Easy & Quick Family Recipes
Lunch on Halloween used to mean one thing at our house: a bowl of cereal eaten standing up while a kid argues about which costume cape goes where. These ghost pizza bagels changed all that. They are crispy, cheesy, saucy little bagel halves wearing melted mozzarella ghosts with olive eyes, and they go from counter … Read more
October mornings deserve something a little magical. These spider web cinnamon rolls take the warm, gooey, cinnamon-sugar goodness you already love and dress it up for Halloween. Canned cinnamon rolls bake up golden and fluffy, get swirled with creamy vanilla icing, then each one gets a chocolate spider web piped right on top with a … Read more
Dinner on Halloween night needs to be two things: fast enough to eat between costume changes, and fun enough to count as part of the celebration. Enter spooky shepherd’s pie — a cozy, golden, gravy-soaked weeknight dinner that goes from fridge to table in forty-five minutes, topped with the cutest little mashed-potato ghosts you have … Read more
Every witch needs a cauldron, and every Halloween dinner table needs a soup that makes kids squeal. This witch’s cauldron potato soup is pure comfort in disguise: buttery leeks, tender russet potatoes and a rich chicken broth base, blended silky-smooth and given a spooky green tint with a handful of fresh spinach. Served bubbling in … Read more
Some Halloween desserts are cute. These are deliciously creepy. Bloody red velvet Halloween cupcakes start with a tender, cocoa-kissed red velvet crumb, get crowned with a tall swirl of tangy cream cheese frosting, and then get the full haunted treatment: a glossy raspberry glaze that drips down the frosting like something out of a vampire … Read more
Every Halloween party needs one snack that makes the whole table gasp — and then immediately disappear. These spooky witch finger breadsticks are that snack. Golden crescent-dough fingers with knobby little knuckles, a gooey mozzarella core, and a single almond pressed on each tip like a wicked little fingernail. They look like they crawled straight … Read more
Some Halloween drinks just sit there looking orange. This one bites back. The vampire bite cherry slush is a blood-red frozen drink that looks like it crawled straight out of a haunted castle — glossy cherry slush piled high in a tall glass, dark cherry syrup dripping down the inside like fresh vampire bites, and … Read more
Halloween dinner that stares back. Monster Eyeball Pasta takes everything your family already loves about spaghetti and meatballs and gives it a gloriously goofy Halloween makeover: little white mozzarella “eyeballs” with olive pupils, bobbing on a glossy bed of marinara. It hits the table in 30 minutes flat, tastes like your favorite Italian comfort food, … Read more
There is party food, and then there is party food that makes people gasp a little when you set it down. This spiderweb pull-apart bread is the second kind. Picture a skillet of golden, garlicky biscuit balls, each one hiding a pocket of molten mozzarella, all of them baked snugly together until the tops turn … Read more
There is a special kind of kitchen magic that only happens in fall, when a humble pumpkin goes into a screaming-hot oven and comes out caramelized, golden at the edges and smelling like the coziest day of the year. This creamy roasted pumpkin soup is that magic, blended into a bowl. Forget the bland, watery … Read more