Healthy Halloween sweet options for children from Nicola Pym If you're looking to have your sweet taste buds tickled without the worry of the sugar coated treats ruining your diet and teeth, look no further. Nicola Pym from Edinburgh runs her own pop-up tea parties offering healthy alternatives to your traditional waist-expanding afternoon treats. She let us into her sweet secrets by sharing her top tips for a healthy Halloween. Bleeding Spiders Use dates to make the spiders body and fill the inside with raspberry compote. Why not add liquorice laces to make spider legs? When you bite into the "spider" the raspberry compote will ooze out giving you the spooky illusion of blood. Apple Teeth Quarter and core an apple cutting wedges from each quarter creating apple slices. Press slivered almonds in place for the teeth effect for a healthy touch or swap the almonds for marshmallows for a sweet kick. If you want to add a little extra, you can coat the inside of the slices in peanut butter before adding the almond or mallow pieces. Spooky popcorn Melt butter, sugar and corn syrup together on a medium heat until the mixture comes to the boil then reduce the heat to a medium-low and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in one tablespoon of vanilla extract and drops of food colouring. Add the popcorn and toss to coat. If you want an added crunch, bake in the oven. Sweet pumpkin crunch A healthy snack with a sweet kick. You can pick up vanilla pumpkin seeds in a variety of health stores or large supermarkets. If you cannot find the flavoured version, roast pumpkin seeds in the oven and empty into a bowl of your chosen flavour coating. Blood curdling raisins It may seem an obvious option, but you can serve up a bowl of raisins rather than candy coated chocolate. If you're looking for an added twist, inject the raisins with orange or red colouring and enjoy. If you have any healthy Halloween tips, let us know #STVEdinburgh