13 Great Halloween Treat Recipes

Put your jack-o-lantern skills to work on this cookie pizza that starts with purchased cookie dough. Let your friends or family help with the decorating, and every pizza will have its own personality.

Brownielike cutout cats add an autumnal touch to your seasonal party buffets. If you want a variety of shapes, try any cookie cutters you have on hand--such as pumpkins, bats or ghosts--and decorate accordingly.

Create an appropriately spooky centerpiece with our Ghoul's Punch. Eyeball candy on licorice rocks makes a striking, edible party tableau under cider punch. The fog drifting off the drink comes from the dry ice placed in a heavy metal cup set down in the punch. Dry ice is extremely cold; handle it with tongs.

This dip is actually a cheesy fondue we like with both bread and tortilla chips dunked into it.

What's out of the world about this sweet treat? It's the bittersweet chocolate and caramel finish on a juicy fall apple. Consider it a caramel apple with attitude.

A sugared cat cookie tops our brownie cupcake, set in a jellybean bed. Stand cat cookies upright on frosted cupcakes, or fashion a cat face on the cupcakes using different colors of frosting. Licorice whips make great whiskers.

An apple-and-cheddar spread gets a scary reputation when applied to a cracker with a finger-shaped knife. We hollowed a small pumpkin for the serving container for this spread—hauntingly good and loaded with cheddar, cream cheese, apple, carrot, nuts and currants.

Tinted noodles look and feel scary. We cooked and cooled regular spaghetti, then tossed it with food coloring. It keeps our deviled eggs from rolling and cushions our laboratory "brain"—a cauliflower floating in a jar.

Pumpkin bars or another bar cookie will be welcome not only at a Halloween party but any fall event. 

Pumpkin seeds and popcorn get jazzed up with your choice of cereal, pretzels, candy corn or corn nuts for this easy snack mix.