Halloween Recipes and last-minute Essentials from ALDI
- Danny Joyce | Editor
- Oct 23
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 24
ALDI is here to make Halloween hosting frightfully easy – and affordable! Whether you’re planning a cosy dinner party or preparing for a parade of little monsters at your door, ALDI has everything you need this October 31st.
To help you host with ease this spooky season, ALDI has conjured up two wickedly good recipes to recreate at home – both made using fresh, seasonal ingredients from your nearest ALDI store. Start the night with Pumpkin Alfredo, an autumnal twist on an Italian classic, and finish with a showstopping Cobweb Cheesecake that’s sure to impress every ghoul and guest alike.
Pumpkin Alfredo
Ingredients
850g Pumpkin/Butternut Squash, peeled and cubed, keeping seeds for later
1 medium Brown Onion, peeled and sliced into quarters
4 Garlic Cloves, skins left on
300g Spaghetti
75ml Double Cream
100g grated Parmesan
½ tsp Chilli Flakes
Fresh Parsley, roughly chopped
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper
Optional – serve with a Rocket Salad
Method
Pre-heat your oven to 180°C (fan). Tip the diced pumpkin, or butternut squash, garlic cloves and onion into a baking dish. Drizzle over a little olive oil and season well with salt and pepper. Roast for 25 minutes, until the pumpkin is soft and starting to caramelise.
Wash the pumpkin seeds and tip into a baking tray with a little oil and roast for 10 minutes, until crisp and fragrant. Set aside.
Cook the spaghetti according to packet instructions.
Remove the pumpkin and other veg from the oven and tip into saucepan, squeezing the garlic out of their skins to reveal the buttery innards. Using a handheld blender, blitz the pumpkin, onion, and garlic together, adding a splash of the cooking water from the pasta to help loosen it into a creamy sauce. Stir in the cream and the parmesan.
Tip the drained pasta into the pan with the sauce and stir so the pasta is coated. Serve in deep bowls, add more parmesan cheese, the crispy pumpkin seeds and finish with the fresh parsley and chilli flakes. Serve with a rocket salad.
Cobweb Cheesecake
Ingredients
600g Full Fat Soft Cheese
150g Icing Sugar
200g Digestive Biscuits
60g Butter
100ml Double Cream
150g White Chocolate
100g Milk Chocolate
Method
Blend the biscuits into a fine crumb in a food processor, melt the butter and add to the biscuits.
Pack the biscuits into the bottom of a 20cm round springform tin to make a base.
In a bowl, mix the cream cheese, icing sugar, double cream and melted white chocolate. Whisk well to ensure all the ingredients are well-mixed.
Pour over the base and spread evenly.
Melt the milk chocolate, then using either a piping bag or a spoon, use half of the chocolate to make parallel circles on the cheesecake.
Start from the outside and work into the middle, about 5 - 6 circles should be plenty.
With a cocktail stick drag lines from the inside of the chocolate circles to the outside, repeat for each circle to create webs.
Use the other half of the chocolate to make spiders on a piece of greaseproof paper.
Set the cheesecake and the spiders in the fridge for minimum 5 hours before serving.
Use the chocolate spiders to decorate the sides of the cheesecake.
ALDI is stocked with an unbeatable selection of sweets and treats to delight all the little ghouls and goblins at your door. From fun, bite-sized favourites like Maoam Mix €1.25 and Haribo Super Mini Mix €3.59, there’s something for every trick-or-treater. Keep a stash of Monster Claws €1.89 and Titan Bars €1.39 on hand for those extra-special visitors. Hosting Halloween has never been easier – or tastier – thanks to ALDI’s wide range of affordable, crowd-pleasing products.
See below for a full range of Halloween hosting essentials available now in ALDI stores nationwide:
Everyday Essentials Spaghetti €0.59
Belts/Lances/ Laces/Pencils €0.72
Belmont Digestive Biscuits €0.79
The Pantry Icing Sugar €0.89
Kids’ Gummy Mix €0.95
Ready Set Cook… Chili seasoning €0.99
Ready Set Cook… Salt seasoning €0.99
Ready Set Cook… Pepper seasoning €0.99
Nature’s Pick Rocket Leaves €0.99
Cheese Emporium Full Fat Soft Cheese €0.99
The Pantry White Chocolate Chips €1.09
The Pantry Milk Chocolate Chips €1.09
Organic Brown Onions €1.19
Nature’s Pick Garlic €1.19
Maoam Mix €1.25 Choose from Pinballs, JoyStixx or Stripes.
Titan Bars €1.39
Medium Pumpkin €1.49
Clonbawn Irish Double Cream €1.59
Specially Selected Halloween Brack with Ring €1.99
Caramel Crunch/ Romeo €2.19
Roar/Dreemy €2.29
Emporium Italian Grana Padano €2.49
Mini Babybel €3.29
Haribo Super Mini Mix €3.59
Spuddy’s Irish Potato Crisps Variety Pack €4.39
Solesta Extra Virgin Olive Oil €5.69
Slán go fóill.
