Halloween feasting
Halloween is a fantastic time to encourage your child's interest in cooking. These scary treats make time spent in the kitchen together fun!
Put on a spooky spread
Get your children in the Halloween mood with a fun and gory supper like eyeball pasta - it's sure to start the fun and frights before the trick-or-treating even begins. Then create a spooky spread for them to come home to - this haunted graveyard cake makes the perfect party centrepiece.
Scary recipes to make with children
- Eerie eyeball pops
- Toffee popcorn bark
- Squeamish squares
- Hubble bubble pumpkin pot
- Halloween dips and bites
Make your pumpkin and eat it!
Greet trick-or-treaters at the door with a fiery lantern and a slab of cake! Follow our step-by-step guide to carving a pumpkin, then use the leftover flesh in this iced Halloween pumpkin cake.
More Halloween recipes
- Wizard's hat pasties
- Witches' brew (Pea & bacon chowder)
- Sausage and pumpkin roast
- Spooky spider cakes
- Chocolate orange spider jellies
Food for grown-ups
As the nights close in around Halloween, a relaxing meal in adult company may be just what you're craving. Make the most of seasonal produce with these autumn recipes and turn up the heat of your usual tipple with cockle-warming punches like this hot spiced cider.
Treats for autumnal dinner parties
- Pumpkin biryani
- Mustard-glazed chicken with Waldorf stuffing
- Celeriac, pancetta and thyme soup
- Pumpkin and pecan strudel
- Patchwork orchard pie


