Our Favorite Halloween Recipes

Cream cheese, blue cheese, and heavy cream come together with garlic and Worcestershire sauce to make a rich dip that all the ghosts and ghouls will want to sample.

Tell guests to watch out for the black widow spiders—they're made of raspberry gummies and black licorice and they top these spooky spins on the classic black-and-white cookies. 

This fresh take on baba ganoush is as dark as night—especially when it's served alongside homemade grissini, which is tinted black with squid ink and shaped like Medusa's hair.

Putting a sinister face on party food takes nothing more than some simple sleight of hand—and a bit of heat. Mix up deviled eggs using your favorite recipe, and add a dash of cayenne and some hot sauce for kick. Then bring them to life with pointed facial features: Triangles of red bell pepper and dark green scallions make horns and a goatee; snipped chives form a skinny 'stache.

A classic Dark and Stormy gets a visit from the swamp monster—in the form of spirulina powder! Simply whisk together a few ingredients and pour it over a ginger ale base for a fizzy cocktail that you can serve all night long.

Is that pebbly sludge, dredged up from a nearby swamp, or creamy guacamole studded with black beans and minced chiles? Only a bite—or two—will reveal the true tastiness in the bowl.

You'd never guess these tiny green skulls are actually quite wholesome for a Halloween party. They are cut from a baked custard of spinach, basil, and ricotta cheese, then arranged on crisp wafer crackers.

Individual servings of French onion soup are sufficiently satisfying for Halloween revelers with more refined tastes. Morbier cheese, which has a veinlike stripe of vegetable ash down the center, makes a more suitably morbid topping than the traditional gruyere.

Not all Halloween-party food has to be in a scary shape or color—some dishes hint more subtly at the macabre theme, like these shriveled baby potatoes.

Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's infamous bird, your guests will rave about this decadent cake's topper. It's made with an edible "nest" of piped melted chocolate that is chilled in vodka, where it instantly hardens; toasted cake crumbles stand in for actual dirt, and underneath the vanilla buttercream frosting is a treat-worthy chocolate cake.

For a rice dish of powerful trouble, add butternut squash to the boil and bubble.

On Halloween, creative presentation turns prosciutto slices into delightfully eerie horror d'oeuvres.

It may look like a swarm of spiders got into the henhouse, but these eggs are another Halloween hoax.

Fit for Dracula himself! Sweet homemade grenadine serves as the "blood" in this inspired Halloween cocktail.

A cheesy Halloween pastry is eerily easy to prepare. All you need are sheets of frozen puff pastry and some savory seasonings.

Make the most of avocado's mold-colored hue by serving it alongside chips cut into a creepy shape.

Would you care for a horror d'oeuvre? Goblin flatbreads make grown-ups' cocktail hour or kids' snack time frightfully tasty.

A bowl of hot tomato soup will leave you cold if it stares back.

Set out scrumptious snacks in eerie ebony and orange shades.

Playful witches' hats add a frightfully festive touch to grilled cheese sandwiches.

These fingers and toes make look ghastly, but they're delicious pretzel-like digits with almond nails.

Serve something that looks as if it's been festering in the pantry for months, even if it is really fresh and delicious.

Give everyones favorite chocolatey treat a frightening finish, decorate them with royal icing webs and mummys with candy eyes.