Halloween 2024: Food and Drink in Portland

Spooky season is upon us! Halloween 2024 in Portland offers plenty of things to do: decorate your home, trick-or-treat, tour a haunted house, go to a costume party. But for us, we are focused on the spooky food and drink treats for this time of the year. There’s plenty out there to enjoy, too!

I’ll continue to update this post over the month of October as new treats make themselves known.

Caseus Diem

Through the end of October, Caseus Diem presents the Boo-Brie: President-brand Brie with Divina sour cherry spread for $13.

3320 SE Division Street, Portland. Caseus Diem website.

Cheese & Crack

Just in time for “spooky sundae season” is The Eye Scream Sundae. It starts with Cheese & Crack’s luscious vanilla soft serve, layered with house-made ube pudding, chocolate cookie dirt, raspberry blood, and an eyeball.

22 SE 28th Avenue, Portland. Cheese & Crack website.

DB Dessert Company

DB Dessert Company in their newly re-opened NE Alberta location is offering Halloween platters for pre-order. Platters can be custom filled with mini cupcakes, mini cookies, brownie bites, macarons. Quantities are limited, so order sooner than later.

2624 NE Alberta Street, Portland. DB Dessert Company website.

Donna’s Macarons

For spooky season you can order little mummy-themed macarons! Additional Halloween macarons will be available for pre-order on their website. Online only

El Sombrero Tapatio

Spooky margaritas are back! The Zombie Margarita is made with sparking melon liquor and a blended strawberry margarita, plus eyes.

10820 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland. El Sombrero website.

Ice Queen

Home to vegan paletas and soft serve ice cream, the Ice Queens is mixing up brains made from rice crispies and the Nutcraft Screamshake (chocolate soft serve, swirls of peanut butter, chocolate flecks, and mazapán).

2012 SE 11th Avenue, Portland. Ice Queen website.

Lauretta Jean’s

This Pumpkin Chocolate Cake is deemed “decadent and spooky” by the folks at Lauretta Jean’s. It’s a customer and bakery favorite—two layers of pumpkin cake hug a layer of dark chocolate cake, and it’s held together with chocolate cream cheese icing. A drizzle of chocolate ganache completes the look.

You can buy it by the slice or pre-order a whole cake (503-235-3119).

3402 SE Division Street, Portland. Lauretta Jean’s website.

Mikiko Mochi Donuts

This homegrown mochi donut shop is offering nine spooky flavors this month:

Personfruit: passionfruit glaze with passionfruit curd and candy eyes
Horrorchata: horchata glaze with horchata pudding and cinnamon matcha rice cryptsies
Witches Brew: black coconut glazed with pandan pudding and lychee poppin boba
Dirt n Worms: chocolate glazed with chocolate pudding, gluten-free Oreo dirt, and mutilated gummi worms
Boo-zu Funfetti: Funfetti with yuzu vanilla glaze and spooky sprinkles
Ecto Cooler: pandan and tangerine glazed (like a ghoulish creamsicle)
The Slasher: vanilla glazed and splattered with raspberry blooooood
Jack O’Lantern: Thai tea glazed with black sesame drizzle
Purple People Eater: Ube glazed with one candy eye

300 NE 28th Avenue, Portland and 3905 SW Orbit Street #130, Beaverton. Mikiko Mochi website.

Papa Haydn

In past years, Papa Haydn offered special Halloween-themed cakes, but at the writing of this article they have not announced them. However, they offer two fall favorites right now that we want to highlight:

Pumpkin Crémeux: a toasted carrot cake base and finished with malted whipped ganache⁠
Malted Milkshake Cheesecake: malted milk New York cheesecake, a graham cracker crust, and malted whipped ganache and dark chocolate ganache to finish⁠

5829 SE Milwaukie Avenue, Portland. Papa Haydn website.

Petunia’s Pies & Pastries

This fantastic vegan and gluten-free bakery is offering Halloween Candy Bar Brownies for the season. It’s a fudge brownie, topped with salted peanut butter buttercream, peanuts, caramel, and chocolate ganache. Available through October 31. Petunia’s is also offering spooky cookies and cupcakes, and more!

610 SW 12th Avenue, Portland. Petunia’s Pies & Pastries website.
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Pie Spot

Now down to one location, Pie Spot is bringing back its Die Crust Cinnamon Rolls—a charcoal crust, cinnamon butter, and a red buttermilk glaze— and Chocula S’cream pie.

6935 NE Glisan Street, Portland. Pie Spot website.

Pix Patisserie

They’re bringing back the seasonal favorite tart: the Ichabod Crème. Pumpkin crème brûlée, salted caramel, spiced almond cream, and crunchy garam masala pecans. Get it in the Pix-O-Matic.

2225 E Burnside Street, Portland. Pix Patisserie website.

R-HAAN Thai Kitchen

This new Thai cart at the Upright Beer Station pod is offering two Halloween specials you can order only in the month of October: a pumpkin curry (pumpkin, red bell, green bell, basil) and pumpkin stir fry (pumpkin, green onion, eggs).

7131 NE Prescott Street, Portland. R-HAAN website.

Saint Cupcake

Head to the corner of SW Morrison and 12th Avenue to enjoy some spooky iced sugar cookies—ghosts and cats at least— that the folks at Saint Cupcake deem “boo-tiful.” Also: “Grab yours before they vanish.”

1138 SW Morrison Street, Portland. Saint Cupcake website.

Salt & Straw

The folks at Salt & Straw have released their new flavors for October, The Halloween Series. Flavors include:

The Great Candycopia: Salted butterscotch ice cream mixed with “vampire-bite-sized crispy milk chocolate feuilletine pieces, peanut butter embalmed in chocolate, and almonds smothered in BOOrbon vanilla toffee.”
Jack o’ Lantern Pumpkin Bread: Pumpkin Spice (ginger, cinnamon, coriander, nutmeg, and allspice) ice cream bmixed with pumpkin bread that is covered in a thick layer of cream cheese frosting in one of three colors: yellow, orange or white.
Creepy Crawly Critters: Matcha ice cream mixed with Don Bugito’s edible insects (coconut toffee candied mealworms and chocolate-covered crickets) and a splash of fresh orange juice.
Essence of Ghost: A combination of sherbet and ice cream. Bright white sherbet infused with scotch and Mexican vanilla; black licorice chocolate ice cream is then swirled throughout the sherbet, “creating a complex and confounding textural experience.”
Blackberry Tamales (v): A tart and fruity coconut blackberry sherbet is mixed with masa harina. “Masa harina is used in two ways: first, simmered with vegan butter, coconut cream, sugar, and cinnamon into a caramel-like pudding. Then, a simple cornbread cake is baked, crumbled, and mixed into the sherbet, adding texture to our homage to the tamal.”

These flavors are available in scoop shops or online (local delivery, nationwide shipping).

Various locations. Salt & Straw website.

Soro Soro Coffee & Dessert

This little cafe on the east side offers some of the most creative and cute sweet treats in Portland, and for Halloween they have three Halloween-themed cakes topped with ghosts and other creatures.

2250 E Burnside Street, Portland. Soro Soro website.