50 Best Halloween Snacks - Fun Ideas for Halloween Snack Recipes

Vampire Cookies

Turn basic chocolate chip cookies into festive mouthpieces with these vampire cookies, designed to look like vampire dentures. Just don't forget to take a bite out of this sweet treat before it takes a bite out of you.

Recipe from Delish

Pretzel Spiders

These no-bake creepy crawlers are a healthy alternative for the holiday—the recipe is filled with yummy ingredients like oats, peanut butter and dates.

Recipe from Everyday Delicious

Witch Finger Cookies

Ding dong, the witch is dead... and we're eating her fingers! This dark but undeniably Halloween-ready recipe turns shortbread cookies into creepy witchy body parts. All you need is some dough, food coloring, almond slices, and jam.

Recipe from Delish

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Dirt Cake Trifle

Halloween has the unique ability to turn the phrase "eat dirt" into a special treat thanks to the strategic use of Oreos, gummy worms, and chocolate, which come together to create the most delicious dirt possible.

Recipe from Foody Schmoody Blog

Skeleton Veggie Tray

Veggies are not the food group that comes to mind when I think of Halloween, but a skeleton made entirely out of vegetables with dip as the head is really making me rethink what I consider holiday-appropriate.

Recipe from Cooking with Janica

Aperol Spritz Trifle

Admittedly, Aperol Spritz isn't the first thing you think of when you think of Halloween, but you can't deny the fact that this cocktail-inspired desert looks like an elevated, adult-friendly version of candy corn.

Recipe from Delish

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Peanut Butter Nutella Candy Bar Brownie

An XL brownie bar topped with candy corn and chocolate peanut butter cups? Say no more. Customize this shareable sweet with quite literally any and all Halloween candy you have lying around (assuming you have leftovers, that is).

Recipe from How Sweet Eats

Witch Cupcakes

If you don't feel like baking, but also want everyone to *think* you turned on your oven, then decorating store-bought cupcakes is your best bet. All it takes is some cupcake liners, tape, and a toothpick to transform these cupcakes into witch hats. SpOoky, no?

Recipe from Good Housekeeping

Dip-Dyed Donuts

Bake these donuts to perfection and decorate them with black and purple food dye to really give your dessert spread a spooky boost. Bonus points if you stick on a few edible googly eyes while you're at it.

Recipe from Good Housekeeping

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Sweet and Salty Caramel Apples

If you're trying to take advantage of all the picture-perfect apples that fall has to offer, dip some in caramel, drizzle 'em in chocolate, and sprinkle sea salt on top. Good luck eating just one though. 😇

Recipe from Half Baked Harvest

Jack 'O Lantern Quesadillas

Practice your pumpkin-carving skills with these festive quesadillas. Fill each 'dill with your choice of cheese, meat, or veggies, and all of your guests will be thrilled to chow down own their own personal jack 'o lantern.

Recipe from Delish

Mummy Meatballs

Savory meatballs wrapped in crowd-favorite crescent rolls? Say less. Purchase a bag of frozen meatballs to make this appetizer extra easy to execute.

Recipe from Delish

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Toasty Cinnamon Twists

Remember the cinnamon toast cereal of your youth?? Yeah, these sweet twists take *exactly* like that, minus the soggy squares and milk dregs you'd regularly find at the bottom of the bowl.

Recipe from Country Living

Monster Munch

Forget the haters who like to remind you that "candy corn is ~gross~" and sprinkle an entire bag of it on freshly popped popcorn. Add in a drizzle of chocolate, a handful of pretzels, and you're in business.

Recipe from Delish

Pumpkin Gnudi with Vanilla Brown Butter

Maybe you're thinking of doing an Italian cuisine night for your next Halloween party, in which case, you're going to want to revolve the meal around this gnudi. These plush lil pillows create the perfect carb base for copious amounts of grated parm and all of the vanilla brown butter.

Recipe from How Sweet Eats

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Mummified Garlic Bread

Garlic bread is arguably the most delicious item on any dinner table (no offense to all the other apps out there), but with visible strands of melted mozz on top, this mummified recipe is sure to impress even your most picky party guests.

Recipe from Foodtastic

Pumpkin Butter Brie Pull-Apart Bread

This pull-apart bread has everything: Pumpkin butter? Good! Brie? Good! It's the perfect combo of salty and sweet, just prepare to answer a lot of "hey, can you send me a link to this recipe?" questions all night.

Recipe from Delish

Banana Mummies

Feeling like your shindig is missing something sweet? Slide a banana onto a stick, drizzle it with white and milk chocolate, then decorate using chocolate candies. Problem solved.

Recipe from Country Living

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Quick Caramel Apple Fudge

Emphasis on the quick here. If your guests are in the Uber and you still have to, um, decorate your entire place, these caramel apple fudge squares are super simple. Basically you just dump together the ingredients, including apple, caramel, and white chocolate chips, and microwave them. This recipe’s extra fall-ish and makes a batch of 36 pieces, so you’re covered even if you end up with post-party crashers.

Recipe from The Pioneer Woman

Dark Chocolate Fudge Pomegranate Tart

If you're willing to put in a little more effort for a chocolatey dessert that also gives off a spooky vibe, please clear off space on your kitchen counter for this tart. It's chocolate + fruit (a winning combo,) and screams sophisticated while still leaning into the fun of Halloween.

Recipe from How Sweet Eats

Olivia Truffaut-Wong is an editor at Cosmopolitan, where she covers beauty, entertainment, and lifestyle. She loves finding and testing the best skincare products to recommend, like the best tinted sunscreens, and is always researching the best cat accessories for her fur baby. She has over 10 years of experience as an entertainment and culture writer and editor, and her work has been featured in The Cut, Refinery29, Teen Vogue, Polygon, Bustle, and more.  

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