Party Ideas

Halloween Treats

What is Halloween but a time to indulge in delicious treats? Don't be fooled; Halloween treats and food are more than just sweet trick-or-treating candies like candy corn.

Halloween treats and food can be exciting, too! And it can be easy, fun, and just as spooky as your costume. We have all the creative cooking and baking tips you need to whip up Halloween treats and food from bloody cocktails to ghostly cupcakes.

You'll want to present your Halloween treats in the best possible format. We have all the resources you need for great costume ideas, fun Halloween party games, and spooky Party ideas!

Witchcakes -Halloween cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

WitchCakes are fun and simple to create. We recommend using a chocolate cupcake batter paired with a white topping like cream cheese or buttercream dyed green or light purple.

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Halloween Cookies: Shortbread Cookie Recipe

Shortbread cookies - a perfect base for a delicious and easy to decorate Halloween treat! Don't forget the royal icing.

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Gruesome Gourmet: Witch Finger Cookies

Halloween party finger food, literally. Form zesty cookie dough into creepy witch fingers and use a blanched almond for the fingernail (recipe below).

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Gruesome Gourmet: Brain Dip

Get smart with this Halloween party food. Fill a plastic brain mold with a pretty pink shrimp dip for the ultimate gross-out grub on Halloween (recipe below).

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Mummy Cupcakes

Spooky Halloween cupcakes, since this cupcake can be decorated with Cream Cheese Frosting, use a red velvet cake batter for the cupcake bottom.

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Spooky Party Food: Halloween Hamburgers

Makes 6 servings.Recipe Courtesy of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association

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Graveyard Cupcakes

Easy to make, Halloween cupcakes. These cupcakes create a spectacularly spooky scene when all laid out together in a batch or two. They can be used as décor at a Halloween dinner table and eaten as dessert at the end of the night! You can even send guests home with them as favors. For these, use a chocolate base and a chocolate frosting.

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Spooky Halloween Party Food: Creepy Idaho Potato Critters: Green Coiled Snake

Get some substantial grub in the kids' gullets but stay true to the Halloween theme with the recipes below for fun food like Creepy Idaho Potato Critters: Green Coiled Snake and Orange Caterpillar or Halloween Hamburgers.

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Yummy Mummies

Great idea for decorating Halloween cupcakes, cookies, or even preztel sticks.

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Harry Potter Halloween Treats

Pumpkin juice, and why not everything else pumpkin that you can whip up?
Bernie's Every Flavored Jelly Beans.
Butterbeer can easily be duplicated -- it's a tasty drink that warms you up!

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