12 Spooky Halloween Breakfast Ideas | SimplyMealful

Start Halloween with a frightfully fun breakfast! These twelve spooky ideas — monster pancakes, ghost bananas, mummy toast, and more — are easy enough for school mornings but festive enough for a party. The kids will scream (with delight).

1. Monster Face Pancakes

Fluffy pancakes with candy eyes and strawberry mouths — breakfast gets a silly monster makeover.

Ingredients

• 2 cups pancake mix
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1 egg
• Candy eyeballs
• Strawberry jam
• Whipped cream
• Chocolate chips
• Maple syrup

Instructions

1. Mix the pancake mix, milk, and egg; rest 2 minutes.
2. Cook pancakes on a buttered griddle until golden.
3. Dab whipped cream dots and press on candy eyes.
4. Draw mouths with strawberry jam.
5. Add chocolate chip noses.
6. Serve with maple syrup and watch them giggle.

2. Mummy Toast Soldiers

Buttered toast wrapped in cheese 'bandages' with olive eyes — spooky-cute and ready in minutes.

Ingredients

• 4 slices bread, toasted
• 4 slices mozzarella
• 8 black olive slices
• 2 tbsp butter
• Cream cheese
• Jam, for serving
• Cookie cutters (optional)
• Fruit, for serving

Instructions

1. Butter the toast generously.
2. Cut the mozzarella into thin strips.
3. Crisscross the strips over the toast like mummy wrappings.
4. Dot with cream cheese and press on olive eyes.
5. Warm 1 minute so the cheese softens slightly.
6. Serve with jam and fruit.

3. Ghost Banana Pops

Frozen banana ghosts dipped in white chocolate — a healthy-ish Halloween treat.

Ingredients

• 4 bananas, halved
• 12 oz white chocolate chips
• Mini chocolate chips
• Popsicle sticks
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• Sprinkles (optional)
• Parchment paper
• Freezer space

Instructions

1. Insert a popsicle stick into each banana half.
2. Freeze 1 hour until firm.
3. Melt the white chocolate with coconut oil.
4. Dip each banana, letting excess drip off.
5. Press on mini chocolate chip eyes and mouths.
6. Freeze 15 minutes to set.

4. Jack-o'-Lantern Quesadillas

Cheesy quesadillas with jack-o'-lantern faces cut right in — crispy, melty, spooky.

Ingredients

• 8 flour tortillas
• 2 cups shredded cheddar
• 1 cup shredded Monterey Jack
• Butter
• Salsa
• Sour cream
• Paring knife
• Paper towels

Instructions

1. Cut jack-o'-lantern faces into 4 of the tortillas.
2. Butter one side of the plain tortillas; place butter-side down.
3. Top with cheese and the face-cut tortilla.
4. Cook 2 to 3 minutes per side until golden and melty.
5. The faces crisp into spooky windows.
6. Serve with salsa and sour cream.

5. Witch Hat Breakfast Cones

Crescent dough cones filled with scrambled eggs and sausage — pointy, savory witch hats.

Ingredients

• 1 tube crescent dough
• 6 eggs, scrambled
• 1 cup cooked sausage crumbles
• 1/2 cup shredded cheddar
• Black food coloring (optional)
• Cooking spray
• Foil
• Salsa, for serving

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 375°F and shape foil into 6 cones; spray.
2. Wrap crescent dough strips around each foil cone.
3. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until golden; cool and remove foil.
4. Fill with scrambled eggs and sausage.
5. Top with cheddar and melt 2 minutes.
6. Stand upright and serve with salsa.

6. Spiderweb Cinnamon Rolls

Warm cinnamon rolls drizzled with cream cheese 'webs' and candy spiders — creepy and delicious.

