The best Halloween food you’ll find at theme parks this year

Fall marks the beginning of the holiday season at theme parks, and with it comes seasonal food and beverage offerings related to their Halloween events.

Every Halloween, the theme parks offer tasty tricks and treats for adults, from the slasher theme Five Nights at Freddy’s slices in Halloween Horror Nights to haunted rum-based cocktails inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean. As a theme park insider, there are so many things I loved about my own trips this Halloween season at Disneyland, Knott’s Scary Farm, and Halloween Horror Nights, even after trying some of them at food reveals and media events at Universal Studios Resorts, Disney Parks, and Six Flags.

So far, 2025 is a really good year for deliciousness, sometimes terrifying eats Read on for the best Halloween 2025 spooky seasonal foodie finds around your favorite theme parks!

Five Nights at Freddy’s Cupcake – Halloween Horror Nights Orlando

Chica’s cupcake companion by Five Nights at Freddy’s The universe is getting a delicious take on Halloween Horror Nights Orlando. It tops the version at HHN Hollywood, as the East Coast dessert is packed with a delicious cannoli filling in the center and a raspberry ball in the pink cream. The combination of delicious flavors makes you feel like something fun from the real Freddy Fazbear’s pizza menu you’d expect for a birthday surprise – complete with an animatronic band that comes to life.

Five Nights at Freddy’s « Why not have both pizza and pasta » – Halloween Horror Nights, Orlando

While Horror Nights Hollywood opted to simply put a regular, personal-sized pizza in a Freddy Fazbear box, the food team in Orlando got a little more creative. At first I thought there was no way pasta on pizza was going to work, but after screeching through a few houses and needing a carb load, it really hit the spot. The cheese that holds the thin spaghetti together with the meatballs is an insanely delicious treat by the slice. From a FNAF From a fan perspective, I can also see Afton putting this on the menu to slow down potential victims, so it’s dark but satisfying.

Terrifying Starry Night Spritz Cocktail – Halloween Horror Nights Orlando

The Terrifying The “Starry Night Spritz” at Horror Nights Orlando’s Clown Cafe is a tart gin-based drink that calls to mind the works of Art the Clown and is far better than, say, the West Coast black concoction it resembles. The blood red cranberry and sparkling prosecco really make it easy and refreshing to drink between houses, plus I loved the shots at the Clown Cafe where the drink is served. Pro tip: you might run into Santa Claus here.

Terrifying Sunflower Goggles Cookie – Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood

This cookie is a playful callback to Art the Clown living his best life before taking his own life in a costume shop in Terrible 2. The sunflower shape is supported by a fruit mousse that is tart as art! It tastes great and isn’t the kind of sculpted treat you’d throw away after taking an Instagram picture and taking a single bite. The lemon flavor provides a great balance for a cookie that isn’t too sweet and is delicious as a snack on its own.

Jason’s universe Camp Creamy Gouda Fondue – Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood

Breakfast at Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood is totally redeemed by this inspired breakfast straight from Camp Crystal Lake. The best-kept secret at Jason Universe’s stand is a kvass bowl filled with warm gouda dip that’s infused with Angry Orchard apple cider. It works so well and comes with a side of sliced ​​apples which are a crunchy addition for dipping (along with the crumble bread) – so you can tell yourself you’re somewhat healthy. If this was my last meal before I got Jason, it would be worth it. I want to go back to Horror Nights Hollywood just for more of this before the season ends; it’s so good.

Ursula’s Enchanted Waffles – Disney’s California Adventure

The best hidden gems at the Disneyland Resort right now are the seasonally themed waffles at Schmoozies, the milkshake storefront at Disney California Adventure. The quick service stop is one of the few places where you can order the classic Mickey-shaped waffles after breakfast. If you’re a fan of the all-day breakfast, you’ll be excited to know that the waffles are themed around seasonal events in the parks. For the 70th anniversary, there was a birthday cake and sprinkle flavor, for example. For Halloween, however, the theming came out in a very special way with Ursula’s Enchanted Waffles. Inspired by the Disney villain, the flavor profiles evoke the sea witch’s colors of purple through a custard ube filling and black with a dark chocolate wafer exterior. This is my favorite waffle ever, with a perfect balance of sweet and dark! I would put my vote in front of her to keep this on the menu.

