Looking for Halloween potluck ideas for a spooktacular hit?
Whether you’re planning a work lunch, a casual gathering, or a Halloween dinner party, these easy and fun Halloween potluck recipes are sure to bring some frightful fun to your celebration.
From eerie Halloween finger foods and ghoulish party snacks to delightful DIY Halloween appetizers and devilishly sweet desserts, we’ve got everything you need to impress your guests.
Whether you’re in need of easy DIY Halloween appetizers or show-stopping Halloween party dishes, Halloween games for the group, you’ll find a variety of Halloween food ideas that will have everyone howling for more.
Get ready to turn your potluck into a feast of frights with these fun and creative Halloween food ideas.
Let’s dive into our ultimate guide filled with creative and delicious Halloween Potluck Ideas!
Halloween Potluck Ideas For Halloween Party
Halloween is the perfect time to gather with friends, family, or coworkers and indulge in some festive and frighteningly good food.
Whether you’re hosting a costume party, attending a work lunch, or just want to bring a little spooky spirit to your next potluck, having a variety of Halloween-themed dishes is key to making the event a hit.
From creepy-cute finger foods to monstrously tasty desserts, these Halloween Potluck Ideas are packed with creativity and flavor.
Get ready to wow your guests with easy-to-make dishes that are as delicious as they are Instagram-worthy. Let’s dig in and make your Halloween potluck the talk of the season!
Halloween Drinks Ideas
Spooky Halloween Drinks
A simple Halloween punch goes spooky with the addition of eyeballs. These creepy eyeball punch drinks can be made by the glass or by the pitcher for some spooky fun!
A deliciously spooky, dark Halloween Party Punch for this year's bash! It's not overly sweet, a bit bubbly and can be spiked or made without alcohol! This drink is a new October favorite that both adults and kids will love sipping!
This creamy butterscotch drink is inspired by Harry Potters Butterbeer. It’s easy to prepare and the perfect non-alcoholic drink for kids and adults alike.
This punch will be the talk of the potluck for its flavors and colors! It’s super tasty too so be sure to make a big batch!
This green non-alcoholic Halloween Punch is the perfect Halloween potluck or witch themed party recipe, especially for kids! It has key lime Sherbert, soda pop, chocolate cookie witch hats, marshmallow licorice brooms and candy eyes. It's a kid's dream come true!
This Bewitching Halloween Sangria Recipe offers a delightful and CHILLING Halloween refreshment, concocted with a mix of red wine, vodka, raspberry liqueur, apple cider, and a medley of fresh fruits, crowned with effervescent soda. Pour this delectable and readily adaptable sangria recipe at your upcoming adult Halloween gathering for a spine-tingling treat!
Everyone will love this Foaming Zombie Brain Halloween Punch. Full of eyeballs and worms, no one will be able to resist.
This Halloween Spiked Toxic Tonic Recipe is a delightfully creepy concoction that is the ultimate drink for your Halloween party. It is served in beakers and colored the perfect shade of green for Halloween.
This red devil drink makes the perfect Halloween cocktail. The combination of sloe gin and grenadine give this drink a bright red, spooky look.
This creepy alien brain hemorrhage shot is the best Halloween shot recipe to serve to guests. Easy to make with only 4 ingredients: Peach Schnapps, Baileys, blue curaçao and grenadine.
This Halloween punch is the perfect way to serve a crowd! Complete with dry ice (and how to safely handle it) this spooky drink will wow all of your guests. This punch can be made with or without alcohol.
Halloween Savory Food Recipes
Savory Foods
Halloween Deviled Eggs are spooky potluck party appetizers with dark black crackled egg shells filled with bright orange filling. This classic simple appetizer is great to make ahead and have with Halloween cocktails.
Make these edible and adorable creepy-crawlies-on-a-pizza-bagel treats for your upcoming Halloween celebration! These cute Halloween Spider Bagel Bites are incredibly simple to make but are wickedly good!
