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Our best Halloween recipes that will go down a treat

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Tricks and treats

It’s the time of year when pumpkins get carved, costumes are made and all things terrifying make an appearance. As supermarket shelves are filled with Halloween-themed treats, we’ve come up with quick and easy recipes you can make yourself. Get into the Halloween spirit with these sweet and savoury treats kids of all ages will love.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Creepy sausage mummies

Making these little fellows is as easy as wrapping sausages in a string of puff pastry and baking them in an oven until cooked. For maximum impact, use cloves for eyes. If you prefer a fishy twist, try these mackerel mummies.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Spooky pumpkin sushi

Impress your Halloween party guests with this easy-to-make snack. Cook some sushi rice according to packet instructions and roll into round balls. Cover each one with a slice of smoked salmon, then add facial features by cutting out shapes from a nori sheet.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Hot dog fingers

For a spooktacular hot dog, shape frankfurters with a knife – cut off the top of the sausage in a nail-like shape and make various-sized incisions to represent knuckles. Once cooked, smother in a layer of tomato ketchup for a blood effect.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Terrifying spider cookies

To make these eight-legged creatures, bake a batch of vanilla sugar cookies. Once cooled, stick Reese’s peanut butter cups on the cookie, add some sweets for eyes and pipe chocolate ganache for legs – scary treats don’t get easier than that.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Pumpkin head cake pops

What’s better than food on a stick? Start with a deliciously simple recipe, such as these vanilla cake pops. When they’re done, use the back of your knife to shape the ball into a pumpkin, add some orange food colouring to melted white chocolate and dip. Once glazed, leave to dry and finish off by piping on a face with chocolate ganache.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Spider web pumpkin soup

For this ingenious Halloween meal, begin with a recipe for an orange-coloured cream soup, such as this classic pumpkin soup or a roast vegetable version. Add some Halloween flair by drawing a spider web using double cream when you serve. It’s easiest to do if you use a squeezy sauce bottle.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Grissini ghosts

These grissini ghosts are a fun recipe for getting the kids involved. Dip the grissini into white icing to create several layers of coating until it starts to resemble a ghost-like shape. Then, using a toothpick, draw on a face with melted chocolate.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

These funny-looking villains might seem rather elaborate and time-consuming. In practice, all you need to do is stick together two cookies with chocolate-flavoured icing and decorate with marshmallows – it really is that easy.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Spooky gingerbread

It’s a nightmare before Christmas and gingerbread reindeers and snowmen have taken the shapes of ghosts, skeletons and witches’ hats. If you’re not a fan of gingerbread, try these Halloween chocolate cookies instead.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Cheesy mummy toast

Treat the little ones (or yourself) on Halloween morning and make these cheesy mummies. Spread tomato ketchup over a slice of bread, layer on thin slices of cheese, then pop them under a grill for a few minutes, until the cheese starts to melt and the bread is toasted. Once done, add halved olives for eyes and enjoy a spooky breakfast.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Green apple monsters…

To make these treats, remove the core from an apple and quarter it. Then, using a sharp knife, cut out a triangular shape to represent the mouth. Stick in a few pumpkin seeds for teeth and use toothpicks to attach marshmallow eyes.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

… or one-eyed green apple monsters

For these green rascals, prepare the apple as before, cover the inside of the apple (the mouth) with peanut butter and press in whole peanuts for teeth.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Angry pasta

Serve your Halloween dinner with a twist and use cheese, tomatoes and olives to create angry monster faces on your pasta. This green slime eyeball pasta is great for a slightly more terrifying meal. Just make sure to watch the spice in the sauce if you’re feeding little ones too.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Meatball mummies

This is similar to the recipe for sausage mummies, but instead of using sausages wrap thin straps of puff pastry around several meatballs that are pressed together. Once cooked, drizzle over ketchup and serve.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Spooky banana ghosts

If you’re short on time and have a bar of chocolate in the cupboard, you’re all set. To make these spooky bananas, simply cut the top half off a banana, melt the chocolate and use the end of a spoon to add the eyes and the mouth. Once decorated, leave them in the fridge for a few minutes for the chocolate to set.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Witches’ fingers

If you’re a confident baker, try making these eerily realistic fingers from shortbread or bread. For a quicker take on witches’ fingers, try this witch fish fingers recipe.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Monster pizza

