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Halloween on keto means homemade treats that look spooky and taste great. Ghost cakes, graveyard scenes, mummy dogs, and candy corn all get a low-carb version. These 10 recipes cover everything from trick-or-treat candy to a full Halloween dinner.
Cookies that hold their shape well enough to decorate, plus one smart use for pumpkin seeds you'd otherwise throw away.
Jack O'Lantern sandwich cookies with a chocolate filling pressed between two almond flour rounds. The carved-face detail comes from a small knife after baking (easier than it looks), and each one ends up a little different.
Ghost meringue cookies. Zero net carbs, which is the kind of stat that sounds too good until you bite one and realize they're just dried egg white and sweetener. Hollow inside, barely sweet.
My kids demanded spiders last Halloween. These peanut butter cup cookies (decorated as spiders and zombies depending on who's frosting them) came out around two and a half grams net carbs. The zombie version is honestly more fun to make.
One point four grams net carbs per serving, plus just over nine grams of protein. These are chocolate-covered pumpkin seeds. Sweet, salty, and the obvious move when you've just carved a pumpkin and have a bowl of seeds sitting there.
The graveyard cake takes a little assembly time. The candy corn does not. People always ask where you bought it.
Mini bundt cakes look involved. These are not. Vanilla almond flour batter goes into a mini bundt pan, bakes in about 20 minutes, then gets a white chocolate drizzle that runs down the sides to form the ghost shape. Three point three grams net carbs.
What actually makes a graveyard cake work is the cookie tombstones. They need to stand upright in the frosting without tipping, which means the frosting has to be fairly stiff. This one is chocolate with chocolate buttercream and crushed cookie 'dirt.' Around two and a half grams net carbs per slice.
The first time I served this at a party, someone pocketed a few pieces thinking they were real candy corn. Three layers of different flavors pressed together and cut into triangles. The texture is chewy, the flavor is buttery, and it comes in at about a third of a gram net carbs per piece.
A savory option for before trick-or-treating, two rice krispie treat variations: the Halloween-colored one and the classic base recipe.
Orange and black rice krispie treats. Four ingredients, 15 minutes, two point seven grams net carbs. The coloring is gel food dye mixed into the marshmallow layer before adding the cereal. Do the black batch second or everything goes gray.
The base rice krispie treat recipe without the Halloween coloring. Useful to have separately because the ratio here (more marshmallow than most recipes) is what makes them chewy instead of crumbly. Same four ingredients, 2.8g net carbs, holds together in the pan.
Twenty-six grams of protein per mummy dog, which matters if dinner is happening right before a long night of walking around. Fat head dough strips get wrapped around standard hot dogs, baked until the dough firms up, then given mustard or cream cheese eyes. Four grams net carbs. Two five-star reviews.