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Wicked Butcher Recipes For Halloween


Halloween Counter Creations - illustrated mummy burgers, stuffed peppers and monster meatball skewers

Halloween is fast approaching! Our bloodthirsty Chef Andy Benn has brewed a concoction of wicked ideas for you to place in your counter. Add a bit of fun to your shop window this Halloween and grab your customers' attention with these menacing masterpieces.

Give these favourites a try for Halloween on Saturday 31 October 2026, and try some of the ideas below.

If you'd like to add any of these maliciously meaty creations to your counter, here's the ScobiesDirect products we used to make them - ideal for your Halloween counter.

Check out our gruesome Halloween video for inspiration.



Check out the list below to find out which ScobiesDirect products we used to make them - ideal for your Halloween counter:

Original Scobies Halloween counter creation

Boris The Spider
Minced meat made with Jalapeno & Honey Burger Mix for the body. Chicken wings for the legs, covered with Chilli Willi Marinade. Plus, Mississippi Yellow Mustard Sauce for the eyes (with 2 drops of ketchup) and an onion ring to complete the mouth.

Products used :
- Jalapeno & Honey - Burger Mix Product # SE32297
- Chilli Willi Marinade 3KG Pail Product # MM42032
- Mississippi Yellow Mustard Sauce - Product Code: MMY001





Original Scobies Halloween counter creation

Stuffed Chicken Cushion (Pumpkin)
Chicken breasts with Apricot Orange & Cranberry Stuffing, covered with Honey & Chilli Marinade + Mississippi Yellow Mustard Sauce for the eyes and an onion ring to complete the Boo face.

Products used :
- Gluten-free Apricot Orange & Cranberry Stuffing 1KG Product # SE62128
- Honey & Chilli Marinade 3KG Pail Product Code: MM13849
- Mississippi Yellow Mustard Sauce - Product Code: MMY001





Original Scobies Halloween counter creation

Zombie Ribs
Ribs covered in Chinese Glaze. Apply the glaze according to the pack instructions and provide cooking instructions suited to your rib cut and portion size.

Products used :
- Chinese Glaze 2.5KG Pail Product # MM21111




Original Scobies Halloween counter creation

Zombie Hearts
Heart shaped burgers made with our Angus Burger Mix, drizzled with our Mississippi BBQ Sauce Original. You can use our heart shaped burger press to shape the burger.

Products used :
- Angus Burger Mix - 1KG Pack Product Code: SE32169
- Mississippi BBQ Sauce Original 6 x 510G Product Code: MBBQ00001
- 4" Burger Press Heart Shape 100 x 85MM Product Code: MP100806





Original Scobies Halloween counter creation

Mummy Burger
Burgers made with Jalapeno & Honey Mix. Mummy face wrapped with Puff Pastry. Eyes with sliced olives. Cook thoroughly, following the preparation and cooking guidance below.

Products used :
- Jalapeno & Honey - Burger Mix Product # SE32297




Original Scobies Halloween counter creation

Mummy Kofta
Minced meat with Jalapeno & Honey Mix - shaped into a kofta with a skewer. Mummy face wrapped with Puff Pastry. Eyes with sliced olives. Cook thoroughly, following the preparation and cooking guidance below.

Products used :
- Jalapeno & Honey - Burger Mix Product # SE32297
- Bamboo Skewer 180MM X 3MM 200 Per Pack Product Code: SKBAM180-3




Original Scobies Halloween counter creation

Halloween Mushroom (Stuffing)
Apricot Orange & Cranberry Stuffing shaped into mushrooms - with Chilli Willi Marinade covering the top. Yellow spots created using American Mississippi Yellow Mustard Sauce. Cook thoroughly, following the preparation and cooking guidance below.

Products used :
- Glutenfree Apricot Orange & Cranberry Stuffing 1KG Product Code: SE62128
- Chilli Willi Marinade 3KG Pail Product Code: MM42032
- Mississippi Yellow Mustard Sauce - Product Code: MMY001





Original Scobies Halloween counter creation

Halloween Mushroom (Meat)
Minced meat prepared with Jalapeno & Honey Burger Mix, shaped into mushrooms and wrapped in bacon - with a Honey & Chilli Marinade layer covering top. Yellow spots created using American Mississippi Yellow Mustard Sauce. Cook thoroughly, following the preparation and cooking guidance below.

Products used :
- Jalapeno & Honey - Burger Mix Product # SE32297
- Honey & Chilli Marinade 3KG Pail Product Code: MM13849
- Mississippi Yellow Mustard Sauce - Product Code: MMY001





FREE DOWNLOAD:
We have created a pdf handout which lists the different Halloween creations - what they are made of and ingredients to use - download it for free today!

Original Scobies Halloween counter creation




Two more wicked ideas for your counter

These are new preparation ideas to trial in your shop, alongside Chef Andy's original creations.

Jack-o'-Lantern Stuffed Peppers

Jack-o'-Lantern peppers filled with minced beef - recipe illustration

AI-generated illustration of this new preparation idea.

