100 Halloween Charcuterie & Snack Boards (By Spooky Theme)

Get into the spooky spirit with these Halloween charcuterie and snack boards, each designed around a fun and festive theme!

Whether you’re planning a creepy movie night or a Halloween party, these creative boards are sure to impress.

From eerie graveyard-inspired spreads to sweet candy-filled platters, there’s a hauntingly good idea for every occasion.

Mix savory bites with spooky treats to build the ultimate Halloween snack experience that’s as fun to make as it is to eat!

Pumpkin Boards

Pumpkin Patch Harvest

Fall fruit + cheese with orange accents.

Charcuterie board with cheese slices and cubes, green grapes, baguette slices, mandarin segments, dried apricots, candy pumpkins, pumpkin seeds, and a bowl of honey in the center.

Ingredients

10 oz sharp cheddar (cubes)
8 oz smoked gouda (triangles)
1 baguette (24 slices)
2 cups green grapes
2 cups mandarin segments
1 cup dried apricots
½ cup pepitas
½ cup honey (ramekin)
8–10 candy pumpkins (garnish)

Directions

Center honey ramekin; fan cheeses around.
Build two fruit arcs; sprinkle apricots/pepitas.
Tuck bread along bottom; dot with candy pumpkins.

Jack-O’-Lantern Cheddar Wheel

Board arranged like a smiling pumpkin.

A Halloween-themed cheese and cracker platter arranged to look like a jack-o'-lantern with orange cheese, cucumber slices, olives, and round crackers.

Ingredients

12 oz orange cheddar (slices)
8 oz colby jack (cubes)
8 oz turkey slices (rolled)
1 sleeve butter crackers
1 small cucumber (eyes/nose cutouts)
6 olives (smile)

Directions

Make a big circle of cheddar slices (the “pumpkin”).
Fill center with colby cubes and turkey rolls.
Add cucumber triangles (eyes/nose) + olive smile; crackers around edge.

Pumpkin & Prosciutto Rosettes

Cute rosettes + orange fruit.

A wooden board with sliced cheese, rolled salami, crackers, orange melon cubes, dried fruit, and a bowl of jam, surrounded by pumpkin decorations.

Ingredients

8 oz prosciutto
10 oz manchego (wedges)
8 oz crackers
2 cups cantaloupe
2 cups dried mango
½ cup fig jam

Directions

Center jam; add manchego wedges like sun rays.
Roll prosciutto into rosettes; place between wedges.
Fill with cantaloupe/mango; crackers along a side.

Pumpkin Hummus & Veg

Orange dip centerpiece with “vines.”

A round platter with a bowl of hummus in the center, surrounded by sliced carrots, cucumbers, mini bell peppers, and pita bread triangles.

Ingredients

2 cups pumpkin hummus
1 tablespoon olive oil
paprika
2 cups carrots
2 cups orange peppers
2 cups cukes
8 oz pita chips

Directions

Swirl hummus in center; olive oil + paprika dust.
Radiate veg by color; add pita chips border.
Garnish with parsley “vines.”

Pumpkin Spice Dessert Nibbles

No-bake sweet board.

A platter with rows of gingersnap cookies, mini cinnamon rolls, white chocolate-covered pretzels, caramel candies, and a bowl of caramel dip in the center.

Ingredients

12 pumpkin cookies
12 mini cinnamon rolls
1 cup yogurt pretzels
1 cup caramel corn
½ cup caramel dip

Directions

Place caramel dip center.
Arrange cookies/rolls in alternating rows.
Fill gaps with pretzels/caramel corn.

Cheddar Pumpkins & Salami

Cookie-cutter pumpkins.

A wooden board with pumpkin-shaped cheddar cheese, rolled salami, round crackers, red grapes, and a small bowl of mustard. A pumpkin decoration is in the background.

Ingredients

12 oz cheddar (slices, cut into pumpkins)
10 oz salami (folded)
8 oz crackers
1 cup grapes
½ cup mustard

Directions

Mustard ramekin top; line cheddar pumpkins across center.
Tuck salami folds along both sides.
Crackers bottom; grapes fill corners.

Pumpkin Breakfast Board

Morning grazing.

A wooden board with mini muffins, mini waffles, strawberries, mandarin orange halves, two bowls of yogurt, and a bowl of syrup arranged neatly.

Ingredients

12 mini pumpkin muffins
12 mini waffles
1 cup maple syrup
1 cup yogurt
2 cups strawberries
2 cups mandarins

Directions

Syrup/yogurt bowls center.
Waffles left, muffins right.
Fruit arcs top/bottom.

Pumpkin & Pepperoni Pie Bites

Snacky pizza vibes.

A wooden board with pizza rolls, two dipping sauces, and cubes of cheese, decorated with plastic spiders and a small pumpkin for Halloween.

Ingredients

24 pizza rolls (air-fried/pack instructions)
1 cup marinara
½ cup ranch
8 oz mozzarella cubes

Directions

Marinara + ranch ramekins center.
Pizza rolls in two arcs; mozzarella between arcs.
Sprinkle oregano if desired.

Harvest Cheese Flight (Orange Focus)

Tasting setup.

A wooden board with assorted cheeses, round crackers, dried apricots, and a small jar of jam, surrounded by Halloween decorations.

Ingredients

4 cheeses (6–8 oz each): cheddar, mimolette, aged gouda, colby
1 sleeve crackers
½ cup apricot jam
1 cup dried apricots

Directions

Cheeses at compass points; label.
Jam center; apricots around.
Crackers in fans between cheeses.

Pumpkin Candy & Fruit Hybrid

Balanced kid-friendly board.

