Our Best Halloween Recipes: Pumpkin Pie, Cookies & Cocktails

Recipes plays a utilitarian role in Thanksgiving; we expect to have certain dishes – turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce – as a matter of historical tradition. But for Halloween, recipes get cloaked in gimmicks, a phenomenon that is not only tolerated …

Recipes plays a utilitarian role in Thanksgiving; we expect to have certain dishes — turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce — as a matter of historical tradition. But for Halloween, recipes get cloaked in gimmicks, a phenomenon that is not only tolerated but embraced. Scary Eye Cookies? Why sure! And you can pair them with Zombie Slime cocktails while you’re at it. Below, we round up some of our favorite Halloween recipes in three key categories: pumpkin, cookies, and cocktails.

Halloween Pumpkin Recipes

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Black Walnut Pumpkin Pie

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Cinnamon Swirl Pumpkin Cream Bread

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Spanish Pumpkin & Bean Soup                    

 

Halloween Cookie Recipes

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Chewy Halloween Monster Cookies

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Gluten-Free Scary Eye Cookies

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Monster Mash Cookies

 

Halloween Cocktails

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Zombie Slime Cocktail

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The Bloodsucker

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Halloween Test Tube Shooters