As witches, ghosts and zombies make their way into your home this Halloween, ensuring you can feed any ghoulish visitors with the correct grub is just as important as your decor.

Whether you are hosting a party for little kids, planning a bigger bash for teens or want to hold an event for all the family, a spooky buffet filled with gruesome delights is sure to earn you plenty of treats rather than revengeful tricks.

From severed hot dog fingers to glistening poisoned apples, here's 15 treats which are sure to suit all tastes this Halloween.

Pumpkin Pretzels

Great for getting kids involved in the party preparations, these pretzel pumpkins are simple but effective. Dipped and filled with orange candy melts, kids will enjoy adding spooky eyes and faces to their sweet treats. If you can't find candy eyes, pipe white chocolate dots with a dot of black candy melts in their place and use apple straw sweets as the pumpkin stem.

Poisoned Apples

Tempt your guests to take 'just one bite' of these spooky poisoned toffee apples, although there is no guarantee that they will fall into a deep slumber. Colour caramel with dark, creepy colours like purple, navy and black and dip in light coloured apples before leaving to set. You could also sprinkle over some edible glitter to give each apple a pretty sheen although they may not look quite as gruesome.

Gingerbread Skeletons

Not just for Christmas, you can easily repurpose your gingerbread men cutters for Halloween with some clever piping. Simply make your favourite gingerbread recipe, cool then use the shape of the biscuit to pipe a skeleton shape and skull using white royal or glace icing. Use chocolate or black icing to create eye sockets, noses and creepy mouths.

Satsuma Pumpkins and Spooky Bananas

Halloween may be synonymous with sugary sweets but you can still make healthy snacks look spooky with some simple touches. Peel satsumas or clementines and poke a small piece of celery in the centre for a pumpkin stalk and press the pointed end of chocolate chips into peeled and halved bananas to look like creepy ghosts.

Severed Finger Hot Dogs

Deliciously disgusting, these creepy looking hot dogs are a simple yet effective way to feed a crowd at a Halloween party. Drain tins of hot dogs and carefully slice an oval shape at the top of the sausage to look like a nail, then add knuckle marks by scoring with a knife, taking care not to cut too deep. Cook in a pan until hot, carefully lift out each one and place in a hot dog bun with lashings of ketchup blood.

Frankenstein Marshmallow Pops

A fun take on the classic cake pop, stick marshmallows onto cake rods and dip in green candy melts before decorating with chocolate hair, candy eyes, piped stitches and pretzel bolts. Perhaps a little fiddly for little fingers to attempt, but they could always help by skewering the marshmallows for you.

Meringue Bones

Dunked into a pot of 'blood'', these meringue bones will look especially creepy on your Halloween party food table. Pipe bone shapes with vanilla meringue and bake until crisp then serve with a homemade or shop-bought berry coulis. You could also pile on top of a showstopper cheesecake or layer cake as a spooky centrepiece with dribbles of coulis blood.

Mummy Puff Pastry Pizza Pies

To stop your Halloween party buffet becoming too laden with sweet treats, serve up some mini pizza pies shaped like terrified mummies. Roll out a few sheets of puff pastry, cut into circles and fill with your favourite pizza toppings like pepperoni, vegetables, cheese and tomato sauce. Cut the puff pastry scraps into long strips and layer over each pizza circle to create mummy bandages, brush with egg and bake until gooey and crisp.

Rice Krispie Pumpkins

These effective looking rice krispie treats are made with orange candy melts and are shaped in mini bundt tins, but if you don't want to splash out on a new cake tin, add a few drops of orange food colouring to melted marshmallows and shape into pumpkin balls using your hands once cool enough to touch. Leave to harden then decorate with black icing, pretzel stick stalks and green icing for leaves.

Cheese String Pretzel Broomsticks

Perfect for flying off into the night with, these simple broomsticks look really effective. Simple cut multicoloured cheese strings into thirds, slice the bottoms so they splay out nicely then stick a pretzel stick on top and tie a piece of chive around the bristles for a spooky savoury snack.

Spider Infested Chocolate Chip Cookies

Simple yet effective, these chocolate chip cookies are suitable creepy thanks to the addition of piped chocolate. Creating little spiders from visible chocolate chips on top of each cookie, this would be a great bake to make with a slightly older child who can handle mixing up cookie dough and piping little chocolate legs.

Cookie Doughball Mummies

Perfectly safe to eat thanks to the lack of egg, these buttery cookie dough balls look the part thanks to a double helping of melted chocolate. Use candy melts or white chocolate to coat each cookie doughball and leave to set before drizzling over more to create the mummy bandages. Stick on some candy eyes and serve up as creepy but cute canapes.

Chocolate Bat Bites

Prepare an assembly station and grab the kids to help you prepare these cute little chocolate bat bites. Slice oreo cookies in half, and stick to peanut butter cups with icing and add little candy eyes. Simple yet effective.

Healthy Monster Faces

An effective yet healthy treat for the party table, these faces require a bit of slicing and dicing, but once the fruit is prepared, get little ones to help with the assembly. Cut apples into quarters and cut a v-shape from the side to create a mouth. Spoon in peanut butter and add a thin slice of strawberry for a tongue and stick sunflower seeds into the cavity to create teeth. Stick on some candy eyes using a dot of peanut butter and serve up.

Smashed Glass Cupcakes

Very creepy looking but perfect for transforming your Halloween buffet spread in something really smashing, these cupcakes with edible glass shards will really look the part. Smashed into pieces and stabbed into red velvet cupcakes with a vanilla frosting, go to town with some fruit coulis 'blood' and watch your guests scream in delight.