Best Halloween Recipes

Halloween – the scariest night of the year – attracts attention and terrifies. Colorfully decorated houses, rooms, tables – all that is enough imagination and courage to scare away the ghosts. You can hang “terrible” garlands, bats, spiders, fake cobwebs, arrange skeletons and much more everywhere, but themed dishes will help to complement the special atmosphere.

We have collected the best recipes and ideas for what to cook for Halloween.

Traditional dishes

1. Barmbrek

Barmbrack – sweet yeast bread with grapes and raisins. Usually served as toast with butter for tea. The dough for barmbreak is sweeter than for plain bread, but not as sweet as for muffins.

Caloric content: 742 kcal

Cooking time: 2-2,5 hours

Preparation

Step 1

Warm up the milk a little so that it is warm. Dissolve yeast and sugar in it. Set aside for 20 minutes.

Step 2

Sift flour. Then add cinnamon and salt to it. Add a little melted butter to this. Mix everything until smooth

Step 3

Then add milk with yeast and beaten eggs. Mix it all up to make a dough.

Step 4

Add raisins and grapes to the dough, mix so that the berries are inside.

Step 5

Put the resulting dough into a deep bowl, pre-lubricated with vegetable oil. Cover with foil and put in a warm place for about an hour. During this time, the dough should “fit” and become about twice as large.

Step 6

Lubricate the form with butter. The dough, after it has risen, gently knead and give it the shape of bread (roll or whatever you want). Then again for half an hour leave in a warm place under damp gauze.

Step 7

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the barmbrack for about an hour. Readiness can be checked with a toothpick – pierce the dough, if the toothpick remains clean, then everything is ready.

2. Apples in caramel

A popular and well-known dish from American films, which does not require much time, but turns out to be very tasty.

Caloric content: 750 kcal

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Take two beautiful ripe apples. Wash them and dry thoroughly. Prepare a plate or wax paper where you can put the dish.

Step 2

Pour sugar into a frying pan, add lemon juice and set to warm up. Wait for the caramelization of sugar, do not forget to stir. It is important to ensure that the sugar does not melt too quickly, otherwise the caramel will taste bitter.

Step 3

When the sugar resembles a thick syrup, apples can be dipped into it. Pour the rest of the syrup into which you can’t dip the fruit from a spoon.

Step 4

Wait until the caramel hardens. All is ready!

3. Cookies “Fingers of the Witch”

A fun and easy dish that looks like spooky fingers – the perfect Halloween dessert!

Calories: 299, 1 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 1-1,5 hours

Preparation

Step 1

Soften the butter and put it in a bowl. Add powdered sugar, egg and liqueur. Beat it all with a mixer.

Step 2

Add baking powder, salt, part of flour (200-250 g) and beat.

Step 3

Pour the remaining flour on the table and quickly knead the dough on it so that it does not stick to your hands. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Step 4

Take out the dough and cut it into 30 equal pieces. Then form fingers from each piece, use a knife to make wrinkles on the fingers at the folds. On one side, attach the future almond nail and paint it with red “lacquer” – jam.

Step 5

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Put the fingers on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper or foil, and send them to bake for 15-20 minutes.

4. Pumpkin candy or Candy pumpkin (candy corn)

An easy recipe for classic sweets that you can easily repeat at home.

Caloric content: 362 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: about an hour

Preparation

Step 1

Place butter, syrup and sugar in a saucepan. Place over medium heat and, stirring, bring to a boil. It is important to monitor the temperature of the caramel – it should be 110 ° C. This is necessary so that the mass is homogeneous.

Step 2

While the main mass boils, take a bowl and beat powdered sugar, powdered milk, and a pinch of salt in it.

Step 3

After the mass boils, remove it from heat, add vanilla and stir. Pour everything into a bowl and again mix everything thoroughly (you can do this with gloved hands so as not to burn yourself).

Step 4

The mass must be left for a while and allowed to cool. After forming three balls from it – paint one with red dye (it will turn out orange), the second with orange (it will turn out yellow), and do not touch the third.

Step 5

Roll out long ropes from the balls. Connect in the following order: orange, yellow and white. After everything is connected, cut the flagella into small triangles so that each triangle has 3 colors.

All is ready!

“Scary” dishes

1. Eggs with “spiders”

What could be scarier than spiders? Decorate your dishes with spiders and you’ll get more!

Caloric content: 173 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 20-25 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Boil the eggs until fully cooked. After cooking, carefully peel and cut in half.

