Quick Halloween Party Food

Perfect for fall gatherings, these adorable truffles are made with sweet pumpkin bread and decadent cream cheese frosting. The treats make for perfect Halloween finger foods at any holiday party.

For a horrifyingly delicious Halloween food recipe, use mini Halloween-theme cookie cutters to cut out pieces of cheese and meat. Place the creepy cutouts on top of your favorite crackers and accent with leaves of dark green lettuce. Small black olive pieces easily embellish these creative crackers.

These cute cupcakes look like a lot of work, but they can be made in a pinch—simply add the decorations to store-bought cupcakes. Serve the treats at any (and all!) fall and Halloween parties this season.

Your favorite cupcakes can easily become a plate of Halloween desserts. Make cupcakes wicked fun with these easy-to-create pointy witch shoes. Download our witch shoe pattern and print onto cardstock; cut out. Using white chalk, trace the shoe patterns onto black cardstock; cut out. Cut striped straws into 2-1/4-inch lengths. Cut a tiny slit in each straw, and insert the shoe cutouts into the slits.

This frighteningly beautiful cake will stop guests in their tracks—no matter how extravagant your Halloween food spread is. Only you will know how sinfully simple it is to make.

For an easy Halloween party snack, toss together equal amounts candy corn, pretzels, peanuts, and corn chips. The delicious combination of sweet and salty will have this tasty appetizer disappearing in no time.

Your Halloween party guests won't be able to resist these creepy eyeballs. To make, gradually add 1 cup sifted powdered sugar to 1/2 cup peanut butter, stirring until combined. Shape into 1-inch balls; place on waxed paper until dry. Melt 8 ounces white candy coating in a heavy saucepan, stirring over low heat until smooth. Cool slightly. Dip balls, one at a time, into coating. Place on waxed paper; let stand until coating is firm. Using a small paintbrush, paint red food coloring on the coated peanut butter balls to look like veins, and pipe on small dots of black icing for pupils.

Your Halloween party guests will love grabbing these creepy bags of snack mix! The sweet mix will have them coming back for more.

Scare up some fun with these spooky poison-apple candies. Green apple gum balls get the Halloween sweet treatment with a drizzle of black icing and licorice for a treat that's almost too spooky to eat.

Turn a simple cheese ball into the perfect Halloween party food by dressing it up as a playful pumpkin. Roll the prepared ball in crushed nacho-cheese-flavor snack chips and place on a kale-lined platter. Cut a black olive into two triangle-shape pieces for the eyes and press into the cheese ball. Add three olive halves to form the grin (you may need to remove chips from these areas so the olives stick). Place a mini pickle on top for a stem.

Festive-color frosting topped with a polka-dot pattern is an easy way to decorate your Halloween party cupcakes for an impressive yet fuss-free impact. Use orange and brown frosting and candy-coated chocolate pieces for a polka-dot contrast in classic Halloween colors.

An addictive mix of salty and sweet, this colorful candy bark will be a hit at any Halloween party. Best of all, it's super easy to make!

When shaped into a simple pumpkin, hummus transforms into the perfect festive Halloween party food. Scoop hummus onto a serving plate, cover with finely shredded carrots, and make a stem from a piece of green onion. It's that easy!

Made from sweet candies, these scurrying spiders will have partygoers squealing with delight. Melt candy coating or candy disks and place in a resealable plastic bag; snip off a small corner. Pipe spider legs onto a baking sheet lined with waxed paper and sprinkle with nonpareils; chill until firm. Squeeze small circles of melted coating onto another baking sheet lined with waxed paper, and insert eight chilled legs into each circle. Add a 1-inch candy truffle on top of each circle for the body, and use small candies or frosting for the eyes. Chill until firm.

Need an extra hand with your Halloween party buffet? Not with these simple fingerlike sweets! Dip large pretzels or breadsticks into melted white candy coating, and add sliced almonds to the ends for fingernails. For a more horrifying Halloween party food display, place the pretzel fingers in a jar wrapped in an old shirt cuff.

A 9-inch round chocolate cake (from a box or from scratch) can be trimmed and decorated to look like many people's worst nightmare: a spider. But with rolled wafer-cookie legs—held together with melted chocolate—and a chocolate sprinkle-coated body, this spider cake is a delight instead of a fright. Give it a classy-creepy appeal by keeping it faceless, or a kid-friendly look using licorice, chocolate pieces, and other candies.