Get inspired by these spooky Halloween snack plates.
Black Halloween Charcuterie Board
Kelsey Hansen.
Food Styling: Kelsey Moylan.
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Prop Styling: Stephanie Hunter
Sweet bites live in the darkness on this black theme cookie tray.
Purchased brownies and cookies,chocolate cutouts, and melted chocolate accents revel in darkness.
Its easy to find black-tinted candies and embellishments.
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But you’re free to make your own too.
Use a toothpick to add black gel food coloring (its very concentrated) to purchased frosting.
Ghost Dessert Board
These sweet specters will generate delight instead of fright.
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Making them is splendidly simple.
Much of this dessert tray is fix-ups of light-tone cookies such as madeleines, meringues, and rolled wafers.
Edibles with bright or rusty tones give this savory tray variety and texture.
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Achieve the look in effortless ways with round and orange-hue serving pieces, both ceramic and edible.
Make aPumpkin Cheese Balland serve it with a creamy hummus.
Roll chicken salad into blanched greens, adding olive eyes to protrude from mummy wrappings.
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Fingerling potatoes live up to their name with a film of pesto and garish sliced-almond fingernails.
Gelatin-coated grape eyeballs add a tart and tangy element.
Halloween Snack Board
This assemble-it-yourself snack board is filled with Halloween snacks and treats.
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It’s a mix of DIY and purchased elements like goat cheese toasts and green deviled eggs.
Top round crackers with assorted deli meats and cheeses.
Add faces with cut black olives and red pimentos.
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Here, pretzel rods are dipped in milk chocolate and green candy melts to make festive treats.
Round out the serving platter with purchased candies, caramel corn, and pretzels.
Add faces with candy eyes and black frosting.
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Make it a meal withmummy dogsandpersonal pizzas.
Here, apples, oranges, and bananas get the spooky treatment.
For an extra sweet treat, add a few sliced gummy candies.
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Black Halloween Snack Board
Shades of black is the theme of this easy Halloween charcuterie board idea.
Make spooky eyes by placing a sliced pimento-stuffed olive in the middle of a mini wheel of cheese.
Add peeled kiwi “zombies” and assorted meats, cheeses, and fruits.
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Here, a purchased skeleton sits among cheese, crackers, veggies, and meat.
Add a few mini pumpkins and fall leaves to complete the food table.
Halloween Cheese Plate
A simple cheese board is one of our favoriteHalloween appetizer ideas.
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Use a cookie cutter to create ghosts out of thinly sliced provolone cheese.
Sweet Halloween Charcuterie Board
This Halloween dessert board idea is all about candy!
To create, simply pour colorful candies onto a round board.
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Bonus points for including seasonal favorites like candy corn, gummy worms, and caramel apple lollipops.
Round out the platter with white chocolate strawberry mummies, peeled kiwi Frankenstein pops, and ghostly bananas.
Brie Snack Board
This star of thischarcuterie boardfor Halloween is a wheel of brie cheese.
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Use a stencil to create a skull shape with honey.
Serve the cheese with fresh fruit, crackers, and sliced meats like salami.
Spooky Skewers
Greg DuPree
Assemble a platter of make-ahead fruit skewers to really spook your Halloween guests.
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Add candy eyes to peeled kiwi and cantaloupe balls.
Create marshmallow ghosts with a food-safe marker.
Colorful Snack Plate
Caitlin Bensel
All things green star on this easy snack tray.
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Spread crackers with guacamole add add blue corn tortilla chips to make bats.
Sliced cucumbers become monsters with circles of cheddar cheese.
And peanut butter apple slices are spooky monster mouths.
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All About Apples
Brie Goldman
Apples are at their best during the fall months.
Put them to good use in this apple-themedcharcuterie boardidea.
Candy Corn Dessert Board
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Candy cornis a must for Halloween.
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It’s sweet, colorful, and ideal for anchoring a homemade fall charcuterie board.
Start with a big bowl of candy corn, then surround it with a variety of purchased treats.
We love the mix of fruit, cookies, and chocolate-covered pretzels.
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Add a couple bowls of your favorite dips and that’s it!
Here, an assortment of purchased candies and treats make up the tray.
Head to the bakery section of your grocery store for colorfulsugar cookie cutouts.
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Use two brightly colored wedges to serve as the focal point of your board.
Round out the tray with ghoulish black items like blueberries, blackberries, and purple grapes.
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