Step 2

In a separate plate, combine the previously pulled out yolks with crushed garlic, finely chopped dill, mayonnaise and salt. Mix thoroughly to obtain a homogeneous mass. Fill the proteins with this mass.

Step 3

Make blanks for spiders. Take 5 olives and cut them in half – this will be the basis of the spider. Cut the remaining olives in half, and then make thin “legs” out of them – there should be 80 of them. (one spider has 8 legs)

Step 4

Putting it all together. Put the spider on the stuffed egg.

2 Ghost Bananas

An easy way to make a scary yet fun dessert

Caloric content: 278 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: about 30 minutes and 4 hours to freeze

Preparation

Step 1

Cut bananas in half crosswise. Insert ice cream sticks or equivalent from the cut side.

Step 2

Melt white chocolate in any convenient way to a liquid state.

Step 3

Dip bananas in chocolate, if necessary, you can use a spoon.

Step 4

You need to let the chocolate cool a little, but not completely, and at this moment sprinkle the bananas with coke shavings.

Step 5

Melt bitter or dark chocolate to a liquid state and put it in a bag or paper – cut off the tip at the corner of the bag, it will be possible to make faces with such a device.

Step 6

Put bananas on a baking sheet and use dark chocolate to draw faces. Then put in the freezer for 4 hours.

After that, you can take it out and serve it on the table.

3. “Monsters”

No spooky holiday is complete without monsters. Make your own!

Caloric content: 342 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: about an hour

Preparation

Step 1

Wash the grapes and strawberries, dry with a paper towel, remove the stalks from the strawberries.

Step 2

Spread crackers with cheese.

Step 3

Next – turn on the fantasy.

Frankenstein can be harvested from two blue grapes and one green.

Cut the blue grape in half, and make cloves at the bottom of each half – these will be the “hair” of the monster.

The second blue grape will go to the mouth (here you can just make a “smile” or cut out a sewn mouth. You can also cut out eyes from the same grape.

The green grape will go to the eyebrows.

Step 4

Dracula requires one dark grape, strawberries and raisins. From one grape we make Dracula’s hair. We lay out the eyes from the raisins. The mouth is cut out of strawberries. With the help of cheese, you can additionally make two “teeth” of a vampire.

Then we have fun, as the imagination suggests.

4 Vampire Teeth

On a holiday, you can please not only adults, but also children. Prepare a sweet scary dessert that everyone will love!

Caloric content: 94 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 5-10 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Marshmallow cut into small pieces, no more than 0,5 cm in length, you can even smaller.

Step 2

Cut the apple into slices, also not very thick, but not thin either – this will be an imitation of lips.

Step 3

Spread each apple slice with jam (or paste). It is important that the jam is not fluid and can “hold” for some time on the apples. This dessert is best prepared just before serving.

Step 4

And fold the “mouth” of two apple slices and put marshmallow teeth in the middle.

simple dishes

1. “Ear sticks”

One of the lightest dishes is “ear sticks”. And especially for the guests of the most terrible night – also “dirty”! Cooking is as simple and fast as possible

Caloric content: 400 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 5 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Put marshmallows on both sides of the straw.

Step 2

Dip marshmallows in peanut butter and place on a plate.

2. Caterpillars

Cute, funny, simple and useful caterpillars will especially appeal to children. Ideal for those who do not like to bother

Calorie content: approximately 72 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 5-7 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Take wooden skewers and string grapes of approximately the same size on them.

Step 2

Glue eyes on one side. You can make them from black pepper, use cloves (spice) or chocolate.

Caterpillars are ready!

3. “Witch’s broom”

Another simple but interesting Halloween-themed dish. Easy to prepare, minimal ingredients

Caloric content: 358 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Cut cheese into small pieces. Here, the length and width will have to be selected depending on your straw. On one side, cut the cheese “into a fringe” approximately to the middle of the piece.

Step 2

Take straws and wrap each stick with a piece of cheese. Tie everything with chives or dill.

4. “Mugs”

Another dish for those who do not like to cook, but want to maintain a festive atmosphere

Calorie content: approximately 236 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 15-20 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

From the existing pita bread, cut a lot of circles, you can have different sizes. The main thing is that the figures must be in pairs. Here the time will come for creativity and imagination – in half of the circles you need to cut out faces (scary, funny, funny or frightening).

Step 2

Put cheese on whole mugs. Top with suitable faces.

Step 3

Put in the microwave or oven for half a minute to a minute to melt the cheese.

Dishes from pumpkin

1. Pumpkin smoothie with pulp

We will diversify our menu with drinks, for which pumpkin is also perfect

Calorie content: approximately 150 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 20-25 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Cut pumpkin pulp into small pieces. Boil until cooked and grind with a blender until smooth.