Serve up some Halloween terror on a pizza by decorating a cooked margherita with salami teeth and mozzarella-olive eyes for a hair-raising bite.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Halloween monster deserts

If you’ve got a couple of glass serving bowls at home, making this dessert couldn’t be any easier. Layer crumbled chocolate cookies or brownies with pumpkin mascarpone cream. To make the latter, simply whisk together mascarpone, icing sugar and vanilla with whipped cream, then add pumpkin purée, making sure not to split the mixture. Top with marshmallow eyes.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Crawly devilled eggs

Arachnophobes beware – these canapés will send chills down your spine. To make these edible creepy crawlies, all you have to do is decorate devilled eggs with olives. Use halved olives for the body and thin slices for legs.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Zombie pears

All you need to create these little pear zombies are pears, raspberries and some raspberry juice. Use a small paring knife to carve out the eyes and the mouth and add a bit of raspberry juice until it starts to colour the pear. Use blueberries or blackcurrants for eyes and add a slightly crushed raspberry to the mouth. For an especially morbid look, slice off the top of the pear and add a walnut for the brain.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Cheese ball bats

To create these flying menaces you’ll need some soft cheese, rolled up in a ball. To stop the cheese balls from sticking to the plate, roll them in crushed pistachios and use halved olives for eyes. If you can get your hands on coloured tortilla chips, they will make excellent bat wings and ears.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Frankenstein toast

Add a Halloween touch to your breakfast by turning your avocado toast into a Frankenstein monster. All you’ll need are some olives, red pepper and thinly sliced radishes.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Scary pie

Scaredy-cats, looks away now. This apple, plum and cinnamon skillet pie recipe will be perfect for this wicked design. Forget about creating a lattice on top – instead, cover with a sheet of pastry with a carved-out face.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Boo-tiful witches’ hats

If you’re not afraid to play around with some food dye and edible confetti, making these sweet treats is super easy. Just stick a chocolate cone to a biscuit base using purple-coloured buttercream and add sprinkles for maximum impact.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Last-minute fix

If Halloween has fallen off your radar this year and you’ve got no time to spare, this is the trick for you. Use a black marker to draw evil faces on clementines and you’re good to go.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Beetroot pie

Oh the wonders of beetroot… here it’s used in a sweet pie, mixed with sugar and spice to make a Halloween centrepiece. All you’ll need for this recipe is shortcrust pastry, vacuum-packed beetroot, eggs, sugar, mixed spice, allspice, ginger and a little double cream. Serve with crème fraîche.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Green slime eyeball pasta with fiery hell sauce

Wow, you certainly wouldn’t find that on a restaurant menu. Chef Rob Cottam goes all out with squidgy eyeballs (mini mozzarella balls shoved inside half a cherry tomato, with a pinch of basil in the middle for a pupil) nestled on a bed of gloopy red sauce and green pasta.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Chocolate muffin spiders

Lorraine Pascale’s cute spider muffins are decorated with confectionery, so they might be best made with some of your kids’ hoard from the night before (with their permission and help of course!). These are also slightly healthier for you than ‘regular’ muffins, says Lorraine.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Halloween cookies

Pictured above, these spooky cookies require some specially-shaped cutters but are really simple and very fun. Children will love decorating these as a Halloween activity, along with some classic apple-bobbing.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Vincent Price’s ghoulish Goulash

You may remember Vincent Price as the horror actor extraordinaire in classics such as Witchfinder General and The Abominable Dr Phibes.  Or your abiding memory of him may be the maniacal laugh at the end of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. But Vincent not only was a great thespian with a mellifluous voice, he was also a superb cook. Try his famous ghoulish Goulash.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Roast pumpkin soup with blue cheese

Nothing says Halloween like the colour orange. Jose Pizarro’s roast pumpkin soup is flavoured with garlic and rosemary, then topped with toasted bread slathered in strong blue cheese. Drizzle with a little olive oil before serving, and make sure you warm your bowls first.

food, our best halloween recipes that will go down a treat

Pumpkin and pecan cake

Not really a practical one to give out to spooky guests at the door, this is a refined alternative for those who want to enjoy a quiet evening with a nice cup of tea. Or if you want to make something delicious once you’ve carved out your pumpkin. It comes with the delights of pumpkin, cream cheese icing and crunchy pecan nuts in every slice.

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