These Halloween Chips are a super fun snack idea for your Halloween party. Made using flour tortillas, they are spooktacular, crispy, crunchy, and perfect served with salsa. Recipe includes step-by-step photos!
How cute are these Halloween chips? They are easy to make and are sure to impress your guests at the Halloween party like the chocolate mice or Halloween pop tarts.
Bake or deep fry? While baking Halloween chips is undoubtedly a healthier and relatively hassle-free option, as it eliminates the need for dealing with hot oil, my personal preference is towards deep frying them.
The fried ones puff up slightly in the hot oil, resulting in a more natural and visually appealing look, whereas baked chips tend to remain flat and crunchy.
I prefer using standard flour tortillas for a skull-like realistic appearance like in skull cookies or Halloween caprese toast. However, you can experiment with wheat, whole wheat, or gluten-free tortillas, as well as white corn varieties. It's best to avoid yellow corn tortillas, as they can impart a yellowish color.
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Why you'll love them?
- Fun, spooky and impressive.
- Easy to make
- Unique Halloween appetizer or snack
- Deep fry or bake in oven.
- Great to be made ahead.
- Perfect for school Halloween parties, as they are nut-free.
Items needed
Scroll down to the recipe card below for full information on ingredients and amounts.
- Tortillas - As for the baked cinnamon crisps, use any size flour tortillas you have around. Use other varieties, such as gluten free or white corn tortillas.
- Skull cookie cutter - It's one my favorite tool to use especially during Halloween season. Check out this Halloween pizza.
- Small circle cutter - I used the back of a small piping tip, making sure that the size of the eyes was proportionate to the skull face. You can use whatever you have available around the house.
- Round fluted cookie cutter - Use a round cookie cutter instead.
How to make?
You can find full printable recipe below, but here is a quick overview of the procedure along with step-by-step photos.
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1 & 2. Cut skull shapes from tortillas, using the skull cookie cutter.
Tip: I was able to cut 4 skulls from each 7-inch tortilla.
3. Make eyes - Using the back end of the piping tip or any very small round cutter, punch two holes for eyes.
4. Make mouth - Using a small round fluted cutter, cut mouth without cutting all the way through (refer video).
Deep fry
5 & 6. Pour oil into a small skillet or saucepan, until it measures to about ½ to ¾-inch up the sides. Place skillet over medium heat and let it reach about 325 degrees or moderately hot. Cook 2 to 3 chips at a time, until it gets golden brown on both sides, about 1 minute each side.
Drain on a paper towel and continue cooking remaining chips.
Tip: Avoid cooking at high heat, as it can cause the chips to brown too quickly, preventing them from crisping up properly.
Bake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place all skull cut outs in a single layer in the prepared baking sheet. Spray a thin coating of non-stick cooking spray.
- Bake for 14-18 minutes, until golden brown, rotating pan halfway in between. Place pan on a wire rack to cool completely.
How to serve?
Serve Halloween chips with your favorite salsa, guacamole, pico de gallo, avocado crema or buffalo chicken dip as an appetizer for Halloween party.
Pro tip: Make it spooky and mix a dash red food coloring to your salsa to give a bloody effect!
Storage instructions
Let the cooked Halloween chips cool completely and then store in a tightly sealed air-tight container for up to 2 days.
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Halloween Chips
Equipment
- fluted round cookie cutter
- small piping tip
Ingredients
- 3 flour tortillas, 7-inch
- Vegetable oil, for deep frying
- salsa, for serving
Instructions
Cut shapes
- Cut skull shapes from tortillas, using the skull cookie cutter.Tip: I was able to cut 4 skulls from each 7-inch tortilla.
- Make eyes - Using the back end of the piping tip or any very small round cutter, punch two holes for eyes. Make mouth - Using a small round fluted cutter, cut mouth without cutting all the way through (refer video).
- Now, you have the option to either deep fry or bake in the oven, and I've provided instructions for both methods below.I prefer the fried ones because they puff up slightly in the hot oil, resulting in a more natural and visually appealing look, whereas baked chips tend to remain flat and crunchy.
Deep fry instructions
- Pour oil into a small skillet or saucepan, until it measures to about ½ to ¾-inch up the sides. Place skillet over medium heat and let it reach about 325 degrees or moderately hot.
- Cook 2 to 3 chips at a time, until it gets golden brown on both sides, about 1 minute each side. Drain on a paper towel and continue cooking remaining chips.Tip: Avoid cooking at high heat, as it can cause the chips to brown too quickly, preventing them from crisping up properly.
Baking instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place all skull cut outs in a single layer in the prepared baking sheet. Spray a thin coating of non-stick cooking spray.
- Bake for 14-18 minutes, until golden brown, rotating pan halfway in between. Place pan on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Serve chips with our favorite salsa.
Notes
Nutrition
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Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats
These are so cute Maria!!! They would be so fun at a Halloween party for sure. Almost too cute to eat hehehehe 🙂
Maria Doss
Thank you Kelly:)
Kim Lange
Those are adorably 'creepy' cute!! I love skulls! Definitely would be so much fun at any Halloween party and I could see everyone going back for more!
Maria Doss
Thank you KIm:)