Happy October, friends! We are all about Halloween in our home and one of our favorite yearly traditions is to make Spooky Shepard’s Pie on Halloween night.

I also love making fun and slighty scary spreads all month long for my foodie family.

So today I have put together over 40 Spooky Halloween Dinner Ideas for you to cook up all month long for your little (and big) monsters to enjoy!

Scroll down to see the recipes and have a spooktacular delicious dinner!

1.  Double Double Toil & Trouble Macaroni & Cheese – 4 Sons R Us

2. Monster Burgers – 4 Sons R Us

3. Halloween Buffalo Chicken Jack-O-Lantern Stuffed Peppers – Xoxo Bella

4. Halloween Chili with Broom Breadsticks – Celebrations at Home

5. Hocus Pocus Halloween Charcuterie Board – For the Love of Food

6. Jack ‘O Lantern Quesadillas – The Quicker Kitchen

7. Creamy Pumpkin Cauliflower Alfredo (aka the smashed spider) – The Forked Spoon

8. Mummy Meatballs – Rhubarbarians

9. Spooky Halloween Black Bean Spaghetti with AFRAID-O Sauce – Surf and Sunshine

10. Witches Brew Stew – The Magical Slow Cooker

11. Puking Pumpkin Halloween Taco Board – Maple and Mango

12. Spooky Halloween French Bread Pizzas – For the Love of Food

13. Mini Ghost Pizzas – Crayons and Cravings

14. Halloween Mummy Stromboli Dinner – Xoxo Bella

15. Skeleton Charcuterie Display – For the Love of Food

16. Chili Mac Halloween Stuffed Peppers – Spa Bettie

17. Mummy Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizzas – Kitchen Divas

18. Halloween Eyeball Spaghetti – Homemade Heather

19. Upchuckin’ Pumpkin Loaded Pasta Salad – For the Love of Food

20. Mummy Meatloaves – Kitchen Divas

21. Jack-O’-Lantern Stuffed Peppers – I Heart Eating

22. Spider Halloween Pizza with Black Charcoal Crust – Xoxo Bella

23. Ghostly Pizza – The Salt and Sweet

24. Pumpkin Shaped Pepperoni Pizza – For the Love of Food

25. Halloween Deep Dish Pizza Pot Pie – Spa Bettie

26. Air Fryer Mummy Dogs with Bloodshot Eye Dip – Kitchen Divas

27. Halloween Chicken Parm Monster Sliders – Fat Girl Hedonist

28. Monster Meatloaf – The Cagle Diaries

29. Mummy Meatloaf – The Schmidty Wife

30. Tomato Spiderweb Halloween Soup – Homemade Heather

31. Spooky Halloween Shepherd’s Pie – For the Love of Food

32. Mummy Wrap Pizza Calzone – Easy Budget Recipes

33. Spider Spooky Pasta – Three Olives Branch

34. Pita Halloween Mummy Pizza – Veggie Desserts

35. Halloween Jack Skellington Ricotta Olive Tarts – Snixy Kitchen

36. Spooky Spaghetti – Rhubarbarians

37. Halloween Pasta Salad – Well and Full

38. Cinnamon Roll Brains Casserole – For the Love of Food

39. Mini Halloween Pizzas – On My Kids Plate

40 .Monster Mac and Cheese – Semi Homemade Recipes

41. Silly Monster Sandwiches – Jordan’s Easy Entertaining

42.  Halloween Monster Foot Loaf – For the Love of Food

43. Skull Chicken Pot Pies – Big Bears Wife

44. Rattlesnake Bite Hot Dogs – Today’s Creative Life

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I’m so excited for spooky season 2023!

For my first recipe this Halloween, I created these decadent chocolate spider cupcakes.

Easy to make and fun to serve during Halloween celebrations and movie nights, these Spooky Spider Chocolate Cupcakes are a favorite decadent treat to enjoy this spooky season!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Welcome to 2023’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event!

If you’re new here, welcome! If you’re a returning haunt, welcome back!

#HalloweenTreatsWeek is a yearly Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife . You’ll find that this fun and spooky event is an online, week-long event that is filled with some frightfully fun Halloween treats and recipes from some fantastic Halloween loving bloggers!

For this years 6th annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event we have 18 hauntingly talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week! You can following the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media to collect all of these frightful recipes to use at your own Halloween parties and events!

Make sure to check out all of the fun Halloween recipes below that we’re sharing this week!

Spooky and sweet spider cupcakes are scarily delicious!

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Spooky Spider Chocolate Cupcakes

Makes 12 large cupcakes

Ingredients

• 12 chocolate cupcakes I used Halloween Funfetti mix
• 15 oz jar green vanilla frosting I used Halloween Funfetti frosting with sprinkles included
• 12 Oreo cookies I used Halloween design colored Oreos
• black decorative icing
• candy eyeballs included with the Funfetti frosting
• Halloween colored sprinkles included with the Funfetti frosting

Instructions

• Bake cupcakes according to package. Cool completely.
• Frost the cupcakes with the icing, covering the tops completely with a generous scoop.
• Top each cupcake with a Halloween Oreo in the center.
• Using the black icing, draw four lines on either side of the Oreo cookies (eight total) as spider legs.
• Now add Halloween colored sprinkles to the open area of frosting on each cupcake.
• Add a dot of icing onto the back of each candy eyeball.
• Press two eyes, icing side down, onto the top center of each Oreo cookie.
• Serve and enjoy!