A wooden board with pineapple slices, mandarin orange segments, candy corn, chocolate-covered nuts, yogurt-covered pretzels, and chocolate candies arranged in sections.

Ingredients

2 cups candy corn
2 cups mini chocolates
2 cups pineapple
2 cups mandarin segments
1 cup yogurt pretzels

Directions

Fruit clusters in corners.
Candy in center wedges.
Pretzels ring the edge.

Ghost Boards

Ghost Brie Web

Webbed brie with dippers.

A round cheese wheel decorated with a spiderweb pattern, topped with two green grapes, surrounded by crackers and grapes on a wooden platter. Pumpkin decorations are in the background.

Ingredients

8 oz brie wheel
¼ cup sour cream (thinned with 1 teaspoon milk)
8 oz breadsticks
8 oz crackers
1 cup grapes
plastic spider

Directions

Pipe concentric rings on brie; drag toothpick to create a web.
Radiate breadsticks and crackers like spokes.
Fill gaps with grapes; add (removable) spider.

White-Out Ghost Graze

All white snacks + eyes.

A wooden board with sliced cheese, crackers, turkey, salami, pretzels, marshmallows, and bowls of candy eyeballs, arranged neatly for a Halloween snack platter.

Ingredients

10 oz mozzarella (balls/slices)
1 cup yogurt pretzels
1 cup coconut marshmallows
8 oz turkey
1 sleeve water crackers
24 candy eyes

Directions

Build cheese and meat in a center stripe.
Surround with pretzels, marshmallows, and crackers.
Stick candy eyes onto a few items with frosting.

Boo Dip Ring

Ghost faces on cups.

A wooden platter with ghost-themed dip cups, star-shaped crackers, carrot sticks, celery, cherry tomatoes, and Halloween decorations in the background.

Ingredients

2 cups ranch
2 cups spinach dip
24 mini cups (ghost faces drawn on)
4 cups veggie sticks
8 oz pita chips

Directions

Fill cups (2 tablespoon each); arrange in a ring.
Pile veggies and pita chips in the center.
Add “BOO” pick toppers.

Ghost Fruit & Yogurt

Bright, fresh, spooky-cute.

A wooden board with strawberries, pineapple chunks, meringue ghosts, and a bowl of white dip in the center; two plastic pumpkin decorations are in the background.

Ingredients

3 cups strawberries
3 cups pineapple
3 cups vanilla yogurt (bowl)
24 mini meringue “ghosts”

Directions

Place yogurt bowl in the center.
Arrange fruit in two color blocks.
Perch meringue ghosts throughout.

Ghost Sandwich Minis

Simple deli minis with faces.

Twelve mini sandwiches with cheese, ham, olive slices for eyes, and sesame seed buns arranged on a tray; three have "BOO" flags. Two decorative pumpkin figures in the background.

Ingredients

12 turkey/cheese sandwiches (quartered = 48 minis)
24 olive slices (eyes)
24 sesame seeds (mouths)

Directions

Arrange minis in rows.
Add two olive slice eyes and a sesame mouth on top sandwiches.
Add toothpick flags labeled “BOO.”

Ghost Dessert Board

White sweets assortment.

A wooden board displays powdered mini donuts, coconut macaroons, and white chocolate bars with sprinkles. Decorative pumpkins and Halloween props surround the board.

Ingredients

12 powdered donuts
12 coconut macaroons
1 cup white chocolate bark pieces
½ cup white sprinkles

Directions

Arrange donuts and macaroons in alternating arcs.
Place bark pieces in the center.
Sprinkle with white sprinkles.

Ghost Cheese & Crackers

Cutouts + eyes.

A wooden board with round crackers and ghost-shaped cheese slices topped with candy eyes, arranged for a Halloween-themed snack.

Ingredients

10 oz provolone (cut with ghost cookie cutter)
24 crackers
24 mini candy eyes

Directions

Cut ghost shapes from cheese slices.
Top crackers and add two eyes with a dab of cream cheese.
Stack neatly for serving.

Ghost Popcorn Mound

Puffy “ghost” heap.

A pile of popcorn decorated with candy eyes and small ghost-shaped candies, surrounded by metal scoops, with pumpkins and snacks in the background.

Ingredients

12 cups popcorn
2 cups yogurt pretzels
24 candy eyes

Directions

Mix popcorn and pretzels; pile high on a platter.
Stick candy eyes in clusters.
Serve with scoops.

Ghostly Caprese

Monochrome caprese.

Skewers with cherry tomatoes, basil leaves, and mozzarella balls decorated with candy eyes on a wooden board. A small bowl of olive oil, a pumpkin, and a bat cutout are in the background.

Ingredients

16 mozzarella balls
16 halved cherry tomatoes (optional — skip for all-white theme)
1 cup basil
2 tablespoon olive oil
24 tiny eye sprinkles

Directions

Skewer mozzarella and basil (add tomato if using).
Drizzle with olive oil and place on board.
Add tiny eyes to a few mozzarella balls.

Vanilla Dip & Fruit Ghosts

Dip bowl with marshmallow faces.

A bowl of creamy dip topped with marshmallows decorated as ghosts, surrounded by sliced apples and strawberries on a wooden platter; Halloween decor in the background.

Ingredients

2 cups vanilla fruit dip
3 cups apples
3 cups strawberries
12 jumbo marshmallows (ghost faces)

Directions

Place dip bowl in the center; fan fruit around.
Add marshmallow “ghosts” perched on fruit.
Sprinkle lightly with cinnamon.

Mummy Boards

Mummy Flatbread “Bandages”

Criss-cross cheese strips.

Rectangular pizza slices decorated with strips of cheese and olive slices to resemble mummies, arranged on a wooden board with a bowl of marinara sauce.

