Everything Your Chocolate Business Needs for a Spooktacular Halloween!
The ‘ber months are finally here, the days are turning cooler, and Beetlejuice is back in the cinema. That’s right, it’s almost the most frightfully fun time of the year!
With October fast approaching, there’s still time to design a limited-edition Halloween product range that will appeal to customers and start off Q4 with a bang. Here’s everything you need for a simple but shockingly good chocolate range this spooky season…
by Lyndsey Hall
13 September 2024
Menacing Chocolate Moulds
October might be all about slime and ectoplasm, but we prefer mould. Polycarbonate moulds, that is! Whether you’re creating chilling chocolate lollipops or bloodcurdling pumpkin bonbons, or you’re going all out this year with a 3D Jack-o’-lantern the Headless Horseman would envy, we’ve got the right mould for you.
Our 3D pumpkin mould comes with clips to hold the two sides together, and can even be filled with sweets, chocolate drops or gummy worms, depending on if you’re feeling tricksy!
Or go for our brand new Bob the Pumpkin mould, which makes four spooktacular 3D figures and can be decorated however you like with coloured cocoa butters.
Deadly Chocolate Decorations
Halloween is all about bold colours and eye-catching designs, from the decorations to the costumes to the food. Make your chocolate and bakery products stand out in your display counter with our easy-to-use decorative products:
Terrifying Transfer Sheets
Choose from our Halloween Night, Ghosts and Vampy transfer sheets for a fun, family-friendly take on fright night. Or make white chocolate lollipops and decorate them with our Halloween Transfer Sheets for Lollipops for a really quick and easy point-of-sale product!
Looking for a more spine-chilling style for your bars and bonbons this October? Try our Bloody Hands transfers, or keep it multicultural with Festive Skulls.
Or, for that traditional Halloween look, you can’t beat Funny Pumpkins or Hypnotic Halloween.
Creeptastic Colours for Chocolate
Coloured and flavoured chocolates are perfect for this time of year, giving you a low effort way to create sweet treats that will catch your customers’ eye. Choose from Callebaut Orange Flavoured White Chocolate for a bright and zesty orange colour and flavour, or Callebaut Lemon Flavoured and Lime Coloured White Chocolate, for a citrusy taste with a green hue. Both are absolutely perfect for adding detail and decoration to chocolate bars, bonbons and figures.
Prefer to choose your own shade? It couldn’t be easier to add a pop of colour to your chocolates and baked goods with our huge range of food colourings, powder colours, cocoa butters and creative powders.
Our favourite coloured cocoa butters for spooky season are:
Or for a really bold colour, we also stock Roxy & Rich’s new colouring gels! Grab the classic Halloween colours or create your own unique palette this October. Pale pink, lilac and yellow would be a fun twist on the traditional colour scheme for All Hallow’s Eve.
Fearsome Fillings and Flavours
October 31st is right in the heart of autumn, so pick your flavours like you would a pumpkin: with care! Warming flavours like orange, Pumpkin Spice and Chai Spices are always welcome, while coffee, almond and ginger will go down a treat.
Fancy playing a trick on your unsuspecting customers? Sneak one chilli flavoured chocolate into each box this Halloween for a spine-tingling surprise!
As for fillings, fondant is perfect for colouring with bright red, green or orange gels, or add a little coloured cocoa butter to your white chocolate ganache. You could even whip up a batch of different flavoured pate de fruits using Ravifruit’s ambient fruit purées, simply follow our recipe for Raspberry pate de fruits and tweak it for your chosen fruit.
Practical (Magic) Packaging
Pop your bonbons, bark and chocolate novelties into our Happy Halloween polypropylene bags and position them pride of place on your shelves. Or build a Halloween packaging collection with our black, white and orange boxes and lids, black and orange aluminium foil, and orange bows or pumpkin satin ribbons. We’ve got everything a chocolatier or baker could need to protect and present your ghoulish goodies this October!
With seven weeks to go until the big day, there’s plenty of time to fill your basket with everything spooky and delicious, and make the most of our next working day delivery! Your chocolate shop shelves or website will be bursting with bone-chilling bonbons and terrifying truffles in a flash.
Don’t forget to tag us on social media @keylinkltd, we’d love to see all your creepy creations!
Lyndsey is a marketing executive, writer and lover of books and chocolate from Sheffield.
Her favourite chocolate is Cacao Barry Lactee Superieure.