Throwing a Halloween party? Discover 5 easy and creative Halloween party food ideas, including cupcakes, caramel apples, pretzel mummies & more—plus free printables!
5 Easy Halloween Party Food Ideas (With Free Printables!)
Hosting a Halloween party this year? Whether you’re throwing a monster mash for the kids or a creepy cocktail party for adults, having fun and festive food is a must!
A themed “Boo-fett” table full of creative Halloween party food ideas will set the stage for a spooktacular celebration. The best part? These treats are simple to make, delicious to eat, and guaranteed to make your guests scream (with delight).
Scroll down to grab a free party printable that will help you style your Halloween treats like a pro!
1. Spider Cupcakes with Free Printable Toppers
You can’t go wrong with cupcakes—they’re easy, crowd-pleasing, and so much fun to decorate for Halloween! Bake your favorite chocolate or vanilla cupcakes and top them with vibrant orange or purple frosting. Add candy eyes, gummy spiders, or crushed cookies for a creepy topping.
Pro Tip: Download my Free Party Printable Spider Tags to turn simple cupcakes into spooky showstoppers. Just print, cut, and tape them to toothpicks to create adorable spider toppers. Your Halloween Boo-fett will instantly look Pinterest-worthy!
2. Creepy Caramel Apples with Crushed Candy Bars
Caramel apples are a classic fall treat—and they get even better when you dress them up for Halloween. Start with Granny Smith apples (the tartness balances the sweet caramel perfectly), then dip them in warm caramel. Before the caramel sets, roll each apple in crushed candy bars like Snickers, Butterfinger, or Twix.
To make them extra spooky, drizzle melted chocolate over the top and stick in a Halloween-themed straw or popsicle stick. Serve them upright in a tray filled with candy corn or fake cobwebs for a hauntingly festive look.
3. Breadstick Lady Fingers
Here’s a fun and savory option for your party table—Lady Fingers that actually look like fingers! Start with store-bought refrigerated breadstick dough and roll it into finger-like shapes. Press an almond slice into one end to look like a fingernail, and lightly score knuckle lines with a knife. Brush with olive oil and a sprinkle of garlic salt before baking until golden brown.
For a gory twist, serve them with a bowl of marinara “blood” dipping sauce. These creepy breadstick fingers are sure to be a conversation starter—and the perfect companion to any Halloween soup or pasta dish.
4. Pretzel Mummies
Pretzel rods are transformed into mummies with just a bit of white frosting and candy eyes. Lay out your large pretzel sticks on wax paper. Melt white chocolate or vanilla frosting and drizzle it in a crisscross pattern over each stick, mimicking mummy bandages. Add two red or candy eyes while the drizzle is still soft.
Place them in a cup or small cauldron standing upright for a fun presentation. These are great for kids to help make—and even better to eat!
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5. Cheese Puff Spider Nest
This last treat takes almost no time to prep, but it makes a big impact on your party table! Fill a large black or orange bowl with bright orange cheese puffs to represent a spider’s nest. Nestle in some plastic spiders, bugs, or skeleton hands peeking out of the cheesy pile.
Want to take it to the next level? Stick in a few eyeball lollipops or sprinkle the bowl with green popcorn for a more colorful, ghoulish effect. It’s a playful snack with just the right amount of creepy fun.
Make Your Boo-fett Stand Out
These simple Halloween party food ideas are just the beginning. Add in your favorite drinks, candies, and snacks, and you’ll have an impressive Halloween spread that guests of all ages will love. To bring it all together, use themed signage, trays, and serving pieces from the dollar store or printables like my free spider cupcake toppers.
Fun Halloween Party Decor Ideas
For decor, fill a bowl with candy corn and add candles. These creepy eyeball candles make great decorations!
My friends at Sticviews enlarged my spider to make covers for my kid tables. I wish I had thought to make it a little larger to overlap the edges. but it still turned out great. Their stickers are waterproof and reusable, perfect for pumpkin painting or anything to do with kids crafts!
From sweet to savory, spooky to silly—there’s no shortage of fun to be had when it comes to Halloween food. So don your witch hat, cue up your favorite haunted playlist, and start planning your frightfully fabulous party!
Everything looks great and I am in love with the Printable.
Hi Amy! I found your free printables on Pinterest und made a rosette for Halloween out of it! Have a look here: http://dapfniedesign.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/spontaneous-tuesday-4/
Thanks for your free stuff!
RT @livinglocurto: RT @livinglocurto: Halloween Boofett {Free Party Printables} http://t.co/yvxzFKER
Thank you for the spider printouts. Too cute. And that spider table is darling. =)
This is the CUTEST party decor and food for Halloween! I’ve featured your halloween cupcake toppers on The Spotted Cake and included links back as well as credit to Living Locurto.
Thank you so much for the ideas! We’re having the neighbors over next week for Texas Night Out. I’m definitely going to have to steal some of these ideas!
Adorable FREE Hallowe'en cupcake topper printables at Living Locurto… http://fb.me/GFgRIyLo
THANKS so much for the toppers! They’re darling!
This is totally cool! Extremely impressive!
Make some Halloween treats tonight! Get some easy ideas here: http://bit.ly/1lKYK6 [via @livinglocurto]
RT @livinglocurto: Make some Halloween treats tonight! Get some easy ideas here: http://bit.ly/1lKYK6
Love the Halloween ideas. I am going to use the cupcake toppers at my party. And I might add some spiders to the fun. The ladies fingers are my favorite!! I am doing a spider web pizza and mummy hot dogs too, which I just added on my blog!