Ingredients

2 large flatbreads (cut into strips)
8 oz mozzarella (shreds/strips)
1 cup pizza sauce (ramekin)
24 olive slices (eyes)

Directions

Place sauce ramekin in the center; lay flatbread strips overlapping like bandages.
Scatter mozzarella across the strips.
Dot olive “eyes” along the pile.

Mummy Meat & Cheese Stack

Bandage look with overlapping slices.

A rectangular charcuterie board arranged to resemble a mummy using slices of cheese, salami, crackers, pickles, and two olives for eyes.

Ingredients

10 oz provolone (strips)
10 oz turkey (strips)
10 oz salami (strips)
1 sleeve crackers
1 cup pickles

Directions

Build a rectangle of alternating cheese and meat strips.
Leave a small gap for “eyes” (use two olives).
Arrange crackers and pickles around the edges.

Mini Mummy Dogs (Serve Warm or Room Temp)

Perfect for parties.

A platter with rows of cucumber slices, carrot sticks, and cherry tomatoes surrounds a bowl of mini hot dogs wrapped in dough to look like mummies, garnished with candy eyes.

Ingredients

24 mini smoked sausages or lil’ dogs (cooked)
1 can crescent sheet (cut into thin strips)
Mustard (eyes)

Directions

Wrap thin dough strips around each sausage; bake per package directions (or use precooked wrapped minis).
Add mustard eyes.
Pile in a center bowl and surround with veggies.

Mummy Veg Cups Ring

Tape-wrapped cups.

Plastic cups decorated with googly eyes, filled with celery and carrot sticks, are arranged on a tray with a "RIP" sign; Halloween decorations are in the background.

Ingredients

24 mini cups (wrapped with gauze tape + candy eyes)
3 cups ranch
6 cups veggie sticks

Directions

Fill each cup with ranch and veggie sticks.
Arrange cups in a ring formation.
Add a “RIP” sign in the middle for decoration.

Mummy Sweet Bites

Drizzled bands.

A platter of round and square rice crispy treats decorated as mummies with white icing and candy eyes, arranged in rows on a white surface.

Ingredients

12 brownie bites
12 rice krispies squares
½ cup white chocolate drizzle
24 candy eyes

Directions

Place brownie bites and rice krispies squares in alternating order.
Drizzle with zigzag “bandages.”
Add candy eyes.

Mummy Pita & Hummus

Simple and savory.

A bowl of hummus decorated with two black olive slices, surrounded by strips of flatbread on a wooden board, with small pumpkin decorations in the background.

Ingredients

2 cups hummus (bowl)
12 pita rounds (cut into strips)
24 olive slices (eyes)

Directions

Place hummus bowl in the center.
Criss-cross pita strips to one side like wraps.
Set olive slice eyes on the hummus.

Mummy Cheese Logs

String cheese “wraps.”

A wooden board with mummy-themed snacks made of white chocolate and candy eyes, surrounded by grapes, pretzels, crackers, and Halloween pumpkin decorations.

Ingredients

8 string cheese sticks (halved = 16)
1 cup pretzel sticks
1 cup grapes
32 mini eyes

Directions

Slice shallow “bandage” grooves into the cheese sticks.
Line them in a row and add eyes.
Fill remaining space with pretzels and grapes.

Mummy Sweet & Salty Board

Mix with white lines.

A wooden serving board with pretzels, popcorn, chocolate sandwich cookies, candy eyes, and two mummy-shaped chocolate bars drizzled with white chocolate, topped with candy eyes.

Ingredients

2 cups yogurt pretzels
2 cups popcorn
2 cups chocolate cookies
½ cup white drizzle
24 candy eyes

Directions

Build three piles of snacks.
Drizzle white chocolate across like bandages.
Add clusters of candy eyes.
Garnish with a bit of gauze for a spooky touch.

Mummy Sandwich Row

Cut and drape.

Twelve slices of bread topped with cheese strips and olive pieces arranged to look like mummies, displayed on a cutting board.

Ingredients

8 deli sandwiches (cut into 24 “fingers”)
4 slices provolone (cut into strips)
24 olive bits (eyes)

Directions

Line sandwich “fingers” in a row.
Drape provolone strips like wraps.
Add olive eyes to a few for effect.

Mini Mummy Cones (Sweet)

Sugar cones wrapped.

Mini ice cream cones decorated with white icing and candy eyes to look like mummies are arranged on a wooden board, with marshmallows and candy eyes nearby.

Ingredients

12 sugar cones (halved = 24 minis)
1 cup white chocolate drizzle
24 candy eyes
Marshmallows (to fill)

Directions

Fill cones with marshmallows and lay them on their sides.
Drizzle white chocolate “bandages.”
Add candy eyes and set to cool.

Spider/Web Boards

Spiderweb Queso & Chips

Webbed dip triangle.

A tray of tortilla chips surrounding a bowl of cheese dip with a spiderweb design, served with sliced jalapeños and green olives on a wooden board.

Ingredients

2 cups warm queso
½ cup sour cream (thinned)
2 bags tortilla chips
1 cup jalapeños/olives

Directions

Place queso bowl in the center and pipe a sour-cream web on top.
Arrange chips in mounds forming a triangle around the bowl.
Serve toppings in small ramekins.

Oreo Spider Mountain

Crowd-pleaser.

A stack of chocolate sandwich cookies with candy eyes and pretzel sticks arranged on a black tray, surrounded by plastic spiders and Halloween decorations.

Ingredients

24 sandwich cookies (bodies)
48 pretzel sticks (legs)
48 candy eyes
¼ cup frosting (glue)
1 cup gummy spiders

Directions

Create cookie spiders using pretzel legs and candy eyes attached with frosting.
Pile cookie spiders into a “mountain.”
Scatter gummy spiders on and around the pile.

