28 original Halloween recipes... and terrifying!

28 original Halloween recipes… and terrifying!

Call it Samaín or Samhain, Day of the Dead, Halloween, Halloween…or just party because, say it however you want but have a good time. Celebrations wherever they come from are to celebrate, and the more the better.

It is true that as a child I have never celebrated Halloween, nor Samaín as it is called now in Galicia. But now we can say that this party has become global. Halloween It has come to stay and that is reflected in the dishes we prepare at the end of October and in all the blogs, not just about gastronomy.

Recipes for Halloween or Halloween

This festival has become the perfect excuse to have fun with costumes, parties, scary stories or traditional trick-or-treating and, of course, through gastronomy by preparing terrifying dishes. A perfect opportunity to let our imagination fly.

We have chosen the most terrifying recipes you can imagine and, of course, the most practical ones so that everyone can prepare them at home. If you dare to celebrate with your loved ones tonight and you still don't know what you are going to prepare, I am going to help you with our most terrifying and spectacular Halloween recipes.

Halloween snacks

sausage mummy

This appetizer or starter can also be a delicious dinner, the mixture of hot dog and pizza dough is delicious. Choose your favorite sausages and make them brown, you have them bigger, smaller, some German Bratwurst or the typical Frankfurt, you can even dare with a white sausage or fresh sausage. It is also such an easy recipe that the little ones can prepare dinner themselves.

Scary Halloween Salty Cake

How to make terrifying salty cake for #Halloween. Recipe to succeed these autumn dates with a shortcrust pie filled with vegetables and mushrooms. A healthy option for tonight!

Pumpkin with guacamole vomit

In this halloween night, let gastronomy become the most important point, costumes and surely a few beers to which this recipe is perfect. let him tomato, onion, serrano chili, cilantro, lemon and avocado, be the most original and fun. Without forgetting that on this night we can also eat in a delicious and nutritious way.

Halloween Bats with Cheese and Nachos

This recipe is a great idea to have a fun time with the children in the kitchen, preparing this special appetizer for Halloween and having fun eating it afterwards.

Halloween Cookies

Gingerbread cookies in the shape of a skeleton

A great idea to keep the children entertained and having fun at home on Halloween evening. Make some gingerbread cookies together and decorate them with skeletons to celebrate this day and share with friends.

Halloween Spider Cookies

Spider Cookies for Halloween

They are so cute that you won't want to eat them, even though they are delicious! Name them and invite them to live in your house all year round.

Monster Chocolate Cookie Sandwiches

After the spider cookiesthese are (possibly) my favorites to Halloween. These monster sandwiches are fun to look at and I won't tell you about eating them anymore. The butter and chocolate cookie with which I have assembled them is a slow death, to be eaten alone. Although today we have given it a special look for the occasion.

Halloween cupcakes

Chocolate monsters

Chocolate monsters for Halloween

These little chocolate monsters are beautiful and, more than being scary, they produce tenderness. They are super simple, to prepare them we only need a chocolate cake recipe and various decorations.

Ghost Brownies

The classic Chocolate Brownie With Nuts almost everyone likes it. The idea for this halloween dessert are some ghosts with a chocolate body and a sheet made with a mascarpone cheese and orange glaze. The combination is glorious, the perfect consistency of the chocolate and the smoothness of the cheese and citrus cream, a true work of art.

Pumpkin cake with seeds

Pumpkin cake with sunflower seeds

This cake, in addition to having pumpkin, has as its plus point the sunflower seeds, which also provide healthy fats to our dessert and a delicious crunchy point.

Frankenstein biscuits

What do you think of these green cakes to give that goré touch to your dinner? Transform your house and recreate a most terrifying atmosphere. A green cake with eyes and a little bit of strawberry syrup coming out of the sides. The little ones are going to like them… a lot.

Coffin-shaped chocolate brownies

Coffin Brownies

The classic brownie recipe but cut into a coffin shape with a thin layer of fondant and decorated to taste. The combination is a success and is not at all cloying, despite how sweet the fondant is, since we use little sugar in the cake to compensate.

Halloween cakes

Cemetery chocolate cake for Halloween

How to make cemetery chocolate cake for Halloween. Recipe for a chocolate cake covered in ganache and decorated with cookies as tombstones.

Pumpkin and double chocolate cake

How to make pumpkin and chocolate cake as they usually do in Dénia, but with the touch of Jamie Oliver's crunchy chocolate base that makes it impressive, double chocolate in its base, interior and coverage, passion for chocolate with pumpkins Halloween. Step by step with photos and video.

