work as well.
Let it cool completely before wrapping or serving.
Since you’re making this a silicone baking mat, it will pop right off when it’s cooled. If you were making this directly on a cookie sheet, the vanilla almond bark would get stuck to the cookie sheet and would be difficult to pop it off.
If you don’t have a silicone baking mat (which I highly recommend you purchase — I use mine weekly), you could use parchment paper to line the cookie sheet as well. The chocolate will pop right off of that as well. I just don’t prefer it because it’s disposable and a silicone baking mat is reusable.
Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples: Frequently Asked Questions
I really like vanilla almond bark. It tastes a lot more like chocolate than white candy melts do, in my opinion.
Vanilla almond bark and candy melts work in the same way in that you can remelt them as many time as needed and they melt just like the first time. I just prefer vanilla almond bark.
If you do decide to use white candy melts, be sure to check out our Tips For Using Candy Melts before you get started.
That’s why it’s so much easier to use these than white chocolate chips. With white chocolate chips, you can only melt them once. You also run the risk of overmelting and burning the chocolate, and you can’t save it. Plus, if white chocolate chips cool, you can’t remelt them like you can with vanilla almond bark or white chocolate chips.
Any apples are great for this. Ones that are a little bit smaller work a little bit better because they’re easier to roll in the melted vanilla almond bark. But whatever apples you can find at the store or have leftover from apple picking will work.
If you want to make more than one ghost apple at a time, you can definitely do that. Just make sure to make them in batches.
So, dip them all in the vanilla almond bark. By the time you dip the last one, the first one should be cooled enough to spoon melted vanilla almond bark over. By the time you get to the last one, the first one should be cool enough to draw a face on.
If you store these apples in an air tight container, they’ll last up to a week.
More Ghost-Shaped Halloween Treats:
These Halloween Ghost Apples aren’t the only ghost-shaped Halloween treats we have on Drugstore Divas. Our others are:
Purchase Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples:
If you really like these Halloween apples, but you don’t want to make them, you don’t have to. We found two places online where you can purchase Halloween ghost apples. Well, sort of. One is a ghost and the other is Jack Skellington, which is the closest you’re gonna get to a ghost, if you can believe that.
- Etsy (pictured above)
- Uncle Sam’s Candy
Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples
Easily turn an apple into a ghost for a really fun Halloween dessert. It only takes three ingredients to make it!
Ingredients
- 1 apple
- 5-inch bamboo lollipop sticks (specifically the ones with a pointed end)
- 4 oz. vanilla almond bark
- 5 semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Wash and dry the apple.
- Stick the pointed end of the bamboo lollipop stick into the top of the apple (where the stem is).
- Melt one cube of the vanilla almond bark according to the package.
- Roll the apple in the vanilla almond bark until the apple is completely covered.
- Use a spoon to ladle the vanilla almond bark on to the top of the apple, where the stick is.
- Let it cool on a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet.
- Melt the second cube of the vanilla almond bark. This time, spoon all the melted almond bark on top of the apple, letting it drip down. Let it cool completely.
- Melt the chocolate chips in a microwavable safe bowl.
- Using a flat-edged item, draw two eyes and a mouth onto the apple to make a ghost face. Let it cool completely before wrapping or serving.
Nutrition Information
Yield
1Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 1461Total Fat 64gSaturated Fat 37gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 24gCholesterol 0mgSodium 44mgCarbohydrates 180gFiber 17gSugar 152gProtein 10g
Have you made these Halloween Ghost Chocolate Apples? Let us know how it went in the comments.