Halloween Treat Recipes For Ghouls and Goblins
When it comes time for that special day of trick-or-treating, there's no trick in creating yummy Halloween treats. Whether you are looking to hand out something different this year, or if you're searching for creepy treats and snacks for a Halloween party, you'll certainly find something here to keep your visiting ghouls from getting hungry (always a good thing!)
This lens features all kinds of spooky Halloween snacks. You'll discover recipes for cookies, cakes, candies, and chocolates; plus unique ways to decorate and display your delicious creations. Have fun exploring and be sure to rate this lens and leave some feedback. I love to hear from my visitors! And be sure to visit my web site www.HalloweenHowl.com for all types of Halloween party themes and planning ideas.
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- Soul Cakes: The Original "Candy" of Halloween
- Get a Head Start On Making Halloween Treats
- Crispy Halloween Tortilla Chips
- Let Amazon Help You With Baking Halloween Treats!
- Creepy Cemetary Cooking: Graveyard Cupcakes
- Fiendish Cookie Fotos by Flickr
- Make a Monster Cake...
- What's Your Favorite Halloween Treat?
- Halloween Cooking Around The Web
- Halloween Hits Ebay!
- Spider Cake Recipes
- Spooky Spider Cakes Galore!
- Amazing Halloween Cakes
- Halloween Cakes Made Easy
- Gooey Popcorn Globs
- Vintage Halloween Candy Holders
- Make Homemade Halloween Chocolate and Candy Suckers
- Halloween Candy Molds
- What Else Can You Do With Halloween Candy and Treats?
- Serve It Up In Style
- Halloween Sugar Cookie Recipe
- Find It On Ebay
- Something Different In Edible Treats
- Visit My Other Halloween Lenses
- What Do You Think Of Halloween Treat Recipes?
Soul Cakes: The Original "Candy" of Halloween
How did the tradition of trick-or-treating begin?
Traditionally, Soul Cakes were baked as a sacrificial food for Samhain ("Summer's End) on October 31st. This Celtic festival marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. The custom was to set these cakes out on tables with a glass of wine for the souls of the dead.It then became the custom to hand the Soul Cakes out on Halloween (a pre-cursor to today's candy giving). The idea behind it was that a soul would be realeased from Purgartory for each cake eaten. So, on All Hallows Eve, children would go "a-souling" while singing out the following rhyme:
Soul, Soul, a soul cake!
I pray thee, good missus, a soul cake!
One for Peter, two for Paul,
three for Him what made us all!
Soul Cakes are actually more like really thick cake-like cookies which have been flavored with spices such as nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, etc. Currants and/or raisins are also included. When the cookie is shaped, the top of each is marked with a cross before baking.
Soul Cake Recipe
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup superfine sugar
4 cups flour, sifted
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon mixed spice
1 teaspoon allspice
3 tablespoons currants or raisins
a little milk
1. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale in colour and fluffy in texture. Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time.
2. Mix together the flour and spices. Fold into the creamed butter mix.
3. Gently stir in the currants/raisins. Add enough milk to make a soft dough.
4. Form into flat cakes and cut each top with a knife to make a cross.
5. Bake on a well-greased baking sheet at 350 F for 10 to 15 minutes until golden.
For more traditional Halloween recipes from around the world, go to Halloween Food: Retching Recipes For Fabulous Halloween Treats. You will find directions on how to make Barmbrack, Colcannon, Pan de Muerto, and lots more.
Get a Head Start On Making Halloween Treats
Halloween Treats: Recipes and Crafts for the Whole Family (Holiday Celebrations)
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Halloween Recipes & Crafts
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Halloween Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Halloween Recipes (Cookbook Delights)
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Wormy Apple Croissants and Other Halloween Recipes (Snap)
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Crispy Halloween Tortilla Chips
1 pkg large flour tortillas
1/4 cup olive oil
Salt or seasoning (optional)
Halloween shaped cookie cutters
1. Using the cookie cutters, cut the tortillas into various Halloween shapes.
2. Brush each shape with olive oil on both sides and place on a cookie sheet. Sprinkle lightly with salt if desired.
3. Place in oven and broil until the tortillas begin to turn brown. Turn over and lightly brown on the other side. Remove from oven.
