Halloween foods: 22 sinister recipes for your celebration

Getting in the Halloween mood? To make the celebration more delicious, Halloween foods are a great bet. In addition to satisfying hunger, they can still serve as decoration for your event. Below, you can see sweet and savory options to play!

sweet halloween recipes

Let’s start with the sweet Halloween foods, which look creepy but are immensely tasty. Check it out:

1. Halloween Chocolate Strawberry

In this recipe, strawberries are dipped and decorated with white chocolate dyed with food coloring. You learn how to make pumpkin, Frankenstein, mummy, Dracula and skull. No complications, the result is delicious and the face of Halloween!

2. Nest milk pumpkin

Nest milk jam is easy to make and it’s delicious, isn’t it? To test this pumpkin version, you’ll need food coloring, a toothpick, and cloves. The preparation is simple, but the result will be a hit on your table. It’s worth testing!

3. Halloween Oreo pops

In this recipe, the Oreo cookie is skewered on a toothpick and decorated with dyed white chocolate. You can make pumpkin, skull, monster and whatever else your imagination allows!

4. Mummy lollipop

Another alternative on a toothpick is the cornstarch cookie that comes into play in this recipe. In addition, it is filled with brigadeiro. For the decoration, you will need white chocolate, a piping bag and chocolate sprinkles. To improve even more, you can check the suggested price and expiration date. So, you can also make an extra buck.

5. Zombie eyes

Gelatin, condensed milk, milk, black food coloring and an ice mold with the round holes is all you need to make these zombie eyes. The step by step is simple to follow, but requires a little patience. As a result, you get a really gooey candy!

6. Ghost Truffle

Is it giant, scary-shaped truffle you want? So, here’s more to check out this recipe. It is made with white chocolate, milk chocolate and cream. Oh, and you’ll also need disposable cups and a sturdy plastic bag.

7. Halloween Nest Dulce de Leche

In this recipe, the candy is made only with Ninho milk, icing or icing sugar, condensed milk and dyes. In the video, you learn how to make colorful pumpkins and also a witch’s hat. Stored in the fridge, this sweetie lasts for 7 days.

8. Halloween Brigadier

To make the brigadeiro look like a bat, first the candy is sprinkled with black sugar, which can be bought ready-made or dyed at home. Afterwards, you also learn how to make the wings and eyes. The step by step is not complicated, but requires patience.

9. Witch finger

How about preparing buttery cookies in the shape of a witch’s finger? To make the nail paper, the tip is to use an almond. To finish, use a combination of raspberry coulis and red ice cream to give your fingers a bloody look. You can also use any red jam of your choice.

10. Ghost Brownie

In this recipe, the preparation of the brownie has no secrets. The difference is in the coverage, which is on account of a ghost made of marshmallow and covered with icing. In addition, confectionery and chocolate chips come into play to play the role of eyes and mouth.

11. Witch’s Chocolate Cupcake

How about decorating cupcakes with orange frosting and a fondant witch hat? This is a simple way to make this cake look like Halloween!

12. Ghost Chocolate Cake

In this cake, the dough is chocolate with Oreo, and both the filling and the frosting are on account of an Italian meringue enhanced with butter and chocolate. The ghost decoration is made with meringue and chocolate sprinkles.

Savory Halloween recipes

Want savory Halloween food options? We’ve also put together a list of recipes that are frighteningly tasty. Check it out below:

13. Edible eyes

This is a recipe where hard-boiled eggs are cut in half, the yolks are dyed green, olives are pupils, and red food coloring mimics veins. Simple and inexpensive, it’s a preparation that doesn’t require a lot of culinary skills to make.

14. Sausage Mummy

How about wrapping parsley with strips of pastry dough to get an edible mummy? To make the eyes, you can use sprinkles or fondant. This is a simple but perfect bet to add to your Halloween food menu.

15. Devil eggs

Another recipe with boiled eggs, this is an option in which the yolks are removed, mixed with mayonnaise and seasoned. Then they go back to their original place: to the egg white. To finish, the tip is to sprinkle paprika and make spiders with black olives.

16. Halloween mini pizza

Learn to decorate mini pizzas in two ways: with a mummy and with a spider. In the first option, the cheese is cut into strips and green olives simulate the eyes. As for the spider, you use black olives in the decoration.

17. Hot dog mummy

Do you like practicality? So, here’s more to check out this recipe. Here, the first step is to wrap the sausage with strips of pastry dough. Then, just brush an egg yolk over the dough, add slices of olives to imitate eyes and put it in the oven to bake. If you want, finish with a drop of ketchup in the eyes.

18. Sausage octopus

This is a recipe in which several cuts are made in the sausage to mimic the tentacles of an octopus. For the head, check out how to make a very basic play dough. Fried, this is a simple snack, but it will be a hit at your table.

19. Finger hot dog

How about learning how to cut the sausage so that it looks like a finger? So, whoever eats the hot dog can be terrified. Without complications, this is a practical alternative and extremely quick to prepare.

20. Zombie Hand

A zombie hand is a spooky proposal for Halloween. Here, it’s made with meat, and to achieve this shape, you’ll need a latex glove. To make the result even more sinister, the tip is to use barbecue sauce at checkout.

21. Halloween cold table

You can also make a cold meat table with a very scary face. For this, the tip is to cover a skull with slices of raw ham, add olives in the eyes and cheese cut in the shape of a bat. Pretzel sticks are also decorated to mimic a witch’s broom.

22. Saci leg

To close the list, a recipe from Brazilian folklore. To imitate the saci leg, you learn how to make a roasted leg of lamb. The time in the oven is long, but the flavor is so good that it’s worth the wait.

After checking out all these Halloween food recipes, it is easy to set up a table with a sinister proposal that is the face of this festivity. And to close with a flourish, also learn how to make a well-crafted Halloween decoration!