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Halloween party planning? These Halloween buffet ideas, featuring savoury delights and sweet eats too, will ensure your party is ghoulishly good. See more Halloween recipes.
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.
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.
Spooky, slimy and super snackable, this oozy green popcorn with googly eyes is the perfect Halloween party food for kids and adults alike.
Light and delicious, this salad is both nutritious and easy to prepare
This hallowe'en night, get a different sort of use out of your pumpkin! Here we soften chopped onion then add spices, hot stock and chopped pumpkin to make a terrifyingly tasty soup. Balance the sweetness of the squash with a dollop of greek yoghurt at the end before blending.
Served with ketchup and a slash of spicy buffalo sauce, these beef meatball skewers will liven up any party
This long, ombré long cocktail looks as delicious as it does scary
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
Serve up a Halloween cocktail in style with this fun pumpkin punch recipe
This super sour is made with whisky and cider, sweetened with sugar syrup and turned vibrant yellow with a touch of food colouring
This bright red cocktail gets its bloody colour from pomegranate juice, mix with vermouth and gin for a scarily great cocktail
Spooky season is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than with these fun spiderweb pancakes
Try this silky pumpkin soup made with sweet pumpkin, smoky bacon, chicken stock and fresh rosemary sprigs.
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.
Half the cupcakes are filled with raspberries and custard (treat), while the other half are filled with Marmite caramel (trick). Which cupcake will end up with? Whether you want to give the kids a trick or a treat, these fun cupcakes are sure to give them a spooktacular time.
Transport your taste buds to the vibrant flavours of Morocco with this tasty chickpea and apricot tagine, great for a weeknight dinner.
Turn shop-bought sponges into this devilishly delicious chocolate cauldron cake! Kids will love helping decorate with green jelly, edible eyes and chocolate fingers – spooktastic!
Grisly and ghoulish, but deliciously tomatoey, these ketchup toastie fingers are great when dipped in drippy egg.
These spooky sandwiches will be a great addition to your Halloween party platter.
Deep pan, square and topped with mountains of melty blue cheese, this Detroit-style pizza will soon become one of your favourite fakeaways
A delicious blend of Cheddar, Emmental and white wine makes this a melty (yet suitably spooky) delight for your Halloween party – or any Autumn night
Get the kids to eat their greens with these ham and pea frittata sarnies
This spooky chocolate orange cheesecake recipe is the perfect dessert for your Halloween party. With a crumbly Oreo base, cream cheese chocolate filling and an orange jelly top, it's guaranteed to impress
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.
These sticky, spicy chicken wings will go down a treat at the Halloween party
Make the perfect spooky snack 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.
Create a simple and fun Halloween snack, perfect for both grown-ups and kids, using just three ingredients. Cut out fun pumpkin faces in orange peppers, fill with shop-bought hummus and dunk in extra pepper strips and tortilla chips.
Cast a spell over your home this Halloween with some frightening sweet treats. These chocolatey bats will fly off the table before you can say boo!
This easy Halloween cake recipe is ideal for a last-minute party as it's simply a matter of decorating two ready-made Victoria sponge cakes with black icing and this slimy white chocolate 'drip'.
These pumpkin-inspired cupcakes are a monstrously good Halloween party treat. So easy to make, all you need to do is to pipe orange icing onto mini chocolate muffins.
Make this chocolate slime tart with a gooey green custard filling for Halloween this year and surprise everyone when you slice it open
Try these witchy soil pots for a fun new Halloween dessert. Make sure you serve them in small glasses or tumblers so you can see the layers of slimy lime jelly with strawberry lace worms, chocolate custard mud and crumbly biscuit soil.
Your little ones will love these ghostly meringues - crispy on the outside and deliciously gooey on the inside, they're the perfect spooky sweet treat and a scarily good Halloween party idea