Last Updated April 25th, 2024 at 12:17 pm by Lisa
Make a Halloween Candy Board filled with whimsical classic treats, chocolate candies, lollipops, and slightly gross gummy sweets...
Halloween Candy Boards Ideas
Add your favorite candy choices like gummy worms, sugared jelly brains, skulls, or bones, Mellocream candy pumpkins, caramel apple lollipops, and small candy eyeballs are a great addition.
Themed boards are so popular right now, and you can design them around the theme of your party.
- 6 ounces Brach's Mellocream Pumpkins or Candy Corn
- 12 Candy Eyeballs
- 6 ounces Red Vines Black Licorice
- 6 Halloween Cookies
- 8 ounces See's Black and Orange Twists
- 12 ounces See's Black Licorice Medallions
- 8 ounces See's Milk Chocolate Pumpkin Foil Balls
- 7 ounces See's Candies - Orange Chocolate Creams
- 1 box Gummy Candy Spooky Selection Pimlico Confections
- 3 whole See's Candies Caramel Apple Lollipops
- 3 whole See's Candies Chocolate Orange Lollipops
- 1 package Color Gumballs - orange, black, green and purple
Halloween Party Candy Board Tips
- How To Design A Candy Board, start with a board or tray, I used an inexpensive plastic black pumpkin tray. You can stack, pile, line up, or put wrapped treats in many designs.
- Choose Focal Points in odd numbers of larger items and place them first as anchor focal points. Use things like chocolate candies in paper cups, cookies, or lollipops as anchor points.
- Design things in small piles, and add others in equal parts in various patterns like stacks, piles, or neat rows. The variation of textures is pleasing to the eye.
- Small Bowls are a nice addition, I used some black ones with a pumpkin shape! And they look great with unwrapped candy you want to feature like the black and orange twists or bright-colored gumballs that roll around. Then, put a creepy gummy snake on top or a little plastic spider!
- Lollipops can be decorated with little candy eyeballs. Glue those on with some frosting and tie them with ribbon to plastic Dracula teeth!
- Empty Spots can be filled in with small items like wrapped foil chocolate balls or smaller sweets like candy corn or gummies.
- Add Different Textures by trying different kinds of candy, long licorice can be tied into knots, pile up the candies like black licorice medallions, or the fabulous sugary Dracula fangs!
Spooky Season Candy Shopping
Halloween candy charcuterie board ingredients are so fun to shop for, and every year the candy options get better. Whether you go totally gory with body part candy or keep it adorable and cute, there are endless confection choices.
I found a wonderful box of spooky gummy candy at TJ Maxx Homegoods, full of creepy sugar gummies. Oh, and it's such a good excuse to hit your local stores and buy candy in the candy aisle or order them online! I also went to my local See's Candies in Southern California and had so much fun picking up some really cute candy.
Halloween Candy Shopping List
The candy manufacturers come out with new flavors every year to delight customers, classic candies are reinvented into new colors, flavors, and shapes just for the Halloween season. Any of these will be a favorite for trick or treaters and will go perfectly on your candy tray...
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- Gummy Candy Body Parts
- Mini M&Ms, Twix, Snickers, or Hershey's
- Whole Chocolate Bars
- M&M's Ghoul Mix (orange, purple, green)
- Pretzels or Popcorn
- Sour Brite Crawlers
- Reeses Peanut Butter Pumpkins
- Kit Kat Witches Brew
- Hershey's cookies and cream fangs
- Wax Teeth
- Candy Corn
- Gummy Worms Candy
- Kit Kat Pumpkin Pie
- Pixie Sticks or Smarties
- Chocolate Skulls
- Starburst, Skittles, or Nerds
- Poprocks or rock candy
- Hershey's Halloween Shapes Snack Size
- Peeps: ghost, pumpkin, or Frankenstein
- Brain, Skull, Skeleton, or Bone Gummies
- Brachs Mellowcream Pumpkins
- Reese’s peanut butter cups
- Swedish fish
- Sour Patch Kids
Candy Board Theme Ideas
Chose a theme, it makes your candy board so fun to design and shop for...
- Whimsical Black & White Theme
- Pink Sparkly Glamour Board
- Gory, Gross, Bloody, and Scary
- Classic Classy Orange and Black
- Dia De Los Muertos - Day Of The Dead
- Hocus Pocus Movie Night - Orange, Purple, and Green
- Skulls, Bones, Tombstones & Graveyard
- Creepy, Crawly, Bugs, and Critters
- Old Fashioned Classic Trick or Treat Candy
- Pirates Of Caribbean Island Board
- Harry Potter Magical Wizard Board
- Darkness Board - Black and Purple Board
Handing out candy has not always been a Halloween tradition. In fact, the early roots of our modern celebrations date back well over 2,000 years to early Celtic festivals. It was believed that ghosts would wreak havoc on crops and cause other mischief. So villagers dressed in costumes to scare the ghosts away and served an elaborate feast.