4. Serve with your favorite dip.
Wilton Halloween Mini 12 Piece Cutter Set
This set of 12 mini cookie cutters includes a pumpkin, skull, witch's hat, tombstone, bat, acorn, cat, house, maple leaf, moon, oak leaf, and ghost.
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Mini Halloween Cookie Bouquet - Witch Candle Holder
Spooky yet adorable mini cookie bouquet made up from Halloween shaped handmade cinnamon sugar cookies. This comes in a keepsake Halloween candle holder and includes 6 cookies.
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Halloween Cakes Cupcakes Cookies - Assprtment of 20 Mini Fright Assortment Edible Hard Sugar Decorations
Edible Hard Sugar Decorations are 1-inch each and includes 4 witches, 4 Frankensteins, 4 skeleton heads, 4 spiders and 4 pumpkins. Use them on cupcakes, cakes, and iced cookies.
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Halloween Print Cupcake Cup
Contains 50 standard size cupcake baking cups, also available in the mini-muffin / candy cup size.
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Halloween Cookie Cutters Color Set of 7
This boxed set of brightly-coloured Halloween cookie cutters tied with a raffia bow makes a great gift. Includes: a witch, witch's hat, ghost, pumpkin, cat, bat, and moon.
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Spider Metal Cookie Cutter
An easy way to cut out spider shaped cookies with this 2 3/4 inch metal cutter.
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Creepy Cemetary Cooking: Graveyard Cupcakes
Keep those graveyard ghouls at bay with this tasty treat.
Chocolate frosting
1 pkg gummy worms
1 pkg chocolate cookie wafers
1. Crush several cookies in a plastic bag using a rolling pin.
2. Frost each of the cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
3. Sprinkle crushed cookie pieces on top of frosting and insert one or two gummy worms.
4. (Optional) Make miniature tombstones out of gray cardboard. Write RIP or a funny tombstone name on each with a black marker. Glue the top half of a long toothpick to the back of each tombstone and insert the bottom part of the toothpick into the cupcakes.
Fiendish Cookie Fotos by Flickr
Here are some great cookie photos I found to help you out with baking ideas.
Oh, these all look so yummy! I think Frankenstein, Dracula and the gang would approve at chomping down on these devilish delights.
Photos used under Flickr's Creative Commons License and Squidoo's Module Lens builder.
Monster Cookies by slushpup
Bats, Ghosts and Cars by solyanka
Lady Fingers by Dano
Kitty Litter Cake and Finger Cookies by Sappymoosetree
Spider Cookies by Photos o' Randomness
Halloween Cookies by StarMama
David's Bloody Witches Fingers by avlxyz
Spider Cookie by slushpup
Pumpkin Cookie by Delphien Experiences
Cool Haunted Gingerbread House by jgclarke
Make a Monster Cake...
or a pumpkin cake...ghost cake....
Monster Cake
This howling good treat will keep your guests guessing, because it only "looks" like a cake. Watch the Kraft Kitchens Expert create this easy and delicious surprise. Print this recipe: http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/recipedetail.htm?recipe_id=106759
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What's Your Favorite Halloween Treat?
Do you have a special Halloween treat that you like to make or eat each year? Vote on what your favorite is.
Halloween Cooking Around The Web
Our spider crawled the web and found these devilicious food sites.
- Halloween Appetizers: Deviled Egg Eyeballs
- This deviled egg recipe is a perfectly gruesome Halloween appetizer to serve up at your next Halloween party.
- Pumpkin Recipes
- Ready to try something more with pumpkins than making the customary pumpkin pie? Try some pumpkin soup, pumpkin dip, pumpkin bread, pumpkin bars... there's even a pumpkin surprise recipe!
- Halloween Recipes From The Food Netword
- Goblin Tongues, Gumworm Cakes, Witches Fingers... there's all kinds of ghastly recipes to be found here.
