46 Creeptastic Vegan Halloween Recipes Everyone Will Love
Spooky season is here again. It is time to don your favorite Halloween costume, stock up on delicious vegan candy for trick-or-treaters, and throw the best Halloween party on the block. The Farm Buzz has scoured the internet to help you plan a perfect vegan menu that all your party guests will rave about. Choose your savory and sweet favorites, then add some tasty cocktails or mocktails to make the night perfect.
Savory Vegan Halloween Ghoulish Appetizers and Eerie Entrees
These savory Halloween-inspired recipes are sure to sate your guests’ ghastly appetites. Select one or more to build a combination that best suits your partygoers’ tastes.
Witchy Guacamole Dip
From Fork & Beans
Start the night off with something a little healthier than candy. Whip up some delicious guacamole and create a scary witch’s face with blue corn chips for a hat and veggies for her hair and features.
Pumpkin Halloween Veggie Tray
From Two Kids and a Coupon
Bring some more vegetables to the party by arranging carrots, cucumbers, and celery into a fun pumpkin shape. Use two small round bowls full of your favorite veggie dip to make the eyes.
Mini Vegan Mummy Pizzas
From Health My Lifestyle
Make your own vegan cashew cheese for this easy recipe, or purchase vegan mozzarella at the store if you are short on time. Spread pizza sauce on your sandwich rounds, place two olives for eyes, then use a piping bag to drizzle the cheese to look like mummy bandages or any other spooky design you would like.
Halloween Roasted Veggies
From Live Eat Learn
These adorable and savory sweet potato jack-o-lanterns, crispy potato ghosts, beetroot witch’s hats, and carrot witch’s fingers only take 25 minutes to prepare, and your guests will love them. Be sure to use maple syrup instead of honey to keep the recipe vegan.
Vegan Stuffed Mushroom Eyeballs
From Vegan Yack Attack
Stuff your cremini mushrooms with a delicious, homemade, garlic tofu ricotta. Use black olive slices and sun-dried tomato slivers to turn your stuffed mushrooms into creepy eyeballs.
Mummy Meatballs
From Rhubarbarians
Frozen, plant-based meatballs and store-bought crescent dough make these fun and spooky mummy meatballs fast and easy to prepare. Two tiny dabs of marinara sauce make the eyes. Serve them with a side of marinara dipping sauce.
Frito Pie Pepper Jacks
From Spabettie
Make your favorite vegan chili, then layer the chili and shredded vegan cheese into bell peppers carved with jack-o-lantern faces. Bake, then top with Fritos, cashew cream, and sliced jalapeno for a filling, spooky Halloween dish.
Jack Skellington Veggie Pot Pie
From Holly Tree Kitchen
This tasty recipe is filling and versatile. Use whatever vegetables you have on hand to make a great meal. Cut a Jack Skellington face or any other Halloween-themed design you like into the pastry topping your pot pie. Bake and serve.
Vegan Jack-O-Lantern Stuffed Bell Peppers
From Daughter of Seitan
Here is another take on the stuffed bell pepper. These are carved to look like jack-o-lanterns, just like the previous recipe. They are stuffed with quinoa, black beans, and corn flavored with Mexican spices. Top with vegan cheese, vegan sour cream, and salsa.
Spooky Skull Vegan Pot Pies
From Healthy Slow Cooking
Here is another simple vegan pot pie recipe. You can make your own pastry dough with this one, and a bag of frozen vegetables cuts down on the prep time. Make individual pies in a skull mold or even a pumpkin mold pan or make one full-sized pie with skull shapes on top.
Roasted Pumpkin Hummus Jack-O-Lantern Sandwiches
From Miss Marzipan
Make this homemade hummus with roasted butternut squash or pumpkin. Spread your hummus on crackers or bread cut into rounds. Create a fun design by piping lines of hummus to make a pumpkin, then decorate with black olives for the face and basil and thyme for leaves and vines.
Spooky Black Bean Hummus
From Fat Free Vegan Kitchen
This easy hummus recipe comes together in about 10 minutes, and it is topped with a spooky, edible spider web made with your choice of plain soy yogurt or tahini dressing. Add a scary spider made from black olives. Serve with carrot sticks or rice crackers.
Herbed “Boo/Ghost” Bread
From My Diverse Kitchen
These ghastly ghoul faces are made with homemade bread dough featuring chili flakes and Italian seasoning. Serve alongside a hearty soup or tasty dip.
Savory Mushroom & Quinoa Stuffed Mini Pumpkins
From Simple Seasonal
Admit it. Those tiny pumpkins we see every fall are adorable. But did you know they are also delicious? Roast these cute little pumpkins in the oven, then stuff them with a savory quinoa pilaf. Serve as a side or entree.
Vegan Halloween Pasta with Eyes
From VE Eat Cook Bake
Turn your spaghetti into a frightening Halloween face with hearts of palm and green olives. Make your face with your tomato sauce. Place olive slices inside hearts of palm to make eyeballs, then use the remaining olives to make a nose and mouth. The pasta creates messy hair.
