Halloween Parties and Recipes
Aug 08
Halloween treats do not have to be complicated to steal the show. A bowl of candy is always welcome, but a few homemade creations can turn an ordinary snack table into one of the most memorable parts of your Halloween party. Better yet, some of the cutest Halloween foods start with familiar ingredients like strawberries, …
Aug 07
Halloween parties are not just for trick-or-treaters. With candlelight, dramatic decorations, creepy cocktails, mysterious games, and a little theatrical flair, an ordinary October gathering can become a Halloween night your friends talk about long after the pumpkins are gone. The trick is choosing a clear atmosphere instead of filling the room with every Halloween decoration …
Aug 05
Planning a Halloween party menu is almost as much fun as choosing the costumes and decorating the house. Ordinary appetizers can become mummies and spiders, pizza can fill up with edible ghosts, and a simple bowl of pumpkin soup can suddenly look as though it came from a witch’s kitchen. The trick is not to …
Oct 18
Golden butter cookies, jewel-bright apricot jam, and mischievous little pumpkin faces make these Halloween apricot jam cookies almost too cute to eat. Almost. Inspired by classic jam sandwich cookies, each treat is made from two crisp, tender rounds. The bottom cookie is spread with apricot jam, while the top is carefully cut with triangular eyes …
Oct 18
Creamy pumpkin cheesecake, warm autumn spices, and adorable little pumpkin shapes come together in these Spooky Spiced Pumpkin Mini Cheesecakes. Each miniature cheesecake looks like a tiny pumpkin, complete with sculpted ridges and a chocolate-chip stem. Their naturally orange pumpkin filling makes them especially well suited to Halloween, while cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves give …
Oct 18
Some Halloween treats are cute. Others are charming. And then there are witch finger cookies—the wonderfully creepy kind of dessert that makes people hesitate for half a second before reaching for another one. These eerie vegan cookies look as though they belong on the dessert table of an old haunted house: long, knobbly fingers, almond …
Oct 18
Warm gingerbread spices meet gooey caramel and squishy marshmallow teeth in these hilariously creepy Halloween sandwich cookies. Each monster mouth is made with two soft ginger-molasses cookies, a thick layer of caramel filling, and a crooked row of miniature marshmallow “teeth.” The result looks wonderfully monstrous but requires no complicated piping, cookie cutters, or professional …
Oct 17
These Spooky Chocolate Bat Cookies are almost too cute to be frightening. Rich cocoa cookie dough is rolled, cut into flying bat shapes, baked until the edges are lightly crisp, and finished with a pair of candy eyes. The finished cookies look especially dramatic because the deep chocolate color naturally creates the dark silhouette of …
Oct 17
Halloween is the perfect excuse to turn an ordinary batch of cookies into ghosts, pumpkins, bats, monsters, witches, and all kinds of deliciously creepy creatures. And the best Halloween cookies don’t necessarily require professional decorating skills. A little colored icing, melted chocolate, jam, marshmallows, candy eyes, or a cleverly chosen cookie cutter can transform a …
Oct 17
Pumpkin spice season gets a spooky upgrade with these adorable pumpkin spice sandwich cookies. Shaped like little jack-o’-lanterns and filled with creamy orange vanilla or chocolate buttercream, they make a festive addition to Halloween parties, fall dessert tables, and October baking days. The secret to their Halloween look is simple: each sandwich has one solid …
