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10 Creepy food creations for Halloween

BY Karen Burns-Booth

15th Oct 2017 Recipes

10 Creepy food creations for Halloween

Halloween is the perfect time to get creative in the kitchen. Surprise AND shock children (and adults!) with these wonderfully creepy but tasty creations.

1. Spooky spider cakes for a howling Halloween

Image via Lavender and Lovage

Who wouldn’t love these cute but also terribly spooky spider cupcake muffins? They’re easily made and the children can get involved with the decorating as well, making them the ideal fun project for Halloween!

 

2. Halloween bundt cake

Image via Belleau Kitchen

This clever Bundt cake hides a ghoulish secret under its spider-web finish: a blood-red vanilla sponge, which is sure to bring a smile to everyone’s faces when it’s cut, along with a few excited “oooohs and ahhhhs”!

Get the recipe for Halloween bundt cake

 

3.  Halloween chocolate apples

Image via Fab Food 4 All

Here’s another spidery Halloween treat! Yoiu could do any number of decorations and get your kids involved in piping on spiders, skulls, ghosts or cats. The idea is to have fun—and eat chocolate!

Get the recipe for Halloween chocolate apples

 

4. Halloween chocolate candy bark

Image via Foodie Quine

Here’s a clever recipe for chocolate bark, which can be made for all those trick-or-treat visitors you may have knocking on the door on Halloween. It literally takes minutes to make, and is fun and really effective. You could say its bark is worse than its bite!

 

5. Pumpkin pinata cake

Image via Mummy Mishaps

Halloween it is the perfect excuse to make one od these Mexican cakes, because you can fill it with treats (and tricks if you’re that way inclined!) Perfect if you’re having a party at home.

Get the recipe for pumpkin pinata cake

 

6. Frankenstein Halloween cookie pops

Image via Red Ted Art

These Frankenstein Halloween cookie pops are such fun and again, the children can get involved in decorating them. Made from a basic cookie recipe, just add chocolate sprinkles for hair, buttons for eyes and marshmallows for the “bolts”.

 

7. Chocolate orange Halloween cookies

Image via Julie’s Family Kitchen

These spooky themed chocolate orange cookies are a real delight. Topped with a subtle orange icing, the kids won’t be able to keep their hands off these tasty Halloween treats.

 

8. Twit woo hooting Halloween owl cupcakes

Image via Lavender and Lovage

These wee owl cakes are great fun...just bake some chocolate fairy cakes, muffins or cupcakes, decorate them and then turn them into hooting Halloween owls. Just like that, it's magic!

 

9. Witches’ fingers

Image via My Little Italian Kitchen

Look at these fabulously ghoulish witches’ fingers! These sweet biscuit-based cookies would be fabulous for the Halloween teatime table and will bring screams of horrified delight when the little ones see them!

Get the recipe for witches’ Fingers

 

10. Ghost meringues

Image via Hobby Craft

These super cute ghost meringues are a fun sweet treat if you’re hosting a Halloween party. Give each meringue ghost their own personality by using the end of a knife to given them a mouth or nose, or even an unusual hairstyle!

Get the recipe for ghost meringues

 

Karen Burns-Booth is a freelance Recipe Developer, Food and Travel Writer and is a member if the Guild of Food Writers. She writes for her own blog Lavender and Lovage.

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