Halloween is the time of year when you can really have fun with food! But this doesn’t mean that you have to spend hours in the kitchen –  with a little imagination (and very little cooking skill required) you can make scary-looking snacks and dishes that taste good too. Here are a few easy Halloween savoury recipes that are perfect for a Halloween party.

Halloween tortilla chips

These are super easy to make. Just stamp out Halloween figures – of pumpkins, bats, ghosts, witches etc – using cookie cutters then brush with melted butter or oil and bake them for a few minutes. Perfect with dips.Tip:for a sweet version just add cocoa or cinnamon to the butter and you’ll get some yummy candy-like treats.

• Halloween tortilla chips
• Crispy tortilla bats

Halloween spreads & dips

Almost all spreads, sandwich creams & dips can be made to look a bit scary – particularly the red, green, orange and black ones (so think of chilli, tomato, roasted pepper, squash, beetroot, avocado, pesto etc). Just decorate them with few elements such as olives, ketchup or chillis and you’ll have some amazing condiments. Or wrap a large or mini Camembert/Brie cheese with strips of puff pastry, bake for 10 minutes, decorate with olive “eyes” and you’ll have a lovely, gooey dip!

• Halloween Guacamole
• Skull cheese ball
• Baked Camembert mummy

Halloween sausage rolls

Sausage rolls can so easily be made to look like Egyptian mummies – just wrap some pastry strips around frankfurters or pre-cooked sausages, pop them in the oven for 10 minutes, then add eyes (olives, ketchup, mustard can be used) andvoilà. Here are some links to a few variations:

• Spider sausage rolls
• Mummy warped hot dogs
• Scary mummy sausage rolls

Halloween pizza

You can easily make Halloween mini or large pizzas using ready rolled pizza dough or puff pastry –  use mozzarella, olives and red peppers for decoration.

• Mini spider pizzas
• Gluten-free mini mummy pizzas
• Pumpkin pizza
• Monster eye pizza balls

Devilled eggs

Devilled eggs are perfect bases for interesting and yummy Halloween snacks. They can be made well in advance too!

• Pumkin devilled eggs
• Devilish avocado devilled eggs
• Spooky spider devilled eggs

Easy Halloween savoury recipes

Here are links to a few more super easy savoury Halloween recipes:

• Halloween falafel fingers
• Halloween Jalapeno mummies
• Hot-dogs with severed fingers
• Snake breadsticks
• Mozzarella eyes
• Meatball mummies