Eat, drink and be scary: Canberra’s best Halloween treats
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Looking for a taste of the spooky season?
The Halloween spirit has officially possessed Canberra, and as ghosts, goblins and ghouls gather to celebrate the most wonderful time of fear, local cafés are doing their part to make it a scarily good time.
From pumpkin spice iced lattes to spooky sweet treats, here’s where to find your Halloween sugar high in Canberra.
Easy Oar (Acton)
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Easy Oar is getting into the Halloween spirit this year with a killer drink special: a pumpkin spice iced latte.
Made with pumpkin spice syrup and topped with a dash of cinnamon, to go along with it they’re also selling a pumpkin spice and white chocolate cookie, topped with cinnamon cream cheese frosting.
It’s only available from Monday 25 until Saturday 31 October and sounds frightfully good.
Red Shed, 45 John Cardiff Close, Acton | @easyoarcafe
Three Mills (Various locations)
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Flaky, buttery pastry packed with spiced maple pumpkin crème and finished with a crunchy roasted pecan and pepita crumble – this Halloween treat is sure to put a spell on you.
Available daily at all Three Mills locations until Sunday 1 November (with limited numbers), one bite will have you screaming.
Various locations | threemillsbakery.com.au
Good Neighbour (Kingston)
Good Neighbour is known for their specialty treats, and this spooky season they’re pulling out all the stops.
This year you’ll be able to get your hands on two themed Halloween drinks: a Spiced Pumpkin Matcha with a housemade pumpkin butter with a vanilla cloud and the Booberry Zombie Matcha with housemade lychee and blueberry syrup, topped with a matcha cloud with lychee blueberry eyeballs.
They’ll also have four hauntingly good cookie options – the Frankie 2.0 (matcha Oreo), Spiced Pumpkin with white chocolate, the Mummy (brown butter cookie dough with white chocolate) and the Red Velvet Cobweb (red velvet cookie dough, white choc, marshmallow, and coated in black cocoa). Available from Monday 26 until Saturday 31 October.
1/55 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston | @goodneighbour.cafe
The Bakehouse Mitchell (Mitchell)
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There are no tricks here, just treats. This Halloween, The Bakehouse Mitchell is serving up some monstrous sweets. Can’t resist a donut? Every Wednesday, you can try two flavours worth losing your head over – raspberry pistachio and passionfruit cheesecake.
For cake lovers, a monstrous option awaits. With four mini monsters to choose from (blue, purple, orange and pink), underneath all the fur you’ll find funfetti cake and dreamy vanilla buttercream. Preorders are now open.
Lysaght Street, Mitchell | thebakehousemitchell.bitebusiness.com
Sweet Bones (Scullin)
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This spooky selection is perfection for anyone with a killer sweet tooth. Including a mouth-watering selection of cupcakes, brownies, cake pops, sinnerbuns, donuts and cookies – all Halloween-themed.
With gluten-free options also available, the boxes will be available for pickup on Fridays and Saturdays until Sunday 31 October.
3/3 Scullin Place, Scullin | sweetbonescompany.com
Milky Lane (Braddon)
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Something terrifying has arrived at Milky Lane…
For those craving something sweet, the You’ll Float Too MegaShake (creamy vanilla and chocolate cookie, loaded with Crunchie Oreo crumbs, a Nutella strawberry drip and finished with a red vanilla foam) will give you a sugar rush that will raise the dead.
Would prefer something savoury? The Blood Bath Burger is made with double smashed beef patties, American cheese, a crispy jalapeño mac and cheese patty, bacon jam and loaded with pickles and slaw. But that’s not all. It’s also drowned in molten red cheese for a monster experience.
Unit 3/21 Lonsdale Street, Braddon | milkylane.co
The Inn (Ainslie)
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This Halloween, even the cocktails are spooky, and The Inn is getting in on the fun. Pop in to try their Halloween cocktail special, the Jack O Lantern. Made with cognac, triple sec, orange juice, ginger ale, and candied blood orange, it might not like pumpkin, but it certainly looks the part.
Level 1/1 Edgar Street, Ainslie | edgarsinn.com.au
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