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51 Fun Halloween Foods for Kids with Recipes

Whether it’s for a Halloween party, family gathering or just having a good time web surfing, Halloween treats are a staple of the season. They are such a fun and simple way to celebrate Halloween that everyone can enjoy whether your 6 or 60.

Fun Halloween food ideas can be made to fit every occasion, whether it’s easy Halloween treats you can make multiples of for school parties, fun Halloween treats to share at home with family, or a Halloween night supper idea before heading out trick or treating. Enjoy all the bright cheerful and full of creativity Halloween recipes.

Easy Halloween Treats

I gathered these 22 recipes while being mindful of the busy Mom. Who needs to provide sweet treats for a school party, that are easy to make, can be made in bulk for a large group, using simple methods, and kids will love.

A halloween ghost cupcake. a dark chocolate cupcake with white icing swirl top that looks like a ghost and chocolate chip eyes. — Image and Recipe: Strength and Sunshine

Spooky Ghost Cupcakes

These cute and spooky Ghost Cupcakes are perfect for Halloween! Made with a simple black chocolate cupcake base and dairy-free vanilla buttercream frosting. Add some googly candy eyes and you have a special Halloween party treat..

Several cute Halloween themed truffle Oreo candies, in different colors with single eyes and Halloween sprinkles hair. — Image and Recipe : On My Kids Plate

Monster Truffles for Halloween

These colorful Halloween truffles are the perfect size for little fingers. These cute monster Oreo parties are no bake and can be made ahead and set aside for a Halloween party.

A small orange and purple box filled with halloween pretzel hug candy. Each halloween treat is made up of a square pretzel with a hey melted on top and then a candy corn. — Image and Recipe : Dinner then Dessert

Halloween Pretzel Hugs

These Halloween pretzel hugs are very easy to make with a square pretzel, melted Hershey’s kiss, and candy corn. They are the perfect size snack for little goblins on the go at their Halloween party.

Halloween spider cupcakes with orange icing and chocolate spiderwebs on top. — Image and Recipe: The Soccer Mom Blog

Spiderweb Cupcakes for Halloween

A super fun and delicious Halloween cupcake toppers. You can make the spiderwebs ahead of time and pop them onto any easy cupcake recipe you like. Short on time? Add them to a purchased cupcake for a last-minute party contribution.

Chocolate cupcakes covered in peanut butter icing, then white candy melt spiderwebs and candied spiders. A Halloween cupcake recipe. — Image and Recipe: Little Sunny Kitchen

Halloween Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Moist peanut butter chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and cute spiderwebs complete with spooky spiders.

Three Halloween mummy rice krispie treats sitting on a polka dot cloth. One of the mummy halloween treats is sitting on a red plate. — Image and Recipe: Intelligent Domestications

Mummy Rice Krispie Treats

The only cooking step for these Mummy Rice Krispie Treats from Intelligent Domestication is melting candy melts in the microwave. It doesn’t get easier or faster than that.

Fun green frankenstein cupcakes sitting on a wood chalkboard. — Image and Recipe: Food Doodles

Frankenstein Cupcakes

A from scratch recipe for moist chocolate cupcakes that can be made gluten-free is needed. I like how simple these Frankenstein monster face cupcakes are to decorate.

A tray of spooky looking spider shaped candy with pretzel legs and candy eyeballs. — Image and Recipe: Aleska’s Get Together

Spooky Chocolate Pretzel Spiders (No Bake)

A kid-friendly Halloween treat that’s both easy to make and delicious. Made with only four ingredients chocolate, pretzel sticks, edible eyes, and phyllo shells.

A dozen Halloween pretzels in candy coating with eyeballs and candy fangs. — Image and Recipe: Pretty DIY Home

Pink Monster Halloween Pretzels

These little pink pretzel monsters are a fun snack that could not be easier. A fun and quick-to-make kids treat, I did mine in pink for a pink Halloween theme, but you can choose any color of candy melts you like.