Web Brie + Breadsticks

Elegant savory.

A round cheese topped with a chocolate spiderweb design is surrounded by breadsticks, crackers, and red grapes on a wooden platter. Two plastic pumpkins are in the background.

Ingredients

8 oz brie
¼ cup balsamic glaze (web)
8 oz breadsticks
8 oz crackers
1 cup grapes

Directions

Draw a glaze web over the brie.
Arrange breadsticks and crackers radiating outward.
Fill gaps with grapes.

Spider Fruit Cups

Chocolate spiders on berries.

A wooden tray with rows of blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, pretzel spider snacks, white chocolate pretzels, and white chocolate-covered cookies with ghost faces.

Ingredients

8 cups berries
½ cup chocolate syrup
8 oz yogurt pretzels

Directions

Place berries along one side and pretzels on the opposite side.
Draw chocolate spiders on berries with syrup.
Add a few candy eyes for decoration.

Web Popcorn & Bark

Salty-sweet combo.

A wooden board topped with popcorn drizzled with white icing in a spiderweb pattern on one side, and broken chocolate pieces on the other, decorated with fake cobwebs.

Ingredients

12 cups popcorn
1 cup white melts (web)
12 oz chocolate bark (broken)

Directions

Drizzle melted white chocolate over popcorn to create web lines.
Place popcorn on one side and bark on the other.
Add a decorative plastic web (remove before eating).

Spider Deviled Eggs (If Eggs Allowed)

Eight-leg garnish.

Deviled eggs topped with black olive pieces arranged to look like spiders, displayed on a wooden board with Halloween-themed decorations in the background.

Ingredients

16 deviled egg halves
1 cup black olives (legs and bodies)

Directions

Place olive halves as bodies on each egg.
Slice olive strips for legs—four per side.
Arrange eggs in a ring shape.

Web Veg Platter

Dip with web center.

A Halloween-themed veggie platter with carrots, cucumbers, and bell peppers arranged around a dip decorated with a spiderweb pattern, surrounded by plastic spiders and small pumpkins.

Ingredients

2 cups ranch
2 tablespoon sour cream (for web)
3 cups carrots
3 cups peppers
3 cups cucumbers

Directions

Pipe a sour-cream web over the ranch.
Arrange veggies by color blocks around the dip.
Add a spider pick for a festive touch.

Spider PB-Free “Truffles”

Sunflower-butter balls.

A wooden board with round crackers and spider-shaped treats made of brown balls, candy eyes, and licorice legs, with pumpkin decorations in the background.

Ingredients

24 sunflower-butter balls (store-bought or homemade)
48 licorice legs
48 candy eyes

Directions

Insert licorice legs into each truffle and attach candy eyes with frosting.
Pile in the center of the board and line with crackers around.
Clearly label as nut-free.

Web Cheese Slices

Cutouts for kids.

A wooden board with round crackers topped with cheese and spider web icing, cheese slices, plain crackers, and two plastic jack-o'-lanterns in the background.

Ingredients

10 oz mozzarella slices (cut with web-shaped cutter)
24 crackers

Directions

Cut web shapes from mozzarella slices.
Top crackers with cheese cutouts and stack in a fan shape.
Sprinkle lightly with black sesame seeds.

Spider Sweet Mix

Eyes everywhere.

A pile of chocolate cereal squares, pretzels, mini marshmallows, and candy eyes on a wooden board, with Halloween decorations in the background.

Ingredients

2 cups chocolate cereal
2 cups pretzels
2 cups mini marshmallows
1 cup mini chocolate chips
½ cup eye sprinkles

Directions

Mix all ingredients in a large bowl.
Pour into a central pile on your board.
Add extra candy eyes on top for a fun, spooky finish.

Bat & Cat Boards

Oreo Bat Colony

Easy bat shapes.

A wooden board with Oreo cookies decorated as bats using candy eyes and chocolate wings, surrounded by pretzels and Halloween decorations.

Ingredients

24 chocolate cookies (bodies)
24 Oreos split into 48 wings
48 candy eyes
Frosting (glue)

Directions

Attach wings to cookie bodies and add eyes.
Cluster into a “colony” on the board.
Fill the sides with pretzels.

Cat Cheese Faces

Simple whisker plates.

A wooden tray with three cat-face cheese slices decorated with olives, tomatoes, chives, and crackers; chives and cheese triangles form ears and whiskers. Crackers are arranged on the side.

Ingredients

10 oz cheddar (circles)
10 oz mozzarella (triangles for ears)
24 olive slices (eyes)
12 cherry tomato halves (noses)
8 oz crackers

Directions

Build cat faces using cheddar circles and mozzarella triangles for ears.
Add olive eyes and tomato noses.
Arrange crackers along the bottom and use chives or pretzels for whiskers.

Bat Silhouette Caprese

Moon & bats.

A Halloween-themed caprese salad with sliced mozzarella and tomatoes arranged in a crescent shape next to a round cheese disk decorated with bat shapes on a black slate board.

Ingredients

12 oz mozzarella slices (moon disks)
2 cups cherry tomatoes (halved)
¼ cup balsamic glaze

Directions

Arrange mozzarella slices in a “moon” cluster at the top right.
Sweep cherry tomatoes across the board.
Use balsamic glaze to draw bat silhouettes.

Cat & Mouse Snackers

Cheese, crackers, fruit.

A wooden board with sliced cheeses, round crackers, red grapes, and mouse-shaped picks, with a pumpkin and spider web decoration in the background.

Ingredients

8 oz gouda
8 oz cheddar
1 sleeve crackers
1 cup grapes
12 mouse picks (decor)

Directions

Place cheeses in the center and fan crackers around.
Arrange grapes around the edges.
Add mouse picks and cat stickers for decoration.

