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3 Sweet & Spooky Honey Recipes for Halloween

Happy Halloween

Here are three great recipes that will make your home based Halloween party a ‘howl’!

Peanut Butter and Honey Fudge BarHalloween Honey Bars

Recipes for Halloween – Peanut butter and honey go together like ghosts and haunted houses. This amazing concoction can be customized with your favourite Halloween candy! Use peanut free candy and sunflower seed butter if you’d like to make a nut free version.

1 cup of pitted dates (soaked for 20 minutes in warm water if they are not tender)
¼ cup organic coconut oil, melted
¼ cup BeeMaid Creamed Honey
½ cup smooth peanut butter (nut-free option Sun Butter)
1 ½ cups of cacao powder
1¼ cup crushed walnuts (optional)
½ tsp large flake sea salt
½ cup of your favorite Halloween candy
Line an 8×8 baking tin with parchment.
Add the dates to a food processor and pulse until the mixture sticks together and the food processor will no longer “blend”. You almost want a ball to form.
Remove the lid and add the coconut oil, BeeMaid Honey, peanut butter, cacao and walnuts. Pulse the mixture till smooth should take around 20-30 seconds.
Now dollop the mixture into the pan, and pat down with your hands till flat.
Push down the Halloween candy of choice!   Finish this with a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.
Place in the freezer for at least two hours, and cut into squares and serve!

Caramel ApplesHoney Caramel Apple

Recipes for Halloween are as traditional at Halloween as carving a pumpkin.  Using BeeMaid Honey instead of sugar gives your caramel a smooth, creamy texture without any sugar graininess. This recipe is super simple, just watch your caramel carefully!

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Microwave Honey Peanut Brittle

Peanut Brittle

Here’s a quick and easy peanut brittle recipe using the microwave.

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup Pahrump Honey
  • 1/4 cup light corn syrup
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup peanuts
  • 1 tsp butter or margarine
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking soda

Directions

  • Stir Pahrump Honey, corn syrup, sugar, salt and peanuts into a 2-quart microwavable dish.
  • Microwave 7 minutes, stirring well after 4 minutes.
  • After 7 minutes, add butter or margarine and vanilla, blending well.
  • Cook 1 minute more.
  • Add soda and gently stir until light and foamy.
  • Pour onto cookie sheet that has been sprayed with nonstick vegetable coating.
  • Let cool 30 to 60 minutes.
  • Store in an airtight container to keep peanut brittle from drawing moisture.
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Royal Jelly has nutritional complexity

Honeycomb

The nutritional complexity of the bee hive is vast. A very unique complex of micronutrients is required to allow the Bees to differentiate themselves into their different roles and provide the nutrition necessary to keep the hive going. Royal Jelly is a honey bee secretion that allows a specific bee larvae to grow into the Queen Bee. Modern spectrometric analysis suggests that royal jelly contains about 185 different organic compounds, with the most important one being a protein called royalactin. It’s believed that royalactin is the compound most responsible for allowing a larvae to morph into the queen bee.

A Green Superfood

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