Easy Halloween Treats and Drinks [Recipes]

Do you love to go all out for Halloween? Between the costumes, decorating, and playlist-making, there are many things to do. Another beloved Halloween pastime is making fun Halloween foods. Whether it's for the kids or a Halloween get-together, making Halloween recipes is a blast! We'll share some of our favorite Halloween treats and drinks to help everyone get in the spooky spirit.

Halloween Mains

1. Mummy Pigs in a Blanket

Mummy pigs in a blanket are a classic Halloween food that's incredibly easy to make! They're a hit with kids, but they would also work at an adult Halloween party, just so you have a few less sugary options. You can also turn this main into a side by swapping hot dogs for cocktail weiners.

Ingredients:

• 1 package hot dogs
• 1 tube crescent roll dough
• 1 package candy eyeballs
• Yellow mustard
• Dipping sauce of your choice

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Add hot dogs to pot of boiling water until warmed through, about 5 minutes.
3. Tear crescent dough triangles apart and lay out on flat surface. Cut into strips with knife or pizza cutter.
4. Wrap crescent roll strips around hot dogs so they look like little mummies. Leave space near top for eyes.
5. Bake until crescent roll dough is golden brown, about 10 minutes.
6. Allow mummies to cool before attaching candy eyeballs with dots of mustard. Serve with dipping sauce.

2. Ghost Pizza

There are a few ways to go about making a ghost pizza. You can add ghosts on top of a premade or homemade pizza, as we'll show. Or, if making a pizza from scratch, you can shape the entire pizza into a ghost and top with mozzarella and white cheddar! Ghost pizza is a great Halloween party food for all ages.

Ingredients:

• 1 premade frozen pizza
• 1 package sliced white cheddar cheese
• 1 can sliced and pitted black olives

Directions:

1. Preheat oven according to directions on pizza package.
2. With ghost-shaped cookie cutter or knife, cut ghost shapes from slices of white cheddar. Place on pizza.
3. Place slices of black olives on ghosts to use as eyes.
4. Bake pizza according to directions on package.
5. Watch pizza and remove from oven before ghosts have browned. Slice and serve.

3. Monster Toast

Are you looking for a Halloween breakfast food? This monster-riffic twist on eggs in the basket is tons of fun, especially for the kids. (And it's relatively easy, too!) We highly recommend visiting the bakery section of your store to find loaves with large slices, like a nice sourdough or Italian bread. Of course, you can still do this with regular sandwich bread, too, but your monsters will be smaller.

Ingredients:

• 1 loaf of bread (larger-sliced bread preferred)
• 1 carton of eggs
• Butter
• Salt and pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat skillet on medium heat.
2. Cut a simple monster shape from bread slice with knife.
3. Using a round cookie cutter, glass, or knife, make an "eye hole" near the top of bread slice. Under the eye hole, cut a mouth.
4. Butter both sides of bread and place in warmed skillet.
5. Add a small knob of butter into the eye hole and allow it to melt, then add your egg.
6. When egg is well set, flip with spatula.
7. When egg is cooked as desired, plate and add salt and pepper to taste.

4. Spider Sliders

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Slider burgers are another great party food idea, so why not add a Halloween twist? It's easy enough to make these spider sliders as simple or as boujee as you want—it just depends on how much prep work and cooking you want to do. We'll opt for a simpler approach with this Halloween recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 package cheddar cheese (sliced or unsliced to preference)
• 1 package slider buns
• 1 bag frozen fries
• 1 jar green olives with pimentos
• (Optional) sauce, pickles, or other toppings of your choice

Directions:

1. Make fries according to package directions, and set aside.
2. Preheat grill.
3. Whisk egg with salt and pepper.
4. Add ground beef and knead to incorporate.
5. Form meat mixture into slider patties and place on grill.
6. Grill patties until they hit an internal temperature of 160 degrees F.
7. Place cheese on patties and let sit on grill for a few minutes until cheese starts to melt.
8. Remove patties from grill, put on bottom buns.
9. Press 4 fries into cheese on either side of patty, then add top buns.
10. Cut green pimento olives in half, press into cheese to create eyes, tuck under top bun.
11. (Optional) Add sauce of your choice or pickles.

Halloween Sides

5. Pumpkin Fluff Dip

Not every Halloween food needs to be super scary! Pumpkins are a big deal around Halloween, and this simple pumpkin fluff dip whips up in no time. This is a perfect side to serve at an adult Halloween party, but even kids might venture to try this one with the right combination of dipping snacks.

Ingredients:

• 1 can 100% pure pumpkin or solid-pack pumpkin (15 oz)
• 1 package instant vanilla pudding (5 oz)
• 1 container whipped topping, thawed (16 oz)
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

Directions:

1. Combine canned pumpkin, vanilla pudding mix, and pumpkin pie spice in a large bowl.
2. Fold in whipped topping.
3. Chilled until time to serve.

