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SPOOK-a-licious Halloween Treats: For Locals Only

Eat, Drink and Be Scary!

Who is ready for a hauntingly good Halloween? Since it’s the perfect time for ghoulish get-togethers with friends and family, we’ve rounded up terrifyingly delicious Halloween treats that will have guests shrieking with delight. Not only will these sweets transform your event into a spell-binding soiree, but they’re also all courtesy of bewitchingly talented local businesses.

Photo: Jessica Friend

Black Velvet Cake
This devilishly dark cake is sure to wow your crowd. 
$4.59 a slice

Available at 4R Bakery, 1-844-474-8377


Photo: Jessica Friend

Monster Brownies
Scare up some fun with these brownies!
$3.29 each

Available at 4R Bakery, 1-844-474-8377


Photo: Jessica Friend

Halloween Celebration Cupcakes
Fang-tastic cupcakes that are not only tasty but boo-tiful.
$3.79 each

Available at 4R Bakery, 1-844-474-8377


Photo: Jessica Friend

Spooky Donuts
Start your day off on a spooky note with donuts that pair perfectly with any potion.

  • Traditional Glazed: 24 hr. brioche, vanilla bean glaze; $2.95 each
  • Maple + Bacon: 24 hr brioche, pure maple glaze, topped with in-house candied bacon + Ivanhoe Brewing porter reduction drizzle; $4.50 each
  • Chocolate Cookie Crunch: 24 hr brioche, Valrhona cocoa glaze, covered in crushed homemade vanilla + cocoa cookies; $3.75 each
  • Guava + Cheese: 24hr brioche filled with swirled guava + cream cheese, cream cheese glaze, topped with a homemade pastelito puff pastry streusel; $3.95 each
  • Toasted Coquito: 24 hr brioche soaked in a homemade coquito, bottom crusted with valrhona carmelia chocolate + finished with torched cinnamon-infused meringue; $4.25 each
  • Brown Butter + Salt: vanilla bean cake donut, brown butter glaze, topped with maldon sea salt, $3.25 each

Available at The Salty Donut, 3025 Corrine Dr., Orlando • 407-960-6378


Photo: Jessica Friend

Mummy Nutter Butters & Frankenstein Rice Krispy Treats
Any of these wickedly wonderful chocolate-covered confections are individually wrapped for little ghouls and goblins. 

  • Mummy Nutter Butters, $4 each
  • Special Rice Krispy, $8.50 each

Available at Peterbrooke Chocolatier of Winter Park, 300 S. Park Ave, Winter Park • 407-644-3200


Photo: Jessica Friend

Happy Halloween Sugar Cookies
Double, bubble, toil and trouble: These handcrafted cookies are spine tinglingly gorgeous, and make no bones about it, they’re tasty too!
$5 per cookie

Available at Southern Home Bakery, 2322 Edgewater Dr., Orlando • 407-420-7940


Photo: The Glass Knife

Monster Sprinkle Donut
Brew up some Halloween magic with brioche sweet treats. 
$4 each

Available at The Glass Knife, 276 S. Orlando Ave., Winter Park • 407-500-CAKE


Photo: Jessica Friend

Zombie Cookie Ice Cream Pack
Talk about a little ice cream shop of horrors! Not only has the crew at Kelly’s created a Zombie Cookie flavor (it pairs best with a charcoal cone!), but they’ve also made Halloween Party Packs so you can bring the frozen fun home. Each pack includes the choice of five ice creams, a cooler tote, 4 sauce bottles including chocolate and mallow slime, fall sprinkles, napkins and spoons. 
Zombie Cookie Ice Cream Party Pack is $125 for twenty-five servings

Available at Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream for pick up from October 22nd to the 31st

Written by
Wendy Meyer

Wendy Meyer is a Winter Park mom to son, Beckett, a self-proclaimed #Disnerd and an integral collaborator at PLAYGROUND Magazine. She currently holds the titles of social media manager, events editor and writer. (That's what happens when you're good at everything they throw at ya!) You can read her single-mom musings on her blog: Mommy’s Little Rebel.

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