« Darth by Chocolate Parfait » – Disneyland

Galactic Grill’s iconic dessert parfait returns to Tomorrowland at Disneyland. It’s layers of silky smooth and sinfully rich chocolate on top of chocolate that I can’t get enough of. I promise it’s not redundant; the pudding on the red velvet with chocolate cake and crushed Oreos differentiates the types of chocolates you get all the way for delicious variety. Not too dark side, thankfully, and still the best of them all Star Wars the parfait did.

Indiana Jones and Halloween drinks at Jock Lindsay’s Hangar Bar – Walt Disney World

The Disney Springs watering hole inspired by Indiana Jones reliable pilot pours ghostly spirits this season at Jock Lindsay’s Halloween Bar. Three of the suggestions hit the mark, evoking the mystical and deadly energy of our intrepid archeology professor’s side adventures. As shown in the photo above from right to left if « Scarab Beetle Essence » is sweet, floral, pineapple and rum forward poison then I’d say the colour-changing, strong ginger and gin ‘Cauldron Cooler’ is the perfect antidote. The variety of flavors really works here as they exotically capture flavors you’d expect to find traveling the world with Indiana Jones. However, the « Spike Trap » comically nods to traps from the Lucasfilm franchise, complete with ghostie marshmallow spikes, while the drink itself wins as a sweet, fizzy and hazy cocktail that tastes like inhaling alcoholic Halloween vanilla fog.

Pirates of the Caribbean Drinks at Beak and Barrel – Walt Disney World

It’s actually a year-round venue, but Beak and Barrel, at the Magic Kingdom Pirates of the Caribbean immersive bar, opened its doors just in time for Halloween in a moment of serendipity. The experience really feels like you’re living the life of a pirate, along with a space that feels like a ship’s quarters; one cabin is styled like the prison cell from the race, has a parrot mascot animatronics, and has activations of certain effects like shipwreck storms hitting the decks (thus imaginary projections and sound effects, like during the race). However, the drinks easily make this such a treasure to escape to. Specifically, I love the nod to the iconic attraction and movie franchise’s skull with the sweet « Plunderer’s Punch, » a blackberry-leaning Kraken Black Rum-based libation served in a pirate skull glass. My personal favorite is the “Salty Seas mARRRgarita” which contains tequila blanco with ube and is of course salty like the sea.

Pastrami Pizza – Six Flags Magic Mountain Fright Fest

Pizza slices that have no right to be that good because they’re disgusting mash-ups of food abound! At Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Fright Fest, which wasn’t there A magical universe drinks I was hoping for, I still quite enjoyed the monstrous pastrami pizza. Really, the mozzarella-baked pastrami with pickles on a mustard-dusted pizza is cursed, but I dug it.

“The Enchanted Elixir” and “Pickle Hitchin’” – Nott’s Scary Farm

Knott’s Scary Farm’s The Enchanted Elixir is another color-changing gin-based drink that I liked, and it tastes like an enchanted spirit made by the Green Witch herself. While you had the option to bottle it with potion and take it with you, I much preferred it iced in the glass that featured the legendary Knott’s Scary Farm icon because it brought out the fresh citrus notes – but you miss out on the color changing effects. At least the cup glows! You can pick it up in the medicine van next to the Boogeyman Bar at Scary Farm, which also has the best under-the-radar drink of the season, the ‘Pickle Hitchin’. Picture it (because taking a good photo was nearly impossible in the dark hole in the wall of the shack): half a theme park pickle, but hollowed out to be filled with whiskey and pickle juice—it’s a drink and snack that will fill you up and keep you screaming all night.

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