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Make your Halloween night extra spooky this year by trying out some of our fun Halloween food ideas. From drinks to dinner to desserts, we’ve got you covered! Be sure to grab our complete menu plan for a spooky Halloween dinner along with our printable shopping list.
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Halloween food is so much more than all that candy! When it comes to feeding your little ghosts and goblins before heading out to trick-or-treat this October, fill their tummies with good food before they start in on sugar.
This post includes all the Halloween food ideas you need from drinks to dessert, plus a bonus sample meal plan and shopping list – all the work is done for you!
Halloween Drinks
Just like Halloween dinner ideas, the possibilities for Halloween drinks are endless. We’ve all taken the shortcut of throwing plastic eyeballs or gummy worms into a mix of juice and soda, and that works great, but the fall flavors in these drinks make them extra special. For Harry Potter themed Halloween parties, you try one of our specialty Harry Potter drinks. They are the perfect companion to any of our Halloween dinners. Click on any image below for the recipe.
Halloween Appetizers
These spooky and eye-catching appetizers are so fun to make and will dress up any October dinner table or party snack buffet. Ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and guests will enjoy some savory Halloween food options to eat on Halloween night. For a Halloween party, set out these appetizers along with sweeter treats. Click on any image below for the recipe.
Halloween Dinner Ideas
A hot, savory, and filling dinner was always on the menu for Halloween night during our childhood. It wasn’t until we were older that we figured out what Mom was doing. She wanted to fill our tummies with good, wholesome food before we ate a bunch of candy. It worked! I don’t remember any of us ever getting sick on Halloween. Now we all do the same for our kids. Try our dinner or soup cooked in the oven inside a pumpkin. The cooking pumpkin fills the house with delicious smells! Mix and match to create your ideal Halloween dinner. Click on any image below for the recipe.
Halloween Dessert Ideas for Adults
Oh, how we LOVE our Halloween desserts! For the adults who don’t want to settle for candy, any fall-inspired dessert with pumpkin is a great choice for Halloween. Make them extra for Halloween by adding black frosting spiders or garnish with candy corn pumpkins.
Halloween Treats for Kids
Just in case you aren’t getting enough sugar this Halloween while trick-or-treating, here are some ideas for some kid-friendly Halloween treats. These are perfect for class parties, potlucks, a witch’s night out, or trunk-or-treats. Pick up some candy eyeballs next time you go to a craft store. Those candy eyes come in handy for turning basic cookies, cupcakes, or even graham crackers into something spooky, like monsters!
Spooky Halloween Dinner Menu
Our Spooky Halloween Dinner menu includes all of the Halloween recipes you need for a frightfully easy Halloween dinner PLUS, we have a shopping list for you to download with all of the ingredients you will need to make each menu item. This what’s on the menu: Spaghetti and eyeballs, Caesar spider salad, mummy garlic bread, Halloween punch with shrunken heads, and spider cake for dessert.
Main Dish: Spaghetti with Eyeballs
- Use your favorite canned spaghetti sauce, spaghetti pasta, store bought meatballs, cheese and olives. See the recipe below for more details.
- To give the spaghetti the twirled “nest” look, just twist big scoops spaghetti with a fork in a ladle (my niece Kelsey taught me how to do this and I LOVE how it looks)!
- Serve with a side of parmesan cheese for sprinkling.
Side Dish: Caesar Spider Salad
- For this simple side, just use a bagged Caesar salad kit and place plastic spiders over the top.
- If you want to add eyeballs to this, slice grape tomatoes in half, slice off a circle of string cheese, and add an olive (much like the meatballs in the spaghetti).
- You can also add grilled chicken and serve this salad as more of a main course.
Bread: Mummy Cheesy Garlic Bread
- To make this mummy bread, cut up some strips of mozzarella cheese (strips of string cheese work well too).
- Place them on a bakery garlic bread.
- Heat the bread in the oven at 375 degrees for about 5 minutes.
- Finally, add a couple olive slices for “eyes”.
Halloween Punch: Shrunken (Apple) Head Punch
- This is a fun way to get your kids involved in dinner preparation. Let them “carve” their own jack-o lanterns out of apples. They’ll get a kick out of seeing their apple “heads” floating in the punch!
- Slice each apple in half and let the kids carve out faces.
