Halloween Parties and Recipes
Oct 15
Halloween potlucks are the perfect excuse to turn familiar party food into something wonderfully weird. You do not need complicated recipes or professional decorating skills to create a buffet filled with pumpkins, ghosts, monsters, and other edible creatures. The best Halloween potluck ideas have three things in common: they are easy to transport, simple for …
Oct 13
These Spooktacular Mini Pumpkin Pies with Jack O’Lantern Faces turn a classic fall dessert into an adorable Halloween treat. Each individual pie combines flaky pastry with creamy, warmly spiced pumpkin filling and a mischievous little pastry face on top. They are perfect for a Halloween party, autumn dessert table, pumpkin-carving night, or family movie marathon. …
Oct 12
Some Halloween dinners rely on elaborate decorations, special molds, or ingredients you may never use again. These cheerful jack-o’-lantern stuffed peppers take a much simpler approach: turn an ordinary orange bell pepper into a pumpkin. With triangle eyes, crooked smiles, and their green-stemmed tops perched jauntily nearby, the peppers look like a miniature pumpkin patch …
Oct 12
Turn Halloween morning into something special with a stack of warm pumpkin pancakes decorated with snowy-white spider webs and plump blackberry spiders. Inspired by the orange pumpkin pancakes, piped white webs, and blackberry spiders shown in the original Halloween Haunt image, this recipe keeps the dramatic presentation while making the decorating process simple enough for …
Oct 11
There are pumpkin desserts, and then there are pumpkin desserts that seem destined for the center of an autumn table. This Bourbon Maple Pumpkin Cheesecake with Pecan Crust falls firmly into the second category. Rich pumpkin cheesecake is flavored with warm spices, real maple syrup, and a splash of bourbon, then settled over a buttery …
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 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 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 …
