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Halloween

Halloween Food: 7 Ideas to Try This Year

These Halloween food ideas range from savory mains to a full dessert table. Each photo shows a finished dish or spread you can recreate for a party, with the simplest options needing only a few garnishes to look the part.

Three bowls of Halloween pasta: black spaghetti with mushroom skulls, pumpkin-shaped ravioli in orange sauce, and spaghetti topped with mozzarella eyeballs with black olive pupils, on a dark table with mini pumpkins and toy spiders

Spooky Halloween Pasta: Eyeball Spaghetti, Skull Mushrooms & Pumpkin Ravioli

Food

Serve all three pastas together for a dinner-party main course — the eyeball spaghetti needs only mozzarella balls and sliced black olives over tomato sauce.

Halloween dessert table with an orange drip cake topped with ghost and pumpkin figures, mummy-wrapped hot dogs, ghost-shaped sugar cookies, chocolate truffles, pretzels, popcorn, mini dirt cups with RIP markers, and a lit jack-o'-lantern

Halloween Dessert Table With Drip Cake, Mummy Dogs & Ghost Cookies

Food

Build the table around one centerpiece cake, then fill in with make-ahead treats like ghost cookies, popcorn, and mummy hot dogs.

Mini monster burgers on a wooden board: sesame seed buns with green olive eyes, a slice of cheddar, white cheese fangs, lettuce and ketchup, with bat-shaped picks and a bowl of ketchup decorated with a spiderweb

Monster Mini Burgers With Olive Eyes and Cheese Fangs

Food

Turn ordinary sliders into monsters with green olive eyes, a cheddar slice, and two triangles of white cheese for fangs.

Three bowls of Halloween pasta: black spaghetti with mushroom skulls, pumpkin-shaped ravioli in orange sauce, and spaghetti topped with mozzarella eyeballs with black olive pupils, on a dark table with mini pumpkins and toy spiders

Spooky Halloween Pasta: Eyeball Spaghetti, Skull Mushrooms & Pumpkin Ravioli

Food

Serve all three pastas together for a dinner-party main course — the eyeball spaghetti needs only mozzarella balls and sliced black olives over tomato sauce.

Halloween dessert table with an orange drip cake topped with ghost and pumpkin figures, mummy-wrapped hot dogs, ghost-shaped sugar cookies, chocolate truffles, pretzels, popcorn, mini dirt cups with RIP markers, and a lit jack-o'-lantern

Halloween Dessert Table With Drip Cake, Mummy Dogs & Ghost Cookies

Food

Build the table around one centerpiece cake, then fill in with make-ahead treats like ghost cookies, popcorn, and mummy hot dogs.

Mini monster burgers on a wooden board: sesame seed buns with green olive eyes, a slice of cheddar, white cheese fangs, lettuce and ketchup, with bat-shaped picks and a bowl of ketchup decorated with a spiderweb

Monster Mini Burgers With Olive Eyes and Cheese Fangs

Food

Turn ordinary sliders into monsters with green olive eyes, a cheddar slice, and two triangles of white cheese for fangs.

Wicker boo basket filled with a white plush ghost, candy corn, pumpkin-wrapped candies, chocolate skulls, a small orange pumpkin and black taper candles, surrounded by autumn leaves, pinecones and dried orange slices
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Sweet treats for gifting: a boo basket of candy corn, wrapped pumpkin candies, and chocolate skulls with one plush ghost.

Oct 4, 2026·6 min read