Halloween Bites: Seriously Scary Snacks For Kids  

Make Halloween more spook-tacular than ever this year with these seriously scary snack ideas for the kids. Don’t let the hungry hoards catch you out! We’ve rounded up some terrifyingly easy recipes, matched with our killer kitchen appliances, to help you get into the spirit.

Check out the Halloween kitchen sorcery supplied by our friends at Sunbeam, Philips and Tefal, then crank your oven for monster meals that will have the entire family howling for more.

But first you must…

Assemble Your Hallowed Helpers

Does the thought of cooking for a starving pack send chills down your spine? Deck out your kitchen with some clever time-saving appliances.

Air fryers, multi cookers and food processors will have you whipping up frighteningly good food in no time at all – and not just on All Hallows’ Eve but all year round.

No tricks, just treats with dessert machines built for wicked sweets that you can give a Halloween makeover.

“It’s easy to whip up large batches of perfect waffles and pancakes when you have an appliance that is designed for the job. Pair your pancake stack with blood-red raspberry jam or add a splash of bright food colouring to the mixture for freaky monster food,” suggests Tracey Ellis, The Good Guys Buyer – Portable Appliances.

Now read on, if you dare, for more Halloween food ideas to electrify your TikTok or Instagram feed.

“Pair your pancake stack with blood red raspberry jam or add a splash of bright food colouring to the mixture for freaky monster food.”

Frighteningly Good Air-Fryer Treats

A Halloween-theme party menu should be a horror show that still tastes great. The hallowed air fryer is the versatile appliance that’s built for all kinds of cooking, even the gory stuff! Go benchtop or invest in an oven with a built-in air fryer feature.

For a Fright night triumph, try Apple Pie Mummies. Spoon canned pie apple into the middle of a puff pastry square, then cut diagonal ribbons to fold over alternately. Just 13 minutes later, with two sultanas for eyes, it’s a Night at the Museum inspired dessert.   

A little more air fryer hocus-pocus turns hot dog sausages into severed fingers. Slice a fingernail-shaped piece off the end of an air-fried sausage, tuck it into a bread roll and add tomato sauce for a bloody effect. It’s worth it to hear the screaming!

With the super speed of a thirsty vampire, an air fryer is also quick on the clean-up, meaning more time for Trick or Treating with the kids.

Shop Air Fryers And Ovens With Air Fryers

NUTRIBULLET XXL 7 Litre Digital Air Fryer

Tefal Easy Fry Classic Air Fryer

Electrolux 60cm Duo Steam Oven Dark Stainless Steel

Spider-Infested Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes

If the family are lurking in the shadows, shrieking for dinner, fill them up with this scary spider snack that takes less than 20 minutes in the Philips Airfryer, the fastest air fryer on the market.

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 19 minutes

Servings: 6

Ingredients

• 3 small sweet potatoes, unpeeled

• 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle

• 2 tbsp pizza sauce paste

• 2 Bega Stringers cheese sticks, shredded into thin lengths

• 12 pitted black olives

Method

1. Halve sweet potatoes, lengthways.

2. Place in the basket of the Philips Airfryer XXL Digital Smart air fryer, cut-side up, and drizzle with oil.

3. Set temperature to 200°C and cooking time to 14 minutes. Cook until golden and tender.

4. Spread cut surfaces of sweet potato with pizza sauce paste.

5. Arrange shredded cheese on top to form a spider’s web, breaking the lengths into smaller pieces to fit.

6. Halve three olives, lengthways, and place one half on each piece of sweet potato to form the spider’s body. Slice two olives, creating a total of six round slices, to use as the spider’s head. Cut the remaining seven olives into thin wedges and use these to arrange four legs on either side of the spider’s body. TIP: Push the cheese and olives firmly into the pizza sauce paste to prevent them coming off during cooking.