Bat Nacho Platter

Simple chips + dips.

A platter of tortilla chips with bowls of guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, and cheese dip, surrounded by Halloween decorations like bats and pumpkins.

Ingredients

2 bags tortilla chips
2 cups salsa
1 cup queso
1 cup guacamole
Bat confetti (decor)

Directions

Arrange dips in a triangle pattern.
Pile chips in mounds between dips.
Add bat confetti decor around the rim.

Cat Breakfast Board

Morning nibbles.

A wooden board with bagels, cucumber slices, smoked salmon bagel halves, blueberries, and a cat face made from a bagel with cream cheese, blueberries, and carrot ears.

Ingredients

12 mini bagels
8 oz cream cheese
8 oz smoked salmon
1 cup cucumbers
1 cup blueberries (cat “eyes”)

Directions

Spread cream cheese and top with smoked salmon in the center.
Arrange bagels on one side and veggies/blueberries on the other.
Shape a simple cat face using toppings.

Bat & Moon Sweets

Dark + bright.

A wooden board with rows of chocolate brownies topped with bat shapes, yellow crescent cookies, and dark chocolate bark sprinkled with nuts and powdered sugar.

Ingredients

12 brownies (bat toppers)
12 lemon bars (moons)
1 cup chocolate bark shards

Directions

Arrange brownies in one arc and lemon bars opposite.
Place chocolate bark shards in the center.
Dust with powdered sugar.

Cat Snack Cups

Grab-and-go.

A tray with Halloween-themed cups filled with crackers, cheese cubes, and grapes; a carved pumpkin is visible in the background.

Ingredients

24 small cups
3 cups crackers
3 cups cheese cubes
3 cups grapes
Cat stickers

Directions

Decorate cups with cat stickers.
Portion equal amounts of crackers, cheese, and grapes into each cup.
Stack cups neatly on a tray.

Bat Fruit & Yogurt

Balanced and cute.

A wooden board with blackberries, blueberries, and strawberry slices arranged around a bowl of white dip, decorated with paper bat cutouts for a Halloween theme.

Ingredients

3 cups blackberries
3 cups blueberries
2 cups vanilla yogurt (bowl)
Bat picks

Directions

Place the yogurt bowl in the center.
Arrange berries in a bat-wing shape on both sides.
Add decorative bat picks.

Cat Charcuterie Minimalist

Sleek black and white.

A Halloween-themed charcuterie board with black crackers, salami, cheese slices, and a black cat decoration, with jack-o'-lanterns in the background.

Ingredients

8 oz bresaola
8 oz turkey
10 oz truffle cheese
1 sleeve charcoal crackers

Directions

Place cheese wedge in the center and ribbon the meats around it.
Line crackers along one side.
Add a cat silhouette cutout as garnish.

Monster Boards

Furry Monster Graze

Candy eyes on everything.

A wooden tray with cubes of cheddar and Swiss cheese, round salami slices, crackers, green grapes, and cherry tomatoes; cheese and salami have candy eyes on top.

Ingredients

8 oz cheddar cubes
8 oz havarti
8 oz salami
1 sleeve crackers
1 cup green grapes
1 cup cherry tomatoes
24 candy eyes

Directions

Arrange three cheese piles and stick eyes on the cubes.
Place meats between the cheese sections and fruit around.
Use crackers to form a border.

Cyclops Center

Single large eye focus.

A round wooden platter with a wheel of brie cheese topped with a Halloween-themed eye, surrounded by crackers and a bunch of red grapes. Orange pumpkin decorations are in the background.

Ingredients

8 oz brie (wheel)
1 olive slice (pupil)
10 oz crackers
1 cup grapes

Directions

Place the brie wheel in the center and top with an olive slice “pupil” and a dab of jam.
Arrange crackers in a ring around the brie.
Fill the edges with grapes.

Monster Slime Dip

Green dip + “toxic” labels.

A bowl of green dip labeled "Toxic Slime" is surrounded by pita bread, tortilla chips, and cucumber slices on a wooden platter. Halloween decorations are in the background.

Ingredients

2 cups guacamole
1 cup salsa verde
24 pita chips
2 cups cucumbers

Directions

Lightly mix guacamole and salsa verde to create a marbled look.
Place in the center and label as “SLIME.”
Surround with pita chips and cucumber sticks.

Sprinkle Monster Sweets

Bright and playful.

A platter with rice crispy treats, brownies with blue frosting, and chocolate cupcakes, each topped with candy eyes and surrounded by bowls of colorful sprinkles and orange candies.

Ingredients

12 rice krispies squares
12 brownie bites
½ cup frosting
¼ cup sprinkles
24 candy eyes

Directions

Arrange rice krispies and brownie bites alternating on a platter.
Add frosting dots, sprinkle over the tops, and press on candy eyes.
Serve immediately for best presentation.

Monster Breakfast Minis

A.M. bites.

A wooden board with mini waffles and muffins decorated with candy eyes, a bowl of yogurt with strawberry sauce and candy eyes, and fresh strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries.

Ingredients

12 mini muffins
12 mini waffles
1 cup yogurt
1 cup berries
24 small candy eyes

Directions

Place a bowl of yogurt in the center.
Arrange muffins and waffles in arcs around it.
Scatter berries around the platter and add eyes to a few pieces.

Neon Hair Monsters

Cotton-candy hair (serve fast).

A wooden board holds donuts topped with pink and blue cotton candy and candy eyes. In the background are a pumpkin, a jack-o'-lantern cup with straws, and a bowl of cotton candy.

