Throwing a Halloween party and need snacks everyone can eat? This list rounds up 20 vegetarian Halloween party snacks, from mummy-wrapped brie bites and a pumpkin-shaped cheese ball to ghost bananas the kids can make themselves. Every recipe below comes from a food blogger — credited and linked — so you can get the full instructions straight from the source.
Savory Spooky Snacks
1. Mini Mummy Baked Brie Bites
These little brie wheels get wrapped in thin strips of puff pastry like mummy bandages, baked until golden, and finished with googly candy eyes. About 15 minutes in the oven, and best served warm while the cheese is still melty. Recipe by Sparkling Charm.
2. Witches Brew Dip
A bright green no-bake dessert dip made from pistachio pudding, cream cheese, and whipped topping. Serve it in a plastic cauldron with gummy eyeballs and worms on top, and let guests scoop it up with graham crackers. Recipe by Southern Halloween Queen.
3. Pumpkin Shaped Cheese Ball
Cream cheese and sharp cheddar mixed with ranch seasoning, rolled in crushed cheese puffs for that orange color, and shaped with rubber bands into pumpkin ridges. A bell pepper stem and an olive jack-o’-lantern face finish the look — chill it overnight so the flavors meld. Recipe by Restless Chipotle.
4. Paleo Deviled Egg Eyeballs
Classic deviled eggs turned creepy: the yolk filling gets a slice of pimento-stuffed olive pressed in as the pupil, with a dusting of paprika for a bloodshot effect. They look startling on a platter and taste like the real thing. Recipe by Cotter Crunch.
5. Spider Pizza
Individual pizzas get a mozzarella web — string cheese peeled into strands and laid in concentric circles over the sauce. Bake, then perch an olive-slice spider on top. Kids love assembling their own. Recipe by From Foodie with Love.
6. Halloween Jack-O’-Lantern Stuffed Peppers
Orange bell peppers carved with jack-o’-lantern faces and stuffed with a rice, paneer, corn, and roasted red pepper filling. Bake until tender and set the carved lids back on top like pumpkin caps. Recipe by Recipe Times.
7. Frankenstein Guacamole Cups
Guacamole served in clear cups decorated as Frankenstein’s monster — tape features, googly eyes, pom-pom neck bolts — with blue corn tortilla chips stuck in as his flat-top hair. The decorations are reusable; just refill the inner cup. Recipe by Feed Your Skull.
8. Garlic Pumpkin Hummus with Bat Chips
Chickpeas, pumpkin purée, tahini, and garlic blended silky smooth, topped with olive oil and roasted pumpkin seeds. Cut tortillas into bat shapes with a cookie cutter for the full effect. It keeps five days, so make it ahead. Recipe by Eating by Elaine.
Easy No-Cook Treats for Kids
9. Frozen Ghost Bananas
Three ingredients: banana halves on sticks, dipped in vanilla yogurt, with chocolate chips for eyes and mouths. Freeze for at least four hours. They keep for two months, and a plant-based yogurt makes them vegan. Recipe by Baby Foode.
10. Clementine Pumpkins
The easiest item on this list: peeled clementines with a piece of celery stuck in as the stem. Two ingredients, zero cooking. Make them the day of — they dry out fast. Recipe by Kitchen Treaty.
11. Monster Apple Bites
Apple quarters held open with peanut butter, sunflower seeds pressed in as teeth, a strawberry slice tongue, and candy eyes on top. No baking, and kids can build their own monsters. Recipe by With the Blinks.
12. Candy Corn Fruit Cups
Mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks, and whipped cream layered in clear cups to mimic candy corn stripes. Three ingredients, minutes to assemble — a solid school-party option. Recipe by Easy Peasy Meals.
Sweet Monster Treats
13. Monster Munch Popcorn Snack Mix
Buttered popcorn and pretzel twists drizzled with melted white chocolate, tossed with candy eyes, sprinkles, Reese’s Pieces, and candy corn. Fifteen minutes, no oven, and it keeps for a week in an airtight container. Recipe by Little Black Skillet.
14. Easy Halloween Cupcakes
Devil’s food cupcakes with chocolate frosting, tops dipped in crushed chocolate cookies for “dirt,” and candy skulls splattered with neon candy melts. The decorating is very kid-doable. Recipe by This Silly Girl’s Kitchen.
15. Spooky Spiderweb Brownies
Fudgy brownies piped with melted white chocolate in concentric circles, then dragged with a toothpick into webs. Candy eyes finish each square. Let the kids do the web-pulling. Recipe by Lush Ladle.
16. Mummy Rice Krispie Treats
Thick homemade rice krispie treats, half-dipped in white chocolate and drizzled criss-cross for bandages, with candy eyes peeking through. About 30 minutes start to finish. Recipe by Basics with Bails.
17. Monster Popcorn Balls
Popcorn bound with a marshmallow-butter mixture, tinted purple, green, and orange, rolled into balls and studded with candy eyeballs and sprinkles. Wrap them individually for grab-and-go party favors. Recipe by Hip Mama’s Place.
18. Witch Finger Pretzels
Pretzel rods dipped in green candy melts with a slivered almond pressed in as the fingernail and knuckle creases scored with a toothpick. They harden in minutes and keep four days airtight. Recipe by Simply Sated.
19. Graveyard Pudding Cups
Chocolate pudding cups topped with crushed Oreo “dirt,” Milano cookie tombstones lettered R.I.P. in icing, plus candy pumpkins, bones, and gummy worms. Ten minutes, no baking. Recipe by My Mini Chefs.
Spooky Sips
20. Witches Brew Punch
Lime sherbet, lemon-lime soda, and pineapple juice — pour the soda over the sherbet for a fizzy green foam that looks like a bubbling potion. Float gummy worms and candy eyeballs on top. Make it right before serving so the fizz holds. Recipe by One Sweet Appetite.
Time to Party
That’s 20 vegetarian Halloween party snacks, from savory bites to sweet treats to one very green punch. Most of these keep well, so you can prep a day ahead and actually enjoy your own party. Planning the full menu? Our 16 vegetarian Halloween dinner ideas round out the evening.
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