37 Spooky Halloween Side Dishes to Make This October

Creamy mashed potatoes are loaded with cheese and bacon and covered in a spooky sour cream spider web. An easy and fun side dish for Halloween!

Snakes are creepy by many people’s standards, and these Breadstick Rattlers will be very memorable ! They're super simple, delicious and always bring a smile to everyone's face.

Roasted Halloween Vegetables are a fun and festive Halloween side dish. With sweet potato jack-o-lanterns, beet root witch’s hats, and spooky potato ghosts, this is a simple dish with some major wow factor.

Spooky Halloween Skull Potatoes are roasted mini spuds with carved faces and bold seasoning. They're tasty, creative and fun to serve.

Pasta salad isn't just for Summer anymore! This fun and delicious Halloween pasta salad is ready in 20 minutes and loaded with veggies.

Pumpkin or Spider Deviled Eggs add a little festive magic to this classic appetizer. They’re budget-friendly, super simple, and an easy snack or side dish for dinner.

Halloween Mac and Cheese is ultra creamy, and made with natural ingredients and has a secret (wholesome) ingredient that makes it green.

Halloween Garlic Bread turns frozen garlic bread into a festive mummy. So easy, budget-friendly and goes with a variety of meals.

Fun and colorful Halloween Salad is a creative spooky side dish with pepperoni bats, colorful tortellini and mozzarella cheese skulls.

If you like a creepy theme, this Freaky Good Pesto Spaghetti Squash Puking Pumpkin certainly delivers. But it actually tastes good too!

Made with less than 5 ingredients, these Cheese Olive Puffs are a spooky yet easy Halloween side dish or snack.

Black rice risotto with butternut squash is a festive grown up side dish with black and orange, but with sophisticated flavors.

Halloween Guacamole with Sour Cream Spiderwebs uses fresh avocados and diced tomatoes. (Or doctor up some storebough guacamole in a pinch.)

This Monster Eye Asparagus Gruyere Tart is a fun but elegant and healthy Halloween side dish.

Halloween Taco Dip combines creamy refried beans, zesty taco seasoning, and tasty tomato salsa to create a delicious side or appetizer for so many different dinners.

This Halloween Pasta Salad recipe turns some everyday ingredients into a festive eyeball pasta salad.

This spicy, creamy deviled corn recipe makes a delicious side dish that's versatile, easy to make, and fun to eat.

Mummy Jalapeno Poppers are a festive and fun appetizer. 4 ingredients are all that's needed to make these cute Halloween jalapeno poppers.

Halloween Stuffed Pumpkins are filled with a healthy and cozy side dish with wild rice, broccoli, cranberries, prunes, pecans and feta cheese.

Halloween Eyeball Salsa is topped with mozzarella and pimento floating eyeballs for a creepy-fun Halloween side for tacos, enchiladas and more.

Crockpot Ghoulishly Green Potato Soup is delicious comfort food potato soup with a spooky twist. This version is vegan, but you can swap your favorite non-vegan ingredients too.

Spooky and grotesque Roasted Cauliflower Brain is a really healthy and delicious gluten free, plant-based side dish for your Halloween dinner menu.

This spooky Halloween dinner idea or side is easy to make and people of all ages love it!

Serve up your favorite spinach dip in a coffin bread bowl for Halloween, with a mini skeleton nestled inside! This spooky food will be the hit of all your Halloween meal.

Stuffed Pizza Skulls will really creep out your friends and family! They’re actually delicious, really easy to make, and look so amazingly cool that no one will realize they took minutes to create.

You'll totally "dig" these Twice-Baked Potato Graves. With just a little bit of effort, you'll have spooky dish that's the perfect conversation starter.

For a fun (and a bit gross) fall side dish, this loaded pasta salad looks like an upchucking pumpkin.

If you're a fellow Midwesterner, you know that this Creamy Halloween Fluff Salad would actually considered a side dish at parties and potlucks.

Eyeball Pinwheels give the creepy look of bloodshot eyeballs but a fun side, appetizer, or lunch idea.

Mozzarella Cheese sticks designed to look like severed bloody fingers that really deliver the shock value. Just 3 ingredients and 15 minutes are all you need.

Halloween Baked Cheese Mummies feature flaky puff pastry wrapped around melted cheese and pepperoni, then covered in strips of puff pastry and edible eyes to look like festive mummies.

‘Shrimp On The Brain’ Cracker Spread is simply looks just like a fresh, bloody brain, but it tastes like a creamy, flavorful shrimp dip that everyone will love.

A fun Halloween side dish for lunch or brunch, these Jack-O-Lantern Fruit Cups are so easy and healthy too.

This super spooky 'Severed Finger' Pasta makes a fun and budget-friendly Halloween dish with lots of shock value.

This fun and easy Cheese Ball Mummy is a great conversation starter at a potluck or dinner party.

Especially perfect for a Halloween brunch or lunch, these really cute, healthy Frankenstein Kiwis are fun for Halloween fruit trays, or as edible decorations.

Healthy Halloween fruit spiders are so creepy crawly, that people of all ages will dare each other to eat them.