28 halloween recipes

Mashed potato ghosts shape creamy mashed potatoes into ghost silhouettes using foil stencils, with black olive eyes and mouths. Fun Halloween side dish for kids and grown-ups.

Hearty Halloween soup with ground turkey, red potatoes, tomatoes, and vermicelli in an herbed broth with turkey gravy. A warming one-pot meal for a chilly October night.

Halloween fig spooks cupcakes built from cake mix studded with chopped figs, topped with a whole dried fig and draped in white buttercream icing for little ghost-shaped treats.

Halloween hairball salad: walnut-sized balls of mashed avocado and alfalfa sprouts rolled up and perched on grated carrots, finished with Italian dressing. Kid-friendly ghoulish fun.

A Halloween Waldorf salad shaped like a werewolf with carrot fangs, alfalfa sprout fur, and radish eyeballs. Crisp apples, walnuts, and raisins in a creamy dressing kids love.

Halloween beef stew with orzo "maggots" kids love. Flour-coated stew beef browned with tomatoes, carrots, green beans, and thyme. Spooky fun, seriously good.

Peanut butter balls rolled in coconut and shaped into spiders with licorice legs and raisin eyes. A fun no-bake Halloween craft snack kids can make in 10 minutes.

Crispy chow mein noodles coated in melted chocolate and shaped into spooky spider clusters. These no-bake Halloween treats take just 15 minutes to make.

Halloween Ghosts in the Graveyard dessert with chocolate pudding, crushed Oreo dirt, and whipped topping ghosts. No-bake party favorite kids love decorating themselves.

Pumpkin sheet cake: a fast, one-bowl fall cake loaded with canned pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg. Moist, not-too-sweet, and big enough to feed a potluck without breaking a sweat.

Bloody bug juice is a fizzy Halloween punch made with mashed strawberries, lemonade, and ginger ale. Raisins and blueberries float to the top like creepy crawly bugs. Kids go wild for it!

Asparagus can be used in Halloween for a snack fingers, looking for white asparagus for these thin fingers!