40+ Best Halloween Appetizer & Snack Ideas For 2024

Featured Image Credit: Sugar & Charm

In need of a super festive Halloween appetizer or snack, you can whip up for the party? These delicious and creative recipe ideas will have you looking like the party QUEEN… or maybe Witch!? Don’t forget to check out the free printables I made down below and the end of the post!

Here are the appetizers I really like:

Halloween Jalapeño Poppers

Source: The Hopeless House Wife

Feeling spicy this Halloween? Put on some “WRAP” music and cook up these adorable jalapeno popper mummies. These are just like pigs in a blanket, only the jalapeno with eyes is the pig, and it’s wrapped in cheesy layered crescent rolls. I love how lifelike these are, and how seriously delicious too!

Cheesy Witches Broomsticks

Source: Cakescottage

It just so happens that not only do I have a resting ‘witch” face, but I can drive stick too! These cheesy witches broomsticks are easy to make, look adorable, and are the perfect snack set up this Halloween season. With just a pack of cheese sticks, pretzels, and green onions, you can make them too!

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Meatball Mummies

Source: High Heels and Grills

Is there an appetizer better than homemade meatballs? How about a meatball wrapped in pasta with black olive sauce filled eyes? These are spooky enough for Halloween, super easy and quick to create, and will have people talking, and devouring them this fall!

Bat & Ghost Halloween Crackers

Source: Fox and Briar

These BOOtiful ghost Halloween crackers will really put you in the Halloween “spirit” if you know what I mean. Salty, garlicky, with sesame seeds added, these are simple quick homemade crackers for any Halloween appetizer platter. Make these your boo this season!

Halloween Snack Dinner

Source: Foxes Love Lemons

This is essentially… the WHOLE enchilada of Halloween food ideas. Whether you’re interested in making bat chips, mango salsa, Jalapeno popper gummies, pumpkin deviled eggs, apple monster chips, etc, this is the place to get all of the above! It even gives you some great presentation ideas, too!

Mozzarella Pumpkins Appetizer

Source: The Decorated Cookie

I know It may be cheesy, but these mozzarella bites are so grate! Ooey gooey cheesy goodness surrounded by dough and baked to absolute crispy perfection, these giant and deliciously fluffy mozzarella bites with pretzel sticks for holding will be a delectable app all fall season long!

Halloween Muddy Buddies Party Mix

Source: The Rebel Chick

Trick or treat yoself with these Halloween themed muddy buddies that are sure to be a crowd-pleaser this spooky season! Chocolatey powdery puppy chow with orange and black M&M’s are a perfect appetizer, and so easy to make too!

Scarecrow Dip Platter and Oreo Crows

Source: Sprinkle Some Fun

Making Halloween apps isn’t easy for everyone, but HAYYY, it’s in my scarecrow jeans! Seriously though, how awesome is this scarecrow fruit dip platter with oreo crows on top? This is delicious, relatively healthy, and over the top aesthetically, in a great way!

Pumpkin Cheese Ball

Source: Baking Beauty

Cheese is the glue that holds my life together… So as you can imagine, this cheese ball recipe is my everything! Even though there is no actual pumpkin in this recipe, the orange Doritos and circular shape with green onions on top resemble one perfectly! It won’t be a pumpkin for long, it’s too delicious to last!

Sweet and Sour ‘Bat’ Wings

Source: Sprinkles and Sprouts

How about this Halloween season you try “Hanging” out at home with your kids and creating these adorable sour bat wings instead of buying something boring. These are sweet, sour, easy to make, and incredibly cute!

Mozzarella Eyeball Tray

Source: Salty Side Dish

“Eye” see what she did here, with these awesomely spooky mozzarella eyeballs! Cheesy, spooky, delicious, and even a little bit… bloody? These are quite the “spectacle”!

Perfect Pumpkin Seeds

Source: Home Cooking Memories

Let’s give em pumpkin to talk about! Salty, crunchy, with a hint of spice, this is truly the perfect way to create an awesome and seedy snack!

Pizza Skulls For Halloween

Source: Plain Chicken

In cheese we crust! How awesome are these Halloween themed pizza skulls? These are basically a skeleton shaped calzone filled with any red sauce of your choosing, cheeses, and pepperonis. I love how the sauce is coming out of the skeleton too, what a spooky effect!

Halloween Snack Bones

Source: Tried & True

These snack bones will make you say “Hip Hip” hooray!” These are such an easy appetizer to make. Take your favorite pigs in a blanket recipe, or this one, assemble the crescent rolls into a bone formation, put it in the oven, and voila!

Halloween Cheese Cups

Source: Cooktoria

Cheese that isn’t yours is nacho cheese, but these cheesy cups of goodness can easily be yours this Halloween season! Cheddar cheese, mayo, olives, chopped dill, and mozzarella is all you need for this spooky cheesy appetizer! And how cute are those black olive eyes?

