Sweet Treats, No Tricks! Halloween Party Food Ideas

Need ideas for cute-and-creepy Halloween cupcakes, cookies, cake pops, candy buffets and more scary-sweet treats? Browse the photos above for Halloween party food ideas, inspiration, recipes and how-to's and create a party table to die for!

Make your party kid-friendly with these sweet-not-scary Halloween party food ideas displayed on a table full of friendly faces. Start with easy Halloween cupcakes (just add pumpkin party picks) displayed on a Light-Up Skeleton Cupcake Stand. Browse more photos above to get the how-to's for more Halloween cupcakes, including monster cupcakes, spider cupcakes and graveyard cupcakes to make 'em scream for more!

Spiders are creepy and crawly ... and tasty too, when they're made of cupcakes and candy! Turn your cupcakes into assorted arachnids by using gumballs and sixlets. We used the gumballs and Sixlets (sold at your nearest Party City store) to make the bodies, Black Licorice Decorating Strings for legs, and Black Sparkle Gel for eyes. Creating these spider cupcakes also makes a fun party activity for kids!

Mummies and eyeballs and jack-o-lanterns, oh my! The best Halloween party food ideas are served on a stick! To make these Halloween cake pops, bake a sheet cake, crumble it and mix with half a can of frosting, then form cake balls from the mixture and insert cake pop sticks. Chill and dip in warmed candy melt (available in several colors at Party City stores). Then decorate by piping on buttercream icing using a cake decorating set, black sparkle gel and food markers.

Make your monster bash more mmmm! These super-cute monster cupcakes are so easy to make ... just frost your cupcakes and insert the Ghoulish Gourmet Cupcake Costumes sold below. These little plastic monsters have "legs" just like party picks; just stick them into frosted cupcakes, and you're done!

Transform milk or juice bottles into mummies using white crepe streamers and candy eyeballs, and your Halloween party food prep is a wrap! For more adult-themed drinks, click here for ideas about shocktails that are sure to scare!

Chocolate lovers with a morbid sense of humor will devour these edible graveyard cupcakes. The Graveyard Cupcake Icing Decorations Kit comes with everything you need to make these – the candy tombstones come with an edible ink pen so you can write your own messages.

Adorable arachnids adorn these handy Halloween treat bags that make it easy to create party favors ahead of time. Just fill each bag with popcorn or a popcorn ball on a stick – the round shape of the bottom of these bags makes them work wonderfully for either. We tinted our popcorn lightly with Wilton Color Mist food coloring spray before filling the bags. Tie with curling ribbon and let the party begin!

Cats! Not to mention bats, ghosts and pumpkins! Halloween cookies are a must at your Halloween party, so make sure you've got a cauldronful of cookie cutters in Halloween motifs. This set comes in a coffin-shaped box and includes tombstones and spiders, too, so you can make your Halloween cookie platter a real creepy scene.

Why be normal? Mini candy bars in a bowl are perfectly fine for answering the trick-or-treat doorbell ... but on your Halloween party treats table, a little imagination and a couple of ping pong eyeballs go a long way! We combined them with gumballs and candy sticks in Halloween colors to make a monster who looks like he's seen a ghost!

Bewitch your guests by whipping up a batch of witch-finger candy pretzels, our favorite of all Halloween party food ideas. The candy mold below forms the fingers perfectly, so you don't have to have mad candy-making skills! Display your witch fingers upright in a bowl filled with candy corn, gumballs or Sixlets. Get the candy melts at your nearest Party City store.

Need Halloween cupcakes in a hurry? Nothing could be faster than these whimsical ghost cupcakes and pumpkin cupcakes. This zero-hassle Halloween cupcakes idea is made with the cupcake decorating kit below that comes with baking cups, printed cupcake toppers (both ghost and jack-o-lantern designs), and even the sprinkles! Suddenly Halloween baking is a lot less frightening, even if you're scary-busy!

Looking for a more macabre take on Halloween party food ideas? They'll be jumping out of their skin for these Bloody Dagger cupcakes. Bake your cupcakes in baking cups like these that have a more sinister-looking design, then frost with caramel or vanilla icing to look like flesh. Add dripping "blood" with Red Sparkle Gel and finish with Meat Cleaver Icing Decorations. Click here for shocking Halloween cocktail ideas and recipes to complete a Halloween party food table for grown-up ghouls.

Taking cupcakes to a Halloween party or bake sale? Grab a to-go box! Line up your Halloween cupcakes in a cute display box that makes them easy to carry and less of a hassle to transport in the car. Bonus: These boxes double as cupcake displays, so your treats look twice as nice next to everyone else's treats.