Ingredients

2 cups cotton candy
12 donut holes
24 candy eyes

Directions

Pile donut holes in the center of the board.
Top with fluffy bits of cotton candy for “hair.”
Press on candy eyes and serve immediately before the cotton candy melts.

Monster Veg Cups

Green faces.

Plastic cups filled with green dip and assorted vegetable sticks, decorated with googly eyes to resemble monsters, arranged on a black tray with Halloween decorations in the background.

Ingredients

24 cups
3 cups ranch dressing dyed green (with spinach purée)
6 cups vegetable sticks
48 candy eyes

Directions

Portion the green ranch into cups.
Add vegetable sticks and stick eyes to the front of each cup.
Arrange in rows for an eye-catching display.

Monster Trail Mix

Colorful crunch.

A wooden board displays a pile of Halloween snack mix with pretzels, Chex cereal, popcorn, marshmallows, and candy eyes. Orange cups, a pumpkin, and cobweb decorations are in the background.

Ingredients

4 cups cereal squares
2 cups pretzels
2 cups popcorn
1 cup mini marshmallows
½ cup candy eye sprinkles

Directions

Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl.
Mound in the center of your snack board.
Sprinkle extra candy eyes on top and serve with cups on the side.

Slime Fruit River

Green river through the board.

Sliced kiwis and green grapes arranged on a wooden board to resemble a caterpillar, decorated with monster-themed picks, with pumpkins in the background.

Ingredients

3 cups kiwi (peeled and sliced)
3 cups green grapes
1 cup lime gummies (optional)

Directions

Create a wavy “river” using kiwi and grapes.
Tuck lime gummies sparingly along the path.
Add monster-themed picks for decoration.

Monster Cookie Sandwiches

Simple decorate-your-own fun.

A tray of Halloween-themed sandwich cookies decorated with colorful frosting, candy eyes, and sprinkles, surrounded by small pumpkins, a jack-o'-lantern, and a black spider decoration.

Ingredients

24 sandwich cookies
½ cup frosting
24 candy eyes
Sprinkles

Directions

Open cookies and let kids add frosting and candy eyes.
Close cookies and decorate edges with sprinkles.
Plate on parchment paper for easy cleanup.

Witch & Wizard Boards

Witch Hat & Brooms

Two iconic shapes.

A tray with Halloween-themed treats: witch hat cookies, mini cupcakes with sprinkles, candy-filled cookie cups, and pretzel sticks with cheese resembling broomsticks.

Ingredients

24 mini sugar cones
24 wafer cookies (hats)
12 string cheeses (halved)
24 pretzel sticks (brooms)
12 oz melted chocolate
Sprinkles

Directions

Make hats by dipping the cone rims in chocolate and attaching them to wafer cookies.
Make brooms by fringing cheese and inserting pretzel sticks.
Arrange hats on the left and brooms on the right.

Halloween Cocoa & Cookies

For cool nights.

A wooden board with three mugs of hot chocolate, a glass dispenser of hot chocolate, a bowl of marshmallows, chocolate sandwich cookies, butter cookies, and two pumpkins in the background.

Ingredients

8 mugs of cocoa (or a cocoa dispenser)
12 chocolate cookies
12 shortbread cookies
1 cup mini marshmallows

Directions

Place the cocoa vessel at the top of the board.
Arrange cookies in arcs below.
Fill a bowl with marshmallows to look like “bubbles.”

Spellbook Sweet Tray

Frosted “books.”

A baking tray with twelve brownies, some decorated with white icing to resemble spider webs or with the word "SPELLS" written on top, surrounded by small pumpkins and spider webs.

Ingredients

12 brownies
12 blondies
1 cup chocolate frosting
White gel icing

Directions

Frost the tops of the brownies and blondies.
Draw “spines” with gel icing and write “SPELLS” on a few.
Stack them in a staggered layout for a spellbook look.

Wizard Cheese Flight

Labeled tasting.

A wooden board with three types of sliced cheese, round crackers, small forks, and a bowl of amber-colored jam in the center.

Ingredients

4 types of cheese (6–8 oz each)
1 sleeve crackers
½ cup honey

Directions

Space out cheeses and label them with magical names or “charms.”
Place honey in the center.
Arrange crackers in fans around the cheese.

Witchy Veg Wands

Colorful “wands.”

A wooden tray with breadsticks, sliced cucumbers, red and yellow bell peppers, crackers, and a bowl of ranch dip garnished with parsley in the center.

Ingredients

24 breadstick bites
3 cups sliced peppers and cucumbers (long strips)
2 cups ranch dressing

Directions

Place ranch in the center.
Lay vegetable strips like “wands” radiating outward.
Add breadsticks at the ends and sprinkle parsley for “sparkles.”

Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Witch

Brunch board.

A platter with mini pumpkin donuts, cinnamon rolls, blueberries, blackberries, and a bowl of white dip in the center, surrounded by small decorative pumpkins.

Ingredients

12 pumpkin donuts
12 mini cinnamon rolls
1 cup yogurt dip
1 cup berries

Directions

Place yogurt dip bowl in the middle.
Arrange donuts on the left and rolls on the right.
Scatter berries around for color.

Potion Jelly Cups

Layered gelatin “elixirs.”

Plastic cups with layered orange and purple jello are arranged in a cauldron and on a wooden board, decorated with bat toppers. Pumpkins and crackers are in the background.

Ingredients

2 (6 oz) boxes grape gelatin
2 (6 oz) boxes orange gelatin
24 small cups

Directions

Prepare gelatin, cube it, and layer purple and orange pieces.
Arrange the cups in a cauldron shape on the display.
Add bat-shaped picks for decoration.

Witch Finger Carrots

Veg gag.

