[For Seniors] Snack Recipes We Want to Make in the October Recreation Activity
Autumn is known as the season of hearty appetites, and there are so many delicious foods to enjoy.
The classics include Pacific saury, matsutake mushrooms, and sweet potatoes, but we mustn’t forget the fruits that are in season in autumn! In addition to persimmons, chestnuts, grapes, and apples, there are plenty of other fruits you can enjoy this time of year.
In this article, we’re introducing snack recipes recommended for October.
We’ve gathered recipes that use autumn flavors like the fruits mentioned above, so give them a try and savor the season!
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[For Seniors] Snack Recipes to Make for October Activities (41–50)
Halloween cupcake
Let’s make the perfect cupcakes to add a cute touch to your Halloween party! Cupcakes are great even for beginners at homemade treats—just mix the ingredients and bake, so there’s less chance of failure.
Plus, if you bake them in muffin cups from a 100-yen shop, they make perfect party favors! You can keep the cake plain or add cocoa for a more grown-up flavor.
Top them with pumpkin cream for decoration, and you’ll capture the full Halloween vibe!
[For Seniors] Snack Recipes to Make in October Recreational Activities (51–60)
Halloween cookie(s)
Let’s give store-bought chocolate cookies a Halloween makeover! Since we’ll sandwich a stick between the cookies to make them lollipop-style, cookies with a cream filling work best.
To make them: first twist the cookie open, spread melted white chocolate (heated in a bain-marie) on the stick, then sandwich it back together to secure.
Next, coat the cookie with white chocolate and chill in the refrigerator until set.
For the finishing touch, decorate with a chocolate pen to draw ghost faces and more.
They’re easy to eat one-handed—perfect for parties!
Halloween donut(s)
How about some fun-looking, bite-sized Halloween donuts that are easy to eat? If you use pancake mix, even beginners can make them with ease! First, whisk the eggs, then mix in milk, pancake mix, and sugar to make the donut batter.
Cook the batter into little balls using a takoyaki maker, and you’re done! Once they’re cooked, stick in picks, coat them with chocolate or white chocolate, and use chocolate pens to draw patterns like ghosts or mummies for a Halloween vibe.
Try designing freely with chocolate pens in different colors!
Halloween wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets)
These are nerikiri-style Halloween wagashi made with smooth white bean paste (shiro-an).
Mix cake flour into the white bean paste to make the dough, then divide it into two portions.
Shape one into a little ghost and use black sesame seeds for the eyes.
Color the other portion orange with food coloring to make a jack-o’-lantern.
After forming it into a pumpkin shape, use a spatula to create the pumpkin’s grooves.
Make the eyes and mouth with chopsticks, and your jack-o’-lantern is complete.
It’s a Halloween sweet unique to nerikiri that you can enjoy with your eyes as well as your taste.
Halloween-style sweet potato yokan
Let’s give sweet potato yokan—a perfect companion for tea time with its gentle sweetness—a Halloween twist! By using purple sweet potatoes, it transforms into a treat that captures the Halloween mood.
It’s easy and recommended to soften the potatoes in the microwave.
Once you’ve strained the potatoes into a smooth paste, add a mixture of water and agar powder that you’ve microwaved, mix well, then chill in the refrigerator until set—and you’re done! You can also have fun cutting it out with Halloween-themed molds.
Marron cream
Why not try making chestnut cream using store-bought candied chestnuts? To make it, blend the chestnuts with sugar and milk until smooth, then transfer to a pot and cook until thick and velvety.
Chill to finish.
If you don’t have a blender, you can press the mixture through a sieve instead.
Sieving can be hard work, but taking turns with everyone can make it a fun way to chat together.
It’s great spread on bread or crackers, or paired with sponge cake to make a chestnut cake.
Mont Blanc tart
Whole tarts and cakes look so luxurious—they make you feel giddy just seeing them, don’t they? Let’s make a seasonal dessert, a Mont Blanc tart with chestnut cream, and slice it up to share! You might think peeling chestnuts and making chestnut cream sounds hard, but you can make it using store-bought peeled sweet chestnuts.
Finely chop the sweet chestnuts, simmer them with milk and sugar, then purée and strain the mixture.
Spread almond cream in the tart shell, pipe the chestnut cream on top, and finish with whipped cream and sweet chestnuts for decoration.
Using a store-bought tart shell makes it easy.