Ingredients

• 1 tube cinnamon rolls
• 4 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp milk
• Candy spiders
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Orange sprinkles
• Butter

Instructions

1. Bake the cinnamon rolls according to the package.
2. Beat the cream cheese, powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla.
3. Pipe concentric circles on each warm roll.
4. Drag a toothpick through to make webs.
5. Top with candy spiders and orange sprinkles.
6. Serve warm and gooey.

7. Pumpkin Patch Oatmeal

Creamy pumpkin oatmeal with a candy pumpkin patch on top — cozy and cute.

Ingredients

• 2 cups rolled oats
• 3 cups milk
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• Candy pumpkins
• Crushed Oreos
• Whipped cream

Instructions

1. Simmer the oats, milk, pumpkin, brown sugar, and spice 8 minutes.
2. Spoon into bowls.
3. Sprinkle crushed Oreos as 'dirt'.
4. Nestle candy pumpkins into the dirt.
5. Add a whipped cream cloud.
6. Serve warm with extra cinnamon.

8. Bloody Eyeball Donuts

Glazed donut holes decorated as gory eyeballs — gross-out fun the kids love.

Ingredients

• 12 glazed donut holes
• 1 cup white frosting
• Red gel icing
• Candy eyeballs
• Chocolate chips
• Parchment paper
• Piping bag
• Sprinkles

Instructions

1. Dip the donut holes in white frosting; let set 10 minutes.
2. Press a candy eyeball into the center of each.
3. Pipe red gel 'veins' radiating outward.
4. Add a chocolate chip pupil if you like.
5. Let set 15 minutes.
6. Arrange on a platter and serve.

9. Graveyard Yogurt Parfaits

Layers of yogurt, berries, and granola with cookie tombstones — a spooky healthy start.

Ingredients

• 3 cups vanilla Greek yogurt
• 2 cups mixed berries
• 1 1/2 cups granola
• 6 Milano cookies
• Black gel icing
• Honey
• Clear cups
• Mint leaves (optional)

Instructions

1. Layer yogurt, berries, and granola in clear cups.
2. Write 'RIP' on the Milano cookies with black gel.
3. Stick a cookie tombstone into each parfait.
4. Drizzle with honey.
5. Chill until serving.
6. A graveyard you can eat!

10. Frankenstein Toast

Green-tinted avocado toast with olive-bolt details — a monstrously good breakfast.

Ingredients

• 4 slices bread, toasted
• 2 avocados
• Lime juice
• 8 pretzel sticks
• Sliced olives
• Everything seasoning
• Cherry tomatoes
• Cream cheese

Instructions

1. Mash the avocados with lime juice, salt, and a drop of green food color if you like.
2. Spread thickly on toast.
3. Stick pretzel 'bolts' into the sides.
4. Make eyes with cream cheese dots and olive pupils.
5. Sprinkle with everything seasoning.
6. Serve with cherry tomato 'blood drops'.

11. Candy Corn Fruit Cups

Layered pineapple, mandarin, and whipped cream — candy corn colors, fruit freshness.

Ingredients

• 2 cups pineapple chunks
• 2 cups mandarin orange segments
• 2 cups whipped cream
• Candy corn
• Clear cups
• Mint
• Honey (optional)
• Orange zest

Instructions

1. Layer pineapple chunks in the bottom of clear cups.
2. Add a layer of mandarin segments.
3. Top with a cloud of whipped cream.
4. Garnish with a few pieces of candy corn.
5. Add orange zest and mint.
6. Chill until ready to serve.

12. Bat Wing French Toast

Bat-shaped French toast with berry 'blood' syrup — a spooky twist on a classic.

Ingredients

• 8 slices brioche
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Butter
• Bat cookie cutter
• Berry syrup

Instructions

1. Cut bat shapes from the brioche with the cookie cutter.
2. Whisk the eggs, milk, cinnamon, and vanilla.
3. Dip each bat and soak 20 seconds per side.
4. Cook in butter 2 to 3 minutes per side until golden.
5. Warm the berry syrup.
6. Serve the bats with 'blood' syrup for dipping.