Here are 13 fun Halloween food and recipe ideas your Halloween party guests will love. Spooky Halloween party recipes for both adults and kids like witch’s fingers, mummy cookies, caramel apples, and brains in a jar.
Your party guests will get a kick out of these 13 fun Halloween food ideas. I had a blast going through all my Halloween ideas to find some of my most favorite Halloween party recipes to share with you.

13 Spooky Halloween Food Ideas!
I LOVE hosting a good Halloween Party! Making spooky Halloween food is my favorite part of planning the party. Here are some of my all-time favorite fun Halloween food ideas to serve at your next Halloween party. Both adults and kids will love these monsterous treats!

My Favorite 13 Fun Halloween Food Ideas
- Mummy Wrapped Hot Dogs – Nothing is easier than wrapping crescent rolls around a hot dog to create mummies.
- Easy Spider Cake – Take a store bought chocolate cake, add a face with candy or icing, then add some pipe cleaners for spider legs.
- Caramel Apples – I love drizzling chocolate over mine!
- Owl S’Mores – Always a favorite treat at my house.
- Monster Pudding Treats – A few marshmallows and green sprinkles can turn this simple dish into a creepy treat!
- Simple Cupcakes with cute toppers. Get my free printable Happy Halloween Spider Tags here.
- Lady Fingers – Always my personal favorite!
- Mummy Pizza Bites – Such an easy snack!
- Brains in a Jar – Don’t worry, it’s really cake!
- Jack o’Lantern Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
- Carrot Eyeball Appetizers – Healthy and creepy!
- Mummy Candy Pretzels – These simple treats will go fast at any party.
- Dip in a creepy pumpkin – Serve up your favorite dip inside a small pumpkin decorated with googly eyes and dracula teeth!

Besides fun Halloween food, be sure to have some party games for the kids!
We always have a game of “Guess How Many!” Fill a jar with candy and give a prize for who guesses the closest amount.

This spider ring toss is so much fun and perfect for all ages.

Are you planning a Halloween party this year? You might also like these ideas:
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- Monster Candy Pretzels
- Halloween Chocolate Cupcakes with a Surprise Inside
- Halloween M&M Cookies in a Jar
- Mickey Mouse Halloween Cookies
- Halloween Vampire Ice Cream Floats
- Brain Cupcakes with Bugs
- Halloween Chocolate Toffee Crackers
What is Your Favorite Fun Halloween Food Idea?
Originally posted October 7, 2013 | Updated September 21, 2021 .
I’m having a Halloween party at my house this year and those lady fingers and the pumpkin dip bowl are definitely going to have to be a part of it! ๐
It's different every year, but we always have a party and play halloween bingo
Pumpkin painting & decorating
We like carving out a bunch of small pumkins and linig them up on thewalkwy. Cool when lit up at night!
We made ghosts out of milk jugs! using black magic marker make a ghost face on outside of jug.
We like to make all sorts of fall crafts.
We love to take the time to make our own decorations. Halloween is one of our favorite holidays!
One thing we made was a spooky tree from a branch and ghosts from tissue to hang from the branches.
We love decorating and Trick 0r Treating with friends! And eating Branch's fall pumpkin candy mix!
Put up halloween decorations!
We love to make crafts and witch's brew bottles!
My kids love to decorate the house inside and out. They also like to carve pumpkins!
We love to plan a fun party for the kids downstairs and parents upstairs…we do scary foods and lots of decorations. This year we want to make a mummy!
My kids love decorating our mantle for the holidays
We pick a theme to decorate one pumpkin every Halloween. Last year we created a Dia De Los Muertos skull design!
We love to spend the day making Halloween treats, then paint a bunch of mini pumpkins for outside our door!
Decorate cookies, make new decorations and crafts, bring out stuff from previous years and decorate the house and yard.
We always do fall/halloween crafts together and then decorate the house with them!
We decorate the house inside and out and always find a new craft or two to try out!
Painting pumpkins and making a spooky treat
We make halloween cookies
we love to decorate and create different things for halloween
We like to make our own costumes ๐
We make cookies!
Carving or decorating pumpkins is always a hit!
My family does specialized Pumpkin carving every year. Its a family tradition. We have a special dinner of the child’s liking and watch family friendly Halloween Movies.
We just finished our homemade costume, looking forward to throwing a carnival style party for the cub scouts!
we make pumkins out of fabric and toilet paper!
We make our own costumes!
We like to have a halloween themed play date.
We make some yummy treats, go trick or treating and play some Halloween themed games and crafts.
Love the ideas. Can’t wait to do them with my niece.
We make rice crispy treats!!!
My kids love decorating the house for Halloween with store bought decorations and making their own decorations with construction paper.
We listen and add songs to our "G-Rated Halloween" Spotify playlist …songs like Monster Mash, I Want Candy, it's so fun to sing and dance …and not too scary for preschoolers!
Love decorating the house and making yummies. Not only cookies, but this year I have found so many cute recipes that I want to try. Love dressing up in costumes too.
Every year we make homemade pizzas after trick or treating!!
We have a Halloween Party every year with themed treats, goodie bags and fun!
We like to make different spooky treats for our school friends!
Make cookies.
i can come up with something homemade pretty easy
My kids get most excited about carving their own pumpkins, and I love to see what they come up with
We always do something with pumpkins–carving or painting.
We’ve had Halloween cancelled 2 years in a row but I’ve got my fingers crossed for this year! Love your ideas!
These are fantastic ideas! We like to decorate sugar cookies at Halloween!