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Halloween party food recipes

Celebrate Halloween with these seriously spooky party food recipes. All Hallows Eve (October 31st) is the perfect excuse to throw a party. Whether you’re planning a ghoulish grown-up bash, a family party or want some homemade party food for hungry trick-or-treaters, you’ve come to the right place.

Our best Halloween party food recipes include sweet treats with a scary spin. Think spider cookies, a layer cake topped with meringue ghosts, and a spooky mummy blackberry tart. Have a bash at making your own jelly worms – a fun half-term project to make with the kids, and bound to be a hit when it’s time for trick-or-treating.

Savoury options include cheese biscuit skulls, mini pumpkin fondues and easy witch’s broomsticks.

For something more sophisticated (because adults love Halloween, too), try our gory blood splatter cake, or gothic Mississippi mud pie piled high with cream and blackberries.

Grab a (witch’s) brew and a notepad, take a look through our party food ideas and start planning your monster bash.

Click here for our complete Halloween recipes collection, and dig out the cocktail shaker to make these Halloween drinks.

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Tamarind toffee apple cake

This showstopping toffee apple cake will impress your friends at Halloween or Bonfire Night. The tamarind caramel adds a fruity tang.

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Halloween Mississippi mud pie with blackberries

Deliciously dark and rich, this is a chocolate mud pie recipe with a Halloween twist – ‘bloody’ sage-infused blackberries.

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Halloween black cherry jam tarts

Nothing takes you back to childhood quicker than a homemade jam tart. These gothic black cherry numbers have a Halloween twist.

Vegetarian

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Mini pumpkin fondues

How do you make a pumpkin even tastier? Fill it with cheese, of course! Use sweeter mini pumpkins as an edible bowl for fondue.

Gluten-free Vegetarian

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Halloween pumpkin spiced cupcakes

Halloween baking is an excuse to get silly, so stir up a batch of pumpkin spiced cupcakes. These mummies and ghosts are decorated with meringue frosting, chocolate chips and sugar eyes.

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Chocolate and peanut butter spider cookies

Stir up a batch of spooky spider cookies for Halloween. These chocolate and peanut butter biscuits are easy to decorate with the kids.

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Pumpkin recipes

Bread Ahead’s pumpkin spiced doughnuts

These puffy doughnuts from the famed London bakery Bread Ahead are filled with pumpkin custard and dipped in toffee.

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Meringue ghosts for Halloween

Our easy-to-make mini meringue ghosts are the perfect treat for Halloween. Give them to trick-or-treaters or use them on our spectacular celebration cake

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Halloween celebration cake

A dark chocolate sponge with peanut buttercream and a rich chocolate ganache is topped with meringue ghosts; a stunning Halloween cake.

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Spiced pumpkin soup

Create a showstopper starter by serving spiced pumpkin soup in a hollowed-out pumpkin. It also makes an excellent lunch with buttered bread.

Gluten-free Vegan

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Bonfire Night recipes

Toffee apples

You can eat these toffee apples straight-up or, for the ultimate dessert, add them to the top of our toffee apple sticky- toffee pudding.

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Blood splatter cake

Make Halloween more gruesome with our blood splatter cake. It's surprisingly easy and wonderfully-effective – the perfect party bake.

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Chocolate spiderweb cupcakes

Make this Halloween extra spooky with chocolate spiderweb cupcakes. Easy-to-make and even easier to eat – these are treats that the whole family will enjoy.