2025 Guide to Halloween Office Party Food Ideas
The lights are flickering. Sinister music is emerging from an office. And is that a fog machine in the company kitchen?
Yes, it’s almost autumn, and that means Halloween is right around the corner.
Plenty of workplaces are already gearing up to welcome it, including ours. An informal poll of the Waiter offices found that people like:
- Consuming mass quantities of sugary goodness without judgment, while
- Dressing up like superheroes/cowboys/giant squids/David S. Pumpkins
The holiday itself can bring some levity to every kind of office. Costume contests, themed food, and yes, a fog machine can work wonders for morale (or at least break up an otherwise ordinary day).
But how do you do it? What can you feed your colleagues that’s outside the norm enough to be special, but won’t take hours or days to put together? Can you just slap skull stickers on everything and call it a day?
(You can, but that’s only half the fun.)
The Waiter team is filled (perhaps unsurprisingly) with big fans of food. We’re also big fans of food that doesn’t take a lot of effort and is fairly easy to clean up.
We kept those three qualifications in mind while making this list of tasty, easy-to-make, Halloween office party food ideas that you can create yourself or offer up to the office at large for a potluck-style adventure.
- Almost all of these snacks can be assembled in under 15 minutes if you purchase the primary ingredients (cookies, brownies, and frosting) ahead of time.
- From-scratch baking may take up to two hours for more intensive dishes.
- Most items can be swapped for vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free, and other dietary needs.
Spooky Office Snacks
If you’re short on time and want to bring in snacks for a lot of people, you can’t go wrong with these!
Monster Rice Krispies Treats
You can buy readymade Rice Krispies treats for this (or make them yourself if you have the inclination). All the snack really requires are
candy eyeballs held on with icing or frosting, but you can get as elaborate as you want. Use candy and frosting to give them outfits,
various appendages, and crazy hairstyles. The sky’s the limit with this one!
Zombie Popcorn
Any kind of popcorn will work for this, though you might want to get a few flavors to appeal to various tastes. Cheddar, cinnamon, and caramel are often big winners.
Add in M&Ms and some candy corn, then drizzle it with the following:
- White chocolate sauce mixed with red food coloring
- Melted red candy
Voila! It’s no longer popcorn. It’s zombie popcorn.
Creepy Crawlies
Most of the time, spiders are not welcome snacks. But it’s Halloween, and these spiders are a great deal tastier than their real-life counterparts.
You have a few options when it comes to creating them, but the most popular version involves small, rounded brownies or cookies. Pop some candy eyeballs on them
and then give them legs: pretzel sticks or licorice work well.
Gruesome Goodies
For those who want something a little more challenging, we’ve also got a few Halloween-themed appetizer ideas.
Mummies
Give the classic pig-in-a-blanket a spooky Halloween twist by cutting the blanket dough into strips. Wrap the “mummy” in its “bandages” and you’ve got yourself a filling, on-theme snack.
We’ve also seen condiments like mustard, ketchup, and relish used to make tiny eyes.
Graveyard Dirt
Purchase or make pudding. We recommend chocolate for maximum visual effect and deliciousness, but you could also opt for vanilla or even cherry (for obvious reasons).
Add a layer of crumbled dark cookie to the top; we’ve heard Oreos are a popular choice, but there’s no reason why you couldn’t do chocolate chip.
Top it off with some gummy or sour worms, and you have a delightfully macabre treat.
Wands
Get a couple bags of pretzel or cookie sticks and some different kinds of frosting, edible glitter, and sprinkles.
Halloween-themed is best — miniature witches, ghosts, and so on — but really, you do you.
Dip the sticks into the frosting and then roll them in sprinkles, glitter, crushed candy, or other desired toppings.
Bonus: This is also a fun office Halloween “make-your-own-snack” party activity that usually requires minimal cleanup.
Not-Quite-Undead Options
Not everyone wants to see how much candy corn they can consume in one sitting. Maybe you’ve got some health-minded coworkers,
or maybe you just want to provide people with somewhat healthier options.
Witch’s Cauldron
Slice up fruit, toss it into a bowl, and call it a cauldron. You can use any kind of fruit you like; go big and find out what’s in season
at the farmer’s market, or pick up just about anything at the grocery store. Think pineapple, cantaloupe, strawberries, grapes, and honeydew to start.
Papaya, mango, kiwi, and dragonfruit can also add some color if you can get them.
Eyeballs
Nothing says “Halloween” like eating the eyes of your enemies, right? You’ll need bell peppers, cream cheese, and olives for this.
Slice the bell peppers and use a round cookie cutter to create circles. Slather on the cream cheese and put half an olive on top.
Orange Pumpkins
Peeled mandarin oranges look a lot like pumpkins, don’t they? Stick sliced-up celery in the top to act as a stem, and you’ve got a sweet and healthy treat.
Macabre Meals
What do the above snacks have in common? Well, they’re pretty tasty, for starters. They’re also loaded with sugar and not exactly filling.
Are they great fun to make and devour? Yes. Will they keep your team going after the party’s over? It’s possible, but unlikely.
If the workday must go on, why not give your team the best of both worlds? Enjoy the Halloween snacks, then summon Waiter.
Our drivers will venture forth from beyond the grave to deliver tasty, healthy meals from local restaurants to offset all the sugar your team is about to consume.
Your colleagues can choose what meals they’d like in advance, selecting substitutions and add-ons as necessary. And just because the food is being delivered
doesn’t mean you can’t add a festive Halloween touch to it. Marinara dipping sauce becomes blood. French fries can be severed fingers.
Really, your biggest challenge becomes when you want the food to actually arrive.
Should you have it come in before the party, so teammates can relax together and lay down an actual nutritious foundation before binging on junk food?
Should the food come in after the party, so your coworkers can scare off (pun intended) some of the sugar buzz and fortify themselves before getting back to the job?
Hey, if that’s the biggest decision you have to make this Halloween season, we’d call that a win. Good luck with that costume contest — and Happy Halloween!