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Pie

The combination in this cake of pumpkin with cinnamon, cloves and ginger is perfect and balanced, ideal to enjoy in the form of a juicy and very rich cake. A recipe of Anglo-Saxon origin, it is a spiced pumpkin cake. Americans don't understand Halloween without their pumpkin pie, and today's recipe is a variation.

Chocolate and pumpkin cake for Halloween

Halloween Pumpkin and Chocolate Cake

A delicious cake with an original and fun decoration that children love.

Oreo spider cake for Halloween

Oreo spider cake for Halloween

Prepare this cake and ask the little ones in the house to help you decorate it. They will love making spiders with the cookies!

Sweet potato cheesecake. Halloween

Halloween Sweet Potato Cheesecake

Easy to make, it is a beautiful orange color, very juicy and the chocolate spider web gives it just the right terrifying touch.

Jack Skellington Chocolate Cake

This Jack Skellington chocolate cake is attractive, original and has every chance of making anyone lucky enough to share it with you fall in love. It is a layer cake made with chocolate sponge cake, cocoa cream and hazelnuts and chocolate spiders.

Bloody red velvet cake for Halloween

Bloody red velvet cake

This cake – with its knife stuck in it – is creepy as well as fun. It is also delicious, with its soft cream cheese coverage and its very juicy cocoa sponge cake.

Chocolate cake for Halloween

Halloween chocolate cake

Chocolate filled with chocolate, covered in chocolate and decorated with chocolate, could you ask for more?

Brain cake or strawberry dessert for Halloween

Very easy to prepare and very fast. In half an hour it is ready to take to the table. You only need a series of basic ingredients and a little skill when using the pastry bag, but you don't have to be extremely precise. Therein lies the spirit of Halloween. The more realistic it is, the better.

Halloween Cupcakes and Muffins

Pumpkin muffins

Pumpkin muffins

Take advantage of the fact that pumpkin is in season on Halloween to make these juicy muffins with a delicious flavor.

Chocolate cupcakes

Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes

To prepare these cupcakes or muffins we only need one recipe for chocolate cake and another for chocolate topping or frosting. The cakes are juicy and have a magnificent chocolate flavor. And the coverage is soft and creamy. A danger for chocolate lovers and a recipe to succeed with the little ones this holiday season.

Halloween candy

Witch Fingers

If you think that that day deserves to have a scary time and prepare something terrifying to surprise your friends, I recommend that you get into the kitchen and prepare these so realistic witch fingers. We have added even more realism with a little red sugar paste and raspberry jam. The photo is a bit gore, it couldn't be more Halloween.

Mummy Chocolate Truffles

Mummy truffles

White on the outside and with delicious chocolate inside… you better get used to the idea that they will last half the time it will take you to make them.

Chocolate and pumpkin-shaped cake pops for Halloween

Pumpkin and skull cake pops

Cake pops are a very colorful sweet, as versatile as they are delicious, that we can decorate in a thousand ways. For Halloween we simulated skulls and pumpkins, but we could have easily turned them into bats, spiders, witches, etc.

You can share your Halloween recipes and tips with everyone with the hashtag #HalloweenDeRechupete.

Free PDF book of Halloween recipes

Download our free book in PDF format with all the Halloween recipes.

Easily share it with friends and family through WhatsApp, Telegram, email, etc. You can also print it and save it in a folder so that it is always at hand in the kitchen. At Recetas de Rechupete we want to make your life easier!

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Halloween pumpkin

Because no Halloween table is complete without this decoration, we tell you how to make your own illuminated pumpkin.

Halloween or All Saints' Day?

The celebration of Halloween grows every year, but it is not only this terrifying night that knocks on our doors. New traditions are mixed with the traditional recipes of the all Saints Daycelebrated in Spain in style.

The Frittersthe panellets or steeped, Bones of saints and the recipes with pumpkin they get together with the ghost brownies either Frankenstein biscuits.

In reality this festival is of Celtic origin and it was practiced for more than 3000 years by the Celtic peoples who populated all of Europe, although not exactly as we know it today. In its origins, it was a night of celebration of the end of the harvest season, considered the “Celtic New Year” or “End of Summer”. A festival of transition as an opening to the other world, in which the spirits return to earth, and bad spirits had to be driven away with a series of ceremonies.

Finally, the Christian tradition turned it into All Saints' Day in many places and mixed with the native traditions of Central America it gave rise to the Day of the Dead.

But the truth is that you don't have to choose, any holiday is a good excuse to celebrate with family and friends!


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