Halloween: 35 Baking In A Tornado Recipes

Halloween is almost here. All the fun that kids have been waiting for, eagerly anticipating is about to culminate in one night-long candy hoarding feeding frenzy. As much as the kids look forward to that night, it's bittersweet for me. It means this whole season of spooky decorations, haunted houses, and scary movies is just about to end. As I do every October, I've had a great time playing with food. My boys, although older, are great muses this time of year and we've been enjoying not just the recipe development process, but the food too, of course.

I realized though, that I don't do a good job of reminding everyone of the fun Halloween foods I've shared on this blog in the past years. I tend to highlight just what's going on in my kitchen now. So today, I'm here to remind you that you have a week left. And I've got 35 fun and spooky delicious options for you to try:

I've grouped these foods together into categories: Creepy Cookies, Macabre Meals, Twisted Treats, Diabolical Desserts and Devilish Drinks. Click on the name of the recipe and you will be magically transported to the post featuring that recipe. Witchy, right? And don't worry about time, if you make just five of them a day, you'll get to try them all by Halloween!

~ Mummy Cookies
Fudgy chocolate cookies in a white chocolate shell.

~ Mocha Mummies
Mocha flavored cookies with a white drizzle.

~ Mint Franken Cookies
Mint cookies decorated like Frankenstein.

~ Black Cat Cookies
Candy decorations on a chocolate cookie.

~ Witch's Fingers
A simple cookie colored and decorated.

~ Meringue Bones
Meringue shaped into bones and baked.

 

~ Devil's Applesauce
Homemade applesauce with a kick.

~ Cinnamon Cranraisin Pumpkin Bread
Pumpkin quick bread with cinnamon and cranraisins.

~ Spaghetti Brains
Spaghetti for dinner, decorated to look like brains.

~ Vegetable Rotini with Chicken in Pumpkin Cream Sauce
Vegetable rotini with chunks of chicken in a cream sauce lightly flavored with pumpkin.

~ Snake Sandwich
Party finger food, a giant sandwich made to look like a snake.

~ Black Widow Taco Cheese Ball
Taco flavored cheese ball decorated like a spider.

~ Chili Witches
Chili and tortillas make for a flavorful lunch or dinner witch.

~ Blood (Tomato) Soup
Homemade tomato soup.

~ Bloody Fingers
The ultimate ewww factor for a Halloween lunch.

 

~ Angry Owls
A fun and easy pretzel crisp snack.

~ Snack Cake Spiders
Decorate snack cakes and candy to look like spiders.


~ Fall Harvest Crack
Easy and delicious, fall fruits and nuts made into a bark.


~ Individual Mummy Pies
Hand held chocolate raspberry pies for Halloween.


~ Caramel Ginger Baked Apples 
Apples of the season filled with caramel and baked.


~ Witch's Hats
Fun party treats, candy filled witch's hats.


~ Orange Eyed Mice
Spooky mice made from cherries and chocolate.


~ Candy Pumpkins
Make your own mini pumpkin candies with just a few store bought ingredients.


~ Spooky Trifle
A fun trifle graveyard.


~ WitchOLanterns
Jack-O-Lantern witches, a quick and easy treat.


~ Bloody Bandaid Sandwiches
Sandwiches made to look like bloody bandaids for a fun Halloween lunch.

 

~ Witch's Caldron Giant Cookie
This giant cookie is decorated with frosting to look like a giant witch's caldron.

~ Raspberry Swirl Halloween Cake
No time like Halloween to serve a bloody knife cake.


~ Chocolate Pizza with Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting
A giant chocolate dessert pizza with cream cheese frosting. Let the kids decorate with candies of their choice.


~ Melting Wicked Witches Cupcakes
The Wicked Witch of the West is melting into these chocolate cupcakes.


~ Billy the Puppet Cake
Hello, readers, I want to play a game. Billy the Puppet in cake form. 


~ Ginger Pumpkin Cheesecake Log
Ginger snap cookies layered with pumpkin cheesecake filling for a pretty Halloween dessert.

 

~ Pumpkin Pie Hot Apple Cider
A hot drink, spiked or not, of pumpkin and apple cider.

~ Limoncello and Spiced Orange Pudding Cocktails
For adults only, spiked pudding cups decorated for the season.

~ Apple Pie Shotini
Apple Pie Shotini is a Fall cocktail treat.

As always, any time you make one of my recipes, feel free to post a picture of it to my Baking In A Tornado Facebook page. I'd love to see it!  

Happy Halloween!