Vegan Cucumber Tea Sandwiches
From Vegan Dollhouse
These wee little ghosties are just too cute to pass up. You can use the vegan cucumber and chive cream cheese filling described in the recipe or any other filling you prefer. Create the tongue using vegan cheese painted with beet juice. Pipe the eyes, nose, and mouth with cream cheese colored with activated charcoal.
Devilishly Delicious Halloween Treats and Desserts
No party is complete without a few sweet treats. These fun Halloween recipes are sure to satisfy any spooky sweet tooth.
Vegan Pastry Voodoo Dolls
From Love is in My Tummy
These vegan pastry voodoo dolls somehow manage to be both cute and creepy at the same time. A sweet beetroot filling creates the bright red “guts” without using any artificial coloring. Use a gingerbread man template to cut out the bodies and get creative when cutting out eyes and mouths.
Easy Raspberry Halloween Mummy Pies
From Veggie Desserts
You can make these spooky mummy hand pies with just three ingredients plus some cute, edible candy eyes. They are quick and easy to make, and you can choose any flavor filling you like. Try raspberry jam, Nutella, chocolate, cherry pie filling, or a strawberry compote. You can even go for savory flavors like pizza sauce and vegan cheese. Get the kids involved by letting them make “bandages” with pastry strips.
Healthy Halloween Monster Mouths
From Texan Erin Baking
Make eating healthy fruit more fun on Halloween with these crazy monster mouths. These quick and easy treats only contain fresh fruit, nuts, and spreads such as peanut butter, chocolate, or strawberry jam. The kids will love these fun Halloween treats.
Fruit Bat Skewer
From Tikkido
Fruit bat skewers provide another opportunity to work sweet, healthy fruits into your menu. This recipe opts for fruits that best represent the colors of Halloween: blackberries, green grapes, and cantaloupe. The skewers are topped with tiny black bats made with construction paper, pom poms, and googly eyes.
Orange Fruit Jack-O-Lantern
From Thrifty Jinxy
Here is another fun presentation for fruit. Create a jack-o-lantern from an orange. Scoop the pulp from inside the orange, then carve faces into the peel and fill with tasty fruits. Use the stems from the strawberries to make pumpkin stems on top, but choose maple syrup or another vegan syrup option instead of honey to secure them in place.
Bloody Raspberry Cups
From Elephantastic Vegan
Three ingredients and 25 minutes are all it takes to make these “bloody” Halloween treats. All you need is a double boiler and a muffin pan. Use muffin liners to help the chocolate hold its shape. These are great if you need a last-minute recipe.
Vegan White & Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Bites
From Labeless Nutrition
This recipe is speedy and super easy. Create vegan chocolate melts by combining dark chocolate or vegan white chocolate with a bit of coconut oil. Roast your hazelnuts in the oven, then chop them into small pieces. Layer the chocolate and nuts together in a mold, freeze for about 5 minutes, and voila! You have delectable chocolate hazelnut bites.
Jack Skellington Mounds Cups
From Beaming Baker
The preparation method for this recipe is like the previous chocolate cups in this list, but these are filled with a tasty coconut blend. Use extra chocolate to pipe Jack Skellington faces or other creepy Halloween designs on top.
Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
From Sunnyside Hanne
These vegan peanut butter cookies replace eggs with aquafaba for a perfect taste and texture. Use vegan peanut butter cups to create the body of a spider on the cookie and pipe chocolate legs out to the sides. Get creative with options to make spider eyes.
Vegan Halloween Cookies
From Vegan Runner Eats
Everyone will enjoy these lightly sweet, buttery, vegan cookies. Use cookie cutters to make fun Halloween shapes. You can leave them plain or decorate them with icing, googly eyes, sprinkles, or anything else you can imagine.
Homemade Little Debbie Pumpkin Delights
From Strength & Sunshine
This copycat recipe has all the flavor of the original without the gluten, dairy, and allergens. These cookies are made with homemade pumpkin butter from your slow cooker. Use a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter to get the pumpkin shape and carve the faces by hand.
Vegan Hocus Pocus Brownies
From The Banana Diaries
These fun brownies are modeled after the Sanderson sisters’ magical spellbook. They are very easy to make and are decorated with all vegan chocolate ganache, buttercream frosting, and melted chocolate. Hocus Pocus fans will adore these sweet treats.
Vegan Pumpkin Coffin Cake
From Vegan Dollhouse
Make your pumpkin spice bread from scratch or buy a vegan mix to save some time for this morbid recipe. Once your cake is cooked and cooled, cut it into coffin shapes. Then, coat each coffin with black cream cheese icing made with black gel color or activated charcoal. Finish the decorations off with white icing.
