Halloween Cheese

Cheese makes a great appetizer for a Halloween party and there's no reason it has to be ordinary. Color it to make black cats, shape it into a witch hat cheese ball, or mold it into colorfully decorated 3-D sugar skulls. See all of these Halloween Cheese ideas below.

Did you know you can color cheese to make festive Halloween snacks? Or pour it into silicone molds to create cool shapes like skulls? You can even craft amazing Halloween cheese balls that look like black cats, witch hats, and monsters.

Today, I'm going to share some fun ideas for transforming blocks, shreds, and slices of cheese into cool Halloween cheese.

Let's start by making colored cheese.

A while back I discovered Velveeta Queso Cheese could be melted, colored, spread thin, then cut into decorations. I used the colorful cheese to make Cheese Ball Birthday Cakes.

For Halloween, I wanted to create some really simple cutouts of cats, bats, and witches to go over some full moon-shaped cheese and crackers. This time I used Velveeta's original orange cheese and colored it black.

I'm pretty sure it took less coloring than white cheese would have needed and it was vibrantly black.

Black Cat, Bats, and Witch-Shaped Cheese

Ingredients

Velveeta Cheese
white cheese slices or Baybel Cheese Rounds
crackers

Supplies

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black food coloring
non-stick baking mat (Silpat)
mini bat, cat, and witch-shaped cookie cutters
optional: round cookie cutter, just a little smaller than the size of the crackers

Instructions

Color Velveeta cheese black.

Cut Velveeta cheese into small chunks and melt in the microwave.

Stir in drops of black food coloring until you get a dark black color.

Spread it thin.

Quickly spread the melted cheese into a thin layer on a non-stick baking mat (Silpat.)

Freeze for 10 minutes.

Cut using Halloween cookie cutters.

Cut shapes out of the black cheese using small cookie cutters.

If the cheese gets too soft, put it back into the freezer for a few minutes.

Top crackers with cheese.

Cut white cheese slices into rounds using a cookie cutter. Just before serving set cheese rounds on crackers and add black cheese shapes.

Or top Babybel Cheese.

Alternately, top Baybel Cheese rounds with cutouts. You'll need really small cutters to make bats and cats that will fit on top of these pieces of cheese.

I used Halloween Linzer Cookie Cutters. They were the perfect size.

Top other appetizers.

You can also top other appetizers like Pimento Cheese Puffs with black Halloween cheese cutouts. 

If you don't want to color the cheese, you can use black food coloring and stamps to add Halloween designs on white cheese.

I pressed a spider web impression mat into round slices of provolone cheese. Then, I brushed a thin layer of black food coloring onto a foam spider stamp and pressed it onto the spider web cheese.

It turned out great.

NOTE:

Anytime you eat anything made with black food coloring, it may temporarily color your teeth. Brush them well with toothpaste to wash the coloring off.

More Ideas for Cheese Appetizers

3-D sugar skull made out of cheese

You can use colorful cheese to make this cool Day of the Dead Sugar Skull out of cheese.

The skull and the decorations are made with Velveeta Queso Blanco using the same technique shown above. I used small plunger cutters to cut out flowers, dots, hearts, teardrops, and stars from purple, blue, pink, and green-colored cheese.

bite-size skulls made out of cheese

These Cheese Skulls are made using a silicone mold. You can shape any meltable cheese using this fun method. I used Mozzarella cheese but cheddar works great too. 

cheese ball monsters

Turn mini cheese balls into these furry-looking Mini Monster Cheese Balls  for your Halloween party. I've served them at a few parties and they are always a huge hit with my guests.   

owl made from cheese slices

This cute Cheese Slice Owl is super easy to make using slices of cheddar, co-jack cheese, provolone cheese, and black olives. It makes a fun appetizer for any Halloween party. 

cheese ball shaped like a black cat

This   Black Cat Cheese Ball is made with a yummy roasted red pepper and Gruyere cheese ball. It's decorated with cream cheese, olives, and blue corn tortilla chips. 

cheese ball witch hat

I used a delicious sundried tomato and feta cheese ball to make this Witch Hat Cheese-ball.

It is coated in crushed blue corn tortilla chips which look black. 

Jack-O-Lantern cheese sandwich

To make this cute Jack-O-Lantern cheese sandwich, I cut a slice of orange cheddar cheese using a pumpkin cookie cutter. Then I cut out two circles and placed a slice of white cheese underneath the orange cheese to create the eyes. I used a black food coloring marker to create the details. 

cheese bread candy corn

Bake cheese bread shaped like a triangle then top it with white, yellow, and orange cheese so it looks like a cheese bread candy corn.

candy corn cheese

These cute little cheese wedge candy corn are super easy to make and will look really fun served with crackers.

vampire pizza

Use plain white mozzarella cheese to create this cute Vampire Pizza. This pizza is easy to decorate and is always a party favorite.

I hope you have fun making your own cheesy snacks for Halloween.SaveSave

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Beth Klosterboer

Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com

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