Chocolate Halloween bats with snack cake bodies, candy eyes, chocolate fangs, and solid chocolate wings. There are four bats laying against a orange polka dot background. — Image and Recipe: The Hungry Happenings

Chocolate Snack Cake Bats

Simple easy-to-make snacks for those Halloween parties. This recipe begins with snack cakes that you decorate to make all your own.

Marshmallow rice krispie treat monsters. Each little square is dipped in a bright coloured candy topping then sprinkles, fun googly candy eyes in different sizes add to the fun look. — Image and Recipe: Corrie Cooks

Halloween Marshmallow Treats

Marshmallow and rice crisps are easy Halloween snacks to share at a Halloween party or pop into a lunchbox. You can make your own rice krispie treats or simply buy precut ones to decorate.

Cookies that look like creepy crawly bugs. Each cookie is covered in chocolate and has pretzel legs and candy eyeballs. — Image and Recipe: The Short Order Cook

Bug Spider Peanut Butter Cookies.

Kids find eating bug-shaped foods so funny. These spooky and creepy-looking peanut butter cookies are actually delicious. Nutter butter cookies are dipped in melted chocolate with tiny twist pretzel legs. These Halloween treats are sweet, salty, & crunchy.

Fun Halloween food desserts cookies. These cookies are round made out of very dark chocolate and covered with assorted Halloween candies. The tray the homemade cookies are sitting on has ugly plastic spiders on it. — Image and Recipe: Simply Scrumptious Eats

Easy Halloween Cookies Recipe

Drop cookie recipes like this one are a great way to feed lots of children at a party. These cookies are festive, cute, soft, and delicious! The black cocoa gives them their distinct dark color. Keep this recipe to use up leftover Halloween candy.

A grey slate tray covered with black cocoa skeleton cookies. The little cookies look like black gingerbread men but have very cute white skeletons on top made with icing. — Image and Recipe: Barley and Sage

Black Cocoa Skeleton Cookies

Move over gingerbread man it’s Halloween. These chocolate shortbread skeleton cookies are made with black cocoa and decorated with white icing. These cookies are fun to make with all the different facial expressions.

Dark chocolate cupcakes topped with green icing and chocolate sprinkles for hair. The side of the cupcake has a face madde using candy and a cut mark using red icing. It Alsoo has little bolt ears to resemble Frankenstein for Halloween. — Image and Recipe: Your Cup of Cake

Frankenstein Cupcakes

These Frankenstein cupcakes are so cut for Halloween, with their little bolt ears, and chocolate sprinkle hair.

Two candy corn cookies stacked together sitting on a very colourful Halloween cloth of skulls. — Image and Recipe” Baking Beauty

Candy Corn Cookies

These easy peasy candy corn cookies feature white chocolate chips and candy corn. A fantastic school lunch treat that would transport very well for school parties.

A round grey tray covered with chocolate rice krispie squares. Each chocolate square has a white chocolate spiderweb in the corner. — Image and Recipe: The Toasty Kitchen

Halloween Rice Krispies Treats

Chewy chocolate rice krispie treats with fun white chocolate spider webs. An easily recognizable treat for young kids at Halloween parties.

Chocolate witch hat cookies covered in milk chocolate with Hershey Kiss Tops, orange icing and Halloween sprinkles. The Halloween cookies look like minature witch hats, — Image and Recipe: Lil Luna

Halloween Witch Hat Cookies

Cute Halloween Witch Hat Cookies made with crunchy Oreos and Hershey’s Kisses. Kids will love these.

Peanut butter cookie recipe with whoppers on top and chocolate lakes. A Halloween dessert food recipe for spider Halloween cookies. — Image and Recipe: Simply Well Balanced

Spooky Spider Cookies

Make these cookies with your favorite peanut butter cookie recipe or use store-bought. Add some whopper spiders for fun Halloween desserts.