This Halloween spinach dip is sure to be your new go-to for parties. It tastes great and the olive spiders make it extra spooky!
This Halloween veggie tray is so much fun! It is so quick and easy to make. Plus, it is such a fun tray to bring to parties.
A deliciously spooky side, Monster Mac 'n Cheese features green noodles and edible eyeballs. All natural with no dye!
Monster meatballs are sure to be a blast at your BOO-riffick potluck! Just a little blue color transforms your spooky side dish into a scary snack for a crowd.
“Trick or Treat! Give me something good to eat”- like this delightfully spooky Halloween Charcuterie Board! Filled with all sorts of goodies from creamy cheeses and cured meats to a ghost inspired yogurt dip finished with crawling with spooky spiders and even a large friendly skeleton!
Halloween parties are all about serving haunted food and creepy drinks like mini Halloween Pizzas. Decorate with one of the six ideas here, choose a Jack-O-Lantern, Dracula, Frankenstein, Monster, Mummy, or Ghost!
Halloween sandwiches are the perfect party food for a crowd. Serve a big sub sandwich with spooky decorations like cheese teeth and edible eyeballs! Add any deli meat or sandwich filling, sliced cheeses, or toppings you like.
There are also plenty of options to make this sandwich your way for a healthy snack or lunch, or to have right before Trick-Or-Treating!
Everyone loves easy party food! These savory salty-sweet Easy Halloween snacks are loved by kids and adults. Build a fun snack board tray with your favorite chips, crackers, sweet treats, and spooky candy eyes! You can make it healthier with cutveggies and creamy dips too.
Salty and sweet snacks are addictively delicious together, they taste so good. Have fun putting your own tray together for Halloween parties.
If you're looking for an easy to make and creepy dinner for Halloween, you have to try this spooky spaghetti and meatballs! Flavorful Italian meatballs topped with mozzarella and olives to make "eyeballs", served over a bed of "bloody" marinara tossed spaghetti noodles!
Bloody, burnt creepy Halloween pizza hand!!! A fun and creative twist to the classic pizza made with homemade or store bought pizza dough is a perfect Halloween dinner idea. No special gadgets required.
This easy Halloween recipe for creepy Mozzarella Eyeballs is perfect for a Halloween party or dinner before trick-or-treating.
Easy Halloween Food for a fun family dinner or Halloween party. Rattlesnake Bite Hot Dog Appetizers are a family favorite.
Spooky Halloween Pizza Recipe that will impress your kids! Made with naan breads, these are made with skull cheese and olive spiders in oven or air fryer.
Jalapeno Bacon Mummies are a fun, "eye-appealing" appetizer that will steal the show at your Halloween potluck.
Halloween Dessert Ideas
Desserts
Make an easy Halloween treat with store-bought donuts and glaze. These spider donuts bring some creepy fun to the table!
All eyes with be on these creepy peanut butter eyeballs! This Halloween dessert is fun for kids to help make.
Puff pastry intestines are perfect for Halloween! Puff pastry is filled with a sweet mascarpone filling and rolled up to look like intestines and drizzled with a sweet bloody "raspberry jam" and finished with shards of edible glass.
A super cute sweet treat that can easily be made in big batches. A soft and chewy peanut butter cookie topped with Reese's and decorated with eyes and chocolate to make them look like spiders.
These cute and spooky Gluten-Free Ghost Cupcakes are perfect for Halloween!
These super easy cupcakes are vegan, allergy-free, and perfect for kids! Made with a simple black chocolate cupcake base and dairy-free vanilla buttercream frosting. Whether you need a unique Halloween party treat or a simple non-candy dessert, these are a must!
Bake a spooky Halloween Cake with orange and chocolate marbled cake inside, and a cemetery all made in chocolate! Happy Halloween!
No need to break out the fondant because these witch hats are pure frosting goodness! Whether you’re throwing a Halloween party for the kids or just throwing it down at the office potluck, these cupcakes are sure to delight ghouls both big and small!
