57 Fun Halloween Food Ideas for a Scary-Good Feast
All treats, no tricks.
When you close your eyes and imagine Halloween food, what are the chances you're even imagining real food at all? You're probably thinking about piles of fun-size chocolate bars or once-a-year sugar bombs like candy corn, right? Or there are the typical Halloween food ideas from your childhood, which may have included apples in a barrel for bobbing or peeled grapes pretending to be eyeballs. You can definitely do better for your next Halloween party.
If you're throwing or attending a themed party this October, the recipes ahead are perfect for your coworkers to gather around or your kids to scream and giggle over. Some dishes might even be a great fit for, dare we say, an upscale scary-chic dinner party. Yep, it's totally possible.
Halloween food isn't all kitschy skeleton molds and spaghetti brains. Many people forego the spooky side of the holiday altogether and instead pull from classic fall flavors for treats like pumpkin bread, caramel apples, and pecan blondies. An elegant gothic Halloween party theme a la Morticia Addams is an option too. Even better, some of our favorite Halloween food ideas can be thrown together in about 10 minutes. So serve these appetizers, desserts, cocktails, dinners, and snacks at your bash and watch them disappear—just like magic.
Oh, and if you're one of those folks who like to be entertained while you're cooking and baking, stream House Beautiful's haunted house podcast, Dark House, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to get in the spirit.
Hadley Mendelsohn is the co-host and executive producer of the podcast Dark House. When she's not busy writing about interiors, you can find her scouring vintage stores, reading, researching ghost stories, or stumbling about because she probably lost her glasses again. Along with interior design, she writes about everything from travel to entertainment, beauty, social issues, relationships, fashion, food, and on very special occasions, witches, ghosts, and other Halloween haunts. Her work has also been published in MyDomaine, Who What Wear, Man Repeller, Matches Fashion, Byrdie, and more.
Kate McGregor is House Beautiful’s SEO Editor. She has covered everything from curated decor round-ups and shopping guides, to glimpses into the home lives of inspiring creatives, for publications such as ELLE Decor, Domino, and Architectural Digest’s Clever.
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