Halloween brownies served in orange cupcake wrappers. The brownies are covered with large swirls of icing, and then either green or purple jelly on top to resemble slime. The decorated with mini candy eyeballs. — Recipe and Image: Kimspired DIY

Slime Monster Brownie Cupcakes

This fun recipe for slime monster cupcakes will surely be a hit at any kid’s Halloween party.

Make homemade brownie cupcakes then add swirls of buttercream icing and cheerfully colored “slime”. Kids will find these hysterically fun.

A round cream plate covered with Halloween rice krispie treats. There are six rice krispie treats that look like mummies and four that have black spider webs on them. — Recipe and Image: Finding Time to Fly

Mummies and Spiders

Make these fun Halloween rice krispie treats yourself or let the kids decorate the mummy spooky faces themselves. Perfect for a Halloween party at your house.

A Halloween cupcake made with dark chocolate then decorated with whipped chocolate icing two candy eyes and a split oreo cookie. The candy eyes and oreos look like a bat sitting on top of the cupcake. — Image and Recipe: Lemon Blossoms

Halloween Bat Oreo Cupcakes

A chocolate lovers’ dream for Halloween. Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese icing plus Oreo cookies. The fact they are sweet and fun is a bonus.

Fun Halloween Snacks for at Home

All the school Halloween snacks can be made at home, but these fun snacks take a little bit more decorating or serving. These fun Halloween snacks will make your family excited while being easy to make in smaller numbers.

Three frankenstein cake pops with bright green faces, chocolate hair, candy eyes and crooked mouths made using chocolate icing. — Image and Recipe: The Soccer Mom Blog

Frankenstein Cake Pops

Spooky and fun Frankenstein cake pops. These are perfect for a Halloween party of little hungry goblins.

Five different halloween cakesicles. There is a mummy, a bat, a green monster an orange pumpkin and a spider web cakesicle. — Image and Recipe: Keep Calm Eat Ice Cream

Halloween Cakesicles

These Halloween cakesicles are a super fun and cute Halloween treat! Kids and adults alike will devour these. Perfect for a special family treat.

A large chocolate Halloween cake. The top iss covered with marshmallow ghosts and the sides are coverd in marshmallow spider webs. — Image and Recipe: Barley and Sage

Three Layer Black Cocoa Cake

This three-layer black cocoa cake is spooktacular. What an amazing Halloween cake recipe. Perfect for a Halloween dinner party, or someone having a Halloween birthday.

A white plate covered with 12 easy and fun ways to decorate the cookies. There is a white ghost, orange pumpking purple one eyed monster a white mummy spiders. candy corn and a vampire. — Image and Recipe: The Kitchen is My Playground

Halloween Peanut Butter Ritz or Oreo Cookies

This post has 12 different creative ideas for either a peanut butter ritz or an Oreo cookie. Either way you make them they are sure to make friends and family feel special this Halloween. So cute.

A fun Halloween cake decorated with fun cookie gravestones and pumpkin candies with green sprinkles to resemble grass. — Image and Recipe: House of Nash Eats

Graveyard Dirt Cake

A classic Halloween dessert recipe made completely from scratch.

Dark chocolate brownies covered with a purple icing covered monster. The fun Halloween brownies have candy eyes and a zig zag mouth. — Image and Recipe: In Fine Taste

Monster Mash Brownies

These monster bash brownies and spooky AND cute. A sweet brownie topped with a marshmallow monte and white ganache. This is a monster we can’t wait to take on.

Halloween treats on a stick that look like bats, black cats, and Halloween mummies. Each stick has a label that says spookies & Milk and they are being served across the top of a glass of milk. — Image and Recipe: The Girl Who Ate Everything

Spookies and Milk

Chocolate dipped Oreos served on a stick dressed in their various Halloween options. There are little Halloween mummies, black cats, and bats too. These look like a Halloween party on a plate.

