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Your Ultimate Guide to Homemade Vegan Halloween Party Treats!

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For many of us, Halloween isn’t just a chance to dress up and consume an endless amount of fun-sized candy, it’s also a chance to put our culinary skills to the test in front of friends and family! If you’re hosting Halloween festivities this year, or just bringing over a treat, nothing puts people into the spirit of Halloween like the food.

Whether you’re in the mood for holiday classics, gruesome gross-outs, or kid-friendly fun, we have everything you need to make decorative delicacies for your Halloween kitchen, courtesy of the Food Monster App.

Happy Haunting!

Spooky & Scary

What’s Halloween without a little scary? These spine-tingling recipes add haunting decoration to any gathering, and will fit in almost anywhere!

Puff Pastry Voodoo Dolls

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These chilling, skeletal creations by Tina Dawson will give anyone the willies. These Puff Pastry Voodoo Dolls aren’t as sugary as the usual treats, but quite delicious. Each doll is sandwiched with a beet halwa filling, so you get that deep red color that’s perfect for the holiday without artificial coloring. Whether you find them cute or creepy, these still taste yummy.

Dark Yaki Gyoza

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These Dark Yaki Gyoza by Rekka Bell are dark and brooding on the outside, but colorful and warm on the inside! The carrot and beet fillings pop against the black gyoza dough so nicely and are the perfect combination of colors for Halloween. This is a great appetizer to bring to any haunted mansion party you might be attending.

Get the FALL Cookbook!

The ultimate Fall cookbook is here! One Green Planet’s FALL: Plant-Based Recipes to Celebrate Harvest Season features an exciting collection of festive recipes that capture the spirit of fall. Wow, your friends and family with these healthy and delicious seasonal meals. From stunning root veggies to sweet pumpkin, and everything spice, these dishes will be the life of the party! Fall is here, which means it’s time to celebrate this glorious season by sharing scrumptious recipes with family & friends. In the Fall cookbook, you’ll find plant-based from breakfast to dessert, and for every occasion. Featuring indulgent recipes like Pumpkin Velvet Cake with Buttercream, and Spiced Apple Doughnuts With Apple Cider Glaze, to hearty entrees like creamy pumpkin risotto, and Creamy One-Pot Pumpkin Curry, this book is bursting with fall flavors. Whether you’re craving sweet pumpkin classics or savory root veg, there’s a dish to make your mouth water…happy cooking!

Jack o’ Lantern Butternut Squash Muffins

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The wicked smile on these gluten-free Jack o’ Lantern Butternut Squash Muffins by Nele Liivlaid is anything but innocent! They’re made from a blend of buckwheat groats blended with oat bran. Then, grated butternut squash (grating the squash prevents them from being too moist) is folded in, along with warm fall spices. Yum!

Spooky Spider Cheddar Cheese Ball

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Yikes! It’s creepy, it’s crawly, and it’s … cheesy? Oh yes! Beware: it’s One Green Planet‘s Spooky Spider Cheddar Cheese Ball! No need to be scared, though: it’s vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and only takes five ingredients to create the most delicious sharp orange cheddar cheese you’ve ever tasted.

Black Bread

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It’s dark as a coffin and hot as a crematorium! Scare your friends by serving up sandwiches made from Rekka Bell‘s creepy Black Bread! Despite its depressing color, it is a lovely, soft bread that you can use not only for sandwiches, but for French toast, bread crumbs, and your other favorite bready foods.

Cute & Kid-Friendly

If you’re not looking to scare the Pants off your guests, try some of these gentler, more fun recipes instead!

Frozen Banana Mummies

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These Frozen Banana Mummies are a fun and festive food craft that will make any goblin feel included in the fun — and they are far healthier than a candy bar! The sweetness comes from the banana and a drizzle of melted cocoa butter mixed with powdered low-glycemic coconut sugar. Make a couple dozen at a time and freeze for a grab-and-go frozen treat anytime.

Halloween Pumpkin Cookies

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Don’t let Halloween go by without making a batch of these Halloween Pumpkin Cookies from Rekka Bell! They’re soft, chewy, and adorable. Plus, you can even make an extra chocolate treat with the leftover chocolate you need to decorate.

Halloween Bat Biscuits

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You can almost hear their little wings on the wind! These Halloween Bat Biscuits from Aine Carlin! Make like a bat and use your somewhat less advanced sonar skills to find your kitchen and make these delightful little morsels at once

Spooky Scary Mini Halloween Pizzas

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These pizzas by Olivia Lin are almost too cute to eat! (Almost) Serve up some Frankenstein faces, mummies, and friendly ghosts … in pizza form! These Mini Halloween Pizzas are adorable, easy to make, and taste ghoulishly good, to boot. Try using this method and ingredients to make your own edible Halloween designs!

Creepy Crawly Vegan Pumpkin Muffins

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Kids will love these Creepy Crawly Pumpkin Muffins by Aine Carlin, and they won’t even know they’re eating healthy! These treats are perfect for Halloween with all the flavors and aromas of the season. Not only do the plastic spiders add the creepy-crawly effect, but they might also keep people from eating the muffins which means more for you!

