17 Easy Halloween Recipes

I’ve always loved Halloween. It gives me an excuse to eat candy. The flip side is having to prepare last-minute Halloween Dishes. Who hasn’t had a child state at 8:30 PM that they will need 30 snacks for the School Halloween Party tomorrow? Or, if this hasn’t happened to you yet, maybe you’d like to jazz up your Halloween with special dishes, but want simple recipes. Whatever the case, we’ve got 17 Easy Halloween Recipes, including everything from drinks to snacks. Most of these require minimal ingredients and can be made quickly. Let’s get this party started!
17-Easy-Halloween-Recipes

17 Easy Halloween Recipes

Halloween Drinks:

Eyeball Punch Recipe – This gluten-free punch has four ingredients and can be made in around five minutes. Chill the ingredients in advance to keep the punch colder longer. You can use your choice of orange beverage in this one; orange juice, orange soda, or, for a more upscale version, blood orange soda.  Not sure where to find the eyeball candy? Check your local dollar store.
Easy Eyeball Punch

Easy Zombie Punch Recipe – Another four-ingredient punch, this gluten-free version uses lime sherbet and a bag of candy body parts from the dollar store. Kids can help mix the punch and decorate serving cups with the candy body parts.
Easy Halloween Recipe Zombie Punch

Embalming Fluid Punch – This gluten-free, three-ingredient punch is a twist on an Orange Shirley Temple recipe.  If you’d like to make this into a grown-up drink, just add a touch of peach schnapps.
Embalming Fluid Punch

Easy Zombie Ice Cubes – Tired of ice melting in your drinks, making them watery and flavorless? Try these simple zombie ice cubes made with two ingredients!
Zombie Ice Cubes Recipe

Halloween Main Dishes:

Mummy Chicken– This gluten-free Mummy Chicken recipe has five ingredients and can be completed in around 30 minutes. While the chicken is baking, boil the noodles and slice the string cheese.  This is a kid’s favorite recipe for Halloween.
Mummy-Chicken

Easy Cyclops Sandwiches – This sandwich can be prepared with your child’s favorite filling. I used cheese, but you can substitute lunch meat or whatever your heart desires.  Make this a cute gluten-free treat by substituting gluten-free bread.

Halloween Desserts:

Gruesome Green Toes – Another recipe with only three or four ingredients, depending on whether you purchase green candy melts or go the more frugal route and use green food coloring. These cookies require a drying time of around five minutes before completing the second side.
Gruesome-Green-Toes-Halloween-Cookies

Easy Goblin Feet Cookies – While you’re whipping up the Gruesome Green Toes, use the same ingredients to make these cute Goblin Feet. The only difference is that you’ll need chopped peanuts or cashews instead of fruit candy.
Goblin Feet Cookies

Creepy Spider Cakes – Who says you can’t use prepackaged mixes to create something cute? This recipe uses a boxed cake mix and canned chocolate frosting to make these adorable spiders. Use the leftover cake for a trifle or a crumb topping for ice cream.
Creepy Spider Cakes

Bloodshot Eyeballs – Dip Oreos in white chocolate and top with candy eyeballs in this four-ingredient recipe. If you need a gluten-free version of this recipe, substitute gluten-free sandwich cookies.
Bloodshot Eyeball Cookies

Spooky Ghost Cake –  Another quick recipe using a boxed cake mix and frosting.  Who knew a simple cake could be so spooky?
Ghost cake recipe

Zombie Parfait – I used a purchased cheesecake to create these parfaits in around 15 minutes.  If you have more time, you can prepare a homemade cheesecake filling. Zombie hands can be found at the dollar store.
zombie parfait recipe

Witch’s Hat Cookies – These Witch’s Hat Cookies have only three ingredients and you can whip up an entire plateful in 15 minutes. Kids can help with these treats by unwrapping the candies and placing them on top of the fudge striped cookies. Add orange, purple, or green food coloring to the icing to give the cookies more color.
Witch's Hat Cookies

Halloween Snacks:

Zombie Blood Jello –  This is one of the easiest recipes ever! Green gelatin is mixed with lemon-lime soda and a touch of cherry-flavored syrup. Top it with candy gummy pieces or plastic zombie hands for a snack that is to die for!
Zombie Blood Jello

Slime Popcorn – Microwave popcorn is the base of this quick recipe. Mix it with green candy melts and candy eyeballs and you’ll have a dish worthy of Slimer.
Slime Popcorn Recipe

Monster Mix Crunch – Three ingredients is all that is needed to make this sweet and salty treat. I use a bag of microwave popcorn to save time.
Monster Munch Mix

Graveyard S’mores Cups – All the goodness of s’mores without the campfire!
graveyard smores cups recipe

These easy Halloween recipes will help your next party, last-minute treat, or dinner become a touch more spooky and a little less hectic. Do you have a favorite easy Halloween recipe?

19 Comments

  1. These are really cute Halloween recipes, I need to try few for kids too. I would love to try it with them.

  2. My family would love these! I’m going to give a few a try!

  3. They look amazing, spooky and fun! I am sure my kids would want to try some of these recipes!

  4. I always like a good themed punch. It somehow tastes so much better when it looks fun.

  5. I love this! That skeleton hand holding the drink is awesome I need that! All of these are fun!

  6. I’m loving all these great ideas. My daughters and I love making Halloween recipes. They are the best. I see some that we will have to try out.

  7. They all look spooky, but I’m sure they all taste good. I want to try the mummy chicken first. My husband and son are huge fans of chicken so that would be a hit.

  8. These are so fun and festive. I love these ideas so much. The zombie eyeballs are definitely going on my list of things to make!

  9. I don’t think I can eat them at all. Creepiest set of meal I’ve seen ever. That eyeball punch is something else.

  10. Halloween is in the air! I am so loving these Halloween recipes so much! These Mummy Chicken recipe, Gruesome Green Toes and Goblin Feet cookies are perfect for kids Halloween parties. Thanks for sharing!

  11. We always make something for Halloween as a tradition so we will be checking this out. We may make a few of these.

  12. This is a wonderful rundown of things to make for Halloween, I have to admit I’ve not even started to think about what recipes to put together yet – that is something I should really do soon!

  13. You have so many great Halloween recipes posted. I want to try the Zombie parfait. Oreos are one of my biggest weaknesses so you can go wrong with this dessert choice.

  14. My niece loves Halloween and always has a big party. I’m passing these cute recipes along to her.

  15. Oh my gosh, my kids would love these! We’ll have to make some of them for sure. We’ll start off with the slime popcorn for movie night!

  16. I would love to make the slime popcorn and the zombie blood jello. It is just spooky enough that my granddaughter would have fun making it with me.

  17. These are some great ideas for snacks and drinks. Halloween is rapidly approaching and now I dont have to worry about what to make thanks to this blog

  18. Eyeball punch is calling my name. That looks so fun. It would be perfect for when watching Hocus Pocus.

  19. You have so many fun ideas here. My kids will LOVE that eyeball punch!