Chocolate Halloween bark with Halloween M and M chocolate candied and various sprinkles. — Image and Recipe: Simply Scrumptious Eats

Easy Halloween Bark

An easy Halloween treat you can do as a family. Everyone will have fun creating spooky candy designs as they make their own treat.

A layered cake with yellow orange and white cake to resemble candy corn. The top is iced with white icing. — Image and Recipe: Baking Beauty

Candy Corn Poke Cake

An easy to make Halloween cake that begins with a cake mix. It’s colorful and fun for Halloween

A colourful and pretty Halloween float served in a martini glass. There is a spoon in the ice ceam and a curled candy worm decorating the side of the ice cream float. — Image and Recipe: In Fine Taste

Hocus Pocus Potion Float

A Halloween ice cream float, garnished with gummy worms. A fun perfect delicious finale for a Halloween dinner party.

A bowl of chocolate Halloween bark with pretzels, oreo bits, dark chocolate, M and ms and candied eyes. — Image and Recipe: Kids Activity Zone

Halloween Bark Recipe

Halloween chocolate bark recipe that is easy enough for children to participate in. They are such a delicious combination of salty and sweet. This Halloween bark with pretzels and Oreos looks wickedly amazing.

A tray of Halloween treats that look like little mice. They are made with strawberries chocolate and almonds, sitting on a white tray covered in almond crumbs. — Image and Recipe; Simple Living Recipes

Strawberry and Chocolate Fudge Mice

Oh my gosh, these treats are so creepy! But then they are strawberry and chocolate Halloween dessert. So much fun to serve for Halloween. Older kids will like the challenge of eating them..

Cute phyllo dough ghosts baked golden brown. The Halloween dessert ghosts are sitting on a white gray, have candy eyes and a chocolate drizzle. — Image and Recipe: Aleska’s Get Together

Spooky Halloween Ghosts

A fun Halloween dessert recipes kids will love. Its not only simple to make you don’t need a special mold for the phyllo.

Hot chocolate bombs that look like mummy ghosts. They are cute made with white chocolate, drizzles and little candy eyeballs. — Image and Recipe: Food Doodles

Halloween Hot Chocolate Bombs

A great way to warm up after a chilly evening of trick-or-treating.

A mixture of Halloween treats for a sweet and salty snack like buglys pretzels, candy eyeballs, candy corn and chocolate chips. — Image and Recipe: Loving Home School

Halloween Scary and Gross Snack Mix

With a mix of eyeballs, fingernails, scabs, teeth, and more, what’s not to love? Gross and fun.

Healthier Halloween Treat Ideas

Fruit treats and less sweet appetizers for those goblins with less of a sweet tooth.

Strawberries covered in white chocolate with little chocolate faces. They look like scared little ghosts. — Image and Recipe: Simply Scrumptious Eats

Halloween Strawberries

Chocolate covered Halloween Strawberries with just a little bit of spooky. An easy Halloween themed treat for your Halloween party or a Halloween dessert.

Two apple slices forming a mouth with almond slices for teeth, strawberry jam for blood, while eating dried cranberries. They then have very cute eyes made using bits of banana and blueberry eyeballs. — Image and Recipe: Texanarin

Healthy Halloween Treats- Monster Mouths

A healthy treat for Halloween made using various fresh fruits including apples, blueberries, and bananas.

A cast iron frying pan thats round filled with buffalo chicken dip. the dip is a redish orange colour. The dip then has a Halloween jack-o-lantern face cut out made with tortillas. — Image and Recipe: Smack of Flavor

Halloween Buffalo Dip

Halloween buffalo chicken dip is baked in a cast iron skillet. A spooky jack-o-lantern face is added with black tortilla chips making this an easy spicy chicken Halloween party dip. Pair it with a Halloween movie and enjoy!

