Frightfully Good Food For Halloween: 7 Easy Recipes
No tricks, just treats this Halloween! Try these 7 spooktacular recipes now!
From sweet treats to healthy platters, a toffee apple cake to a pumpkin martini for the grown-ups, your guests will love this spooky spread!
And we haven’t forgotten your pet pooches. Make a batch of calming chews for your furry friends and let them join in the celebrations, too!
7 easy recipes for Halloween
1. Show-stopping Toffee Apple Cake
Dripping with layers of caramel and chocolate, and topped with decadent toffee apples, this show-stopping cake is wickedly irresistible. It’s also a great bake to help your Bonfire Night go with a bang, too!
Get the Toffee Apple Cake recipe here.
2. Spooky Chocolate Brownies
Have you got your eyes on the sweet table this Halloween? Well these sweet treats will have their eyes on you, too! So delicious and chocolatey, you’d never know they’re dairy-free. Add ready made eyes and Halloween iced motifs, or put your piping bag to good use and try some of your own designs.
Get the Spooky Brownies recipe here.
3. Creepy Halloween Platters
“Healthy” isn’t a word normally associated with Halloween treats, but these platters certainly tick that box. Have fun creating your own versions with your kids and grandkids – they’ll make a great centrepiece for your buffet table! We’re loving the cute clementine “pumpkins” and the Babybel spiders!
Get the Creepy Halloween Platters recipe here.
4. Bat Bites
With Oreo chocolate cookies for wings, these chocolatey bats will “fly” off the table as soon as your guests see them!
They are so easy to create, too. Simply make a batch of truffles following our recipe and roll them in either cocoa powder, vermicelli or coconut, before adding chocolate and raisin features and cookie wings.
Get the Bat Bites recipe here.
5. “Mummy” Sausage & Pumpkin Pies
Get the young ones in your family hands-on in the kitchen with this fun, delicious and wonderfully sticky recipe. Perfect fuel before heading out trick or treating! The shop-bought eyes look spooky as they peek out between the pastry “bandages” – tasty as well as terrifying!
Get the “Mummy” Sausage & Pumpkin Pie recipe here.
6. Pumpkin Martini
Forget about pumpkin spice lattes this autumn – it’s all about pumpkin martinis for spooky season! Don’t let the kids have all the treats this Halloween, here’s a recipe just for the adults.
Get the Pumpkin Martini recipe here.
7. Calming Pumpkin Chews – this recipe is for your dog!
Our final recipe is for your pet pooches – we can’t have them missing out on all the fun! These Halloween pumpkin chews are packed with calming ingredients to help your pet enjoy this busy and noisy time of year.
Get the Pumpkin Dog Chew recipe here.
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Allison Hay
I joined the "My Weekly" team thirteen years ago and, more recently, "The People's Friend". I love the variety of topics we cover both online and in the magazines. I manage the digital content for the brands, sharing features and information on the website, social media and in our digital newsletters.
