From creepy eyeball tarts to spooky witch fingers and hauntingly beautiful witches brew drinks, here’s a curated list of easy Halloween party food ideas and recipes to fill your ghoulish party spread with fun, fright and flavor!
Halloween is my favorite time of the year! From the tricking to the treating, from dressing up to partying it up, from the mythical stories to the fantastical movies, from witches and cauldrons to zombies and skeletons, from the living to the dead, and everything in between, I just love the spooky spirit of it!
I didn’t grow up trick or treating or celebrating Halloween because it was never a thing in the parts of the world where I grew up. But now, I more than make up for it. I love decking out our house with Halloween decorations and doling out Halloween candy to trick or treaters.
And most years, I also love playing host to a Halloween party. And no party is complete without the delicious party food, of course!
From appetizers to drinks and desserts, here are 30 fun and easy Halloween party food ideas for your next Halloween get-together with friends and like-minded Halloween-heads (Halloweenists?).
Appetizers and starter recipes
Whether you’re hosting an elaborate costume party or a simple get-together, you’ll need some fun and easy finger foods and starter recipes to get the party started.
These easy savory snacks are simple to put together, and can even be made ahead of time to make your hosting duties easier. Perfect as Halloween party food.
1. Creepy eyeball tarts
Jalapeño eyeball tarts
These creepy eyeball tarts have all the flavors of jalapeno poppers and jalapeno bites, but even more fun! An herby, spicy, creamy cream cheese filling in a crisp, buttery puff pastry base, and topped with sweet chili sauce to look like eerie eyeballs!These versatile, bite-sized savory tarts are perfect for your Halloween-themed party!
Halloween eyeball tarts recipe
2. Spooky chorizo hand pies
Chorizo hand pies
A flavor-packed, cheesy beef filling in flaky, buttery homemade empanada dough (or store-bought pie dough) makes for fun and spooky Halloween hand pies!Great healthy snacks for your Halloween party spread.
Chorizo hand pies recipe
3. Easy sausage rolls
3-ingredient sausage rolls
A guaranteed crowd-favorite at parties! All you need is puff pastry sheets, sausages, and a sweet or savory jam or jelly spread to make these super easy sausage rolls.So easy to customize with your favorite sausages or fruit spread.
Easy sausage rolls recipe
4. Jalapeno mummy poppers
Jalapeno poppers
These are pretty much a staple in any Halloween party menu. A fun twist on classic jalapeno poppers, the peppers are filled with a creamy, savory cream cheese filling and then wrapped in a few strips of crescent roll dough. Delightfully spooky savory bites.
Jalapeno mummies recipe
5. Graveyard Halloween dip
Creepy graveyard Halloween dip
A delightfully spooky black olive tapenade “dirt layer” layered over a deliciously savory, creamy cream cheese dip, and then garnished with blood red pimento pepper “worms” and served with “tombstone” crackers labeled with food grade black edible marker!
Graveyard Halloween dip recipe
6. Halloween cheese board
Halloween cheese board
A cheese board is always a crowd-favorite at parties. Check out this entry for some spooky ideas for a Halloween cheese board that incorporates orange, black, purple and green colors to bring that festive spirit to life!Feel free to follow the recipe as is, or customize it to your liking for some fun savory bites.
Halloween cheese board recipe
7. Bloody baked brie
Bloody baked brie
Another easy appetizer idea for your next Halloween party. Simply pair a wheel of brie cheese with blood red colored pepper jam/jelly, and you’ve got yourself an easy and gory Halloween snack!
Bloody baked brie recipe
8. Mummy hot dogs
Mummy hot dogs
Another scary easy, kid-friendly Halloween hit! You only need 3 ingredients to make these hot dog mummies, aka spooky pigs in a blanket – hot dogs, crescent dough and candy eyes.
Mummy hot dogs recipe
9. Swamp eggs (naturally-dyed Halloween deviled eggs)
Halloween deviled eggs
Learn this easy method to make crackled naturally-dyed deviled eggs that look like they came straight out of the bottom of a swamp – and not with good intentions! Deviled eggs are another party favorite, and you can just as easily customize these for Halloween to make bloodshot eye deviled eggs, spider deviled eggs, monster deviled eggs etc.
