Featured Halloween Posts
Oct 08
Halloween appetizers are where the fun begins. Before the cupcakes, candy, and pumpkin desserts appear, a platter of mummy sausages, creepy eyeballs, witch fingers, and monster bites can turn an ordinary buffet into something worthy of October 31. The best Halloween appetizers don’t need to be difficult, either. Familiar party foods can become spooky with …
Oct 05
These ghostly glowing Halloween mason jars are an easy way to turn a handful of inexpensive supplies into wonderfully creepy Halloween decorations. Clear glass jars are filled with soft white cobwebs, crawling black spiders, and tiny warm lights to create the appearance of something mysterious glowing from inside an abandoned spider nest. Best of all, …
Oct 05
A Halloween wreath doesn’t have to be bright orange, covered in glitter, or overflowing with plastic decorations to make an entrance feel ready for October. This DIY Gothic Halloween wreath takes a darker, more sophisticated approach. A rustic grapevine wreath provides the base, while a single faded rose, tiny skull, muted foliage, and wispy botanical …
Oct 04
Light, crisp, and delightfully spooky, these Halloween meringue ghosts are the kind of treat that instantly transforms an ordinary dessert table into a haunted little gathering. Each ghost is piped from fluffy vanilla meringue into a plump, swirled body with a pointed head, then finished with melted chocolate eyes and a wonderfully silly or spooky …
Oct 03
Halloween is the perfect excuse to turn the kitchen into a miniature candy shop. From chocolate-covered ghosts and peanut butter pumpkins to bubbling cauldron bark and creepy candy eyeballs, homemade Halloween treats can be surprisingly easy to make. You don’t need professional candy-making equipment, either. Many of these recipes use simple ingredients such as chocolate, …
Oct 03
Halloween treats don’t get much creepier—or more fun—than a plate of witch finger cookies. These eerie green cookies are shaped to look like crooked witch fingers, complete with wrinkles, knuckles, and whole almond fingernails. Despite their gruesome appearance, they’re sweet, buttery cookies that are surprisingly simple to make. Serve them at a Halloween party, tuck …
Oct 03
Halloween is the perfect season to have a little more fun with your manicure. Your nails can be eerie and elegant, bright and playful, dark and mysterious—or a wonderful mixture of everything October has to offer. And Halloween nail art doesn’t have to mean ten complicated miniature paintings. A tiny spiderweb, a flash of orange, …
Oct 02
Halloween treats don’t have to involve complicated baking, elaborate icing, or hours in the kitchen. These Halloween Rice Krispie treats start with a classic buttery marshmallow cereal mixture and turn it into an adorable little graveyard of pumpkins and tombstones. The tombstones get rounded tops and spooky chocolate “RIP” lettering, while the pumpkins are shaped …
Oct 02
Rich chocolate brownies topped with adorable marshmallow ghosts make an easy Halloween dessert that looks far more elaborate than it actually is. Each brownie gets its own little ghost made from a fluffy marshmallow surrounded by a puddle of melted white chocolate. Tiny eyes and mouths give every ghost a different personality—cute, startled, spooky, or …
Sep 30
Every October 31, porches glow with jack-o’-lanterns, children roam neighborhoods in costumes, bowls overflow with candy, and ghosts, witches, skeletons, and black cats appear almost everywhere. But Halloween did not begin as a single holiday with a single origin. The celebration we know today developed over many centuries through a mixture of ancient Celtic seasonal …