These Halloween Rice Krispie treats are the perfect last-minute addition to your dessert line-up - Fast, easy and made from just a few store bought ingredients.
These Halloween Peanut Butter Spiders are a lot of fun to make, super spooky-cute, and taste absolutely amazing! Make these sweet and adorable peanut butter protein critters for your little trick or treaters to enjoy. These no-bake, vegan treats are probably one of the easiest Halloween goodies that you can ever make!
Serve up the scariest cupcakes this Halloween with this slasher film inspired dessert recipe! Spooky and fun it’s sure to pop on any party platter.
This quick and easy Halloween cookie recipe is made with black cocoa powder for an intense black color without food coloring! Use melted white chocolate to decorate the cookies with mummy or spiderweb designs (the simple decorating instructions can be found in the recipe).
Ready for the cutest Frankenstein treats for Halloween? These matcha rice crispy treats aren't just cute they're super delicious and not too sweet!
These spooky Halloween cookies are easy to make, aren’t full with food coloring, and absolutely delicious! Two chewy cookies with a fudge filling in between makes for a very tasty Halloween treat.
Dirt dessert, but make it spooky! Made with homemade chocolate pudding and crushed Oreo cookies - and topped with creepy crawly M&M bugs - these Halloween Dirt Cups are a hit with kids of all ages.
Make spooky s'mores even more fun with this haunted Halloween charcuterie board.
Cute Skull Cookies - Halloween Linzer cookies cut into skull shapes, baked, filled with raspberry jam and then finished off with an easy M&M FLOWER!
These easy Halloween Oreo Balls are decorated like eyeballs for a spooky Halloween treat! They are perfect for a Halloween party or just an easy Halloween dessert for the family!
Perfect for a potluck party, these spooky pumpkin cake pops are perfect for sharing and a real crowd-pleaser!
Halloween Rocky Road is fun, delicious and an ideal sweet treat or edible gift. It is a favorite no-bake dessert for chocolate lovers. Dark and milk chocolate are combined with rice bubble cereal, marshmallows and snake lollies. Decorated with a drizzle of white chocolate for a spider web effect and more snakes, this is the ideal festive Halloween treat!
These Halloween chocolate covered strawberry are a fun and delicious Halloween themed dessert, perfect for parties and gifts!
These fun Halloween Ghost Cupcakes are a fun and spooky decorated Halloween dessert!
These super simple Halloween chocolate chip cookies are the cutest snack for Halloween parties, events, and potlucks!
This Halloween Bloody Bone Cupcakes recipe is not for the faint-hearted! If you like all the bloody and gory things about the season then these Halloween Cupcakes are just what you need to add to your creepy halloween treats.
You can make these Halloween Pumpkin Cupcakes from a box cake mix to save time! Decorate the top to look like a cute little pumpkin, trick or treat, there’s a surprise inside - black and orange colored cake!
These chocolate covered Halloween pretzels are the perfect mix of salty and sweet. They’re super easy to make and sure to impress your party pals.
These Maple Cinnamon Cookies are soft, chewy, and delicious! The maple vanilla glaze transforms these cookies into spooky mummies!
These High Hat Cupcakes are super chocolatey, frosted SKY-HIGH with vanilla buttercream, then dipped in chocolate! The finishing touch are the spooky marshmallow "webs!"
Your guests will love these Spooky Spider Peanut Butter Cookies. The best part - they come together in a flash when you use store-bought cookies (no one will ever know!)
These chocolate filled cookies make the perfect Halloween cookie sandwich.
Soft pumpkin cookies are stuffed with creamy chocolate for the ultimate dessert. Make this Halloween cookie sandwich with the kids and they’ll be THRILLED!
Halloween Party Games
Halloween Games
Suitable for both adults and kids! Here is a pack of 100 printable cute watercolor Halloween bingo cards for Halloween party, Halloween indoor activity, work, school party or halloween birthday
