Creepy Halloween Recipes for a scary trick-or-treat party! Along with extra tips at the end to guarantee your kids will have so much fun on the spookiest night of the year. Not everyone wants to gorge on sweets, so I've included some creepy savory recipes as Halloween dinner ideas for grown-ups too!
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P.S. If your Halloween night is more about fun snacks than scary food, try these easy recipes which require no baking!
Easy Halloween Appetizers
Hotdog Fingers
You'll never see hot dogs the same way after this Halloween sausage fingers recipe!
Simply use a knife to create lines on sausages, boil the sausages, plate with oozing red ketchup (or raspberry jam.) Voila, you get creepy witch's fingers for Halloween!
If you want more tips and tricks, click though to the recipe!
Skull Chips
A cookie cutter and some spinach tortilla chips can be made into all sorts of Trick or Treat chips, from skulls to bats!
It's an easy treat for a dinner party, for both kids and adults!
Caprese Skewers
Tomato, mozzarella and basil is always a winning combination but even more so when it comes as skull skewers!
Charcuterie Board
If you're not a fan of sausages, you can make witch finger cookies using your basic cookie dough and some green food coloring, as shown in the board above!
Don't they look perfect for the spooky season?
Skull Salad
Or maybe a skull caprese salad?
Devilled Eggs
These Halloween Devilled eggs are a fun take on Taiwanese Tea Eggs!
Salad Grubs
You'll never guess what these Halloweens slugs are made of but I'll give you a hint- they're pretty healthy!
Drinks
Bleeding Eyeballs
Lychees make perfect eyeballs for Halloween- one of my favorite creepy Halloween treats!
Pop in a bluberry- or black olive if you want a savory twist- smear on some raspberry jam to mimic fake blood, and you're almost done!
These sweet lychees can be served as an appetiser or a dessert!
To make these party snacks for grown-ups, I use the lychee eyeballs in this lychee champagne jelly recipe.
Note: you can also add the lychee eyeball jellies to sparkling wine or lychee tea for a Halloween cocktail/ mocktail! (Leftover lychees can be used up in these recipes.)
Mains
Pasta
This Spooky Pasta with meatballs is a great main course for a Halloween party!
Mummy Meatballs
These Mummy Meatballs only need 3 ingredients: marinara sauce, meatballs and crescent roll dough!
If you'd like an Asian twist to them, stuff them with these Asian pork meatballs!
Burnt Hands
These Pizza Hands are fun Halloween snacks for kids of all ages!
Cyclops Pizza
Noodles with black olives eyes are the perfect scary Halloween food for the whole family. If you don't have pasta, you can use chow mein noodles.
Tip: To scale the creepy factor up a notch, use red cabbage juice or squid ink to turn your noodles purple or black!
Sweets
Eye Pies
Even if you don't like rhubarb, these Halloween pies will change your mind!
Rotting Teeth
We've seen strawberry ghosts and strawberry monsters, but have you seen rotting teeth strawberries?
Maggots
Can you believe these slugs and worms are made with marzipan?
Broken Bones
These Broken Bones show you anything is possible with pretzels!
Poison Apples
These sinister Poison Apples only take 5 ingredients to make!
Worms
If marzipan is not your thing, you only need pink juice, gelatine and straws to make these creepy crawly worms!
Worm Tart
And now that we have our worms, why not make them into a dark chocolate pecan mousse tart?
Cupcakes
Note: For more Halloween baked goods, click here.
No Bake
Brain Cookies
Who would have thought that Oreo cookies could make such spooky snacks?
Best of all, that creepy oozing brain is totally natural and not from artificial red food coloring!
Note: for more easy Halloween party food which require no baking, click here.
Jack-O-Lanters
Not a fan of pumpkin recipes? Carve up Granny Smith Apples into apple skulls instead!
Candy Eyes
These Halloween Candy Eyeballs are really easy to make if you have peanut butter and chocoalte!
Raw Meat
These Halloween Rice Krispie Treats look a lot like raw meat- or even brains!
Jellies
Jellies are so easy to color and shape, they're amazing for creating scary sweet treats!
Add a bit or red food coloring and you can create a blood clot.
Or use a worm mold, some funky colors and you can make worm-shaped snacks- much better than using gummy worms as you can control the amount of sugar you add!
GF Ghouls and Brains
Note: if you're vegan, you can substitute with agar agar or konnyaku jelly. Click through for more information before substituting. (For example, konnyaku is a choking hazard so not recommended for kids' parties!
Eerie Chocolate Bark
Melt some dark chocolate - you can do this easily by microwaving on low. Pour the melted chocolate onto parchment paper to cool.
Next, melt some white chocolate, and use a tooth pick to use the chocolate sauce to draw cobwebs on the dark chocolate.
Add a plastic spider and you're all set for your Halloween dessert.
Tip: The best thing about this recipe is it can be customised for kids or adults! Use high-quality, high-cocoa chocolate for adults who don't like it too sweet, or milk chocolate for kids!
Note: I don't recommend melting chocolate chip as it contains stabilisers.
Drinks
Amaze everyone at your next Halloween party with this easiest Halloween drink!
Tip: A great way to create green cocktails is to use pandan extract or pandan paste.
Non-Scary Ideas
Spider Bread
If you need some fun Halloween ideas for the faint-heart, try these cute ideas!
This cute Halloween bread recipe would go really well with my spicy Asian tuna dip, 3-ingredient olive dip or cream cheese dip!
Mummies
Mummy Pies
FAQs for the best Halloween Party
Here's some more info you'll need to know if you want to wow your party guests!
According to Kroger, the topselling candy for Halloween 2022 was Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, followed by Snickers and Kit Kat! A YouGov poll of 8-14 year old children revealed that almost 76% liked Reese's Peanut Butter Cups best, followed by M&Ms then Milky Ways! So now you know what are the best 2022 Halloween treats to give out! (Whatever you do, don't give out black licorice- unless you don't want anyone to come back next year!)
According to Today.com, these are the best Halloween songs for children, as they have kid-appropriate lyrics!
If you're throwing a Halloween movie night, these are some popular Halloween movies (some may not be appropriate for kids.) For family-friendly scary films, check this list out!
What are some of your favorite creepy Halloween food ideas?
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