Halloween Food: Spooky Halloween Recipes

By Jennifer Copley (Last Updated 1 October 2011)

 

Check out these fun Halloween party recipes for kids and adults, including full meals, appetizers, snacks and treats, drinks, and more:

• Fabulous Foods: Features unique Halloween recipes such as an Anatomically Correct Strawberries and Cream Heart, Kitty Litter Cake, Mummified Mashed Potatoes, Eyeball Martinis, Halloween Hamburgers, and Yummy Mummy Cupcakes (scroll to bottom of page for full recipe list)
• Kraft Canada: Halloween recipes for foods that are in most cases attractive or cute rather than disgusting – offerings include Pumpkin and Monster Cakes, Coffin Sandwiches, Eyeball Cupcakes, and a Shepherd’s Pie with Mashed Potato Ghosts – nice photos and cooking videos
• Canadian Living: Fancier recipes such as White Chocolate Pumpkin Mousse Tart, Salad with Roasted Garlic Dressing and Eyeball Croutons, Chocolate Orange Spiderweb Pie, and Artichoke and Green Olive Dip, as well as simpler offerings such as Crispy Marshmallow Ghosts, Demon Eyeball Bites (appetizers), Purple People Eaters (gummy worm shooters), and Curly Hotdog Snakes
• Halloween Kitchen: Recipes for Spicy Witches Brew Tea, Gingerbread Corpses, Vampire Punch, Candied Apples, Jack-O-Lantern Pizza, Marshmallow Ghosts, and more flavourful ways to prepare good old-fashioned roasted pumpkin seeds
• Family Fun: Recipes include Monstrous Munchies; Creepy Cakes; Petrifying Party Foods such as Bat Chips, Monster Mash, and Putrid Punch; and other “Ghoulish Grub” including Pumpkin Soup, Roasted Ghosts, and Worms on a Bun
• Britta’s Halloween Recipes: Unique collection ranging from the pretty to the disgusting in appearance, though overall quite high-end; recipes include Spiderweb Brie en Crouté, Brittle Meringue Bones, Bizarre Brain Paté, and Freshly Flayed Flesh on Ectoplasm Crusts
• Halloween.net: Instructions for making classic Halloween favourites such as candy and caramel apples, as well as various cookies, cupcakes, pastries, entrées, side dishes, and drinks

Make Your Own Pumpkin Pie Spice

Many pumpkin-related Halloween recipes call for pumpkin pie spice. If you don’t have this on hand, you can make one teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice by mixing:

• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon of ginger
• 1/8 teaspoon of allspice or cloves
• 1/8 teaspoon of nutmeg

For free pumpkin carving templates, free Halloween photos and clip art, Halloween history, costume ideas, and more, visit the main Halloween page.