6. Cheese Witch Brooms

Are you looking for more healthy Halloween treats to sneak onto your snack table? These adorable cheese witch brooms are so cute, and they don't require any cooking or baking. They're great for kids' Halloween parties, but we wouldn't pass them up at an adult Halloween party either!

Ingredients:

• 1 bag of mozzarella sticks
• 1 bag of mini pretzel sticks
• 1 bunch of fresh chives

Directions:

1. Cut mozzarella sticks in half or thirds, depending on how short you want them.
2. Using a knife, cut 3/4 up the cheese sticks to create broom bristles.
3. Insert pretzel into top end of cheese as a broom handle.
4. Tie one piece of chives around each top, just under the pretzel handle. Trim excess.

7. Pretzel Bones

[Source: Taste of Home]

Pretzels are a wonderful snack, and we love this Halloween twist on a savory side. While you could start entirely from scratch, ready-made pretzel mixes make pretzel-making much easier! Don't forget to bring your favorite dips to pair with your pretzel bones.

Ingredients:

• 1 box of pretzel mix (may need additional ingredients indicated on the package)
• Dipping sauce of preference

Directions:

1. Follow directions on pretzel mix to make pretzel dough.
2. Make bone-like shapes instead of the usual twisted pretzel shape.

8. Frankenstein Guacamole

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How many times have you told your kids not to play with their food? It doesn't matter whether you use store-bought or homemade guacamole—this Frankenstein guacamole is all about the plating! Dig in and enjoy this healthy Halloween side dish.

Ingredients:

• 1 container of guacamole
• 1 small can of black olives
• 1 bag of blue corn chips
• 1 can of refried black beans
• sour cream

Directions:

1. Spoon guacamole into large serving tray. Shape into rectangle (or oval if preferred), leaving space on one end for corn chips.
2. Add dollops of sour cream for whites of the eyes, black olives for nose and neck bolts.
3. Ensure refried black beans are well mashed. Blend in food processor if not. Place in piping bag or plastic storage bag with one corner cut off. Pipe on face details. Add pupils to eyes, a mouth, and stitches to resemble Frankenstein.
4. Chill until time to serve.
5. Add blue corn chips as hair right before serving.

Halloween Treats

9. Pumpkin S'mores Cookies

Nothing feels more like fall than pumpkin-flavored goodies and s'mores by the campfire. One incredibly yummy cookie captures both of these flavors at once! We also love how convenient cookies are because you can have them prepared well in advance, so you're not scrambling to get all your Halloween foods together before your guests arrive.

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin spice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups chocolate chunks (or chips if desired)
• 1 cup mini marshmallows
• 5 graham crackers (smashed, but not finely)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. Mix flour, pumpkin spice, salt, baking soda, and baking powder, then set aside.
4. In a mixing bowl or large bowl, combine brown sugar, pumpkin, butter, and vanilla extract. Beat on medium speed or stir until well-combined.
5. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet while stirring. You may need to reduce mixer speed. Keep mixing until flour and dry ingredients don't leave streaks.
6. Fold in chocolate, marshmallows, and half graham crackers with spatula.
7. Form into balls with cookie scoop, then flatten into thick disks on parchment paper. Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs on top.
8. Bake for 14 minutes, then let cool before transferring to cooling rack.

10. Ghost Brownies

Cookies, cupcakes, and brownies are all easy enough to decorate for Halloween. These ghost brownies are incredibly adorable and easy to make! It's all about the decorating here, so feel free to make your brownies from scratch if you prefer to avoid boxed brownies.

Ingredients:

• 1 box brownie mix
• 1 can whipped cream (or piping bag of homemade whipped cream)
• 1 tube black writing icing

Directions:

1. Follow directions on brownies package, or make brownies from scratch.
2. Allow brownies to cool and cut into squares before decorating.
3. Squeeze whipped topping to create swirled dollops of cream for your ghosts.
4. Create eyes and mouths with black writing icing.

11. Graveyard Dirt Cake

Dirt cake is one of those easy-to-make treats that's already perfect for Halloween! While it already looks Halloween-y with the gummy worms and edible dirt, you can add toothpicks with gravestones on the top of your dirt cups to give it a Halloween graveyard feel.

Ingredients:

• 1 box of instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 tub of whipped topping, thawed (8 oz)
• 2 cups milk
• 1 brick of cream cheese, room temperature (8 oz)
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 package of Oreos (crushed)
• 1 package of gummy worms

Directions:

1. In a bowl, make pudding mix according to package directions. Allow to set.
2. Fold in tub of whipped topping.
3. In mixing bowl or large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese. Slowly add powdered sugar until mixture is light and airy.
4. Stir pudding and cream cheese mixture together.
5. Fill short glasses or clear serving cups with alternating layers of pudding mixture and crushed Oreo cookies. The top layer should be crushed cookies.
6. Top with gummy worms.
7. (Optional) Use toothpicks to add a tombstone to each cup of dirt cake.

