Made with party rye bread, black olives, Swiss cheese, monterey jack cheese, mayonnaise, chives, bacon
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Halloween Meals and Snacks
Halloween doesn't have to be all about the sugary sweets, you can still have fun (and creepy!) food that has some nutritional value (or at the very least isn't full of sugar).
Half the fun of these snacks is in the presentation. Making seemingly normal meals look gross can really add to the theme of your Halloween party. Something as simple as adding stuffed olives to look like eyeballs in a vat of spaghetti will be sure to get your guests talking about the scary (but delicious) food.
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Dead Flies On Rye
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Don't throw away all those seeds when you're carving jack-o-lanterns, you can make them into a delicious roasted snack with just a few minutes in the microwave.
Method: microwave
Time: under 30 minutes
Smoke or Fog From Dry Ice
Whether you're going for a spooky Halloween ambiance or want to make a truly spectacular presentation for your dessert display, dry ice can help!
Time: under 30 minutes
Salted Pumpkin Seeds
Don't let the seeds go to waste when you're carving your jack-o-lantern. Pumpkin seeds simply roasted with salt are a tasty snack, but you can spice them up with other spice...
Method: oven
Time: over 5 hours
Halloween Maggot Stew
It's actually just made with tasty orzo but the shape of the pasta lends itself well to a little Halloween creativity.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
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Kitty Litter Casserole
Want something gross but tasty to serve for Halloween? This ground beef and rice casserole looks just like what you might find the cat has left you in the litter box.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Crunchy Scramble Snack Mix
A different blend of crunchy ingredients that will keep your party-goers snack-happy.
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Halloween Meatloaf-Filled Pumpkin
A great dinner for Halloween that isn't creepy or scary!
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Green Slime
A tasty Halloween spinach dip made with cream cheese, sour cream, and salsa. Served with breadstick "bones" for dipping
Time: 2-5 hours
Baked Monster Eyes
These Tex-Mex "Monster Eyes" are a fun and festive Halloween treat that is sure to please both kids and adults alike.
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Celery Brooms
Celery sticks are formed into festive broom shapes and filled with your favorite dip or spread.
Time: under 30 minutes
Pumpkin Chili With Beer And Chocolate
This chili is full of delicious flavors like cocoa powder, pumpkin, chili powder, beer, coriander, and garlic just to name a few.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Creepy Deviled Eggs
Try a fun twist on traditional deviled eggs with this creepy recipe featuring sliced black olives and colorful bell peppers. Perfect for Halloween or any festive gathering.
Time: under 30 minutes
Bloody Eyeballs
These fun and tasty Halloween appetizers are made with hard-boiled eggs, cream cheese, pimiento-stuffed olives, and ketchup or food coloring (for the bloodshot look).
Time: under 30 minutes
Meatloaf Mice
These meatloaf "mice" aren't just cute, they are also tasty and healthy, made with a mix of beef and turkey.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Halloween Chili
A haunting chili recipe made with eye of newt, goblin gizzards, and other magic ingredients. But don't worry, it's not as scary as it sounds!
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Bloodshot Eyeball Graveyard Pudding
Made with vanilla pudding, green grapes, chocolate chips, fruit syrup
Time: under 30 minutes
Mummy Dogs
A fun and tasty Halloween recipe! Refrigerated dough is wrapped around hot dogs to look like mummy bandages.
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Bat Chips
These festive chips are made from flour tortillas that are cut in Halloween-y shapes, brushed with olive oil, and broiled until crisp.
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Wild Rice Dinner In A Pumpkin
Made with pumpkin, cream of mushroom soup, wild rice, breakfast pork sausage, ground beef, onion, salt and pepper, celery, green bell pepper, water chestnuts
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Spider Web Soup
Simple seasoned tomato soup is decorated with a sour cream spider web for a delicious Halloween meal.
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Jack 'O Lantern Quesadillas with Chipotle-Maple Pumpkin and Black Beans
A festive Halloween quesadilla appetizer! The filling is made with pumpkin, black beans, chipotle chili powder, maple syrup and...
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Pumpkin Hummus
Hummus with fall flavors. Pumpkin puree is mixed with tahini and seasonings and garnished with toasted pumpkin seeds.
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Bloody Brains & Maggots
This shrimp dip will be the hit of your Halloween party. The cream cheese is perfect to recreate a "brain" shape and the shrimp work great as "maggots". But...
Time: under 30 minutes
It may look like a sad little package shoved in the back of your freezer, but frozen spinach actually has a lot of culinary uses (and some may surprise you).
Ah, the unassuming envelope of onion soup mix. It's more than just for onion soup (or dip). It adds tremendous flavor (and convenience) in all these recipes.
Not to be confused with evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk is very sweet (and very sticky) and used primarily in desserts.