Snack boards are my never-fail, super-easy appetizer—and a clever way to serve dinner on busy nights. Take this Halloween snack board, for example: It’s perfect for a party (when we’re not in a pandemic, of course), but doubles as a quick meal before trick-or-treating that will delight kids and adults alike. This year, since we’re not going to parties, a Halloween snack board will serve as an extra-special dinner to bring some holiday cheer.
For many years, we tried our hardest to get our kids to sit down to a bowl of chili or slow cooker soup between painting their faces and finding someone’s wand, but the excitement was distracting and they almost never ate. Thus, our Halloween snack board tradition was born. We use a combination of store-bought and homemade staples, adding in festive and fun treats alongside veggies, fruit, and more filling snacks. Here’s how you can build your very own snack board for Halloween dinner.
How to Build a Halloween Snack Board
Your snack board should be a good mix of easy homemade recipes, store-bought staples, and special treats. Be sure to include two or three more substantial snacks (like the mummy pigs in a blanket or English muffin pizzas) to ensure everyone fills their bellies ahead of all the candy.
Here are some of our favorite snack-board goodies.
Easy homemade snacks: mummy pigs in a blanket, English muffin pizzas (made with either pizza sauce or pesto), deviled eggs with snipped chives (to resemble pumpkins!), and puff pastry bats (use a bat cookie cutter).
Store-bought snacks: guacamole or hummus (just add candy eyes or olives), cheese sticks, celery sticks, carrot sticks, grapes, apple slices, clementines (stick a small piece of celery on top so that these look like pumpkins too!) roasted pumpkin seeds, and seasonal chips—like those cute ghost and bat shapes you can only find in October.
Special treats: candy corn, ghoulish pretzels, boo bark, pumpkin patch brownies.
