Cadbury Chocolate Halloween Recipes That will Steal the Spotlight This Year

We often find Halloween synonymous with spooky decorations, scary costumes, and delicious desserts and treats with themed garnishing. Today, ranging from cakes and brownies to cookies and mousse, chocolate-based desserts are an integral part of Halloween rituals. While the festival is dedicated to ghosts, ghouls, and trick-or-treating, the association of chocolate with Halloween took centuries to develop. It has evolved significantly over the past few decades.

What brought chocolate candies and chocolate-based desserts to the center of Halloween celebrations is the rise of trick-or-treating, a Halloween staple ritual where children knock on neighbours’ doors and ask for chocolate treats. This practice originally evolved from the tradition of ‘souling’, a medieval practice where poor people used to go door-to-door on All Souls' Day seeking food (soul cake) in exchange for praying for the family's deceased members.

As years passed, chocolate gained more popularity because of its affordability and its rich, indulgent nature. With time, chocolate slowly gained precedence over many of the other candies before it became the ultimate trick-or-treat treasure.

From Spooky Mummy Brownies and Chocolate Spiderweb Cake to Broken Glass and Blood Cupcakes and Pumpkin Patch Sheet Cake, options for Cadbury Chocolate Halloween Recipes are endless.

With a few days left for the spooky festival, we are here with a bunch of Cadbury Chocolate Halloween Recipes for you to try this year. Let’s jump in!

1. Spooky Mummy Brownies

Isn’t Halloween all about playing spooky pranks on your friends and family? How about decking up the dessert platter with some funny, scary bandaged mummy brownies? The frightening mummy brownies start with a classic moist chocolate brownie using flour, sugar, cocoa powder, chocolate, butter, and salt. Once baked, allow them to chill for some time, and then cut them into squares. Meanwhile, you may whip up some white chocolate icing and pipe that playful zig-zag bandage design on top of the brownies. In the end, make the eyeballs with googly eye candy eyeballs.

2. Chocolate Spider Web Cakes

With three layers of moist chocolate cake covered in smooth buttercream and mesmerizing white chocolate spider web, these are an ideal Halloween dessert to celebrate the spooky spirit of the festival.

The spider web design, often made from either marshmallows or melted white chocolate upon the buttercream frosting, creates the ultimate dramatic effect while elevating its taste to a whole new level. Indeed, it has all the elements in it to be the centerpiece of your Halloween party.

3. Graveyard Dirt Brownies

This chocolate dessert depicts death in the best possible way. A Graveyard Dirt brownie is nothing but another classic display of theme-based baking expertise that takes you straight to a dark, daunting, hair-raising cemetery ground with tombstones lined up in front of you, but all on a baking tray. Here, the chocolate brownie is the base. The graveyard ‘dirt’ is created by crushed chocolate cookies, while butter cookies are placed on top of them to represent the gravestones.

So, this Halloween, just whip up a batch (or as much as you require) of warm, gooey, soft chocolate brownies first and allow them to chill. If you are in a hurry, you may also consider using the store-bought brownie mixes for the batter. Once the brownies are ready, get on with the garnishing part and decorate the brownies to create that spooky, scary, cemetery-like feeling in the best possible way.

4. Ghost Oreo Cake Pops

Halloween desserts and scary, googly eyes of ghosts go hand in hand, right? These Ghost Oreo Cake Pops are an ideal way to add more fun to your Halloween dessert platter. These cake pops are a new-era dessert that turns traditional large cakes into smooth, round, bite-sized balls, dipped into a chocolate coating, and placed on sticks.

During Halloween, you can always opt for a spooky twist to the regular cake pops. For simple vanilla cake pops at home, you can use your favorite vanilla or white cake recipe. Or, even simpler, you can use a boxed cake mix.

Once the cake is made, crumble it into fine pieces and combine them well with a frosting of your choice. Then, take handfuls of the mixture and shape them into balls. Once firm and smooth in texture, coat it nicely with finely crushed Oreo cookies and place googly candies on them to create the ghost eyes.

5. Pumpkin Patch Chocolate Sheet Cake

Pumpkin patch desserts are absolute Halloween essentials. This year, if you are aiming to create a sprawling pumpkin patch, consider creating it on chocolate sheet cakes to display your baking and dessert decoration skills more prominently. To add more to this autumn festival, this Halloween, consider a large pumpkin patch on a moist, soft chocolate sheet cake.

Once the baking is done, make sure you spend a whole lot of time on frosting and decoration to create the perfect pumpkin patch look. On this item, the actual visual impact is created by decorating the cake with crushed cookies (for dirt), some cute mellowcreme pumpkins, candy pumpkins, and pumpkin-shaped sweets. Also, some green icing is used to add the pumpkin patch greenery, while crunchy pretzels are used to create fences.

6. Broken Glass and Blood White Chocolate Cupcakes

These delicious and spooky chocolate cupcakes are filled with strawberry jam and topped with buttercream frosting. The fake blood for Halloween is so soft and easy to make! You can decorate them with some ingredients or enjoy them on their own

These bloody broken glass cupcakes are the perfect spooky Halloween treat!! They have a rich, black cocoa cupcake base and are filled with creamy white chocolate ganache. Then topped with white chocolate buttercream, edible sugar glass shards, and edible fake blood!

The ganache, edible blood, and sugar glass all need at least a few hours to cool. So I recommend prepping these elements the night before if possible! This way the glass shard cupcakes are easy to assemble the next day!

7. Bloody Chocolate-Raspberry Cupcakes

Are you looking for some added gore to your Halloween dessert menu? These Bloody Chocolate-Raspberry Cupcakes are an ideal match for that. What often looks like a scary aftermath of bloodshed is nothing but an abundance of raspberry jam.

These cute Halloween chocolate-raspberry cupcakes are moist and fluffy, and topped with creamy vanilla frosting for that perfect accompaniment to the cupcakes. For a more bloodied dessert platter, go for these bloody, scary, gory cupcakes. Your party ghosts and goblins will love them for sure.