A Foodie's Guide to Halloween Recipes

Celebrate Halloween with recipes for spooky snacks and sweet treats, plus ghoulish menu and party ideas.

Our Best Halloween Recipes

25 Easy Halloween Cupcakes You'll Love

These easy Halloween cupcake ideas are fun for the whole family.

How to Use Up Every Kind of Halloween Candy

As far as problems go, extra candy isn’t a bad one. 
By Sarra Sedghi

18 Festive and Spooky Halloween Cookies

Celebrate the spookiest season of the year with one of our favorite Halloween cookie recipes. 

50+ Halloween Recipes That Are Scary Delicious

These easy Halloween recipes are sure to make your next party a hit.

22 Decadent Desserts with Leftover Halloween Candy

Transform it into amazing treats from epic drinks, to everything-but-the-kitchen-sink cookies, brownies, and more. 
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17 Wicked Good Brownies for Halloween

Grab a glass of milk and enjoy!

'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' Caviar

Need a great appetizer for your Halloween bash? Serve up chips and this classic veggie and bean dip for some spook-tacularly good flavor. This recipe features staples that you may already have in your pantry or fridge, making this a perfect last-minute appetizer to take to the party. And while the name suggest that a Halloween party is where it's at with this recipe, you can just as easily much on this great dip any day of the week! 
By Meredith Butcher

Marinated Mozzarella Eyeballs

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Serve a mad scientist-inspired, Jekyll and Hyde-themed appetizer for the ultimate spooky Halloween or horror snack. Your friends will not believe just how real these mozarella balls look and just how delicious they taste. With spices like garlic and red pepper and fresh Italian herbs, this ballin' recipe is packed with flavor that will keep your guests coming back for more.
By Julia Levy

Chorizo and Caramelized Onion Stuffed Intestines

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Take your Halloween party to the next level with Mexican sausage and onion stuffed "intestines". Store-bought pastry dough makes this masterpiece simple to make and contributes to the rich taste and flaky texture. A cranberry sauce adds sweetness to this salty, savory dish while contributing to the realness of its presentation. This appetizer is sure to be a memorable one!
By Rishon Hanners

Halloween Hummus

For a truly spooky treat, this hummus is a great way to create a fun and festive Halloween effect. Simply fill a carved skull prop with this ghoulishly delicious hummus for a great appetizer to serve to guests. This hummus is red pepper based and features cayenne pepper, cumin, and plenty of garlic cloves for some great flavor. This dip is great to serve with crackers, chips, or veggie sticks. Dig right in, if you dare! 
By Robin Bashinsky

Our Editors' Halloween Tips & Tricks

Don’t Forget That You Can Eat Your Halloween Pumpkin

Don’t Forget That You Can Eat Your Halloween Pumpkin

Though it’s not most people’s first-choice pumpkin for cooking, the iconic Howden pumpkin is, in fact, edible
How to Use Your Leftover Tootsie Rolls After Halloween

How to Use Your Leftover Tootsie Rolls After Halloween

They may not be the candy dish favorites, but hey, that’s part of their charm.
Why Can't I Stop Eating Halloween Candy?

Why Can't I Stop Eating Halloween Candy?

The History of Candy Corn: How Halloween’s Most Divisive Candy Came to Be

The History of Candy Corn

Halloween Latte Art Is a Trick and a Treat

Halloween Latte Art Is a Trick and a Treat

These 15 Halloween Rice Krispies Treats Are Just the Trick

These 15 Halloween Rice Krispies Treats Are Just the Trick

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75 Halloween Dessert Ideas

No tricks to these treats! The best part about Halloween desserts is that they're basically your favorite treats disguised as Halloween goodies. You don't need super special icing skills to make these recipes shine. Simple instructions, a few Test Kitchen tips, and a love of fun holiday foods are all you need to get started. Keep these Halloween dessert ideas in mind all season long. Hungry for more spooky ideas? Check out our Ultimate Halloween Guide (with 200+ recipes) next. 

Halloween Deviled Eggs

Deviled eggs are delicious any time of year, and even more so when you can decorate them with fun fall designs. These deviled eggs each have a secret ingredient that dresses them up for Halloween. Make this classic appetizer to enjoy at your next Halloween gathering. If you're traveling with the Halloween deviled eggs, here's an easy tip: Prep the eggs ahead of time, but wait to fill them until you arrive. Store the filling in a zip-top bag, then simply snip the corner for easy piping. Happy haunting!

52 Easy Halloween Party Food Ideas

Whether you need Halloween party food for a school, work, or in-home celebration, these festive treats will impress every ghoulish guest. From creepy-crawly finger foods to spooky and sweet desserts, we have easy Halloween party food for every budget, skill-level, and time frame. We amped up plain ol’ party snacks using everything from jack-o’-lantern guts (a.k.a. pumpkin) to slimy, slithering gummy worms. With these Halloween party food ideas, frightening on the outside still means delicious on the inside.
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Halloween Cake Pops

These one-bite wonders are a dream come true for ghosts and goblins on Halloween night. Bundle a goodie bag of Ogre Eyes for a party favor, serve up a plate of red velvet eyeballs at the kids' Halloween party at school, or just enjoy a delicious Transylvania Truffle because you already have your costume picked out! Cake pops are super easy to make and can be made to suit any taste preferences or party theme. To make them true pops, insert craft-store lollipop sticks into the bottom of each Halloween cake pop.