Halloween deviled eggs recipe
10. Savory thumbprint cookies
Savory thumbprint cookies
Savory cookies are fun, delicious and deceptive! Classic thumbprint cookies are a party favorite, of course. So what better way to trick your party guests than with this savory version, complete with an incredible bourbon tomato jam! Pair a red colored jam or jelly filling (like this tomato jam or a pepper jam) with these cookies for maximum effect.
Savory thumbprint cookies recipe
Drinks
These are some of the most popular, crowd-favorite, whimsical and colorful Halloween cocktails on the internet! Easy to make and come together quickly, delicious with unique flavor profiles, and above all spectacular enough to steal the show at your Halloween party!
11. Witch’s heart cocktail
Witch’s heart cocktail
A visually stunning, whimsical, fruity purple Halloween cocktail that uses homemade shimmery liqueur to brilliant effect!Use dry ice to create smoke and shimmery swirls in your drink to wow your party guests even more!
Witch’s heart cocktail recipe
12. Witches brew drink
Witches brew
Another spectacular Halloween cocktail! With its gorgeous colors and color gradient, shimmery swirls, and incredible flavor profile (tart, citrusy, herbaceous, and sweet), this is a drink that becomes a tradition! You can also make a kid-friendly non-alcoholic version of this drink.
Witches brew drink recipe
13. Hocus pocus cocktail
Hocus pocus cocktail
This hauntingly beautiful green Halloween cocktail is a twist on a margarita / yellow jacket cocktail.An homage to the Sanderson sisters and their glowy green hocus pocus witches brew, this cocktail has deliciously herby, floral flavors with a touch of sourness.
Hocus pocus cocktail recipe
14. Unicorn blood cocktail
Unicorn blood cocktail
A Harry Potter themed drink dressed up as a Halloween cocktail! But unlike real unicorns, or their blood, this cocktail is the real deal! It’s not mythical, it may or may not revive the dead, but it also doesn’t curse you for life either. Best of all, it’s so easy to make, and most definitely looks beautiful and magical.
Unicorn blood cocktail recipe
15. Flaming dragon’s blood cocktail
Flaming dragon’s blood cocktail
Another show-stopping, flaming, red Halloween cocktail! This is a thyme and raspberry daiquiri that tastes so fruity and refreshing, and is then topped with 151 proof liquor and set on fire with a blowtorch for a spectacular finish!
Flaming dragon’s blood cocktail recipe
16. The phoenix cocktail
Phoenix cocktail
This is an absolute triple threat of a Halloween cocktail! Color changing, shimmering, and flaming! This fruity, tangy, floral and sweet, gin and elderflower cocktail employs the magic of homemade shimmery liqueur and butterfly pea flowers to create one iconic Halloween cocktail!
Phoenix cocktail recipe
17. Homemade shimmery liqueur
Homemade shimmery liqueur
This is the first (original) recipe on the internet that re-created the once popular shimmery Viniq drink, at home.One simple ingredient is all you need to make shimmering “magic potions” at home, perfect for whimsical Halloween drinks and cocktails! You can also make fruit infused flavored shimmery liqueur in all the colors of the rainbow with this simple trick.
Homemade shimmery liqueur recipe
18. Color changing cocktails
19. Toxic waste cocktail
Toxic waste cocktail
A vibrantly green, visually stunning vodka drink with a great flavor profile! You can easily make a large batch for a crowd too. Toxic waste couldn’t possibly be this intriguing, could it?
Toxic waste cocktail recipe
20. Jello syringe shots
Jello syringe shots
These super easy 3 ingredient vodka shots are colored with strawberry jell-o, and will guarantee a creepy, mad scientist vibe at your Halloween party! Feel free to change up the color (green, purple etc.) for more fun variation.
Jello syringe shots recipe
21. Black magic Halloween sangria
Halloween sangria
A fun, festive and easy Halloween sangria made with red wine, vodka, raspberry liqueur, apple cider, and fresh fruit topped with soda for a blood-red Halloween cocktail!
Halloween sangria recipe
22. Color changing lemonade (non-alcoholic)
Color changing galaxy lemonade
A kid-friendly non-alcoholic drink that resembles a galaxy in your glass! A fruity, refreshing lemonade with a dash of magic that both kids and adults will love!
