By Erin Smith

Halloween is an exciting time of year for everyone who celebrates, but not everyone enjoys going out to mark the occasion. Here are eight easy snack ideas for those who like to stay home but still want to have some creative fun.

1. Chocolate filled spider puff pastry treat:

A spider doesn’t sound very appetising, but when it’s made from puff pastry and filled with chocolate spread, it can definitely turn a few heads. For the chocolate spider recipe, you will need; two sheets of puff pastry, chocolate spread and two edible eyes. Place baking paper over a baking tray then spread the chocolate over the first sheet of puff pastry, before placing the second sheet on top. Use a knife to cut a large triangle from the bottom and top to make a bow-like shape.

Now cut four lines on each side into the pastry, creating the arms. A cookie cutter can be a useful tool to create a circle indent in the middle of the sheet to leave the body of the spider untouched by the knife. Brush over the pastry with an egg wash before twisting each spider arm to create a spiral. Follow the baking directions for the puff pastry and once golden brown, take out, and enjoy.

2. Ghost/pumpkin pizza:

Pizzas can be the shape of anything your imagination creates it to be. By cutting pizza dough into a ghost or pumpkin shape and placing your toppings of choice on top, it can take a simple everyday pizza to the next level.

3. Deadly treats:

A simple cookie can be quickly elevated by adding some decorative icing. For the Halloween spirit in City of Glasgow College, skull shapes have been drawn over the cookies, in icing, to give them that spooky flare.

Brownies can also turn eerie when a gravestone is added on top. Oreos shaped with an oval top and cut flat on every other side can turn them into a gravestone. Add icing which spells “R.I.P.” and it’s ready to enjoy.

4. Graveyard dirt cup:

A ‘dirt cup’ is fully customisable with all ingredients. All you need is a clear plastic cup, Oreos and other fillings of your choice such as gummy worms and bugs. A spread will act as a separator between the layers of ‘soil’. Crush up Oreos and pack them in for the first layer.

Then add a layer of a spread of your choice such as Nutella, jam, Biscoff etc. Add gummy bugs on top of that layer then repeat with the Oreos after the ‘bugs’. Once filled to the top of the cup, you can grab a spoon and tuck in.

5. Charcuterie hand:

A Halloween charcuterie board is a good way to add in some savoury snacks among the sweet. Cheese string sticks and cheese blocks can be moulded into the shape of a hand then simply cover the cheese with a layer of prosciutto and it’s ready to enjoy. Slowly watch the fingers get chopped away and eaten with crackers and bread.

6. Eyeball ice cubes:

Wash your spooky snacks down with a nice cold drink, topped with eyeballs. Blueberries put into a sphere ice mould, filled with water and frozen creates a creepy looking drink filled with ice cubes that looks like eyeballs.

8 Easy Ways to Make Halloween Snacks- No tricks, only treats