How cool is this Halloween Funfetti combo?! The green frosting even comes with sprinkles and candy eyeballs. 

This fun recipe is so easy to make and adding Halloween themed cupcakes, frosting, and cookies made it even better (and yummier)!

Bake cupcakes according to package. I used spider web themed cupcake liners.

Cool completely. 

Frost the cupcakes with the icing, covering the tops completely with a generous scoop.

My girl helping me with the fun green frosting.

Frost all the cupcakes. 

Top each cupcake with a Halloween Oreo in the center. 

Using the black icing, draw four lines on either side of the Oreo cookies as spider legs. 

You want to make eight total legs. 

Now add Halloween colored sprinkles to the open area of frosting on each cupcake. 

Add a dot of icing onto the back of each candy eyeball. 

Press two eyes, icing side down, onto the top center of each Oreo cookie. 

How cute…I mean spooky… are these?!

They even look like they are smiling! 

All done and ready to serve!

Today’s Halloween Offerings:

• Evil Dragon Deviled Eggs from Big Bear’s Wife
• Chocolate Cherry Skull Cakes from Semi Homemade Recipes
• Witch Hat Garlic Bread from Cheese Curd In Paradise
• Candy Corn Cookie Cake from The Spiffy Cookie
• Wicked Good Apple Cider Muffins from Our Good Life
• Spooky Spider Decadent Cupcakes from For the Love of Food
• Monster Mash Cereal Cheesecake from Sweet ReciPEAs
• Pumpkin Cheesecake Bites from It’s Shanaka
• Halloween Brains Cupcakes from An Affair from the Heart
• Breadstick Snakes from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
• Jack O’Lantern Tostadas from Palatable Pastime
• Witches Broom Cookies from Best Cookie Recipes
• Baked Intestine Pie from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
• Spooky Roasted Potato Skulls from Savory Moments
• Mummy Donuts from The Redhead Baker
• Caramel Apple Bark from Best Dessert Recipes
• Mummy Dogs from Savory Experiments
• Halloween Taco Dip from Jen Around the World
• Easy Spider Cupcakes from Hezzi-D’s Recipe Box
• Creamy Pumpkin Hummus from Jolene’s Recipe Journal

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I want to eat your BRAINS!

This spooky zombie inspired meal is a gross out- but absolutely delicious- brunch casserole you have got to try this Halloween season! 

Even better- today is National Cinnamon Roll Day so here’s another reason to bake and celebrate!

Welcome to Day 2 of HalloweenTreatsWeek !

#HalloweenTreatsWeek is a yearly Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife . This event is an online, week-long event that is filled with some amazingly wicked Halloween treats and recipes from some fantastic Halloween loving bloggers!

For this years 5th annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event we have 20 hauntingly talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week! You can following the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media to collect all of these frightful recipes to use at your own Halloween parties and events!

Make sure to check out all of the fun Halloween recipes that we’re sharing this week!

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Cinnamon Roll Brains Casserole

Ingredients

• 2 17 oz rolls Pillsbury Grands Cinnamon Rolls I like Pumpkin Spice flavor
• Red food coloring

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spray a large round baking dish with non stick spray.
• Open cinnamon rolls packages and remove cream cheese icing and set aside.
• Unroll each of the cinnamon rolls and fold them up in a zig zag pattern on one side of the baking dish.
• Leaving a space in the center to separate sides of the brain,  repeat on the other side with the remaining cinnamon rolls.
• Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
• Meanwhile, I leave the icing on the stove to warm up and melt while the rolls are baking.
• A few minutes before the rolls are done add 1 or 2 drops of red food coloring into the icing and mix with a toothpick until light pink.
• Remove the cinnamon rolls from the oven and immediately frost and drizzle with the pink icing.
• Serve warm as a pull apart casserole for brunch!

I’ve always been a fan of Pillsbury Grands Cinnamon Rolls and Biscuits. They are the best!

You can use original cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing or the seasonal flavor: Pumpkin Spice!

Open cinnamon rolls, remove icing, and unroll all the rolls. 

Unroll each of the cinnamon rolls and fold them up in a zig zag pattern on one side of a greased round baking dish.

Leaving a space in the center to separate sides of the brain, repeat on the other side with the remaining cinnamon rolls. 

Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. 

If you can’t fit all your unrolled cinnamon rolls in the dish simple bake the one or two extras in a small dish for an individual treat!

Meanwhile, I leave the icing on the stove to warm up and melt while the rolls are baking.

A few minutes before the rolls are done add 1 or 2 drops of red food coloring into the icing and mix with a toothpick until light pink.

What is better than warm cinnamon rolls with gooey cream cheese icing?!

Remove the cinnamon rolls from the oven and immediately frost and drizzle with the pink icing.  

Warm and ready to eat!

Serve warm as a pull apart casserole for brunch!

Make sure to check out all of the fun Halloween recipes that we’re sharing this week!

• Raw Meat Halloween Rice Krispie Treats from Big Bear’s Wife
• Vampire Brownie Bites from Semihomemade Recipes
• Rice Krispies Brains from Fresh April Flours
• Petri Dish Jello Shots from Sweet ReciPEAs
• Sally Stitches Sugar Cookies from Best Cookie Recipes
• Cookies and Cream Spider Cupcakes from Jen Around the World
• Cinnamon Roll Brains Casserole from For The Love of Food

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