12. Monster Eyeball Pretzels

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You're probably familiar with those tasty pretzel treats with Hershey Kisses or Rolos melted onto a pretzel with an M&M pressed on top. Give this popular party food recipe a Halloween twist with candy eyeballs! Alternatively, if you have M&Ms on hand and you want to use them, make them look like eyeballs by adding a dot of black icing as a pupil after they have cooled off.

Ingredients:

• 1 bag square pretzel snacks
• 1 bag Rolos
• 1 container of candy eyeballs
• (Optional): 1 bag Hershey's Kisses
• (Optional): 1 bag M&Ms
• (Optional): 1 tube black writing icing

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.
2. Line baking tray with parchment paper. Arrange pretzels on tray..
3. Unwrap Rollo candies and place one on top of each pretzel. (Optional: Use Hershey's Kisses candies instead of Rollos.)
4. Bake for 2-3 minutes until Rollos are soft but not melting. Quickly press a candy eyeball into each chocolate before they harden. (Optional: Use M&Ms candies and take a tube of black icing to create pupils on the candies.)
5. Allow candies to cool before serving.

Halloween Drinks

13. Witch's Brew

Who doesn't love a versatile party punch? This witchy-green beverage is a wonderfully flexible option for adult or kids' parties, with the addition or omission of alcohol. If you're turning this punch into an alcoholic beverage, you have some room to experiment with vodka flavors if you want something besides plain vodka. For an extra witchy twist, serve from a cauldron instead of a punch bowl! (Make sure to sanitize it properly first.)

Ingredients:

• 1 package lime gelatin (0.6oz)
• 2 cups boiling water
• 3 cups pineapple juice, chilled
• 1 bottle ginger ale or lemon-lime soda (2 liters)
• (Optional) 2-3 cups vodka, chilled (plain or flavor of choice)

Directions:

1. Pour gelatin powder into large bowl and slowly add boiling water while stirring. Make sure gelatin powder dissolves completely for at least 2 minutes.
2. Add remaining liquids to bowl and stir to incorporate. The vodka is optional.
3. Chill and serve in a large punch bowl or cauldron.

14. Vampire Punch

This blood-red punch has vampire vibes. We also love that you can make this punch with or without alcohol, depending on the party you're serving. Optionally, you can drip grenadine syrup or red gel icing around the punch bowl or the serving glasses to bring out the vampire vibes.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups blood orange juice
• 2 cups water, cold
• 1 cup tart cherry juice
• 1 cup simple syrup
• 1/2 cup lemon juice (about 2-3 lemons)
• (Optional) 1 cup tequila or mezcal
• (Optional) grenadine syrup or red gel icing

Directions:

1. In a large pitcher, combine blood orange juice, tart cherry juice, water, lemon juice, and simple syrup.
2. Chill in fridge until it's time to serve.
3. If adding alcohol, stir it in just before serving. Optionally, use red grenadine syrup or red gel icing on the serving vessel or glasses for a bloody-looking vampiric touch.

15. Ghost Milkshakes

Ghost milkshakes are a fun and cute way to enjoy a tasty Halloween beverage. Of course, it will be up to you to add the ghostly elements to your drinking vessels! Use whatever clear glass you'd like—from mason jars to clear disposable cups, and use a black Sharpie marker to add a cute ghost face. Once filled with a white milkshake, it's time to sip and enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup vanilla ice cream
• 1 cup milk
• 1/4 cup white chocolate (grated bar or white chocolate chips)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• (Optional) whipped cream

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients in blender, and blend until smooth.
2. Pour into ghost-decorated glasses.
3. (Optional) Garnish with whipped cream.

16. Hot Spiced Apple Cider

Cold, refreshing drinks are great, but there's nothing like a warm, spiced apple cider. It's the perfect drink for a chilly fall day, especially if you're hosting an outdoor Halloween party or Halloween bonfire. It's also incredibly easy to make with your crockpot.

Ingredients:

• 1 gallon of apple cider (or apple juice)
• 2 oranges (cut into slices)
• 2 apples (cut into slices)
• 5 cinnamon sticks
• 1 tablespoon whole cloves
• (Optional) 4 anise pods
• (Optional) 2 cups brandy

Directions:

1. Cut oranges into slices. Remove rinds for a less bitter drink.
2. In a crock pot, combine cider, orange slices, cinnamon sticks, anise pods, and cloves.
3. Simmer on low for 4 hours.
4. (Optional) Add brandy just before serving.
5. Add apple slices and extra cinnamon sticks as garnish.

Are you hungry yet? These Halloween recipes are incredibly easy to make, so you won't feel overwhelmed preparing for your Halloween party. Do you have any favorite Halloween recipes? Are you ready to wow your friends with fun Halloween foods and drinks? We'd love to hear all about it in the comments below! Don't forget to snag your favorite Halloween decorations so your serving table is thematically spooky.