Food / 2 October, 2024 / My Baba

10 Favourite Halloween Recipes For Your Kids’ Party

If you’re looking for spooky but sweet things to serve up at your Halloween party, look no further. Check out our top ten ghoulish Halloween recipes for kids.

Ten Halloween recipes for kids

Pumpkin Cheesecake Truffle Mummies

Ingredients:

• 1½ cups gingersnap cookie crumbs
• ¼ cup canned pumpkin purée
• â…“ cup graham cracker crumbs
• 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
• ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• â…› teaspoon salt
• 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
• ½ cup white chocolate chips
• white chocolate chips or white dipping chocolate (like CandiQuik)
• red food colouring

Method:

1. In a large bowl combine gingersnap crumbs, pumpkin puree, graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar, cinnamon, salt, and cream cheese. Mix until smooth. Melt ½ cup white chocolate chips and mix into truffle mixture.
2. Cover and chill until dough is solid enough to roll into balls – about 1 hour in the fridge or 30 minutes in the freezer. When cold enough, roll mixture into 12-14 balls. Place a toothpick in each ball.
3. Melt remaining white chocolate chips or white dipping chocolate in a small bowl. Use toothpicks to dip each truffle ball into the white chocolate, being sure to coat all sides. Gently shake off excess chocolate. Place chocolate-covered truffle balls on a baking sheet or plate lined with wax paper, parchment paper, or foil. Chill for 3-5 minutes until chocolate hardens.
4. Drizzle more white chocolate over the truffles. Soak the end of a Q-tip in red food colouring. Dap 2 dots of food colouring to make the mummy eyes. Handle carefully so you don’t wipe off the eyes. Store chilled in an airtight container.

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Melted Witch Bark

Ingredients:

• Wilton Candy Melts (vibrant green)
• ½ cup mini chocolate chips (divided)
• Pretzels Sticks
• Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
• Halloween Oreos
• Hershey’s Hugs

Method:

1. Begin by laying out parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
2. Get pretzels sticks, Reese’s, Oreos, Hugs, mini chips out and ready so they are easy to grab.
3. Place 1 cup candy melts in a small pot and melt on low heat stirring constantly. Once all melted spoon out onto parchment paper and spread into a circle. We made ours about 4 inches in diameter.
4. Quickly add remaining mini chips to a small pot and melt on low heat stirring constantly. Spoon a tiny amount onto your green circles and use a toothpick to swirl around.
5. Add Oreos as hat in the corner. Add Hugs by dipping into excess melted chocolate and adding to the top of the Ore. Add mini chips for eyes.
6. Stick pretzels in your mini Reese’s and place on the opposite side of the Oreo.
7. Let set until ready to eat or package.

Teeth & Mouth Snack

Ingredients:

• 1 apple
• jar of peanut butter or other “butter” choice
• mini marshmallows

Method:

1. First start by cutting the apple into slices. Then cut them into smaller slices.  An apple slicer makes this job pretty kid friendly and offers a more uniform look!
2. Now you want to put about a teaspoon or two of peanut butter onto each slice of apple- but just on one side of the apple. Then put a row of mini marshmallows across one apple slice.
3. Then sandwich them together (one apple slice with pb & marshmallows and one slice with just pb). Press firmly until they stick and you have your teeth!

Halloween Candy Bark 

Ingredients:

• 1 package of vanilla or chocolate almond bark (I’ve used candiquik too)
• 1 cup orange candy melts
• Optional toppings: Candy corn, crushed OREO’s, Candy eyeballs, crushed pretzels, M&M’s, sprinkles, nuts, any other leftover Halloween candy

Method:

1. Lay out a large sheet of wax paper and get all of your toppings ready.
2. Melt the chocolate in the microwave according to package directions. Then pour chocolate onto wax paper. Smooth with a spatula.
3. Melt orange melts in the microwave according to package directions. Place spoonfuls onto the chocolate and then swirl with a toothpick.
4. Top with your toppings immediately. Let cool and then break into pieces or cut with a large knife.

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Edible Eyeballs

Ingredients:

• 10 cherry tomatoes
• Some cream cheese
• 20 cooked peas

Method:

1. Halve the cherry tomatoes and scoop out the seeds. Fill the cream cheese into the tomatoes. It’s easier to do this using a small piping bag (to make a piping bag, fill a small food plastic bag with the cream cheese and squeeze all the cream to one corner at the bottom of the bag, make a small cut at the corner for piping). Add the peas to the centre of the cream cheese to make the pupil of the eyeball!

Apple Bites

Ingredients:

• 1 small red apple
• 1 tbsp of lemon juice

Method:

1. Fill a bowl with some water and mix the lemon juice in the water. Cut the apple into 5 or 6 wedges and remove the core and seeds. Make sure that the wedges are the size you know your little one can handle. Place the apple slices in the lemon and water mixture to prevent them from browning. Work on one piece of apple at a time and carve a zigzag shape to the skin side, so that it looks like teeth.

Witches Cheese Fingers

Ingredients:

• 120g cheddar cheese
• Pieces of red pepper

Method:

1. Cut the cheddar cheese into finger strips 1cm thick and 4-5cm long. Trim the cheese strip into a finger shape and draw the knuckle lines with the end of a spoon. Cut some cheese off each fingertip, then cut a small piece of red pepper into a nail shape. Place the piece of pepper on the end of each fingertip.

Halloween Marshmallow Pops

Ingredients:

• 12 Campfire Giant Roasters
• 1 10-ounce bag candy melts
• assorted sprinkles

Method:

1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
2. Insert a lollipop stick into each Campfire® Giant Roaster.
3. Melt candy melts according to  package directions.
4. Working with one marshmallow at a time, spoon the melted candy over the sides of a marshmallow and allow the excess to drip back into the bowl. Immediately coat with festive sprinkles. Place marshmallow on prepared baking sheet until the candy coating is set.
5. Repeat with remaining marshmallows.

Meringue Ghost Tartlets

Ingredients:

“Poison” Candy Apples

Ingredients:

• 12 baby Granny Smith apples
• 12 wooden candy apple sticks or dowels
• 1½ c. sugar
• ½ c. light corn syrup
• 1 tsp. black gel paste food coloring

Method:

1. Wash and dry apples thoroughly. Place on a baking sheet and poke firmly with dowels. Line a second baking sheet with buttered parchment paper, and set aside.
2. Place a candy thermometer in a medium saucepan and add sugar, 3/4 cups water, and corn syrup. Place over medium heat; whisk until sugar is dissolved. Let the temperature rise without stirring until it reaches the hard-crack mark at 310 degrees F. Remove pan from heat. Carefully remove thermometer, and add food coloring.
3. Swirl pan to mix in the color completely. Swipe and twirl the apple through the candy, shake off excess, and place on buttered baking sheet. Repeat with remaining apples.

Spooky Spider Fun Plate by Organix

Ingredients:

• 3 Organix raspberry and blueberry rice cakes
• 4 blackberries
• 3 black grapes

Method:

1. Crush 2 blackberries in a small bowl with the back of a fork and cut the other 2 blackberries in half. Use a clean paintbrush to paint a spider’s web with the juice on a white plate.
2. Place 3 rice cakes onto the web, then add a half blackberry spider body on top of each rice cake.
3. Slice each grape in half from top to bottom, then slice each half into 4 thin spider legs.
4. Add the legs to your spiders, then eat them up before they scurry away!

Pumpkin Patch Cakes

Ingredients:

• 1 box yellow or chocolate cake mix
• Orange and green gel food coloring
• 2 c. confectioners’ sugar
• Orange and green sugars and candy decors
• Pretzel rods or sticks Marzipan

Method:

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