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13 Great Halloween Treat Recipes

Updated August 17, 2020
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These Halloween-themed party treats—including fudgy cat cupcakes and pumpkin bars—will please both the young trick-or-treaters in your house as well as grown-ups.

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Eek, drink and be merry!

Catch the spirit of Halloween fun for a spooktacular time.  Deck the halls with pumpkins, cobwebs, ravens and more to match our ghoulishly good menu. Or just pick your favorite recipe, and let the kids help you make an after-school treat.

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Peanut Butter Cookie Pizza

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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.

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Fudgy Cats

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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.

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Ghoul's Punch

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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.

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Demon Dip

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

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Halloween Faces

Find a colorful baking-cup selection at your local crafts store or supermarket. Then mix up your favorite cake mix or cake recipe, filling the baking cups in the cupcake pan about half full. Cupcakes will bake at the same temperature called for in the cake recipe, but baking time will be reduced by one-third or one-half. To decorate, use purchased frosting or homemade butter frosting with orange food coloring. Look in supermarkets and candy stores for black gumdrops (which can be cut into shapes), licorice whips, jelly beans and black sugar.

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Alien Apples

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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.

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Brownie Cat Cupcakes

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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.

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Spooky Spread

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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.

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Devilish Eggs with Caviar

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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.

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Sour Cream Pumpkin Bars

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

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Pumpkin-Patch Snack Mix

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

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1 of 12 Eek, drink and be merry!
2 of 12 Peanut Butter Cookie Pizza
3 of 12 Fudgy Cats
4 of 12 Ghoul's Punch
5 of 12 Demon Dip
6 of 12 Halloween Faces
7 of 12 Alien Apples
8 of 12 Brownie Cat Cupcakes
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10 of 12 Devilish Eggs with Caviar
11 of 12 Sour Cream Pumpkin Bars
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