Deliciously Rotten Deviled Eggs

Source: Parenting Chaos

The only thing actually evil about these deviled eggs is how it is to put them down! I love the spooky addition of the green food coloring to dye the mayonnaise, and the way they turn an OG appetizer and make it spooky. I’m eggdicted to these!

Halloween Pretzel Spider Webs

Source: One Little Project

Don’t be salty… you know you love these Halloween pretzel spider webs! Savory pretzels mixed with melty white chocolate and topped with a marshmallow spider, the presentation of this appetizer is just as good as the taste

Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Source: Crunchy Creamy Sweet

I love these pumpkin spice chocolate-covered pretzels a choco-LOT! All you need to do is dip some pretzels into melty chocolate sprinkle some pumpkin spiciness, and voila! Pretzel perfection!

Halloween Pizza Bites

Source: Yummy Mummy Kitchen

The only person who wouldn’t be obsessed with this Halloween pizza? A WEIRDOUGH! I would have never thought to make mini pizzas out of English Muffins, but these are simple to create, open to customization on top with decorations, and cheesy as ever!

Pumpkin Mousse Dip

Source: The Creative Bite

Oh my gourd… This pumpkin mousse dip is to DIE for! Fluffy, sweet, orange colored, and incredibly sweet, you will love adding pie crust dippers to this and dipping back in all season long!

Spider Web Taco Dip

Source: Palatable Past Time

Have a spookTACOular Halloween with this deliciously layered taco dip! Loaded with refried beans, tomato, cheddar cheese, sour cream black olives in the shape of a spider and plenty of chips for endless dipping, this will be a fall favorite this season!

Orange Jack-O-Lantern Fruit Cups

Source: Frugal Coupon Living

Smiling on the outside, hollow on the inside, that’s my new slogan for this Halloween season! These orange peeled pumpkin-shaped fruit cups are healthy, adorable as ever, and incredibly easy to create! Just peel out your orange, and place your raspberries strawberries, blueberries, etc. right inside!

Caramel Apple Nachos

Source: Butter with a Side of Bread

Nachos are one of my favorite foods, in queso you didn’t know! So dessert nachos made with gooey caramel drizzled on sweet apples, and covered in chocolate chips and sprinkles? This is nacho average set of nachos!

Graveyard Taco Cups

Source: Fork & Beans

These graveyard taco cups will have you deceased, they are that good! A little cup filled with layers of refried beans, green onions, avocado, and topped with 2 baked flat out pizza crusts, this will be a graveyard you will love to visit!

Pepperoni Pizza Pockets

Source: Dinner at the Zoo

Is that… PIZZA IN YOUR POCKET? These mini pie looking pizzas are delicious, full of hearty tomato sauce and cheese, and have the face of a pumpkin! They resemble a calzone, and there are endless spooky customizations on the outside, and inside, for these pizzas small enough to fit in your pocket. Such an awesome idea!

Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake Dip

Source: A Night Owl Blog

Cheesecake and chill this spooky season! The best part of cheesecake is the filling, right? How about a giant bowl of sweet and fluffy pumpkin cheesecake filling that gives you the option to dip anything you feel like into it? Sounds like having something better than cake, and eating it too!

Bloody Finger Hot Dogs for Halloween

Source: Salty Canary

Suns not exactly out anymore but you can still get the buns out! I’ll be honest, this might be the creepiest Halloween appetizer I’ve seen to date. For as simple as carving a couple of lines into a hot dog would be to recreate a finger look and adding ketchup for a “bloody” look, this will be such a crowd-pleaser this year!

Halloween Ice Cream Cone Snacks

Source: Southern Made Simple

Let me give you the inside “scoop” on these Halloween ice cream cone snack cups. They. Are. Awesome. All you need for these fun and festive orange cones are ice cream cups, melting chocolate, Halloween sprinkles, and a snack of your choice for some ice SCREAM Halloween fun!

Gourmet Caramel Apples

Source: Kitchen Cents

Car-mel, or Car-a-mel… which side are you on? I think we can all agree to come together and celebrate these crisp and juicy apples covered in caramel and nuts just in time for fall!

Halloween Ghost Fruit Kabobs

Source: Katarinas Paperie
How about a good ole fashioned spooky SKEW OFF?

This fruit kabobs with cantaloupe, strawberries, marshmallows with eyes, and grapes are the perfect spooky simple and easy app to create this season! Loaded with health and amazing fruity flavors, I love this idea!

Mummy Puff Appetizer

Source: Celebrations At Home
This pastry party appetizer is the way we ROLL! Not only are these fluffy and incredibly delicious, but take a look at the presentation of these ghost pastries