500 years later in the Middle ages, people still dressed in costume but began going door to door singing and dancing in exchange for food and drink. And Halloween as we know it today began.
In modern times, the history of saying Trick-Or-Treat on Halloween night is now a tradition, as children expect a gift in exchange for not causing mischief. They will knock on their neighbor's door for some candy, money, toys, or other goodies!
Free Halloween Planner!
A little planning goes a long way, put down all your ideas and things that inspire you in this planner. There are spots for everything from your guest list, to shopping items, ideas for decorations, how to put a spooky twist on the menu, and more. Happy Halloween!
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More Halloween Food Ideas
200+ of the best Halloween Recipes from inspiring Food Blogger friends! Whether you are having a spectacular costume party on October 31st or cooking up spooktacular delicious recipes for a creepy food dinner for the family.
Halloween Deviled Eggs are spooky party appetizers with dark black crackled egg shells filled with bright orange filling. This classic simple appetizer is easy to make ahead and have with drinks. Create a spooktacular Halloween Charcuterie Board filled with your favorite sliced meats, an assortment of cheeses, crackers, fruit, nuts, and a few spooky and sugary treats. A spooky charcuterie board or cheese boards are they are known, are such an easy way to make party food!
Bake a spooky Chocolate Graveyard Cake with orange and chocolate marbled cake inside, and a cemetery all made in chocolate!
Build a fun and super easy Halloween snack board tray with your favorite chip, crackers, sweet treats, pretzels, popcorn, and spooky candy eyes! Mix up a batch of these emerald green Witches Brew Midori Sours. Add some spooky bones and magical edible drink glitter with bubbly mixers to enchant your guests!
Halloween Drinks & Appetizers
There are over a dozen of the Best Halloween Punch Ideas here from making different colors, sherbet punches, creative garnishes, ice rings, and even how to use dry ice for punch.
Halloween Gingerbread Houses are a whimsical table centerpiece for your Halloween party or to enjoy in your home all spooky season. After all, it is all about the candy.
Decorate your Halloween Candy Bark with lots of sweets, colorful sprinkles, and spooky eyes...👀🎃 You can use chocolate chips or white chocolate!
Bake these Halloween Cupcakes topped with fluffy chocolate buttercream frosting that are not too scary and pretty darn cute...
Candy Corn Martinis are perfect for parties, have lots of fun chilling out with these, oh and homemade candy corn vodka is super easy to make!
Parties are all about serving haunted food and creepy drinks like mini Halloween Pizzas. Decorate with one of the six ideas here, choose a Jack-O-Lantern, Dracula, Frankenstein, Monster, Mummy, or Ghost! Halloween Sandwiches are the perfect party food for a crowd. Serve a big sub sandwich with spooky decorations like cheese teeth and edible eyeballs.
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Halloween Candy Board
Ingredients
- 6 ounces Brachs Mellocream Pumpkins or Candy Corn
- 12 Candy Eyeballs
- 6 ounces Red Vines Black Licorice
- 6 whole Target Halloween Cookies
- 8 ounces See's Black and Orange Twists
- 12 ounces See's Black Licorice Medallions
- 8 ounces See's Milk Chocolate Pumpkin Foil Balls
- 7 ounces See's Candies - Orange Chocolate Creams
- 1 box Gummy Candy Sweets Spooky Selection Pimlico Confections
- 3 whole See's Candies Caramel Apple Lollipops
- 3 whole See's Candies Chocolate Orange Lollipops
- 1 package Color Gumballs orange, purple, black, green
Instructions
- How To Design A Halloween Candy Board Start with a board or tray, I used an inexpensive plastic black pumpkin tray. You can stack, pile, line up, or put wrapped treats in many designs.
- Choose Focal Points in odd numbers of larger items and place them first as anchor focal points. Use things like chocolate candies in paper cups, cookies, or lollipops as anchor points.
- Design things in small piles, and add others in equal parts in various patterns like stacks, piles, or neat rows. The variation of textures is pleasing to the eye.
- Small Bowls are a nice addition, I used some black ones with a pumpkin shape! And they look great with unwrapped candy you want to feature like the black and orange twists or bright-colored gumballs that roll around. Then, put a creepy gummy snake on top or a little plastic spider!
- Lollipops can be decorated with little candy eyeballs. Glue those on with some white frosting and tie them with ribbon to plastic Dracula teeth!
- Empty Spots can be filled in with small items like wrapped foil chocolate balls or smaller sweets like candy corn or gummies.
- Add Different Textures by trying different kinds of candy, long licorice can be tied into knots, pile up the candies like black licorice medallions, or the fabulous sugary Dracula fangs!
Notes
What To Use For Your Board?
- a large tray, use black, orange, purple, or green!
- a large cutting board works really well, just give it a good clean. They can be round, square, or rectangular in shape.
- an extra large board is also fun for a party, like a long 4' grazing board to put down the center of a long table.
Great ideas in this post. Love the shopping list! Makes it super easy party board to put together.