Yahoo Finance Halloween party food ideas for kids: best spooky cakes for 2022
The days are getting darker, the leaves are turning brown and coffee shops are pouring out pumpkin spice lattes at super speed so that means one thing - Halloween is approaching.
Dispel any summer blues with one of the most exciting traditions of the year. Trick or treating is firmly back on the agenda after a year hiatus so get into the spirit by transforming your home into a ghoulish haunted house. Go all out with your costumes, decorations and the sweet treats to match.
We're talking cakes, chocolates, biscuits are more all embellished with all the classic haunted holiday motifs.
We may have fancied our home baking prowess in lockdown, but now we're ready to leave it to the experts to tickle our fright-ready taste buds in the most delicious way possible. Our favourite bakeries are bringing spell-binding dream cakes with gruesome twists to become the centrepiece of your table.
Whether you are planning a spooky themed dinner party, or keeping it even smaller and more intimate with just the very nearest and dearest, you deserve to be treated to deliciously delicious desserts and we’ve got you covered.
See our pick of the best party food for Halloween so you can celebrate with full and satisfied bellies.
Krispy Kreme Halloween
Scaring is Caring is the agenda over at Krispy Kreme where the doughnut experts have given its signature glazed treats a seasonal update. This Halloween, get into the spirit with Undead Ned - with a gooey chocolate centre, green icing and Frankenstein’s monster detailing, Wrapped-Up Rita - filled with Lotus Biscoff and white icing ‘bandage’ lines or Spooky Sprinkles where the Original has been given an orange makeover with sprinkles.
Ole & Steen Halloween
The Danish baker has not one but three scarily delicious cakes on its line-up this Halloween. The Eye See You Muffin (£3.25) adds chocolate eyes and red powder onto a carrot cake muffin, complete with colourful cream cheese frosting. The Boo the Bat (£3.25) is chocolate-based with both the cake and frosting sure to tickle your terrified taste buds and there’s the added embellishment of chocolate eyes and ears. The Spooky (£3.95) is a marshmallow whip on an almond base that has been ghoulishly dipped in white chocolate and decorated with dark chocolate to resemble the fitting Halloween motif.
Daylesford Halloween Trick or Treat tin
For your specialised spooktastic snacks this Halloween, Daylesford is where it’s at. The organic food shop has biscuits, chocolate bars, lollies, bones and meringues with classic festive motifs to resemble a ghost, owls, pumpkin and more.
The Trick or Treat tin is filled with chocolate goodies that wouldn’t look out of place at Hogwarts including Chocolate Frogs as well as mischievous mice, cauldron bubbles and milk, white and gold chocolate covered biscuits.
Lola’s Cupcakes
If you’re hosting a dinner party this Halloween or you want to delight your neighbourhood’s trick or treaters, Lola’s is the place to be. Sink your fake vampire fangs into the offering of cupcakes, brownie boxes or cakes – with vegan alternatives.
You can’t go wrong with Haunted House Fantasy Cake or the Spooky Season Layer Cake that are offered in either chocolate or vanilla sponge. The Fantasy has a vanilla base topped with purple icing and a chocolate ganache drip and is decorated with bright orange buttercream and ghost motifs. The Layer has orange buttercream with a chocolate drip and more festive adornments.
Pickles & Bakes Monster Cookies
A must for any Halloween party spread, this devilish batch from Pickles & Bakes really looks the part with its spooky trimmings.
So moreish you won’t be able to stop eating, the brand has layered a chocolate pretzel onto a chocolate chip cookie for a festive treat that has the taste and cute factor. Each box has nine included.
Miss Macaroon Hallowe’en Jack O Lantern Macaroons
A Halloween treat that gives back, Miss Macaroon donates every penny in profit to helping young people gain invaluable skills. So while you’re sampling the delicious Jack O Lantern-themed macaroons, you can be content in the knowledge that you’re making a difference to the lives of those who need it. They’re also gluten-free.
Hummingbird Bakery Halloween
The expansive Halloween selection at Hummingbird Bakery includes cupcakes, mini cupcakes, pies and whole cakes. Until October 31, you will be able to order any of the products for delivery or in-store collection.
The ultimate dessert to serve at the end of fright night? This decadent sponge pinata cake that has a terrifically terrifying design and an equally exceptional taste. Layers of soft chocolate sponge are sandwiched together with orange-coloured vanilla and topped with a vanilla frosting, sugar bats, sprinkles and the word ‘Spooky’ in red icing.
But the best part? The centre is filled with M&Ms for a surprise that will be sure to delight your guests. The 6” cake serves up to six people while the 8” option serves as many as 12.
Honourable mention also goes to the Halloween Frankenstein Cake (£34.95) and Chocolate Mile High Monster Cake (£37.95).
From £3.55 | Hummingbird Bakery
Fortnum & Mason Halloween selection
You can always count on the luxury grocer for a suitably festive offering - whether that’s Christmas or in this case, Halloween. Look out for the Three Deadly Chocolate Skulls (£6.50) that combines solid milk, dark and white chocolate skulls and there’s iced biscuits aplenty with Pumpkin Faces Iced Biscuits (£14.95) and Milk Chocolate Coffin with White Chocolate Bones (£19.95).
Primrose Bakery Halloween Gift Box
Delight your tiny terrors with these adorable cupcakes from Primrose Bakery. There are two sizes small with four and medium with six and each mini cake is adorned with a delicious classic Halloween motifs - pumpkins, skulls, owl, black cats and even Frankenstein's monster.
Lovely with a cuppa, the treats come in boxes of 12. There's also ghost biscuits, peanut butter spider cookies, Oreo owl cupcakes, a honeycomb layer cake, a chocolate orange marble loaf and a whole host of pumpkin-based treats. Also check out the Candy Corn Vanilla & White Chocolate Cake with a candy corn-inspired rainbow interior.
Flavourtown Bakery Halloween
For the most bewitching night of the year, you can count on Flavourtown to pull out all the stops with an epic dessert.
We could hardly choose between the scarily good offering this year so wanted to put both the cake and cupcake offering on the table.
The first show-stopping spooky option comes in the form of the Monster Cake - offered in pink, blue, green, yellow and orange with slight variety in the detailing. They have either a chocolate or vanilla sponge flavour and four layers to really eat your heart out. There’s also the Pink Skull Cake with a more classic design - pink chocolate skulls around the trim, pink buttercream frosting and a touch of sprinkle. They come in 6”, 8” or 10” sizes.
Cupcakes-wise, there are two selection boxes with either six normal sized or 12 minis. The small works of art have sprinkles, bones, bats, zombies and more.
Biscuiteers Halloween collection
Get your tastebuds tingling with Biscuiteers’ selection of iced biscuit that will bring the scare factor to your soiree.
Not for the faint hearted, the brand’s signature treats have been given a gruesome twist to feature either beautifully-piped skulls, ghosts, pumpkins, mummy ginger breads, witches, toads, and many, many more. All the products have brightly coloured and eye-popping designs that are as fun as they are delicious.
Can’t choose your favourite, opt for the Haunted House Biscuit Tin for a mix of the best.
Cutter & Squidge Halloween
Cutter & Squidge has created a hypnotic collection of little and large cakes using all natural ingredients without artificial colours or flavourings.
The Soho-based bakery’s much-loved 'biskie' – a sandwiched dessert that's a delicious cross between a cake and a cookie – comes in a variety of forms and you can try them all in this Halloween selection box.
The Cookie Monster Biskie has a green coconut ‘fur’, a strawberry tongue and a chocolate buttercream and cookies filling. There are also cake truffles, macarons and they come in a box of 12 or 24.
