Halloween parties are all about the food table. Whether you are hosting friends or just want to surprise the kids at home, a few creepy-looking snacks can set the mood. The best part is that most of these need basic ingredients and very little time. From tombstone brownies to mummified samosas, try these easy recipes for your spooky night. Make your Halloween table extra spooky with these simple recipes.

Halloween Treats You Can Make At Home

Planning a Halloween party? Check out these 8 easy recipes, including tombstone brownies to mummy samosas, and more, with ingredients and steps.

1. Halloween Tombstone Brownies

Ingredients 

  • Brownies, cut into equal rectangles
  • Wafer biscuits (for the tombstones)
  • Oreo cookies
  • Red gel icing or red food colour for fake blood
  • Black icing or melted dark chocolate

Recipe

  • Cut the brownies into equal chunks.
  • Press a small dip into the top of each brownie with a spoon so the wafer can stand in it later.
  • Write "RIP" on each wafer using black icing.
  • Dab some red icing on top of the wafer and let it drip down the edges like blood.
  • Take an Oreo apart, scrape off the cream, crush the biscuit and sprinkle it over the brownie as "soil".
  • Push the wafer into the dip. Done in about 10 minutes.

2. Scary Mushroom Pizza

Ingredients 

  • Pizza dough
  • Tomato sauce
  • Cheese
  • Pepperoni
  • Button mushrooms

Recipe 

  • Spread the sauce on the rolled-out dough and cover it with cheese.
  • Carve two eye holes, a nose and a mouth on each mushroom cap with a small knife to make skulls.
  • Arrange the mushrooms and pepperoni on top.
  • Bake at 200°C for about 15 minutes or until the crust turns golden.

3. Oreo Bat Treats

Ingredients

  • Mini Reese's peanut butter cups
  • Oreo cookies
  • Melted chocolate
  • Candy eyes

Recipe

  • Melt the chocolate.
  • Unwrap the Reese's cups.
  • Split the Oreos in half, remove the cream and break each cookie in two to make the wings.
  • Dip the corners of the wings in chocolate and stick them on either side of a Reese's cup.
  • Dip the candy eyes in chocolate and press them on top.

4. Coffin Sandwiches

Ingredients 

  • Soft white bread
  • Paneer slices
  • Cheese slices
  • Mayo
  • A cheese slice (orange cheddar works well) for the crosses

Recipe

  • Spread mayo on the bread.
  • Layer paneer and cheese between the slices.
  • Trim the sandwich into a coffin shape by cutting the corners at the top and bottom.
  • Cut thin strips of orange cheese and make a small cross for each sandwich.
  • Place the cross on top. No cooking needed.

5. Ghost Strawberries 

Ingredients 

  • Fresh strawberries
  • White chocolate
  • Dark chocolate or black icing

Recipe

  • Wash the strawberries and pat them completely dry.
  • Melt the white chocolate and dip each strawberry in it.
  • Place them on a tray lined with parchment paper and let the chocolate set.
  • Make two eyes and a mouth with melted dark chocolate or black icing using a toothpick or piping bag.

6. Banana Ghost Pops

Ingredients

  • Bananas
  • White chocolate or yogurt (sweeten the yogurt with vanilla extract, maple syrup or honey if you like)
  • Milk or dark chocolate chips
  • Popsicle sticks

Recipe

  • Cut the bananas in half and insert a popsicle stick in each piece.
  • Freeze the pops for 1 to 2 hours.
  • Melt the white chocolate while they freeze.
  • Dip each frozen pop in white chocolate or yogurt and put it back in the freezer while you melt the dark chocolate.
  • Draw the eyes and mouth with a piping bag to make a ghost.
  • Eat right away or store in the freezer.

7. Witch Brooms

Ingredients

  • Strawberries
  • Dark chocolate
  • White chocolate
  • Pretzel sticks (chocolate-covered ones work too)

Recipe

  • Cut off the green tops of the strawberries and skewer them onto the pretzel sticks.
  • Dip the strawberries in melted chocolate.
  • Place them in the freezer until the chocolate hardens.
  • Fill a piping bag with chocolate and pipe thin lines down the strawberry to make the broomstick bristles.

8. Mummified Samosa

Ingredients

  • Samosa sheets 
  • Aloo (potato) filling, or any filling of your choice
  • Popsicle sticks
  • Black sesame seeds or peppercorns (for the eyes)
  • Ketchup for dipping

Recipe

  • Place a spoonful of the filling in the centre of a samosa sheet and fold it into a neat rectangle.
  • Cut some samosa sheets into thin strips.
  • Wrap the strips around the samosa in a criss-cross pattern, leaving a small gap for the eyes.
  • Insert a popsicle stick at the bottom.
  • Bake or fry until golden and crisp.
  • Add two eyes in the gap using sesame seeds or peppercorns and serve with ketchup.

Conclusion

Spooky, easy and fun, these recipes will make your Halloween table the talk of the party. Try a few of them this year and do not forget to take pictures for the gram before they disappear.

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