A plate of carrot sticks and cucumber slices arranged around a bowl of hummus, with carrots standing upright in the dip. Halloween decorations are visible in the background.

Ingredients

24 carrots
24 cucumber “nails”
2 tablespoon cream cheese (for glue)
2 cups hummus

Directions

Use cream cheese to glue cucumber nails onto carrot tips.
Place hummus in the center of the board.
Arrange the carrot “fingers” reaching outward from the bowl.

Wizard Hat Cheese Triangles

Starry toppers.

Triangular cheese slices with colorful star-shaped toppers are arranged on a wooden board with round crackers around them.

Ingredients

24 cheese triangles (Laughing Cow style)
Star sprinkles
Crackers (for serving)

Directions

Stand cheese triangles upright.
Press star sprinkles onto the sides for decoration.
Serve with crackers on the side.

Witch’s Market Harvest

Fall produce + meats.

A charcuterie board with rolled salami, cheese cubes, grapes, brie, baguette slices, and a knife, with pumpkins and fall decor in the background.

Ingredients

8 oz prosciutto
8 oz salami
8 oz cheddar cheese
8 oz goat cheese
1 baguette
2 cups grapes

Directions

Place cheeses in the center and ribbon meats around them.
Arrange sliced bread along one side.
Fill the ends of the board with grapes for a harvest look.

Graveyard Boards

Graveyard Pudding Ring

RIP cookies in “dirt.”

A bowl of chocolate pudding topped with cookie "tombstones" labeled "RIP," candy eyes, and crumbled cookies, arranged on a wooden board with spoons and cookies nearby.

Ingredients

6 cups chocolate pudding
3 cups crushed cookies
10 Milano cookies (RIP)

Directions

Place pudding in a bowl center; arrange crumbs around the rim.
Press RIP cookies upright behind the bowl.
Add spoons in a jar for serving.

Bone Yard Savory

Bones over soil.

Rectangular slate tray with rows of cubed cheese, chocolate crumbs, folded deli meat, and bone-shaped pretzels; Halloween decorations in the background.

Ingredients

10 oz cheddar cubes
8 oz turkey
1 sleeve rye crisps (soil, crushed)
24 bone-shaped pretzels

Directions

Spread crushed crisps in a center stripe.
Arrange cheddar and turkey piles along it.
Lay bone pretzels on the “soil.”

Coffin Sandwich Stack

Fun shapes.

Stacked sandwiches with ham, cheese, and cucumber on a wooden board, surrounded by sauces and Halloween decorations like pumpkins and bats in the background.

Ingredients

12 deli sandwiches (cut into coffins)
½ cup mustard
½ cup mayo

Directions

Stack coffin sandwiches in a staggered pile.
Serve sauces in ramekins.
Garnish with parsley “moss.”

Ghost-in-the-Graveyard Fruit

Light & spooky.

A Halloween-themed fruit platter with blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, and meringue ghosts arranged on a wooden board.

Ingredients

2 cups blueberries
2 cups black grapes
2 cups strawberries
12 mini meringue ghosts

Directions

Create a bed with dark fruit.
Dot strawberries throughout.
Place meringue ghosts standing upright.

Grave Veg

Grave full of veggies.

A wooden tray with baby carrots and sliced cucumbers arranged around a bowl of dip with "RIP" written on it.

Ingredients

2 cups ranch
3 cups carrots
3 cups cucumbers

Directions

Add ranch in the middle of the board.
Arrange rows of veggies.

Skull & Crossbones Cheese

White skull, dark accents.

A skull and crossbones-shaped cheese platter with black olives for eyes, arranged on a black cutting board with round crackers, surrounded by Halloween decorations.

Ingredients

10 oz white cheddar (skull)
1 cup black olives (eyes/nose)
8 oz crackers

Directions

Carve a simple skull from slices or shape cubes.
Use olives for facial features.
Serve with crackers below.

Tombstone Cookie & Fruit

Sweet-fresh combo.

A wooden board with gingerbread cookies marked “RIP,” orange slices, blackberries, chocolate dip, and cocoa powder arranged to resemble a graveyard.

Ingredients

10 Milano cookies (RIP)
2 cups blackberries
2 cups mandarins
½ cup chocolate dip

Directions

Place dip in the center.
Arrange fruit in arcs and stand cookies upright like tombstones.
Dust cocoa as “soil.”

Graveyard Bark & Popcorn

Movie-night vibe.

A round wooden board with chocolate bark, caramel popcorn, white popcorn, and bone-shaped candies. Halloween pumpkins and cobwebs decorate the background.

Ingredients

12 oz chocolate bark
12 cups popcorn
½ cup candy bones

Directions

Pile bark in the center.
Add popcorn mounds on each side.
Sprinkle with candy bones.

Moonlit Grave Cheese Board

Dark base + white moons.

A Halloween-themed snack tray with rows of cheddar and mozzarella cheese cubes, white chocolate buttons, and rectangular cheese slices arranged to resemble a piano keyboard.

Ingredients

8 oz ash-rind goat cheese (slices)
10 oz aged cheddar
12 white candy melts (moons)

Directions

Create a goat cheese stripe down the center.
Place cheddar cubes on both sides.
Tuck in white “moons” on top.

Creepy Crudités Row

Simple + effective.

A bowl of hummus surrounded by sliced bell peppers and snap peas on a wooden board, with Halloween decorations including pumpkins and tombstones in the background.

Ingredients

3 cups snap peas
3 cups peppers
2 cups hummus
Plastic tombstones (for décor)

Directions

Place hummus bowl in the center.
Arrange veggies neatly in rows.
Set decorative tombstones behind the bowl.

Eyeball Boards

Giant Eyeball Brie

Pupil & veins.

