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          If you are that kind of person that doesn’t care what others say about you, or your image, this article may interest you. Society always wants to show us that women have the strong obligation to have a “perfect body”, to care about what they are eating all the time. But contrary to popular belief, you can have a healthy body and still eat candy and/or delicious treats. What if you want to have a healthy and balanced body but you love ice cream and other certain kinds of candies? It doesn’t matter. You can eat candies and still have a glorious body. How? You have to be creative, especially on Halloween. I know that eating candies is part of the holiday´s celebration, but there are also a lot of treats that, at the same time, can be healthy.

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          In this moment, I will invite you to be authentic when selecting the candies that you will give to the kids on Halloween night. When those kids knock on your door, you have the choice to be a special host, to give them a delicious and healthy dessert. First, it is important that you cook not only for you, but also for so many other persons. As you, they want to be unique, they want to create such glorious desserts for so many tastes and type of people.

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          There are so many ways in which you can create healthy and delicious desserts for any age and taste, that are simple and easy to do at the same time. One of the desserts that you can make is a pumpkin baked pie. These are the ingredients for 8 pieces: 400 grams of pumpkin puree (has to be baked if it´s natural), 1 cup of condensed milk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon,1/8 of clove and finally 1 made pie crust with graham crackers. When you have all of the ingredients it’s time to start the preparation.

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          First, preheat oven to 356° degrees F for 10 minutes. Afterwards, you have to liquefy the purée of pumpkin with the condensed milk, the eggs, the vanilla, the cinnamon and the cloves. Later on, you add the mixture inside the pie crust. Finally, bake for 30-40 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce heat to 356 degrees or until you think the filling is set. There are some tips that could help you during the process of preparation. When you finish your recipe you have to let the pie at cool off and then, you have to leave it in the refrigerator for 3 hours before serving it.  If you want to, you can add Halloween decorations like phantoms and pumpkins with chantilly cream. You’ll spend an hour in the whole process, it’s plenty of time for a pie but it´s worth it because it tastes splendid.

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          Here´s another idea for a dessert, it is very colorful and attracting, for this reason it’s called Rainbow of Halloween.  It is a mixture between jellies of colors, perfect for any kid. For a quantity of 12 portions you can use the following ingredients: 1 box of lemon jelly, 1 box of grape jelly, 1 box of peach jelly and another of pineapple jelly. Also, you are going to need 1 cup of milk, 1 can of evaporated milk, 1 can of condensed milk, 2 envelopes of jelly without flavor, chantilly cream and colored sprinkles. Now that you have everything that you need, you are ready!

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          Firstly, prepare each box of jelly with the instructions that you have inside the box, then put them into a separate bowl. Later, in one pot heat up the vapored and the condensed milk. Add the jelly and mix until the filling is set. Later, in each glass out of the 12, add one of the colors of jelly, put it in the refrigerator and wait until it is ready. You have to be careful that it doesn’t mix with the other layers. After that, add one layer of milked jelly in each glass and then you can put it into the refrigerator. Now, put the jelly of the other color and repeat the same process until you finish putting the last layer of milked jelly. Finally, introduce each glass into the refrigerator until it curdles.

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          One important advice that could help you is to make a good presentation of the plate, you can decorate the glasses with Chantilly cream and colored sprinkles. You are going to be so proud and happy with the result!

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          Finally, I will show you one type of dessert that is easy to make like the others, it is very authentic, delicious and healthy. It is called Jack o lantern. For 6 of these delicious treats you are going to need: 6 big oranges, 3 cups of strawberries, 3 cups of raspberry, 3 bananas, 1/2 pineapple, 1 cup of sugar and 1 bunch of mint. To continue with the preparation, it is necessary to follow the instructions scrupulously.

Start putting in a pot 3 cups of water with a cup of sugar. Boil until the sugar is dissolved. You can add some mint later. Then, wash the strawberries, eliminate the leaves and cut them in the middle. Also, you have to wash the raspberries, the bananas and the pineapple, you have to clean the oranges too. Cut the bottom of the orange and “clean” the inside carefully with a spoon, leaving it empty. With a knife you can design the Jack o lanterns face in each orange. Mix the syrup with the fruits inside a bowl and let it marinade until the moment of serving.

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          Finally, you can put it on the table with the respective filling on the plate. If you are feeling tired of the same food, this is a good option to change your routine. This dessert is going to take you almost 30 minutes.

          I hope that all the recipes that I showed you are a nice opportunity to have a healthy and delicious diet. Also, I hope it is useful for your Halloween celebrations and I expect that you have learned to be authentic, not only in the way you are, but also in all that related with your alimentation.