Four witch broom appetizers with pretzel broom stick handles sliced cheese bristles tied with green chives. — Image and Recipe: Cooking with Carlee

Witches’ Broomstick Cheese Snacks

A simple-to-make witch broom appetizer for Halloween. A perfect way to dress up Halloween dinner. Pair it with a bowl of chili and Halloween night super is ready to go.

A vegetable tray served on a black tray and bowl. This Halloween appetizer has a bowl of green dip with a cutout tomato onto that looks like the body of a spider, and the legs are thin cuts of orange peppers. — Image and Recipe: Two Healthy Kitchens

Spooky Spider Halloween Appetizer Dip

A make ahead appetizer with a silly spider for Halloween. You cannot get much of a healthier appetizer than fresh vegetables with a delicious dip on the side.

Jalapeno poppers that look like mummies with baked brown wraps and candy eyes. — Image and Recipe: Asian Caucasian

Jalapeno Popper Mummies

A perfect spooky adult appetizer for Halloween. These buttery and spicy mummies are sure to disappear at your Halloween party.

A tray of cute pumpkin empanadas shaped like jack o lanterns and ghosts. They are baked golden brown andyou can see the pumpkin filling inside their little faces. — Image and Recipe: Corrie Cooks

Instant Pot Halloween Pumpkin Empanadas

A perfect treat for Halloween that’s both easy to make and loaded with flavor.

A large round serving tray encircled with cookies that look like witch fingers. There is a jam dip in the center to resemble blood. A creepy fun Halloween food idea. — Image and Recipe: Texanarin Baking

Witch Finger Cookies

This recipe for whole wheat witch finger cookies replaced the food colouring with jam for the “blood”. They definitely kept their Halloween creepy though.

Halloween Night Dinners for the Family

Having a special Halloween night dinner can settle kids down before running out the door trick and treating. Here are a few easy recipes you can make to encourage trick-and-treaters to eat something before receiving all that candy.

A plate full of mummy hot dogs baked golden brown. One hot dog dummy is being dipped in ketchup on the side. — Image: Cooking School Dropout

Air Fryer Mummy Dogs

This is a great Halloween night dinner idea for trick-and-treaters excited to start their Halloween.

A shepherd pie covered with mounds of ghost shaped potatoes with green pea eyes. An easy Halloween night dinner recipe idea for families. — Image: The Girl Who At Everything

Spooky Shepherds Pie

This spooky shepherd’s pie is a dinner recipe the family will recognize, while still enjoying a Halloween theme.

A Halloween noodle recipe with large green egg noogles covered with red meat sauce and decorated with cheese rounds and olive bits that look like eyeballs. — Image: Spend with Pennies

Eyeball Pasta Halloween Dinner Idea

Watching the kids trying to eat an eyeball for Halloween is hysterically funny. The cheese and black olives combination will taste so good, but the fun you could have serving this Halloween night.

Three mummy meatballs made with hamburger thats wrapped in strips of crescent rolls to resemble mummies and then olives and eddible eyeballs are added to make the face — Image and Recipe: In the Kid’s Kitchen

Mummy Meatballs

A hamburger meatball wrapped in crescent roll dough, with olives and candy eyes. A surprisingly easy to make healthier option for kids.

A loaded mashed potato casserole topped with cheese, then a sour cream spiderweb, then decorated with a large plastic spider. — Image and Recipe: Neighbour Food Blog

Loaded Mashed Potato Spider Web Casserole

Mashed potatoes, cheese, bacon, and cheese with a sour cream web on top. Add whatever meat you like and your Halloween dinner is ready. The beyond spooky plastic spider adds the eek!

A black bowl filled with bright green macaroni. There is a skeleton hand against the bowl,and a plastic spider in the background. — Image and Recipe: Texanerin

Halloween Mac and Cheese

The green color in this Halloween Mac and Cheese recipe comes from spinach. Not only is this a fun recipe to try on Halloween night, it’s a sneaky way to get children to try spinach as well. Yum.

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