Vegan Mummy Cupcakes
From Vegan Huggs
These rich, chocolate cupcakes are turned into mummies with strips of vegan buttercream and chocolate chip eyes. They are easy to make and delicious. Even the kids can decorate them. Use a store-bought icing if you do not have time to make homemade icing. Just be sure to check the ingredients to make sure it is vegan-friendly.
Vegan Blackberry Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes
From Addicted to Dates
A homemade blackberry coulis filling is at the heart of these decadent, dark chocolate cupcakes. They are topped with an eggless Swiss meringue buttercream frosting and spooky chocolate skulls. You can make the chocolate skulls yourself with skull molds. These can also be made as plain chocolate cupcakes without the blackberry filling, or you can swap the blackberries with raspberries or other berries.
Vegan Zombie Brain Cupcakes
From Bear Plate
These zombie brain cupcakes may be the grossest-looking item on our Halloween recipe list, but they still taste delicious. Their lemon and raspberry flavors pair to make a perfect flavor profile. Create the brain decoration with homemade frosting and seedless raspberry jam.
Dairy Free Caramel Apples
From The Fit Cookie
Caramel apples are a staple for fall fun. Unfortunately, many caramel recipes contain dairy. This sweet recipe, however, is both dairy- and gluten-free. Use tart green apples to balance the sweetness of the vegan caramel. Sprinkle with chopped nuts or a drizzle of chocolate for a little more texture and flavor.
Double Chocolate Halloween “Cheesecake”
From Cocoon Cooks
The writer of this recipe says this vegan chocolate-on-chocolate “cheesecake” tastes just like a Kinder Chocolate Egg. This creamy, delicious cake is made with all-natural sweeteners and other healthy ingredients. Ultra-black cocoa powder replaces activated charcoal to acquire the dark black color. You could also use black gel food coloring instead. The white spiderweb design atop the dark black chocolate creates an eye-catching Halloween vibe.
Mini Pumpkin Cheesecake Jack-O-Lanterns
From Food Faith Fitness
These mini pumpkin cheesecake jack-o-lanterns are too cute. Your guests will love the creamy, pumpkin flavor. This easy recipe uses natural, plant-based ingredients that have healthy vitamins and fats. You can even cut the sugar by substituting sugar-free maple syrup. Use vegan dark chocolate to make the adorable jack-o-lantern faces.
Meringue Ghosts
From Gathering Dreams
These fluffy meringue ghosts would love an invite to your spooky Halloween party. A typical meringue usually requires eggs, but this vegan version is made with aquafaba instead. They will be a massive hit with partygoers because they are so cute and sweet.
Witch Finger Cookies
From Detoxinista
Kids and adults alike will enjoy these creepy, witchy, shortbread cookies. They are sweetened with maple syrup and boast a slight peppermint flavor thanks to peppermint extract. If peppermint is not your thing, you could use almond or vanilla extract instead. Matcha gives them the perfect, natural green color, so no artificial coloring is necessary, and sliced almonds make super creepy fingernails.
Potions, Elixirs, Mocktails, and Chilling Halloween Drinks
Here are a few chilling drink options to complement your fun Halloween menu. Whip up some mocktails for the kids or choose a more grown-up cocktail for the adults.
Spooky Halloween Mocktails
Candy Corn Layered Halloween Sipper
From Boulder Locavore
This tropical-flavored concoction boasts layered colors reminiscent of candy corn.
Creepy Shirley Temples
From Boulder Locavore
Make a spooky Shirley Temple in a beaker with a grenadine-filled syringe so your guests can mix their own “bloody” drink.
Hocus Pocus Punch
From How Sweet Eats
Apple, orange, and cranberry flavors make this punch an instant hit.
Halloween Mocktail Recipe
From One Sweet Appetite
Blackberries and blueberries give this fizzy mocktail a deep, Halloween-worthy, purple color.
Vegan Pumpkin Pie Mocktail
From Plantifully Based
This creamy treat is like a pumpkin pie in a glass.
Bewitching Alcoholic Cocktails
Purple People Eater Halloween Cocktail (& Mocktail)
Three Olives Branch
A cherry lemonade flavor makes this drink fun and delicious. It can be made with or without alcohol.
Poison Apple Halloween Cocktail
From The Seaside Baker
This appletini-inspired cocktail has a nice combination of sweet and sour apple flavors.
The Witch’s Heart
From The Flavor Bender
Shimmering swirls, gorgeous colors, and smoke work together to make this a truly unique drink.
Witches Brew Halloween Cocktail
From Plantifully Based
Blood orange and pomegranate make this drink both delicious and beautiful.
Host an Unforgettable Spooktacular Vegan Halloween Party
Your guests will absolutely love these fun and delicious Halloween treats. You cannot go wrong, no matter which recipes you choose to share with them. They are all sure to please. If you are looking for costume ideas for your party, check out our guide for fun and creative Vegan Halloween Costumes and remember those trick-or-treaters with sweet Vegan Halloween Candy.
For more information on how to make new traditions with vegan recipes and tips for any holiday gather check out Compassionate Holidays at www.compassionateholidays.com
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