These Harry Potter Recipes Are Simply Magical

These Harry Potter recipes are ridikulusly good⁠—we're dead sirius. Even muggles will love our Pumpkin Pasties, and our Fizzing Whizbees Levitator cocktail will knock your socks off (you might want to keep this libation away from your house elves). And our Butterbeer recipe? Don't even get us started. It's so delicious, we'd give it 9 3/4 out of 10 stars. 

15 Easy Dinners You Can Make Before Trick-or-Treating

Halloween night (or whichever night they trick-or-treat) is a BIG deal for kids. It's kind of the most important event of the year. There's a lot that goes into it, too: Costumes, routes, and a million other details have to be planned in advance. We get it—if it's stressful for your kids, it's stressful for you. Don't let dinner add to the chaos. These easy, healthy, kid-friendly meals will leave you and your kids more than enough time to focus on what's really important: the candy. 

14 Candy Corn Recipes

We can’t get enough of Halloween's beloved sweet treat: candy corn! The signature orange, yellow, and white takes us right back to childhood; and now, we have more ways than ever to enjoy it. As the trick-or-treaters start to gather at your door in their majestic princess and super hero costumes, greet them with these tasty takes on the classic candy. We also have a few totally kid-friendly recipes that get the little ones can help with in the kitchen for a fun Halloween experience.

28 Halloween Cocktails to Make at Home

Bottoms up for delicious, fun, and frightfully good Halloween cocktails. Having a signature Halloween drink is the easiest way to save money on a party, and it lets you really have fun with the theme. Decide whether you want a single drink idea, like Zombie Brain Shots, or an easy punch loaded with eyeballs. Whatever you choose, don't skip the Olive Spiders! They're every Halloween cocktail's best friend! Hungry for more spooky ideas? Check out 200+ Scary Good Halloween Recipes next.  

20 Gross Halloween Recipes

Halloween is when all things creepy, crawly, spooky, and grody are what's in. Get in the spirit by showing off your most disturbingly tasty dishes at the next Halloween party. Although they'll have you feeling squeamish at first glance, the following gross Halloween recipes are deceptively delicious.
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Vampire-Proof Dishes

Instead of wearing a garland of garlic around your neck to repel vampires, we suggest preparing one of these tasty garlic dishes.

35 Quick and Easy Halloween Treats

Easy Halloween treats, appetizers, and desserts are the best way to celebrate this spooky holiday. Create scary-good Halloween treats in minutes - we'll show you how!
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Haunting Halloween Punch Recipes

Halloween punch recipes get the ghostly party started quickly thanks to fun additions like floating hands and even floating heads! These easy punch recipes bring together fun and flavor, making the perfect Halloween centerpiece for your table. Ladles up for a delicious, frightfully good Halloween punch recipe like a Sour Apple Spritzer, Candy Apple Punch, or good ol' Witches Brew. Offer a glass to the trick-or-treaters at your Halloween party. Make one that's kid friendly so everyone can share in the punch fun!

10+ Must-Try Halloween Dinner Ideas

These delicious Halloween dinner ideas guarantee full tummies that won't be tempted to sneak candy during trick-or-treating. You could make a big batch of chili or an easy spaghetti casserole—but why not add a little fun and make a delicious Halloween-themed dinner? A boneyard pot pie, brain-like dumplings, and ghostly pizza graveyard are all easy, fun ways to make Halloween dinner a meal to remember. Hungry for more spooky ideas? Check out 20 Gross (But Tasty) Halloween Recipes next. 

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Haunting Halloween Cakes

Halloween is the perfect time to break out the creativity, and your Halloween cake is the perfect place to start! Whether you start with boxed cake mix and add fun decoration or let us take you start-to-finish through an amazing Halloween cake recipe, there's something for everyone in this inspiring Halloween cake collection. They taste even better than they look, and take little skill to accomplish. Don't get spooked; give one of our Halloween cakes a try!

Halloween Birthday Party

If you're lucky enough to celebrate your birthday in October, you've got a ready-made theme loaded with fun, easy decorating ideas. From spooky sippers to cute cupcakes, there are Halloween birthday party ideas for kids and adults of all ages. Browse our best Halloween cakes, appetizers, snacks, treats, and drinks, then mix and match your favorites to create the perfect Halloween birthday party menu. Our cakes and cupcakes are almost perfect; they're just missing the birthday candles!

Halloween Finger Foods

Planning a Halloween party should be fun! Keep your next ghoulish get-together feeling that way by taking advantage of our favorite easy Halloween appetizer ideas to make your table both festive and delicious. Whether you're hosting a dessert party or a trick-or-treat pregame loaded with savory, spooky snacks, there are tons of great Halloween finger foods here to satisfy your every craving. It doesn't take much time or effort to dress up your go-to apps in Halloween style. 

Spooky Halloween Menus

Whether you're hosting the neighborhood Halloween party or just having folks over before or after trick-or-treating, these menus will help you celebrate All Hallows Eve in great spirits.

Over-the-Top Halloween Wedding Ideas

If a Halloween-themed wedding is your bag of bones you'll love our Halloween wedding ideas for the perfect menu.

Spooky Snacks and Devilish Drinks

Set out a fiendish spread of appetizers and beverages when you host the annual Halloween costume party.

No Tricks-Just Halloween Treats

Whether you're greeting trick-or-treaters at the door or taking cookies to a Halloween party, get into the fun of the season with these "not-too-scary" Halloween treats.
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