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oh my goodness!! Amy, every single thing just looks unbelievable. Those fingers are hilarious. Thanks so much for sharing them with Tasty Tuesday. FUN, FUN!
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ADORABLE table! Love that.
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SO CUTE! I love it. Makes Halloween real festive.
yours truly,
Lady Lex
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I just love this idea of a Halloween Boo-fett http://bit.ly/1lKYK6 via @livinglocurto Wish I'd thought of that
Now if anything is to be considered inspirational…those photos would be it!
What a wonderfully decorated table! Just amazing!
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holy moly, I have never seen those simple breadstick fingers, and I’m totally going to make them tomorrow. What a riot!
Baby steps for me, baby steps. . . but you have sure given me something to strive for!
Those are so creative! I am having friends and family over tomorrow…and I think the kids would get a kick out of those treats. Just stoppin’ by from SITS! Have a great weekend!
This is my first time to your place and I love it! Your booffet issuper spooktacular! Thanks for the cupcake topper download too! They will make the perfect top to my “Bloody Cupcakes” on my spooky mansion. WOOHOO!
Love this candy buffet! Happy Halloween, found you via SITS!
Wow! I can’t wait to see what you do for Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Too cute! RT @livinglocurto My Halloween boofett! Get some ideas for ur kids/parties & free printable cupcake toppers http://bit.ly/1lKYK6
That's a great looking table! RT @CynGagen RT @livinglocurto My Halloween boofett! Get some ideas for your parties… http://bit.ly/1lKYK6
Awesome Boofet. Those creative touches make a lot of difference. Jackie
RT @livinglocurto Kid friendly Halloween Meal ideas http://bit.ly/1lKYK6 or if you like something way scary… try this: http://bit.ly/HVOIz
Wow! Talented!!! This looks like pics from a magazine, so ‘professional’.
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How Cute! I am going to make the pretzels mummy’s tonight for the Halloween party at the girl’s school tomorrow. Thanks!
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I’ll have to remember this post.
All I managed to get done was FAIRY WANDS !
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OH WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE ALL OF IT 🙂
Wow, absolutely adorable. My kids would LOVE this. So creative and super fun.
Chelsea
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What a wonderful table, so full of creativity and fun ideas. You have wowed and dazzled me. I am going to try my hand at carmel apples on Friday, will definately try the candy bar crumbles, YUMMO!
Hi Amy this is a nice blog to go through it and it’s very interesting to see your picture. From it I will like to learn how to prepare it and among them I like cupcakes, lady finger which is made of bread stick. Among them I will like to know how to design the eyeball candle. So please help me out in doing these.
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I love this! Your cupcakes are adorable, as is everything else. What a fun party… your friends are very lucky. 🙂
okay Amy you are getting ridiculous. I seriously think that you are the next Martha Stewart. Really. I am not exaggerating. You’re on the cusp and soon you’ll have your own magazine and TV show and we’ll sit back and think, wow. she made it. She is cool (well, you’re already cool but you know…)
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love it! It all looks spectacular.
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Love those cupcake toppers and so thankful for the PDF! Needed one more way to decorate cupcakes for Saturday night and thought I’d have to make some from scratch. Love being able to print and go!
Once again, you’ve wowed me. What a great boofett!
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I want to eat the entire table! But it’s all so cute. . .
What a great table! I made those creepy fingers last night!
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The table looked great!!! I think the little spider guys on the food made a super effect. Easy too. Thanks for the link to the giant sticker place too. Makes my mind start spinning with ideas. Hmmmm……
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WOW! This buffet is amazing! I love everything I think the mummy pretzels are my favorite!
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Everything looks great and I love the kids table too!
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What a set up! It had my mouth watering just looking at it. Martha stewart would be proud!!!
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Just fabulous, really! Now I wish I’d planned a Halloween party! Oh well, there’s always next year!
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Everything turned out so cute! We just hosted our Halloween bash last weekend too. It’s so fun to watch the kiddos have a blast.
Thanks!
Kate
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Wow! Everything looks awesome! LOVE the cupcakes. Such a great, simple way to make them special! I can see how you could do that for any occasion.
Let us know next time you want some sticviews for a party! It was so much fun having you over 🙂
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Your treats and table are adorable! I just want to jump into these pictures they are so clear!! The pretzel mummies are my favorite!
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These are all great ideas and not too complicated, maybe even I can do them!
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you always have the most adorable ideas! you need your own tv show…for sure!
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Dear Amy,
your table is adorable! It gave me also some ispiration for the halloween party I will host on saturday! Thanks as always for sharing evenrything. Ilenia
oh WOW Amy!! you did a awesome job!! I agree, magazine pictures for sure!! – can you tell me what lens you used for pictures like that? was it a 50mm?
your food, decor everything looks amazing!! I’m taking my candy corn cupcakes some where on Friday – I may print your toppers – do I need cardboard or is reg. printer paper ok? and are those sucker sticks? (obviously I’ve never made cupcake toppers LOL)
~TidyMom
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Amy, I swear.. Martha Stewart is going to be calling YOU for advice! Those pictures look like they came from a magazine! I am beyond impressed; how do you do it all? (and by all, I mean this part of your business, plus the photography and I Heart Faces, plus being an awesome mommy… etc etc….)?
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