- Ghostly Treats From Hershey's
- There's all sorts of ghostly treats being brewed up at Hershey's. Check 'em out!
- All Recipes Has All Sorts of Halloween Treats To Make
- Spooky sippers, Halloween cakes, pumpkin recipes, and hair-raising desserts are available at this site.
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Spider Cake Recipes
Come into my parlor said the spider to the fly...
Spider Cake
2 8" or 9" round cake layers (use any recipe to make your cake)
Chocolate icing
White icing
Decorator's icing bag with straight icing tip
1 Plastic spider
1. Place one cake layer on a platter or plate and ice the top. Set the other layer on top and ice the whole cake with the chocolate icing.
2. Pipe white frosting on top in the shape of a spider's web. Place your plastic spider on top.
Spider Web Pumpkin Pie
1 pumpkin pie
Whipped cream
Decorator bag and straight tip
Pipe a spider's web on top of the pumpkin pie with the whipped cream. Add a small plastic spider for decoration.
Very Quick Spider Web Cake
In a hurry and need to decorate a cake really fast? Take a chocolate cake, lay a cake decorators spiderweb stencil on top, and sift icing sugar on top. Life the stencil off carefully and there's your white web. Add some spiders (either made from icing or plastic ones) and you're good to go.
Spooky Spider Cakes Galore!
Here's a bunch of different types of spider cakes that you can bake and decorate.
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Spider Cake by Lu_lu
Spider Cake by shekay
The tashascakes.com latest creation!! by Phillip
Spidery Cake by minor9th
Spider Cupcake by theogeo
Spider Cupcakes by archibald jude
Amazing Halloween Cakes
Check out some of these awesome Halloween cakes.
Amazing Halloween Cakes and Cupcakes
Visit http://www.cakesmadeeasy.com for treats for your Ghosts and goblins. Looking to bake or decorate your way to a scary Halloween. Here are some great cake and cupcake ideas to making a spooky holiday. These cakes will really leave you screaming for more.
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Halloween Cakes Made Easy
Halloween Cake Stand
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Martha Stewart Collection 4-Piece Halloween Cake Stencils
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NordicWare 58148 Halloween Series 3D Great Pumpkin Pan
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Wilton Halloween 6 Cavity Nonstick Mini Cake Pan
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Gooey Popcorn Globs
1 lb. vanilla-flavor candy coating, coarsely chopped
14 cups popped popcorn
1 1/2 cups candy-coated peanut butter-flavor or chocolate pieces (M&M's or Smarties)
1 cup raisins
1. Melt the vanilla-flavored candy coating in a medium saucepan over low heat, stirring often.
2. While the candy coating is melting, in a large bowl mix together the popcorn, candy-coated pieces, and raisins.
3. Pour the melted coating over the popcorn mixture; toss gently to coat. Spread the mixture on a greased baking sheet and let cool.
4. Once it's cooled, break the popcorn mixture apart and place 1 cup of the mixture in the center of a piece of cellophane or plastic wrap. Gather the cellophane up and around the mixture to form a ball and insert a lollipop stick into the center. Tie the cellophane around the stick to secure.
Vintage Halloween Candy Holders
I'm always looking for cool items that I can use to hold candies and various Halloween treats in. I came across these pictures of vintage Halloween containers that I thought would be fun to share with you. These are all by riptheskull at flickr.com
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A bit over 5 3/4 inches Tall . Head pulls off to get at candy
About 5 3/4 inches Tall. Head pulls off to get at Candy
About 2 3/4 inches Tall , Cardboard disk pulls out to get at Candy.
3 inches long - 1 3/4 inches wide
3 inches long - 1 3/4 inches wide
4 3/4 inches Tall
7 1/2 inches Tall
Make Homemade Halloween Chocolate and Candy Suckers
When you make it, you know what's in it.
