1. Create a Halloween Gourmet Candy Board
Easily make a spooky-sweet snack board with an assortment of our best Halloween candy. We love using seasonal Peeps marshmallows, chocolate eyeballs, pumpkin popcorn and putting together candy kebabs. Be creative and include savory food if you like!
2. Dress up Drinks with Halloween Candy Kebabs
Take a stab at making your Halloween party drinks truly special! We lined up Halloween-themed marshmallows on cocktail skewers and used these “creepy kebabs” as drink garnishes. A tantalizing trick for both mocktails and boozy libations.
4. Serve 3-Ingredient Eyeball Charcuterie Bites
These tasty little lookers are perfect for a snack board! To make each eyeball, wrap a slice of prosciutto around a mozzarella ball, place half a stuffed green olive into the center and finish off with a drizzle of olive oil and flaky sea salt.
5. Create Ghost Meringue Cookies
A simple way to create Halloween snacks is to dress up regular foods in their own costumes! Here we used store-bought meringue cookies and piped black icing into a face, instantly turning them into ghosts. Get creative and “ghostify” any other white cookie or candy you like!
6. Serve Candy in a Cauldron
Rather than serve packaged candy in a plain table or bowl, keep the Halloween theme going and offer your treats in a witchy cauldron. Have a couple of these spooky containers around so guests can grab their favorite candies as they please. For an extra realistic experience, add dry ice and experience the rolling fog.
7. Pass Out Unfortunate Fortune Cookies
We love these Halloween-themed orange, purple and black Unfortunate Fortune Cookies. Strew them about a table or put one at each place setting and have everyone share their misfortunes!
8. Add a Mad Scientist’s Lab
Put on a scientific display by serving candy and snacks in lab beakers and chemistry glassware. Add a couple extra beakers with colored liquid and dry ice for an extra spooky science look!
9. Serve Black & White Halloween Pasta
Let the holiday’s theme shine through and make a batch of our black and white bowtie pasta for your guests. Pair with a white sauce so the pasta color pops or go dramatic with a bloody good red sauce.
10. Build a Char-BOO-terie Board
A snack board with a spooky twist. You can make these boards sweet, savory or a combo and use the meat, cheeses, fruit and nuts in regular charcuterie — but add small touches, like Halloween candy, a creepy hand as a food vessel, vampire teeth—anything that adds a haunting touch to the display.
11. Bake Halloween-Shaped Mini Cakes
Keep the baked treats on theme by using Halloween-shaped cake molds for mini cakes and brownies. Use any recipe or mix you like to serve up sweet skulls, bats, pumpkins, cats and haunted houses!
Alex Molinaro, Gourmet Food Expert
As Director of Food & Entertaining, Alex leads the Buying Team and brings the tastiest foodie finds to World Market. She’s been in the gourmet world for over a decade, after studying at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy. If Alex could eat one thing for the rest of her life, it would be pasta noodles with EVOO, garlic, chili flakes and PILES of Parmagiano Reggiano.