Step 2

Squeeze orange juice or use ready-made, freshly squeezed.

Step 3

Mix everything together: pumpkin puree, orange juice, milk, honey and spices. Mix and serve.

2. Pasta Casserole with Pumpkin and Apples

If you want something unusual, but you are not ready for radical experiments, try making this simple casserole for the holiday

Calorie content: approximately 120 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 45 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Boil the pasta according to the instructions on the package.

Step 2

Grate the pumpkin on a medium grater. Cut the apples into small cubes, cutting out the middle, or grate on a coarse grater.

Step 3

Combine pasta, apples and pumpkin in one large bowl. Sprinkle them with spice mixture – take it to taste here, for example, you can combine cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, pepper and whatever you like.

Step 4

Take a separate bowl, pour milk into it, beat in eggs and add sugar. Whisk. Vanilla can be added if desired.

Step 5

Combine beaten eggs with pasta and vegetables and mix.

Step 6

Take the form for baking in the oven. Lubricate it with oil. Put pasta with pumpkin and cover everything with foil. Put the form in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 20 minutes. Then remove the foil and bake for another 8 minutes.

3. Pumpkin pie

What is Halloween without pumpkin pie? One of the classic dishes that should be on every table

Calorie content: approximately 230 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 1,5 hours

Preparation

Step 1

Cut pumpkin pulp into pieces. Bake in the oven or microwave until soft. Then using a blender or in another way to make a puree. Leave to cool.

Step 2

Combine flour, salt and butter, mix. Add the yolk and gradually pour in the whey. The dough should be soft but not sticky.

Step 3

Spread the resulting dough in a form lined with parchment along the bottom and sides. Pierce the dough frequently with a fork. Place in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

Step 4

Mix pumpkin puree with two eggs, mix. Add honey and spices, stir again. Pour in the cream and stir in.

Step 5

Pour the filling into the cake, which was taken out of the oven. Send the whole pie to the oven, heated to 180 degrees for 45-50 minutes.

4. Pumpkin puree soup

Pumpkin puree soup is not the most rare and can be prepared at any time, but pumpkin can also be used as a plate to maintain the atmosphere of the holiday.

Calorie content: approximately 150 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 45-50 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Chop shallots and celery. At this time, melt the butter in a saucepan and add the greens there. Fry for 5 minutes.

Step 2

Grate carrots and cut potatoes. Add to the pot and cook for 5 more minutes.

Step 3

Add spices and seasonings, cook for another 2 minutes.

Step 4

Cut the pumpkin into pieces and add to the pot. Pour in the vegetable broth. Simmer everything together for 20 minutes until the vegetables are soft.

Step 5

Using a blender, grind everything until smooth, add salt and pepper to taste.

Step 6

Pour everything into a plate or a pumpkin peeled from the insides. For decoration, you can use natural yogurt, with which it is easy to make a cobweb.

Hot dishes

1. Severed Fingers

An unusual dish that can be served both hot and cold. Doesn’t require much effort

Caloric content: 342 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 10-15 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Peel the sausages from the peel, cut off the tip from one edge, preferably unevenly, as if “torn off”, or really tear off the sausage a little. Using a knife, make several horizontal cuts on the sausage, with the help of which the knuckles are imitated.

Step 2

Send the nipples to the microwave for 1-2 minutes. Then pull out and on hot sausages from a smooth edge make small cuts under the nails.

Step 3

Put a sausage in a hot dog bun and fill everything with “blood” – ketchup.

2. Meat with potatoes baked in pumpkin

The unusual serving of the dish will delight and surprise the guests (you won’t even have to wash the dishes after them). Cooking is easy but time consuming

Calorie content: about 100 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 3 hours

Preparation

Step 1

Wash the pumpkin, cut off the top from it, pull out the pulp.

Step 2

Pork, potatoes, carrots and onions cut into small pieces. Combine everything in a bowl and pour olive oil into it. Add salt, pepper and spices to taste.

Step 3

Put the resulting mixture into a pumpkin, pour all 100-150 ml of water and put greens on top. Cover with pumpkin.

Step 4

Grease the bottom of the pumpkin with vegetable oil, put everything in a baking dish. Pour another 100-150 ml of water into the bottom of the mold.

Step 5

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Put the pumpkin there and bake for 2-2,5 hours until the pork and potatoes are ready.

3. Toast “Mummy”

Scare your guests with the need to wind up multi-meter bandages!