Halloween Cupcake Cats With Chocolate Avocado Frosting

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The assembly process for these Halloween Cupcake Cats With Chocolate Avocado Frosting by Jasmine Briones is a lot of fun, and great for kids, too! It does take a bit of effort, but well worth it in the end, just look at the adorable results! This deliciously sweet dessert is the perfect way to celebrate Halloween this year.

Halloween Classics

Why mess with a good thing? Try these Halloween classics that everyone will instantly recognize.

Caramel Apples

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A true Halloween staple, that’s what you can say about Wendy Irene‘s Caramel Apples! Keep your kids out of the kitchen and use caution as you prepare the caramel. It is easy to do, but it gets hot. It is well worth the effort of making your own. Nothing can replace that kind of love in a dish. Sending cheerful, sticky, chewy caramel smiles your way!

Vegan Candy Corn

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Love candy corn but don’t love all the weird ingredients in it? Try Victoria Hoff‘s recipe instead! The best part is that you don’t have to stick to triangle shapes – you can make any Halloween shape you want! Plus, making your candy is always so impressive.

Halloween Sugar Cookies With Royal Icing

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It doesn’t get more classic than this. These Halloween Sugar Cookies With Royal Icing by Gretchen Price are egg-free, meringue powder-free, and dairy-free — and so easy to make! They taste perfectly sweet and buttery with a hint of lemon. The royal icing does not harden like traditional royal icing, so it stays soft, creamy, and decadent. As simple as they are, these will be a show-stopper at your Halloween party.

Vegan Halloween SunButter Cups

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Jesse Lane Lee‘s Halloween SunButter Cups are a fun way to trick your friends into enjoying a healthy treat! They have a creamy sunflower seed butter center that is nestled in a stevia-sweetened carob shell. Halloween SunButter Cups are entirely sweetened with stevia and are much better than the processed, sugar-laden version.

Día de Muertos

Our Halloween celebrations here in the United States can trace their origins back to All Souls Day, and the Day of the Dead. Far more spooky than our kid-friendly conceptions, celebrants believed the souls of the dead roamed the streets while their souls sought passage to the afterlife. In Mexico and a few other South American countries, Día de Muertos is a three-day celebration centered around honoring the memory of the deceased. For anyone who celebrates this awesome tradition, we have you covered!

Orange Olive Oil Rolls

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Azucena Noriega’s vegan Orange Olive Oil Rolls are inspired by pan de Muerto, a sweet roll flavored with orange flower water that’s made during the weeks leading up to the Mexican Día de Muertos. The dough is soft, and chewy, with a citrusy filling, and sweet orange glaze. They’re sweet, but not overly so.

Colada Morada: Ecuadorean Spiced Fruit Stew

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This spiced fruit stew by Kimberly Espinel, or Colada Morada as it’s officially called, is a family favorite in Ecuador. It’s not necessarily super healthy as it’s got a fair amount of sugar in it, but it is homemade, full of nourishing fruit, and vegan. In Ecuador, people make Colada Morada for the Day of the Dead.

Gross & Gory

Hey, it’s the one day of the year when you get to scare people, so why not go all-out with these shocking recipes?

Witch Finger Cookies With Strawberry Jam

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The classic Witch Finger Cookies With Strawberry Jam from Taylor Kiser gets a healthy, gluten-free, and paleo vegan makeover! They’re easy to make and always a hit at Halloween parties! Besides the fact that these cookies are scary and spooktacular, these gruesome, gory fingers for your cookie-munchin’-mouths are super easy. And, for those of you who are concerned, they taste nothing like a severed finger. They’re kind of like shortbread in the sense that they’re more of a dry cookie — the kind that goes perfectly with coffee or warm apple cider.

Nightmare-Worthy Bloody Coconut Raspberry Monster Eyeballs

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Throwing a bash at your haunted mansion this Halloween? Try serving up a platter of eyeballs! But not just any eyeballs…One Green Planet‘s Nightmare-Worthy Bloody Raspberry Monster Eyeballs! Soft, rich coconut truffles are stuffed with juicy raspberries and chocolate chips to create the trickiest treat you ever laid eyes on (and they will look right back at you)!

Halloween Pumpkin Bowls With Kamut Maggots and Green Sweet Potato Vomit

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What could be a better dinner on Halloween night than a couple of puking pumpkins? Despite their scary appearance, Amanda Nicole Smith‘s Halloween Pumpkin Bowls With Maggot and Vomit (kamut maggots and mashed sweet potato vomit, to be specific) is a quite healthy and tasty vegan meal that will keep you sustained through a sugar-filled night of trick-or-treating. But you should consider putting these guys out on your doorstep first – they’re terrifying!

Veggie Blood Soup

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This Veggie Blood Soup by Amanda Nicole Smith is a Halloween-inspired vegetable soup that will make any vamp drool. It has a spooky blood-red herbal broth made from infusing spices and roasted vegetables. There’s no stirring, checking, or worrying so you can let it simmer while you’re busy carving pumpkins or making costumes.

Witches Brew Smoothie

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Turn a basic green smoothie into a shockingly eerie Witches Brew Smoothie. Freeze beet juice in a glove to add a creepy effect on top. Serve this at your Halloween party or as a spooky snack. It’s so fun and scary, that your kids will forget how healthy it is. By Lisa Viger.

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