Eating your body weight in fun-size candy bars is great and all, but true Halloween pros know that the real fun begins when food gets creepy. Turning delicious ingredients into something mildly grotesque—but still mouthwateringly good—is a dark culinary art. And when it comes to transforming your kitchen into a mad scientist’s lair, sausage is the ultimate Halloween MVP.
Why? Because sausage can play almost any horror icon. Like an innocent villager bitten by a wandering werewolf, it transforms easily from mild-mannered dinner to bite-sized ghoul. It can be cute (like mummy dogs for kids) or straight-up spine-chilling (we’re looking at you, severed fingers). And since The Sausage Project’s chicken sausage is leaner, cleaner, and chef-approved, you can bring the tasty terror without feeling monstrous about it later.
So grab your puff pastry, light some candles, and cue the thunderclaps—these seven sausage recipes are perfect for Halloween parties, movie nights, and midnight feasts.
Sausage Mummies
It’s pigs in a blanket (or Chicks in a Quilt)… but, you know, undead! All you need is your favorite sausage and puff pastry. Slice the pastry into long strips, wrap each sausage mummy-style (leaving a little face gap), and bake until golden. Once cooled, attach candy eyes with honey or sliced olives for a more unsettling stare.
Any sausage works for this, but we’re partial to Italian Herb Chicken Sausage — after all, a little marinara makes for a bloody good dipping sauce.
Pro tip: Puff pastry is your potion for more spooky shapes—think ghosts, bones, or even “fingers” for the brave.
Make it yourself: My Fussy Eater has this recipe under wraps
Spider Sausage Roll
Not into mummies? Try this instead: sausage-stuffed spiders that practically crawl right off the tray. Swap puff pastry for pizza dough, then stuff with sausage, bake, and finish with candy eyeballs or black sesame seeds. They’re cute, creepy, and almost too fun to eat… almost.
Make it yourself: Food Bites’ spins a mighty fine recipe
Severed Finger Pasta
Red bell pepper pasta sauce takes on a disturbingly sanguine quality alongside cleverly cut sausages that would tempt even the most discerning zombie. Want to up the shock factor? Add onion “nails” to each sausage tip for a manicure straight from the grave that pairs great with Classic Roasted Chicken Sausage. Sometimes, chewing on your nails is a a good thing.
Make it yourself: Sprinkles and Sprouts’ delivers the gory goods
Sausage and Eyeball Skewers
Think caprese skewers… if they’d just escaped a mad scientist’s lab. Sausage slices alternate with mozzarella “eyeballs” topped with olive pupils for maximum creep factor. Black olives give you classic horror-movie vibes, while green ones with pimentos feel straight out of a haunted tiki lounge.
Make it yourself: Loved Recipes’ version is an absolute scream!
Italian Mummy Sausages with Bucatini
Although this recipe calls for bucatini, any long pasta will do—spaghetti, linguine, whatever noodles are lurking in your pantry. Wrap your sausages in pasta “bandages,” spoon over red sauce, and prepare to serve a dish that’s equal parts spooky and satisfying.
Make it yourself: Baking with Nessa’s version brings the fright to pasta night.
Spooky Halloween Chili
Eyeballs, fingers, worms. This chili’s got them all... but don't call it finger food. Long strands of spaghetti slither through the bowl like worms, olives and eggs stare up as eyeballs, and sausages make a grisly cameo as dismembered digits.
Want to turn the horror dial up to 11? Try squid ink pasta—it adds a haunting black hue and a subtle brininess that pairs perfectly with sausage. A feast for monsters with refined palates.
Make it yourself: Cooking with Curls’ version is to die for.
Sausage Head Charcuterie Board
This one's not for the faint of heart, but for those with the macabre munchies, it's a showstopper. Build your charcuterie spread directly onto a foam mannequin head, layering sausage, cheese, and olives until your guests question your sanity (and then go back for seconds).
It’s part horror art installation, part appetizer, and 100% unforgettable.
Make it yourself: Allrecipes has the full horror show.
Jack Skellington Chicken Dip
If The Nightmare Before Christmas is your favorite Halloween movie—or if the clerks at Hot Topic know you on a first-name basis—this chicken dip is for you. Creamy, cheesy, and disturbingly cute, this dip reimagines Jack Skellington’s iconic grin in edible form.
Swap shredded chicken for Classic Roasted Chicken Sausage to give your Pumpkin King some extra protein power — and serve it warm so the cheese pulls look as dramatic as the film’s soundtrack.
Make it yourself: Hungry Happenings’ recipe brings the nightmare to life.
Bonus: Sausage Blood Injections
This one’s less a recipe and more a deliciously gross-out party trick. Start by poking or cutting a few small holes in each cooked sausage— think "vampire bite marks." Then hand your guests condiment-filled syringes (ketchup, BBQ sauce, or even sriracha) and let them inject the red stuff into the links.
As the sauce seeps out of the holes, it oozes down the sausage in true B-movie fashion. It’s equal parts mad science experiment and snack-time performance art, and proof positive that blood sausage always has a place at the table.
Until Next Bite…
Whether you’re wrapping mummies, crafting chili that stares back at you, or injecting links with ketchup “blood,” these Halloween sausage recipes are proof that fright night feasts can be both ghoulish and gourmet.
So light the jack-o’-lanterns, sharpen your skewers, and prepare your cauldron (or at least your cast iron). Because the only thing scarier than a haunted house… is running out of sausage.