7. Set temperature to 180°C and cooking time to 5 minutes. Cook until the cheese is light golden.

8. Set aside to cool for a couple of minutes before serving.

Recipe by Elle Vernon, thanks to Philips

Make A Halloween Monster Cake In A Multi Cooker

Cook4Me? Yes please! Master a Halloween Monster Cake in Tefal’s Cook4Me Touch Wi-Fi Black in just six steps. Charcoal powder makes the mascarpone icing dark as the night!

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 40 minutes

Servings: 8

Ingredients

• 300g sweet mascarpone

• 12g activated charcoal powder

• 150g icing sugar 

• 150g dark cooking chocolate

• 90g butter, plus extra, to grease

• 3 eggs

• 3 tbsp lemon juice

• 45g flour

• 3 tsp baking soda

• 200g chocolate-covered dried fruit

Method

1. In a small bowl, combine mascarpone, charcoal powder and half of the icing sugar. Place the mixture in the fridge to chill.

2. Melt chocolate and butter together using a microwave or bain-marie. Set aside.

3. In a separate bowl, whisk eggs and remaining icing sugar. Mix in the lemon juice, flour and baking soda. Add melted chocolate mixture and combine thoroughly. Fold in the dried fruit.

4. Grease the Cook4me Cake Pan with extra butter and pour the cake mixture into the pan. Place in the steamer basket, with 400ml water under the basket, and pressure-cook for 40 minutes.

5. Remove cake from the pan and set aside to cool before decorating.

6. Use the mascarpone mixture in a piping bag with a nozzle to create the hair texture. Leave this to set before adding more details. 

Tip: To make the eyes, prepare a small amount of white icing (a mixture of egg white and icing sugar), place a few circles of the icing onto baking paper sprinkled with icing sugar, then put a chocolate chip or candy on each circle. Allow to harden before moving the eyes onto the cake. Recipe by Tefal

Quick And Easy Ways To Spook Up The Classics

Creep into our Specialty Appliances section and use these handy Halloween tricks to make treats even more scary!

Screaming for ice cream? Drop food colouring into your homemade ice cream mix for Slime Green or Blood Red scoops. Add edible eyeball candy decorations to really bring your dessert to life – you’ll find these in the cake aisle at major supermarkets.

Possessed by pizza? Make scary faces with salami slices and olives. Cut out ghost shapes from sliced cheese. Make one with just vegies to really terrify the kids!

Dying for dessert? Whip up waffles and pour over strawberry sauce for a gory-looking stack. Make the batter orange and use chocolate chips for a jack-o’-lantern grin.

Shop Specialty Snack Makers

Kambrook Perfect Pancake Press

Ninja Creami Ice Cream Maker

Breville the Smart Oven Pizzaiolo

Treacle Tarts For Young Witches And Wizards

Let Harry Potter’s favourite dessert, Treacle Tart, bewitch your little ghouls. Made with no pie lid in the magic Sunbeam Pie Maker, you can forget the ‘Scourgify’ cleaning spell – it’s all non-stick surfaces here.

Sunbeam Pie Maker Treacle Tarts

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 250g golden syrup

• Zest of 1 lemon

• 1 tbsp lemon juice

• 50g fresh breadcrumbs

• 1 egg, whisked

• 1 shortcrust pastry sheet

• Cream and fresh cherries, to serve

Method

1. In a small saucepan over a medium heat, warm the maple syrup, lemon zest and lemon juice.

2. Add the breadcrumbs and stir to combine. Remove from heat and set aside for 5 minutes.

3. Stir in the egg.

4. Preheat Sunbeam Pie Maker and wait for ‘ready’ light.

5. Meanwhile, using the Sunbeam Pie Maker top cutter, cut out 4 round lids from the pastry sheet

6. Place a pastry top into each of the pie maker dishes. Pour the mixture evenly into each pastry dish and close the pie maker. Cook for 15 minutes.

7. Remove pies and set aside on a cooling rack to cool.

8. Serve with cream and cherries.

Recipe by Sunbeam

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