- Bake the apple halves in the oven at 200-degrees for about 10 minutes and then put them in the fridge to cool.
- You can also use a cookie cutter to create fun shapes in the apples.
- For the punch, use 2 liters of water, 2 liters ginger ale (chilled), 46 oz pineapple juice (chilled), and 4 Jolly Rancher Green Apple “On-The-Go” packets. Instead of putting ice in the punch bowl, you can put the ice in the individual glasses to prevent the juice from being watered down.
Dessert: Giant Spider Cake
This might be my favorite thing on the whole menu (and my favorite Halloween dinner idea overall!). This is so fun to make and the finished product looks SO COOL.
See our full recipe post for Spider Cake for the ingredients and instructions.
Halloween Dinner Shopping List
To make things nice and easy for you, we have put together a shopping list for this particular meal plan. Here’s what you need for this easy Halloween dinner meal plan. The dinner feeds 4-6, the dessert feeds 12-15. You can download this list to your phone or to print below:
Shopping List to Download or Print
Spooky Halloween Dinner Menu
Spooky Halloween Dinner
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Ingredients
Spaghetti and Eyeballs
- 16 ounces spaghetti noodles (prepared according to packagedirections)
- 24 ounces jar spaghetti sauce (heated according to package directions)
- 24 ounces pre-cooked frozen meatballs (cooked according to package directions)
- 2-3 slices part-skim mozzarella cheese
- sliced black olives (to taste)
- pimento-stuffed green olives (to taste)
Caesar "Spider" Salad
- 1 Caesar Salad Kit
- 3-4 Large black olives (or plastic spiders)
Mummy Cheesy Garlic Bread
- 1 loaf prepared garlic bread
- 1 pound Mozzarella cheese
- 2 olive slices
Shrunken Apple Head Punch
- 2 liters cold water
- 2 liters ginger ale chilled
- 46 ounces pineapple juice chilled
- 4 Jolly Rancher Green Apple "On-The-Go" packets
- 4-6 Granny Smith apples, small
Instructions
Spaghetti and Eyeballs
- Cook noodles, sauce, and meatballs according to package directions.
- Combine noodles and sauce. Mix until well combined. Form "nests" of noodles by twirling noodles in a serving ladle with a fork and then placing in a serving bowl (see example of lemon spaghetti nests).
- After meatballs have cooled slightly, cut out circles of mozzarella cheese and place one circle on each meatball. Place one black olive slice over the cheese circle. Gently place meatballs randomly over the spaghetti. Add green olives over the top, to taste.
Caesar "Spider" Salad
- Add salad mix to a bowl. Place plastic spiders on top.
- For olive spiders, cut a large olive to look like a spider by cutting the olive in half. Place half of olive on salad. Slice the other half of the olive into 8 legs. Place legs around the "body of the spider. See example of olive spider on our Halloween deviled eggs.
Mummy Cheesy Garlic Bread
- Cut up some strips of mozzarella cheese (strips of string cheese work well too). Strategically place the strips on one half of the garlic bread to look like mummy wrap. Place on a foil lined baking sheet and bake at 375 degrees for about 5 minutes, or until the cheese starts to melt. Add olive slices for eyes.
Shrunken Apple Head Punch
- Slice each apple in half and let the kids carve out faces. Bake the apple halves in the oven at 200-degrees for about 10 minutes and then put them in the fridge to cool. Combine cold water, ginger ale (chilled), pineapple juice, and Jolly Rancher Green Apple “On-The-Go” packets in a punch bowl. Stir well. Add shrunken apple heads.
Spider Cake (click for recipe instructions)
- Make cake according to directions on Spider Cake recipe.
Thank you Erica! Having a sleepover with my Granddaughters next weekend and Spaghetti and meatballs is their favorite. I am definetly going to make this supper, soooo adorable! They will love it. Maybe turn it into a little party with a couple of their cousins. Thank you so much for sharing.
Oh wow – so many great ideas to save! My favorite would probably be spaghetti with meatball eyes – so spooky! 😉
This is such a delicious recipe! Can’t wait to try it for Halloween!
These are such fun Halloween dinner ideas for kids!
I love all these options to create a wonderful Halloween themed dinner!
All these ideas look amazing and perfect for a Halloween theme! Looking forward to making that bundt cake 🙂
overall i would rate this a 4 star because the treat recipes do not give the recipe