Halloween Food Ideas

by Robyn Wright on October 8, 2012

in Food

My mom is the big Halloween fan in our family and holds the annual party. Even though I do not have my own party I still love looking at all the fun and creepy ideas for Halloween foods and treats. I thought I would share a few of my favorites. Some of these Halloween foods are cute, some of the Halloween food is just gross looking! Yikes! Pick what will work best for your Halloween party crowd.

strawberry ghosts

I love these Strawberry Ghosts from Taste of Home. Dip your strawberries into melted white chocolate and use mini chocolate chips for the eyes and some melted chocolate for their mouths.

jello worms

How about serving up a nice bowl of worms at your Halloween party? These are fun and gross all at the same time I think. These are actually Jell-O worms that you make in bendy straws – so clever! Full recipe and instructions for Edible Worms are posted on Instructables.

Halloween-Brains-in-Jar-cupcakes

These Brains In a Jar Cupcakes would be a great take-home item for your Halloween Party guests or just a fun way to eat brains at the event (plus you get to keep your jars then). Amy Locurto gives you all the instructions for making these creepy cupcakes.

pumpkin from carrots

Here is a super cute carrot pumpkin to help your ghouls and goblins eat healthy at your Halloween party. Simply lay out your mini carrots in a large oval and use small dishes of dip for the eyes and nose, some zucchini (or whatever) for the mouth and broccoli for the stem. More detail and other ideas at Bamboo and Tikis.

meat skeleton

And finally how about this meat skeleton? The upper part is ribs and the intestines are actually sausage. Serve with plenty of BBQ sauce for the blood. I am thinking my Hubby would love this for dinner on Halloween. This same post from Not Quite Nigella has tons of other great Halloween party ideas and food too!

I have more ideas I have found around the web over on Robyn’s Halloween Fun Pinterest board – come on over and take a look.

Do you have a favorite Halloween food that you would like to share?

Photos are all from the original creators of the posts that they are each linked to.

© 2012, Robyn Wright. All rights reserved.

Tagged as: appetizer, dessert, entertaining, food, Halloween, holidays, vegetables

  • Tiffany Winner

    Ewww, gross! Those worms look too real for me! thismomwins@gmail.com

  • GlArthy

    I like the ‘Choir’ effect of the strawberries. “Let us all come together and sing for our supper; maybe we will not be eaten”. LOL

  • Shannon Whitfield

    :) Love the Brains in a Jar Cupcakes! Great idea! We like to do little meringue ghosts or spider cupcakes with licorice legs. My new favorite thing is Shrunken Head Cider.. we had some friends over on the weekend and everyone had fun carving their own gruesome head! http://www.marthastewart.com/317697/shrunken-heads-in-cider

  • tannawings

    I am loving the worms! Thats a very clever idea to use a bendy straw! The meat skeleton is pretty cool too .

  • nanlara

    i might surprise my son with the strawberry ghosts for afterschool snack, cute idea

  • http://twitter.com/rkosully Robin

    I love the strawberry ghosts and carrot pumpkin! Creepy things that resemble worms and brains sort of make me lost my appetite…but I do enjoy Halloween parties!

  • http://welcome2mydailylife.blogspot.com/ Linda M. Ramos

    Love the strawberries. Not sure about the rest. LOL.

  • terrik

    I like the strawberries and the carrot pumpkin, but I’ve got a weak stomach and can’t really handle the others. I guess I prefer cute food. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/tom.murphy.946179 Thomas Murphy

    wow awesome ideas! i’m gonna try the bowl of worms.
    rounder9834 @yahoo.com

  • http://twitter.com/itsjuststarla Starla Mint

    Those worms look gruesome! Yikes. My cooking is atrocious so I don’t really have any recipes to share. The pumpkin is more my speed – easy to “make”, easy to eat, super delicious and healthy.

  • http://southerngirlramblings.com/ Kecia

    I think my husband and I may throw a Halloween party next year. Our son will be 3 then and will be able to thoroughly enjoy it. Those strawberry ghosts look absolutely delicious and would be a perfect finger food for the bash!

  • Mtlgrl4evr

    Great ideas. I love those strawberries, they’re so cute lol

    Tandt625 at hotmail dot com

  • Jimmy

    Fun ideas. I really like the Jello worms. My cousin would enjoy them.

  • Jennifer Peaslee

    Oh wow these are such fun ideas!!!! I saw the white chocolate dipped strawberry ghosts on FB the other day…I shared the page and some of my friends like and shared it too! The worms are SOO GROSS! Did you see this one too, for “Halloween Finger Food”? I saw it a while back and bookmarked it but I haven’t tried it yet http://www.jojoebi-designs.com/2009/10/halloween-finger-food.html jenniferpeaslee at gmail dot com

  • http://twitter.com/islandkimmi kim snyder

    awesome creepy goodies ! thanks

  • Kari

    Oh my gosh… those worms really got me! We get together with family and my husband makes his white chili. Halloween is a great time for family and food, for sure! Our favorite is Hotdog mummies! It’s simple.. just wrap cresent roll dough around hot dogs and cook in the oven and Voila… they looked like mummy hot dogs :) -Kari / kewomack at att dot net

  • MichelleS

    The ribs is genius, but, the worms are flat-out disturbing!

  • http://twitter.com/St4ceyNicole Stacey Nicole

    Hahaha the worms and ribs are so gross and clever. I’m in love with strawberry ghosts and am so glad I saw this because I was in desperate need of cute ideas for my Halloween party I’m having!!! Such creative ideas.
    Email – Stacey.brickner6@gmail.com

  • Margie

    I like the strawberry ghosts too, but the worms–yuk!

  • Minta

    Yuck on the worms they look so real,lol and the skeleton ribs..I”m not sure I could eat at this party. Very clever but I really loved the strawberry ghosts. mintab@gmail.com

  • terry petero

    The worms kinda grossed me out lol, but what a great idea and im so going to try it , doesnt half to be holloween great thing to do with the kids and a healthy snack, love the ribs for the body to YUM. great ideas to try next year.

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