Halloween Recipes

Flour in your hair, frosting on the walls, and kids on a sugar-fueled mission. Welcome to Halloween in the kitchen. Around here, spooky season is less about perfection and more about fun, think Nutter Butter mummies, Oreo bats and spiders, zombie Rice Krispie brains, and graveyard dirt cups that somehow disappear faster than you can say boo.

Finding Halloween recipes for kids that actually work when you’ve got 30 minutes and hungry little monsters? That’s the real fright. These easy Halloween appetizers, snacks, and no bake treats keep things playful, low-stress, and just creepy enough to make you the hero of any haunted house, spooky party (or school bake sale).

Halloween Appetizers

Halloween finger foods; mini hot dog mummies and dipping sauce.

Halloween Snacks

Assorted Halloween-themed fruit snacks arranged on a table, including bananas with chocolate faces to resemble ghosts, green apple slices stuffed with granola and topped with marshmallow monster eyes, and peeled clementines stacked and decorated with jack-o'-lantern faces using chocolate.

Halloween Treats

Close-up of a pink rice krispie treat shaped like a brain with dark vein-like details, displayed on a white plate with spooky eyeball decorations and a black net backdrop.

Spooky No Bake Treats

Halloween Cookies