A round cheese wheel topped with red jelly and an olive to resemble an eyeball, surrounded by a ring of round crackers on a wooden platter.

Ingredients

8 oz brie wheel
1 olive slice (pupil)
¼ cup strawberry jam (veins)
8 oz crackers

Directions

Place olive slice in the center; streak jam to form veins.
Arrange crackers around the brie.
Add a grape “iris” ring if desired.

Eyeball Caprese Sticks

Skewered eyes.

A round wooden board with skewers of cucumber, mozzarella balls, and olives arranged in a spiral pattern to look like an eye, surrounded by Halloween decorations.

Ingredients

24 mozzarella balls
24 cucumber rounds
24 olive slices (pupil)
24 picks

Directions

Skewer cucumber, mozzarella, and olive slices.
Arrange in a concentric ring.
Drizzle with olive oil.

Bloodshot Deviled Eggs (If Allowed)

Classic creepy.

Deviled eggs decorated with green olives and red accents to resemble eyeballs are arranged on a wooden board next to a bowl of pickles.

Ingredients

16 deviled egg halves
Red gel (veins)
Olives

Directions

Pipe filling into the egg whites and add an olive slice for the pupil.
Draw thin red veins with gel.
Arrange in a circle around a bowl of pickles.

Eyeball Fruit Cups

Yogurt eyes on fruit.

A platter with cupcake eyeballs, green grapes, strawberries, and pineapple slices arranged neatly on a black slate serving tray.

Ingredients

2 cups pineapple
2 cups grapes
2 cups strawberries
2 cups vanilla yogurt
24 large candy eyes

Directions

Spread fruit across the board.
Spoon yogurt dollops and press candy eyes on top.
Sprinkle coconut for a “sclera” effect.

Eyeball Pretzels

Quick sweet-salty.

A wooden tray holds pretzel snacks decorated with white icing, candy eyes, and red icing to resemble eyeballs, arranged in rows.

Ingredients

24 yogurt pretzels
24 candy eyes
¼ cup red gel

Directions

Place candy eyes in the pretzel holes.
Add tiny red gel lines for veins.
Pile them high on a tray.

Eyeball Cookie Stack

Stacked stare.

A stack of cookies topped with marshmallows and chocolate chips arranged on a wooden board, with Halloween decorations and pumpkins in the background.

Ingredients

24 vanilla wafers
24 marshmallow halves
24 chocolate chips (pupils)

Directions

Top each wafer with a marshmallow half.
Add a chocolate chip pupil.
Stack into a “tower.”

Eyeball Veg Dip

Eyes floating.

A platter of carrot and cucumber sticks surrounds a bowl of white dip garnished with eyeball-shaped toppings made from sliced cheese and olives.

Ingredients

2 cups ranch
24 mozzarella pearls topped with olive slices (pupils)
6 cups vegetable sticks

Directions

Float mozzarella pearls topped with olive slices on the ranch.
Arrange vegetable sticks around the bowl.
Sprinkle with dill.

Eyeball Popcorn

Stares in the bowl.

A bowl of popcorn topped with candy eyeballs and chocolate chips, surrounded by Halloween decorations and spooky-themed candies.

Ingredients

12 cups popcorn
½ cup mini chocolate chips
24 candy eyes

Directions

Mix chocolate chips into popcorn.
Press candy eyes near the top for effect.
Serve with scoops.

Eyeball Cheese & Crackers

Simple bites.

A plate of round crackers topped with mozzarella balls, sliced black olives, and red sauce arranged to look like eyeballs, displayed as a Halloween-themed snack.

Ingredients

24 crackers
24 mozzarella rounds
24 olive slices (pupils)
Ketchup dots (veins)

Directions

Stack cracker, mozzarella, and olive.
Add tiny ketchup dots for veins.
Arrange in a spiral pattern.

Hypnotic Swirl Dessert

Mesmerizing cups.

Seven glass cups of pudding with blue and green candy eyeball decorations are arranged on a wooden tray, surrounded by chocolate chips, pumpkins, and a jar of milk in the background.

Ingredients

3 cups vanilla pudding
½ cup blue or green gel
24 mini chocolate chips (pupils)

Directions

Portion pudding into ramekins.
Swirl in gel and add a mini chip pupil.
Chill before serving.

Candy Corn Boards

Candy Corn Fruit Parfait Board

Tri-color cups.

A display of Halloween-themed dessert cups with fruit and candy corn, surrounded by pumpkins, a jack-o’-lantern, candy corn, and spider web decorations.

Ingredients

6 cups pineapple (yellow)
6 cups mandarins (orange)
48 oz vanilla yogurt (white)

Directions

Layer pineapple, mandarins, and yogurt into cups.
Arrange cups in a giant triangle on the board.
Add candy corn sprinkles on a few for decoration.

Candy Corn Cheese Stripes

Tasting stripes.

Rectangular cheese sticks in orange, white, and yellow are arranged on a marble board beside round crackers, with jack-o'-lantern decorations in the background.

Ingredients

8 oz colby (yellow)
8 oz cheddar (orange)
8 oz mozzarella (white)
1 sleeve crackers

Directions

Create three horizontal stripes using the cheeses.
Stack crackers below.
Label each stripe by color.

Candy Corn Popcorn Trio

Sweet, salty, plain.

A wooden board with assorted popcorn in white, yellow, and orange, and candy corn pieces. Halloween-themed popcorn cups and small decorative pumpkins are in the background.

Ingredients

12 cups popcorn
1 cup yellow candy melts
1 cup orange candy melts

Directions

Divide popcorn into three bowls: drizzle one with yellow melts, one with orange, and leave one plain.
Pile the popcorn into triangle-shaped color bands.
Add a candy scoop for serving.