Candies take a bit more to make as you have to carefully watch the temperature with a thermometer. Depending on the Halloween candy you plan to make, you'll need to heat the ingredients to a certain temperature before pouring into the mold. Also, you need to make sure you only use molds that are designed for candy... not chocolate.
Halloween Candy Molds
Use the right supplies to make your candy making a success!
Wilton Halloween Treat Lollipop Kit
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B/S SKULL W/ CROSSBONES Halloween Candy Mold Chocolate
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RAT Halloween Candy Mold Chocolate
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Skull Pieces Candy Molds
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Human Bones Candy Molds
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Brain Pop Candy Molds
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B.S. SPIDERS Halloween Candy Mold Chocolate
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Human Fingers Pop/Pieces Candy Molds
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Tombstone Pop Assortment Candy Molds
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PUMPKIN MINTS Halloween Candy Mold Chocolate
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What Else Can You Do With Halloween Candy and Treats?
Some surprising uses for all that leftover sugary concoctions
- Top 10 Scientific Uses for Leftover Halloween Candy
- This is awesome... science and Halloween come together! Who knew that chewing Wint-O-Green Lifesavers in a dark room creates a "lightening storm" in your mouth (of course, it helps to stand in front of a mirror to see the action).
- Energy Of Candy Gummi Bears Vs. M&M's Experiment
- Okay, this is a video that shows you how much energy can be generated from one gummy bear compared to 3 M&M's when they are mixed with molten Potassium Chlorate. Makes you wonder why we're eating this stuff.
Serve It Up In Style
Halloween bowls, plates and other ways to serve up your creepy creations.
Fitz and Floyd Halloween Skeleton Candy Bowl
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Pumpkin Covered Soup Bowls Set of 4
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Animated Raven Halloween Candy Bowl
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Candy Bowl Witch
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Halloween Sugar Cookie Recipe
A basic rolled sugar cookie recipe is all you need.
1 1/2 cups powdered (icing) sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract (optional)
1 large egg
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
Granulated sugar for topping (optional if you're using icing)
1. Mix the powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, almond extract and egg in a large bowl until creamy. Stir in the remaining ingredients except granulated sugar. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
2. Heat oven to 375 F and grease cookie sheets lightly.
3. Divide dough in half and roll each half to 1/4" thick on a lightly floured surface. Cut into desired Halloween shapes. Sprinkle with granulated sugar (optional) and place on cookie sheets.
4. Bake 7 to 8 minutes or until edges are a light brown. Remove from oven and move cookies to a wire cooling rack. When cool, frost as desired.
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Larvets-Original Worm Snacks 24ct.
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Crick-ettes Salt N' Vinegar
These Crick-ettes are Salt N' Vinegar flavored. Only genuine California crickets are used. It's so good you'll be hopping for more!
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Edible Candy Bugs
Candy Bugs ooze with flavor. Crunchy outside, gooey inside. Just how a bug should be.
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Fear Factor Petrifying Pests Treats 25ct.
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Visit My Other Halloween Lenses
You mean there's more?
- Halloween Superstitons
- Is a black cat good luck or bad luck? What would really happen if an owl swoops down toward you? Will a turnip on a gatepost really keep evil spirits out of your home? Find out what strange Halloween superstitions have endured over the centuries. How many of these were you aware of?
- Spooky Fun With Halloween Cards
- This was a time when a showcase of stylistic graphic designs appeared on Halloween greeting cards, post cards, invitations, and decorations. Explore vintage Halloween cards and download printable templates to make your own.
What Do You Think Of Halloween Treat Recipes?
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go206th
I added a new group, just for Halloween. I would be honored if you would join this group. Posted September 23, 2008 |
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go206th
what a great lens. You have recipes and information for everyone. 5* Posted August 20, 2008 |
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KimGiancaterino
Welcome to Culinary Favorites From A to Z. I'm also giving your lens a Squid Angel Blessing! Posted July 18, 2008 |
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stargazer00
Very nice! It was nice to see the recipe for Soul Cake. I have written on this subject too. 5* and a lens roll to my Halloween lens. Posted July 04, 2008 |
