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20 Halloween Party Food Ideas Everyone Will Scream For

These Halloween party food ideas will make your spooky bash a memorable night. We’ve included hauntingly good appetizers, mains, desserts, and more that will scare and impress everyone at your party!

Partygoers will enjoy sipping witches brew and eating Jack-o-Lantern empanadas, witch hat cupcakes, spider web taco dip, and more!

Jack-o’-Lantern Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed peppers that look like jack-o-lanterns on a black plate.
Photo Credit: I Heart Eating

These Jack-o’-lantern bell peppers are stuffed with ground turkey, onion, black beans, rice, and other flavorful ingredients.

Get the Recipe: Jack-o’-Lantern Stuffed Peppers

Spooky Halloween Chili

Halloween chili in black pan.
Photo Credit: Cooking with Curls

This chili recipe amps up the scary factor by adding hot dog toes and fingers, as well as egg eyeballs. Adding some wormy-looking pasta is also a frightening touch!

Get the Recipe: Spooky Halloween Chili

Halloween Cheese Board

Halloween charcuterie board with mummy brie cheese.
Photo Credit: Noshing with the Nolands

Mummy baked brie is the centerpiece of this gorgeous charcuterie board that features both sweet and savory options.

Get the Recipe: Halloween Cheese Board

Halloween Trifle

Halloween trifle with ghosts and candy corns.
Photo Credit: Dancing Through the Rain

Need a fun dessert to feed a crowd at your Halloween party? Just serve this chocolate Halloween trifle decorated with Peeps and candy corns.

Get the Recipe: Halloween Trifle

Buffalo Meatball Pumpkins

Buffalo meatballs shaped like pumpkins with a pretzel as the stem.
Photo Credit: The Gunny Sack

These buffalo meatball pumpkins are the perfect appetizer for your Halloween bash. The pretzel “stem” is such a clever idea.

Get the Recipe: Buffalo Meatball Pumpkins

Halloween Panna Cotta Eyeballs

Panacotta desserts decorated to look like eyeballs.
Photo Credit: xoxoBella

This eerie pana cotta eyeball treat is the thing nightmares are made of. While it might look gross, this Italian dessert has the best vanilla flavor.

Get the Recipe: Halloween Panna Cotta Eyeballs

Witch Hat Cupcakes

Cupcakes with color frosting and witches hats.
Photo Credit: Zen and Honey

These witch hat cupcakes have a surprise filling perfect for Halloween: green “slime” pudding.

Step-by-step directions are included for making the cute witch hats out of fondant.

Get the Recipe: Witch Hat Cupcakes

Jack-o’-Lantern Chorizo Empanadas

Pumpkin shaped hand pies on a light background.
Photo Credit: The Flavor Bender

These Jack-o’-lantern empanadas have a deliciously spiced-packed chorizo filling.

Get the Recipe: Jack-o’-Lantern Chorizo Empanadas

Graveyard Brownies

Brownies decorated like a graveyard with cookie headstone.
Photo Credit: Barefoot In The Pines

Making a batch of brownies that look like graveyards is a genius idea. These graveyard brownies are topped with Nutella, yum!

Get the Recipe: Graveyard Brownies

Mummy Hot Dogs

Hot dogs wrapped with crescent dough with eyes to look like mummies on a baking sheet.
Photo Credit: Love from the Oven

Kids and adults will get a kick out of these adorable mummy hot dogs. Anyone who is a pigs in a blanket fan will love these.

Get the Recipe: Mummy Hot Dogs

Witches Brew

Witches brew in a cup and bowl.
Photo Credit: Dinner at the Zoo

Witches brew is a sweet punch made with orange sherbet, soda, and juice. This drink is non-alcoholic, but there are also directions for adding alcohol.

Get the Recipe: Witches Brew

Harvest Chex Mix

Harvest party mix made with Halloween candy and chips.
Photo Credit: Yellow Bliss Road

This harvest Chex mix is perfectly sweet and salty. This will be highly requested every Halloween.

Get the Recipe: Harvest Chex Mix

Brain Cupcakes

Brain cupcakes with red syrup on a white plate.
Photo Credit: Foxes Love Lemons

These strawberry zombie brain cupcakes are made with a boxed cake mix, which cuts down on the number of ingredients you need to buy. They’re finished off with some strawberry syrup blood.

Get the Recipe: Brain Cupcakes

Halloween Crescent Roll Witch Hats

Witches hat garlic bread resting against dipping sauce on a dark background.
Photo Credit: Bake It With Love

These cheesy garlic butter crescent roll witch hats will be a hit with everyone. Serve them plain or with some marinara sauce, yum!

Get the Recipe: Halloween Crescent Roll Witch Hats

Ghost Buttercream Board

Dessert board with frosting ghost, cookies, and candy.
Photo Credit: Cutefetti

This dessert board has an adorable ghost made out of buttercream. Everyone will love dipping cookies and other treats into the frosting.

Get the Recipe: Ghost Buttercream Board

Spider Web Taco Dip

Spider web taco dip in a plastic container with vegetables in the background.
Photo Credit: Amanda’s Cookin’

No Halloween party is complete without some spider web taco dip. Adding fake spiders around the dip is optional but adds to the spooky vibe.

Get the Recipe: Spider Web Taco Dip

Creepy Halloween Cheese Ball

Cheeseball made with meat to look like a creepy face with pretzels, chips, and crackers next to it.
Photo Credit: Homemade Heather

Hands down, this is the creepiest cheese ball ever! It’s clever what they used to make the “skin.”

Get the Recipe: Creepy Halloween Cheese Ball

Candy Corn Fudge

Candy corn fudge stacked on a white background.
Photo Credit: Princess Pinky Girl

Candy corn fans will go wild for this easy, no-bake fudge recipe. You can cut them into squares or little triangles to look like candy corn.

Get the Recipe: Candy Corn Fudge

Mummy Pizza Pockets

Mummy pizza pockets with sauce in the background.
Photo Credit: Hunny I’m Home DIY

Crescent roll mummy pizza pockets with score big with both kids and adults. The pizza pockets are filled with pepperoni, but other pizza topping ideas are included.

Get the Recipe: Mummy Pizza Pockets

Mozzarella Eyeballs

Meat, cheese, and olives made to look like eyeballs in a bowl.
Photo Credit: Homemade Heather

Mozarella balls and prosciutto make shockingly realistic-looking eyeballs. So creepy!

Get the Recipe: Mozzarella Eyeballs

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