Color changing lemonade recipe
Desserts
No party (Halloween or otherwise) is complete without a spread of delicious desserts. From cupcakes and cakes to cookies and brownies, we’ve got the perfect selection of spooky Halloween desserts and great ideas for you to choose from.
23. Creepy witch finger cookies
Witch finger cookies
A creepy Halloween treat to delight and repulse your party guests in equal measure! Made with a delicious French butter cookie dough, these are rich, buttery and soft.Plus, these Halloween cookies are so easy to customize, and you can make them more gory and spooky with optional add-ins. No artificial coloring has been used to make these cookies either.
Witch finger cookies recipe
24. Halloween cupcakes
Bleeding black cupcakes
These ominous bleeding black cupcakes are the perfect easy cupcake dessert for Halloween.Delicious black chocolate cupcakes (made with black cocoa powder) filled with a rose flavored white chocolate ganache and topped with chocolate buttercream, tinted black. A chocolate triple threat, dressed up for Halloween!
Halloween cupcakes recipe
25. Halloween monster cookies
Monster cookies
Soft, chewy chocolate chip cookies transformed into black monster cookies (no food coloring, just black cocoa powder) and decorated with monster candy eyes and M&Ms.A little creepy, a little cute, and a LOT delicious. These are crowd-favorite Halloween treats.
Halloween monster cookies recipe
26. Mini monster cakes
Monster cakes
These super fun, colorful and eerily adorable monster cakes are fudgy, moist, dense and delicious. Made with an extra fudgy chocolate cake recipe.Five monster cake recipes and decoration tutorials included. Perfect for a Halloween party for kids or your next monster bash!
Mini monster cakes recipe
27. Rocky road slices
Halloween rocky road slices
These no bake rocky road slices are chock-full of crunchy, soft, chewy, gooey sweet goodies that make them the perfect cute Halloween treat for trick-or-treaters.These are super easy to make, and there’s no chocolate tempering involved either. Great way to use up leftover Halloween candy too.
Halloween rocky road slices recipe
28. Chocolate skull cake
Chocolate skull cake
A showstopping Halloween cake to wow your guests! This chocolate skull cake with strawberry jello “brain” and red velvet “blood” sauce is a little more involved than the other recipes in this list, but we guarantee the gruesome visuals are unmatched! Melt the white chocolate skull cap by pouring the bloody custard sauce to reveal the jello brain hidden inside!
Halloween chocolate skull cake recipe
29. Brownie pumpkin cheesecake
Brownie bottom pumpkin cheesecake
A super chocolatey and fudgy brownie layer with a spiced, creamy pumpkin cheesecake on top, and then covered with a chocolate fudge sauce “cobweb” drizzle for the ultimate Fall-inspired Halloween cheesecake! Why choose between brownie and cheesecake, when you can just as easily have the best of both worlds?
Brownie pumpkin cheesecake recipe
30. Oreo spiders
Oreo spider treats
These cute, easy, mess-free, kid-friendly creepy crawlers require no baking or cooking. Just oreo cookies, edible candy eyes, shoestring licorice (for the spider legs!), and cookie icing to glue the eyes. What’s not to love?
Oreo spiders recipe
31. Halloween decorated cookies
Decorated cookies
You could even get your kids involved to make these fun treats for Halloween. These cookies are naturally deep black (with the use of black cocoa) and you can use a ghost-shaped cookie cutter or pumpkin shapes, or an assortment of cookie cutters to create fun and festive Halloween cookies!
Halloween decorated cookies recipe
32. Halloween hand pies
Halloween hand pies
These adorable mummy hand pies are another great idea for your Halloween dessert table. Use store-bought pie crust for convenience, and these hand pies with a red berry filling will come together so quickly for a fun pastry dessert.
Halloween hand pies recipe
33. Pumpkin rice krispie treats
Rice krispie pumpkins
Another fun, festive twist on a childhood favorite! Classic rice krispie treats shaped and colored with orange food coloring to look like pumpkins and then topped with a tootsie roll stems. These kid-friendly, hassle-free sweet treats are bound to be a huge hit with the little ones!
Pumpkin rice krispie treats recipe
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