Super-Speedy Halloween Treats

If you need a Halloween snack in a flash, these recipes fit the bill: They're easy to make and scarily fun.

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Wicked-Easy Trail Mix

Haunted Owl Pretzel

Sandwich Spooks

Monster Mouths

Moldy Popcorn Balls

Bet-Your-Life Marshmallow Dice

Jack-o'-Lantern Sandwiches

Graveyard Dip

Mad Scientist Mix

Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes

Pretzel Skeletons

Bat Cookies

Graveyard Gravel Fudge

Mice Cookies

Handy Pretzels

White-as-a-Ghost Pops

Wicked Witch's Popcorn Hat

Cocoa Cat Cookies

Chocolate Witch Hats

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Wicked-Easy Trail Mix

Nothing scary about this hauntingly easy snack. Cereal, peanuts, yogurt-covered raisins, and banana chips combine for a tasty treat. Add candy corn for extra Halloween attitude.

Editor's Tip: For a Halloween party display, layer black and white cupcake liners, and machine-stitch through both layers to craft tiny snack baskets. Thread a length of black-and-white covered wire or pipe cleaner through opposite sides of the baskets to serve as handles.

Treetop Trail Mix

Makes: 6 servings

Start to Finish: 5 mins

Haunted Owl Pretzel

Everyone will hoot with delight at this owl's haunting appearance. Dip large soft pretzels in melted white candy coating. Layer sandwich cookies, white candies, and chocolate chips for wide-open eyes. Use leftover candy coating to attach bits of black licorice for eyebrows. Dust with black sugar, add a black jelly bean nose, and use black licorice candies to make feet.

Check out owl-theme party ideas.

Sandwich Spooks

Conjure some welcome spirits for Halloween snacks. Start with a basic peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Cut it into a ghost shape using a cookie cutter. Press two raisin eyes into bread. Use peanut butter to attach eyes, if necessary. Use small cookie cutters to make snack-size treats or a large cutter for a haunted lunch centerpiece.

Editor's Tip: To feed lots of hungry ghouls, cut out sandwiches using Halloween-theme cookie cutters in shapes such as pumpkins, witch hats, and cats to make an eerie and fun sandwich platter.

Monster Mouths

These mouthy monsters have a real bite -- a delicious one. Apples and peanut butter form mouths gaping with crooked candy corn teeth for a monstrously fun snack in minutes.

Monster Mouths

Makes: 4 servings

Start to Finish: 20 mins

Moldy Popcorn Balls

Argh! These Halloween treats look like they've been decaying in a deep, dark cavern, but they're a real treasure. Dress up favorite popcorn balls with a dose of green food coloring for a gruesome gem your little pirates will search for.

Old-Fashioned Popcorn Balls

Yield: about 20 popcorn balls

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 25 mins to 26 mins 300°F

Bet-Your-Life Marshmallow Dice

A roll of the dice can decide who survives your haunted party, but these treats are always a winner. Cut homemade or store-bought marshmallows into large cubes. Make the dots on each side using edible cake-decorating markers. Stack the dice in favor of fun!

Editor's Tip: Homemade marshmallows require significant chilling time. If you don't have time to wait, online confectioners offer a wide assortment of the gourmet treats. Some are already cut into the cube shape.

Homemade Marshmallows

Makes: 80 servings

Prep: 30 mins

Chill: 5 hrs

Cook: 12 mins to 15 mins

Jack-o'-Lantern Sandwiches

Carve a little fun into snack time. Open-face bologna-and-cheese sandwiches are easier to carve than a pumpkin. Use small cookie cutters to cut jack-o'-lantern features into cheese slices. Remove crusts from bread slices, and trim bologna slices to fit the bread. Layer the cheese face on top, and complete the pumpkin with a bread-crust stem and basil leaf.

Explore pumpkin patch party ideas.

Graveyard Dip

Crooked pretzel walls define a mysterious graveyard, while tombstone-shape dippers hint at what's beneath the surface. But there's no mystery about how much you'll love this delicious dip with it's buried layers of hummus, honeyed onion, and garlic-seasoned yogurt.

Graveyard Dip

Yield: 12 appetizer servings

Prep: 25 mins

Cook: 20 mins

Mad Scientist Mix

This experiment always succeeds! Popcorn, nuts, and cereal make ideal test subjects, and a kicky honey-mustard potion ensures the results are always positive.

Honey-Mustard Snack Mix

Yield: Makes 7 cups

Prep: 10 mins

Bake: 20 mins

Oven: 300°F

Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes

Grow a little Halloween fun at snack time. Cupcakes take on Halloween charm with some quick decorating magic. Mound bright orange frosting on cupcakes then gently roll the entire top or just the edge in orange decorating sugar, alternating fine and coarse sugars for the look you prefer. To make indentations that resemble the lines of a pumpkin, press a wooden skewer on top of sugared cupcakes, spacing evenly. Finish with pretzel-stick stems.

Editor's Tip: Bake or buy mini, regular, and jumbo cupcakes to create three sizes for your pumpkin patch.

Simple White Cupcakes with Creamy Frosting

Makes: 12 servings

Yield: 12 cupcakes

Prep: 30 mins

Cool: 1 hr

Bake: 18 mins to 20 mins 350°F

Pretzel Skeletons

Eek! There's a skeleton on that plate! He's made with pretzel sticks and cheese spread, and sure to tickle a child's funny bone.

Mr. Bones

Makes: 14 servings

Start to Finish: 30 mins

Bat Cookies

With loads of chocolate and yummy ingredients, these winged bats will fly right off the plate.

Batty Bites

Graveyard Gravel Fudge

Shape "stones" from an easy shortcut fudge, and roll them in cocoa powder dust. They look frighteningly like the real thing.

Graveyard Gravel

Yield: about 80 pieces (2 1/4 lbs)

Prep: 35 mins

Chill: 2 hrs

Cook: 5 mins

See more ideas from the Eerie Halloween Wedding Party.

Mice Cookies

You won't have to set a trap for these mice. Hungry kids will get rid of these spice cookie mice in no time.

Spiced Mice

Makes: 36 servings

Yield: 36 cookies

Prep: 30 mins

Chill: 5 hrs to 24 hrs

Bake: 8 mins to 10 mins 375°F

Handy Pretzels

Hand these fingerlike treats over to guests as an eerie party buffet offering. Dip large pretzel sticks into melted white candy coating and add nails of sliced almonds. Display the fingers in a jar covered with an old shirt cuff.

White-as-a-Ghost Pops

Food always tastes better when served on a stick. These cereal ghosts are dipped in melted candy coating.

White-as-a-Ghost Pops

Makes: 16 servings

Prep: 50 mins

Stand: 2 hrs

Wicked Witch's Popcorn Hat

Decorate this treat witch-ever way you want. To summon up an oddball spirit, go wacky with crazy colors. For something a little more wicked, choose traditional black and orange food coloring pastes. Either way, the popcorn-and-candy snack hints that a wayward crone has passed these parts, casting a colorfully crazy spell on your party.

Wicked Witch's Hat

Yield: 1 witchs hat

Start to Finish: 1 hr

Cocoa Cat Cookies

Bake and decorate a litter of these witch's cats. The dough is a brew of orange and chocolate flavors.

Cocoa Cats

Makes: 60 servings

Prep: 40 mins

Chill: 1 hr

Bake: 7 mins to 9 mins 375°F

Chocolate Witch Hats

Sandwich a layer of chocolate frosting between purchased chocolate cookies for a hat brim. Top with a chocolate ice cream cone, held in place with more frosting. Use frosting bags with decorative tips to embellish the witch hats.

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