Homemade Halloween Food Gifts

• Decorated sugar cookies make a welcome homemade Halloween gift. American Images Inc/Stockbyte/Getty Images

  Making homemade Halloween food gifts allows you to indulge your creativity while you make something out of the ordinary to share with a friend. Food gifts can be as simple as a decorated caramel apple or as involved as a haunted gingerbread house. Choose food gifts to make based on your time available, skill level in the kitchen and holiday budget, and you'll have a blast assembling Halloween treats to share.

Decorated Cookies

• Use cookie cutters to create Halloween shapes from rolled out sugar cookie dough. Bake as directed by your recipe, then use colorful frostings to decorate and embellish your cookies. Place the cookies in a Halloween tin or decorated box for giving and attach a label if desired.

Edible Ghost Wreath

• Create a wreath with an edible twist by pairing lollipop ghosts with a grapevine wreath. Cover a lollipop with a tissue then tie with a festive ribbon. Decorate if desired, then poke the lollipop stick into the wreath to secure. Repeat until the wreath is covered, or until you are happy with the way it looks. The recipient can use the wreath as a decoration and simply pluck a ghost to enjoy a sweet treat. Other candies can be used to create an edible Halloween wreath by using glue to adhere them to a foam or straw base.

Pumpkin Treat Basket

• Celebrate the season by creating a gift basket or tower from one of the most recognizable Halloween icons, the pumpkin. Roast and salt fresh pumpkin seeds and use the pumpkin flesh to make a sweet and savory bread. Finish off the basket with a pumpkin shaped cookie cutter and foil wrapped chocolates in Halloween shapes for a festive and memorable food gift.