Get tangled in a web of flavor with this Halloween spaghetti recipe! Perfectly cooked pasta, homemade tomato sauce and eerie mozza eyeballs. Spooktacularly delicious!

We are heading into fall and you know what that means! Sweater weather, pumpkin spice everything, and (drum roll please!) Halloween will soon be upon us!

Halloween brings out the kid in me, though to be honest, I don’t think it takes much for that! I love the decorations, making costumes with my boys, all the fun-sized treats, and our annual Hocus Pocus movie night.

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If you have followed me for any length of time, you know that I also love holiday themed food. To help your whole family get into the Halloween spirit with me, I am sharing this fun twist on classic spaghetti.

Today’s Halloween pasta recipe is a great way to start off a fun evening of trick-or-treating. It doesn’t get much more Halloween-y than a big plate of pasta with edible eyeballs.

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Supplies

Begin by stocking the kitchen with a few of my favorite supplies!

Large dutch oven or pot – I love this white enamel, cast iron dutch oven.
Wooden spoon – perfect for stirring the spaghetti sauce.
Measuring cups & spoons – for measuring out our ingredients.
Henckle knife – good for carving mozza ball eyes.

Ingredients

Spaghetti noodles
Homemade pasta sauce
Lean ground beef, cooked (optional)
Bocconcini cheese balls
Black olives, sliced

Instructions

In a large pot, cook noodles according to package directions, until al dente. Drain thoroughly.

2. Add sauce and meat to the cooked spaghetti. Stir to combine.

3. Plate the spaghetti, add several bocconcini and top with olive slices to create “eyes”.

Serve with these fun Halloween ghost breadsticks or Halloween mummy garlic bread!

Variations

If your family doesn’t enjoy meat sauce, leave out the ground beef and serve your pasta with a simple marinara sauce instead.
Use your favorite pasta sauce from the store instead of homemade.
Try squid ink pasta. The black spaghetti noodles will add that extra Halloween touch.
Substitute green olives for the black olives.
Give the eyeballs a bloodshot look by adding a dot of pasta sauce onto each ball of mozzarella before adding the sliced black olives.
Instead of mozzarella eyeballs, make meatball eyeballs. You could also use string cheese that has been cut into small pieces.

Tips and Tricks

An easy way to make this spooky Halloween spaghetti recipe even more fun is to add 20-25 drops of food coloring to the pasta water. Try green food coloring for green noodles or drops of purple food coloring for purple pasta.
To create individual servings of eyeball spaghetti for a Halloween party, portion out your pasta and sauce into small bowls, then top each bowl with one large eyeball or three small eyeballs. You could even make mini eyeball skewers!
I love time-saving tricks! For this meal, using jarred tomato sauce and frozen pre-made meatballs is a great option for saving time and energy.

Looking for ways to entertain your littles? There are tons of free Halloween printables, games, and craft ideas available throughout the website. Check out these coloring pages, Halloween “I Spy”, all things Hocus Pocus, and much more!

Today’s fun recipe idea for Halloween spaghetti is ideal for young children, picky eaters, and everyone else too. You really can’t go wrong.

For more savory Halloween recipes, check out this creepy Halloween cheese ball, intestine pizza, or Halloween tomato soup. If you are looking for a sweet treat instead, how about poison apples, candy corn cupcakes, Halloween “hand” pies, or these Halloween sugar cookies?

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