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Our Favorite Halloween Recipes – Bacon Treats and a Few Cocktails to Do Your Fright Night Right

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

With Halloween just around the corner, you may be dreaming up ways to make up for lost time. This year, get back into the swing of celebrating the most ghoulish time of year with dishes your friends and family won’t forget. Whether you’re looking for treats for an epic bash or a spooky cocktail to sip while handing out candy, we’ve got you covered.

Beware: The recipes on this list are brimming with bacon and frighteningly delicious!

Bacon Peanut Butter Truffles

bacon chocolate and peanut butter truffles for Halloween

Bacon, chocolate, and peanut butter.

There hasn’t been a better Halloween trio since.

Don’t leave these tasty bacon peanut butter truffles unattended for too long or they’ll disappear quicker than that ghost that seems to be haunting your attic.

Bacon Caramel Apple

bacon caramel apples

We take one of the all-time classic Halloween recipes and make it better by, you guessed it, adding bacon. Our sticky and sweet bacon caramel apple recipe is both scrumptious and savory.

These candy apples will become one of your new favorite treats. The trick will be not eating all of them yourself.

Bourbon and Bacon Pumpkin Spice Cocktail

bourbon bacon spiced pumpkin cocktail

We don’t know about you, but running around on Halloween with candy-mad kiddos in the dark is a scenario that calls for some more adult treats. The simple bourbon and bacon pumpkin-spiced cocktail takes a fall-flavored drink and adds a savory flourish of bacon.

Warning: Be careful when sharing this cocktail with the neighbors. You may end up with a zombie-like assault on your home with the neighborhood trying to break down your doors looking for more of this concoction.

“BB”-Witched Cranberry Bacon Cocktail

cranberry bacon cocktail

Take it up another notch with this ButcherBox favorite. This drink will frighten your Halloween guests with just how good you are at the subtle art of mixology.

Best of all, once you perfect the bacon and cranberry simple syrup for this “BB”-Witched cocktail, you can try mixing it into other drinks for a tart and sweet kick for some of your other favorite cocktails.