Caloric content: 265 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 15-20 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Put the slices of bread on a baking sheet and dry in the oven – a couple of minutes in a preheated oven will suffice.

Step 2

While the bread is heating in the oven, chop the cheese and olives. Cheese cut into thin strips, olives – rings

Step 3

Spread the toast with ketchup, and put strips of cheese crosswise on top. Then lay out the “eyes” of the olives.

Step 4

Send the toast to the microwave or oven for a minute to melt the cheese a little.

4. “Egyptian mummies”

A spooky new take on the familiar sausages in dough

Caloric content: 312 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 30-35 minutes

Preparation

Step 1

Roll out the finished puff pastry and cut into strips no more than 1 cm wide.

Step 2

Wrap sausages with strips of dough – like mummies.

Step 3

Place in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes

Step 4

While the sausages are in the oven, cut out cheese circles and insert peas into them – these will be the mummy’s eyes.

Step 5

Get sausages, attach eyes – and you can serve.

Dishes from the chef

Alexander Korenev, pastry chef at the cafe of the Tvoi Dom retail chain, shared his recipes for the scariest holiday.

pumpkin cake

To surprise your guests, you can allocate a little more time and get a great result.

Caloric content: 291 kcal per 100 g

Finished dessert weight: 2800 g

Cooking time: 5 hours

Cooking sponge cake

Step 1

Grind butter until white.

Step 2

Melt dark chocolate, mix with butter until smooth.

Step 3

Beat the protein with sugar. Beat the yolk with sugar. Quench the soda with vinegar, add to the beaten yolks.

Step 4

Add chocolate butter, stir until smooth. Gradually add whipped proteins, mix by hand.

Step 5

Add flour and cocoa powder. Mix everything by hand until the ingredients are evenly distributed.

Step 6

On a sheet with sides lined with parchment, pour the biscuit mass and bake for 15 minutes at 210 ℃.

mousse preparation

Step 1

Soak gelatin in cold water and let it swell.

Step 2

Mix cream (100 g) with tangerine puree.

Step 3

Melt chocolate and combine with cream cheese at room temperature.

Step 4

Add melted gelatin and cream with puree. Stir to a homogeneous consistency, heat on the stove (about 70-80 ℃).

Step 5

Allow to cool to room temperature. Whip the remaining cream (255 g) and gently fold into the mixture.

Creamu with pumpkin

An original and beautiful version of the cake, which can be decorated as you wish.

Caloric content: 340 kcal per 100 g

Cooking time: 3 hours

Cooking sponge cake

Step 1

Grind butter until white.

Step 2

Melt dark chocolate, mix with butter until smooth.

Step 3

Beat the protein with sugar. Beat the yolk with sugar. Quench the soda with vinegar, add to the beaten yolks.

Step 4

Add chocolate butter, stir until smooth. Gradually add whipped proteins, mix by hand.

Step 5

Add flour and cocoa powder. Mix everything by hand until the ingredients are evenly distributed.

Step 6

On a sheet with sides lined with parchment, pour the biscuit mass and bake for 15 minutes at 210 ℃.

Cream preparation

Step 1

Soak gelatin in water, leave for 15-20 minutes to swell.

Step 2

Combine tangerine puree and pumpkin puree, put on heat.

Step 3

We introduce pre-mixed sugar, egg yolks and starch into the hot mixture of puree, continuously stirring with a whisk.

Step 4

Then add butter, milk chocolate and dissolved gelatin. Homogeneous cream is punched with a blender, filtered through a sieve.

Step 5

Prepare a 22 cm form. Put the biscuit, pour the cooled cream on it and cover with another biscuit.

Step 6

Impregnation for a biscuit may be different, but I would advise you to make a spicy syrup with pumpkin puree and cognac. Put away in the cold.

Step 7

After the cream has completely solidified, take it out and pour over the mousse. Let dry completely. You can decorate as your imagination tells you.

Panna cotta

A familiar recipe with an original addition especially for a terrible holiday!

Caloric content: 148 kcal per 100 g

Finished dessert weight: 1200 g

Cooking time: 1,5 hours

Preparation

Step 1

Mousse is ready. Soak gelatin in water and let it swell.

Step 2

Cream (195 gr), milk and sugar bring to a boil.

Step 3

Dilute the soaked gelatin in this mass and cool to 30-35 ℃.

Step 4

Add vanillin to the cream (490 g) and beat until the initial pattern appears.

Step 5

Mix gently both masses and pour into glasses. Let dry completely.

For Halloween, panna cotta can be decorated with baked pumpkin with lemon and honey, poured with cranberry sauce and sprinkled with spices.