Halloween party planning? These Halloween buffet ideas, featuring savoury delights, sweet treats and creative cocktails, will ensure your party is ghoulishly good! Browse our Halloween recipes and party food recipes for lots more fun ideas.
We've given a classic steak pie a spooky twist with this simple but totally delicious and fun recipe. Make your beef filling and let it simmer away while you prep the pastry lettering (use ready-rolled to keep things really easy). Serve this to the family after trick-or-treating or to guests at your next Halloween party – watch everyone tuck in!
Risotto is a great way of making delicious ingredients go further and this recipe is no exception. Peeled and cubed butternut squash is softened with garlic and then gently cooked with rice in wine and stock. For extra oompf, Gorgonzola and toasted pinenuts are added at the end.
These slimy green Franken-feet are the perfect sweet treats for your Halloween party
With a spiced pumpkin cheesecake base and a melting s'mores topping, these tasty little bites are perfect for your Halloween party spreads. Or simply bake a batch for a cute teatime treat – you can use butternut squash if pumpkin isn't available.
Here's our version of the Bloody Maria – a twist on the classic Bloody Mary cocktail that features tequila in place of vodka. There's still the savoury-tomatey flavours you love in a Bloody Mary – with a spicy, Mexican-style edge! It's the perfect drink to serve at grown-up Halloween gatherings and Bonfire Night parties.
Whip up this luxurious truffle mash without having to buy a bottle of truffle oil. Maris Piper potatoes give the best result here – light and fluffy with a floury texture that absorbs the butter and milk easily. Serve with bangers, roasts or a hearty pie.
Top a classic rocky road base with jelly sweets and marshmallow spider webs for a spooky sweet treat. This Halloween rocky road is just perfect for parties and trick-or-treating.
Grisly and ghoulish, but deliciously tomatoey, this Halloween fingers recipe is so easy to make and the fingers are great for dipping. A fun Halloween alternative to eggs and soldiers!
This easy Halloween soup is the perfect leftover pumpkin recipe, ideal for grey days and chilly evenings, as well as Halloween parties and autumn gatherings. Stir chunks of pumpkin through spiced olive oil, until softened then add your vegetable stock and blitz to a thick and creamy consistency. The addition of Greek yogurt in our version makes the texture of the soup extra velvety.
These quick and easy Halloween muffins, shaped like cute pumpkins, are made with just 3 ingredients. Perfect as part of a fun breakfast or as a healthy Halloween snack.
A super-spooky savoury treat to serve at your Halloween party, these delicious pork pies are filled with succulent sausage meat, herby stuffing and a fiery chilli chutney. Cut out ghoulish faces from the pastry lids and you have the perfect pies for Halloween!
Spooky, slimy and super-snackable, this oozy green popcorn recipe, complete with googly eyes is perfect for a spooky movie night. Coated in a sweet white chocolate slime, this homemade Halloween popcorn is easy to make and fun to eat, too.
This easy recipe transforms your earthy and sweet parsnips into a crunchy snack with the warming flavour of paprika
These spooky sandwiches will be a great addition to your Halloween party platter.
This spooky haunted pizza is perfect if you have a gang of trick-or-treaters to feed
With fiery ginger beer, tangy limeade and scary monster's eyeballs, this spooky punch is a great Halloween party idea that will definitely be a hit with your little ones this Halloween
Low on ingredients but high on fun, these snake dough sticks are deliciously spooky
Chocolate mug cakes are given a spooky twist in this quick and easy Halloween recipe
Transport your taste buds to the vibrant flavours of Morocco with this tasty chickpea and apricot tagine, great for a weeknight dinner.
This eerie black cocktail is a scary twist on a classic screwdriver - a wonderfully spooky Halloween party idea and perfect for both delighting and terrifying your friends
Make your very own gnocchi using roasted butternut squash, then shape them into cute mini pumpkins! Kids will love this as a 'spooky' Halloween dinnertime twist. We've served ours in rosemary butter, but you could use whatever sauce you fancy.
These easy Halloween treats are super ghoulish, and kids will love dunking crispy potato heads in a creepy slime dip.
Serve up this beautiful beef topside, slow-cooked until mouthwateringly tender and falling off the bone, with earthy root veggies and a fragrant broth, for an impressive Autumnal supper.
Don't throw away the seeds from your pumpkin this Halloween – turn them into a tasty snack with this easy recipe for leftover pumpkin seeds.
With sharp cheese 'teeth', gherkin 'tongues' and stuffed olive 'eyeballs', these spooky monster burgers are perfect for rustling up for a kids Halloween party
Make the perfect spooky snack or Halloween party nibble with this simple 3-ingredient cheese straw broomstick recipe. Use breadsticks as a broom handle, string cheese as the brush and tie with a pop of green chives.
A delicious blend of Cheddar, Emmental and white wine makes this a melty (yet suitably spooky) delight for your Halloween party – or any autumn gathering.
Your Halloween party will be complete with this truly spook-tacular Devil's food cake! Three layers of moist chocolate sponge are sandwiched with rich, dark chocolate ganache for a really indulgent treat
Serve up a tasty family dinner this Halloween with roasted peppers stuffed with gooey mozzarella and veggie rice.
Get the kids in the kitchen this Halloween with these quick and easy yogurt-based doughballs. They're filled with creamy mozzarella for big cheese pulls and shaped like a pumpkin for spooky season!
If your ideal Friday night-in features pizza, we have just the recipe. This super-tasty creation is topped with roasted chilli pumpkin and tangy blue cheese, perfect for a spooky Halloween dinner, but we think it's too good to save for one night a year!
This ice cream and popcorn combo is drizzled with sweet miso caramel and tangy blackberries for an epic sweet and salty flavour experience! Fab for movie night, Friday night in or a special Halloween treat.
Celebrate Halloween with this hearty bake, which is bursting with flavour. The savoury flavours of the pumpkin are great when roasted with sweet tomatoes. Melt some cheddar on top for some oozy, cheesy goodness.