Halloween Kid Recipes
and Ideas

Halloween kid recipes

Do you need great Halloween kid recipes and ideas? Then it must be the season when the leaves are changing colors, pumpkin patches abound and kids are gearing up for Halloween trick or treating.

Halloween Kid Recipes: Spiders

Halloween Spiders
This follows the same idea used for spiders in our Assistant chef kids cooking lessons #2 with a little added twist.
Oreo or chocolate sandwich cookies
White frosting
Black licorice laces
Small round cinnamon candies
Open cookie up carefully and push in eight small licorice pieces. Place top back on cookie and dab a little frosting on the front top cookie. Push cinnamon candies on frosting and enjoy your Halloween spiders.

Halloween Kid Recipes: Ghosts

Ghost Cookies
Nutter butter, Milano or other oval or rectangular shaped cookies
baking white chocolate or white candy melts
small round cinnamon candies
Melt chocolate for 20 second intervals in microwave safe dish until melted. Stir. Dunk each cookie in white chocolate and place two cinnamon candies for eyes.

Halloween Mini Ghost Pizzas
Halloween ghost cookie cutters
pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce
shredded mozzarella cheese
olives and chopped pepperoni
Pizza dough
2 ½ Cup flour
1 teaspoon Salt
1 Cup warm water
1 Tablespoon yeast
1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning or to taste
1 Tablespoon olive oil or vegetable
Dissolve yeast in warm water and add a dash of sugar. Meanwhile, in mixer bowl add flour, salt, oil and Italian seasoning. When yeast is bubbly and ready pour into flour mixture and blend. Form into a ball and place in a oiled bowl. Let rise 30-60 minutes. Roll out pizza dough on floured surface. Using Halloween cookie cutters cut out shapes from pizza dough. Place on pizza pan and spread with sauce, mozzarella cheese and use pepperoni for eyes and a sliced olive for the mouth.

Eyeball Cookie Kit

Wicked Witch Cookie Kit

Halloween Kid Recipes: Black Cats

Black Cat Cupcakes
Chocolate cupcakes
Chocolate frosting
Black licorice (whiskers)
Jelly beans(nose and eyes)
Chocolate sandwich cookies cut in 4 triangles(ears)
Bake chocolate cupcakes according to the package directions. When cool frost cupcakes. Add black licorice for whiskers, jelly beans eyes and nose, and cookie triangles for ears.

photo of cat cookies for kids cooking Halloween recipes.

photo of cat cookies for kids cooking Halloween recipes.

Black Cat Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 Cup baking cocoa
3 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 1/2 cups flour
Candy corn
Red hot cinnamon candy
Blend butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, cocoa, and vanilla in mixing bowl. Mix until smooth. Add in baking powder, baking soda and flour. Blend until combined. Roll into balls and place on cookie sheet. Flatten each cookie ball with a glass. With your fingers pinch the top of each cookie to form into ears. Add whiskers by press the a fork into each side of the cookie “face.” Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Take out of oven and press in 2 candy corn eyes and a red hot cinnamon candy for a nose.

Recipes on this page

Halloween Spiders

Ghost Cookies

Mini Ghost Pizzas

Black Cat Cupcakes

Black Cat cookies

Skeleton and Brains link

Munchies Mix

Stuffed Hands

Popcorn Balls

Candy Corn Brittle

Four Recipe Ideas for Eye Balls

Witch Hats

Halloween Dinner Idea

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Halloween Kid Recipes: Skeleton

Skeleton and Brains
What a great idea! A healthy Halloween recipe for a vegetable skeleton and dip for brains. Every kid and parents have got to love this!

Find some more healthy Halloween recipes including a Skeleton meatloaf for dinner in our October Newsletter.

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Halloween Kid Recipes: Halloween Goodies

Halloween Kid Recipe Munchies Mix
1 Cup mini marshmallows
1 Cup orange and black plain M&M's
1 Cup peanuts
1 Cup candy corn
2 Cups popped popcorn
Mix ingredients together in bowl. Serve in plastic pumpkin or witch's cauldron.

Stuffed Hands
One pkg clear plastic gloves
Use the munchies mix Halloween recipe above and fill each plastic glove. Then tie tight with a string. Give away as party treats or goody bags. You can also add red M&M's or a candy corn on the end of each finger in the glove for a fingernail.

Halloween popcorn balls
8 cups popcorn freshly popped
1 ½ Cups peanuts
3/4 cup brown sugar packed
1/3 cup light corn syrup
½ teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons butter cut in pieces
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ Cups candy corn
In large bowl stir popcorn and peanuts together and set aside. Have an adult prepare syrup mixture on stove. Combine sugar, corn syrup, salt and butter in saucepan. Stir over low heat and bring to a boil. Continue boiling for 5 minutes without stirring. Take off heat and add vanilla. Pour over popcorn and peanuts. Stir together until well blended. Add in candy corn. Allow to cool slightly in order to handle. With kids help form into balls and place on waxed paper to cool completely.

Candy Corn Brittle
2 Cup sugar
1 Cup water
1 Cup corn syrup
½ teaspoon Salt
2 Cups or less candy corn
1 Tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla
½ teaspoon Baking soda
In saucepan, combine sugar, water, corn syrup. Have an adult(or older kid chef) cook mixture over low heat, stirring constantly. Increase heat and bring syrup to boil. Cook until candy thermometer reads 300 degrees or hard crack stage. Remove from heat, add butter and vanilla. Then add soda mixture, mixture will be foamy. Stir in candy corn. Pour brittle onto buttered pan and spread with buttered knife. Allow to cool.

Halloween Kid Recipes: Eye balls

Four Ideas for Eye Balls

Make deviled eggs and place a black olive slice on top.

Make mini cheese balls and put a black olive slice on top. See the cheese ball recipe here.
Make the cheese ball and form into mini balls. Don't roll in nuts and chill in the fridge.

Cook meatballs and place a dab of sour cream on top and a black olive on the sour cream. Need a recipe for meatballs we have one with

stuffed cheese here
and one simple meatball recipe here.
Pudding Eyeballs. A great Halloween kid recipe! Prepare vanilla pudding according to directions. Using washed and dried easter egg plastic halves place a gummi saver in bottom. Then place a black M&M or other candy inside the hole of the gummi saver. Pour vanilla pudding over the top. Place in egg cartons and chill. You can also prepare this recipe with Jell-O gelatin instead of pudding. To serve pop eye out of plastic egg and serve on a fun platter or on top a monster face.