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Helen Goh's chocolate cake for Halloween.

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30+ spooktacular ways to celebrate Halloween at home

We've haunted high and low for the spookiest, kookiest (and tastiest) recipes this Halloween.

36 recipes
Spooky soup: Slow-roasted pumpkin soup with ginger and curry powder.
EASY

Roast pumpkin soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Spring lamb roast with garlic and tarragon butter.
EASY

Rack of lamb with charred snap peas

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Helen Goh's devilish chocolate cake.

Devil's food cake with chocolate fudge frosting for Halloween

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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EASY

Crackle cookies recipe

  • 2 hrs +
The medieval English ritual of 'souling' involved children going door to door, offering a prayer for the departed in return for a sweet soul cake.

Helen Goh's soul cakes

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Halloween cats, bats and witches’ hats.

Halloween cats, bats and witches’ hats

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
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'Bones of the dead' biscuits.

Ossi dei morti (bones of the dead) biscuits

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Peanut butter cream pie.
EASY

Peanut butter and banana cream pie

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Adam Liaw's slow-cooker winner: Pumpkin pie cheesecake.

Slow cooker recipe: Pumpkin pie cheesecake

  • Adam Liaw
Redback spider cupcakes.

Katherine Sabbath's kooky, spooky baking recipes for Halloween

  • Katherine Sabbath
Chocolate marshmallow treats.
EASY

S'mores

  • < 30 mins
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How to carve a Halloween pumpkin

  • Jason Hatson
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Reese's cheesecake brownies

  • 2 hrs +
  • Megan - Pip and Ebby
Homemade peanut butter cups for Halloween.

How to make chocolate peanut butter cups

  • Noelle Carter
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Pumpkin soup with dukkah

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jane Holroyd
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Irish tea cake.

Irish tea cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
A jumbo marshmallow bobbing in spiced hot chocolate.
EASY

Spicy dark hot chocolate drink

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Toffee apples

Toffee apples

  • < 30 mins
  • Christopher The
Spider peanut cookies.

Spooky spider peanut cookies recipe for Halloween

  • Kirsten Tibballs
Push flavour right to the core of the ingredient.

Ginger and almond filled baked apples with walnut caramel sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Pumpkin pie

Pumpkin pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jane and Jeremy Strode
Spiced pumpkin soup with barley, labne and leftover lamb.

Roasted ras-el-hanout pumpkin soup with barley and leftover lamb

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Campari and blood orange jubes.

Campari and blood orange jubes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Mushroom Meringues

Mushroom meringues

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jeremy and Jane Strode
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Pot o' gold: Jill Dupleix's baked sweet potato with chorizo cous cous.

Jacket sweet potato with chorizo cous cous recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Foaming fairy potion.
EASY

Foaming fairy potion

  • < 30 mins
Chocolate spider cup cakes

Chocolate spider cup cakes

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jeremy and Jane Strode
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EASY

Scary face pikelets

  • < 30 mins
Frogs in the lily pond.

Frogs in the lily pond

  • < 30 mins
  • Lynne Mullins
Blood orange jelly

Blood orange jelly

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Pumpkin-shaped shortbread

Pumpkin-shaped shortbread

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jeremy and Jane Strode
Coconut monsters

Coconut monsters

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Lynne Mullins
Jelly rabbits

Jelly rabbits

  • 2 hrs +
  • Lynne Mullins
Wacky animals
EASY

Wacky animals

  • < 30 mins
  • Lynne Mullins
Pumpkin 'mochi' in coconut cream.

Adam Liaw's pumpkin mochi in coconut cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Helen Goh's pumpkin spice loaf with optional icing (omit for dairy-free).

Spiced pumpkin loaf cake with brown-sugar cream cheese icing

  • Helen Goh

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/30-spooktacular-halloween-recipes-20171026-gz8vfg.html