Cut small eyes and a mouth into orange peppers, keeping the base intact. Prepare minced beef with Angus Burger Mix using the pack's recipe, then fill the peppers without packing them too tightly. Pop the pepper lids back on for a pumpkin-style counter display. Offer Mississippi BBQ Sauce Original alongside, or use it as a finishing sauce after cooking.

Extra ingredients: minced beef and orange peppers.

Monster Meatball Skewers

Monster Meatball Skewers with olive eyes and mustard smiles - recipe illustration

AI-generated illustration of this new preparation idea.

Prepare minced beef with Jalapeno & Honey Burger Mix using the pack's recipe. Shape into meatballs and thread onto bamboo skewers. Add slices of olive for monster eyes and a dab of Mississippi Yellow Mustard for a wicked grin. Serve with Mississippi BBQ Sauce Original after cooking for a Halloween party-food idea.

Extra ingredients: minced beef and sliced olives.

Preparation and cooking

Use each mix, stuffing, marinade and glaze according to its pack instructions. Trial portions before adding a new creation to your counter, and provide cooking instructions suited to the finished size. Cook minced-meat and poultry creations thoroughly; use a clean food thermometer to check the centre reaches 75°C for at least 30 seconds, or an equivalent safe time and temperature. Check the centre of stuffed products too. See the Food Standards Agency's cooking guidance.

Check ingredients and allergens for every component, including pastry, sauces and decorations. Gluten-free stuffing does not make the complete creation gluten-free.

The original free handout covers the classic creations; the two new ideas above are additions to this post.

Give your counter a frightfully good makeover. Pick your favourites, stock up on the ingredients and give customers something fun to take home this Halloween.

Shop the Halloween recipe products

Posted 7 days agomore...

 

Your recipe. We do the blending.

Illustration of bespoke seasoning blending with a mixing bowl, scoop and ingredient bags

A recipe your customers love takes time to perfect. Once you have it right, weighing and mixing the ingredients by hand can become a demanding part of your production routine.

Scobie & Junor can manufacture bespoke ingredient blends, including sausage mixes, at our UK-based, BRC-certified blending facility. We blend to your recipe and pack in weights that suit your production.

How Priors Butchers saved time and labour

Priors Butchers in West Lynn had spent years perfecting their own seasoning. They used it across their plain sausages, chipolatas, sausage meat, sausage rolls and pigs in blankets.

As demand grew, blending the seasoning by hand became harder to keep up with.

Our food technology team blended their exact recipe in half-tonne batches, then packed the mix into the weights Priors needed. This helped them keep their recipe and quality while making production more efficient.

“this saves a huge amount of time and labour”

Priors Butchers West Lynn, in their own Facebook post.

A blend that works for your business

Whether you have an established recipe or want help developing something new, we can discuss a blend and pack size that fits the way you work.

Tell us what you make and roughly how much you use. We will talk through your recipe, pack sizes, volumes and the next steps.

Priors Sausage Mix packed in blue bags to their own recipe

Boxes of Priors Sausage Mix stacked on shelving

Photos: Priors Butchers West Lynn.

Could we take blending off your to-do list?

Call 0800 783 7331 to discuss your own blend.

Posted 8 days agomore...

 

A SMALL DELIVERY DELAY



Warehouse Closed on Monday

A Small Delivery Delay This Monday… and We Hope You'll Understand!

First of all, we're sorry.

If you've placed an order with Scobies Direct over the next few days, you may notice that delivery times are running one day later than usual.

Why?

Well... Scotland have qualified for the World Cup.

Now, before our customers south of the border, across the Irish Sea, or elsewhere around the world start rolling their eyes, hear us out. It's not exactly something that happens every week! It has been 28 years since Scotland managed to play at a World Cup...

As a proudly Scottish company, we're taking the opportunity to close our head office and warehouse on Monday so our team can enjoy what is a genuinely historic occasion for Scottish football supporters.

This means any orders placed over the weekend or on Monday will be processed on the next working day, resulting in a small delay of approximately one extra day to normal delivery times.

We know delays are never ideal, and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. However, we're hoping you'll forgive us this one.

After all, when your national team finally makes it back onto football's biggest stage after years of waiting, it's hard not to get a little excited.

Normal service will resume immediately afterwards, and our team will be back in the warehouse, hopefully celebrating a famous Scottish victory rather than discussing what might have been!

Thank you for your patience, your understanding, and your continued support.

From everyone at Scobies Direct – enjoy the football, wherever you're watching it.



Posted 123 days agomore...

 

TEAMS SELECTED - WORLD CUP 2026 SWEEPSTAKE



World Cup Sweepstake 2026

The Draw Is Done! Meet the Lucky Entrants in the Scobie & Junor World Cup 2026 Sweepstake

The excitement is building for the FIFA World Cup 2026, and here at Scobie & Junor we've added an extra layer of competition with our World Cup Sweepstake!

Following the draw, 48 butcher shops and farm shops have each been randomly assigned a nation to cheer on throughout the tournament.

What's Up for Grabs?


🥇 1st Place

If your team wins the World Cup

👉 £500 ScobiesDirect Voucher

🥈 2nd Place

If your team reaches the final but finishes runners-up

👉 £250 ScobiesDirect Voucher

🥉 3rd Place

If your team finishes in 3rd place

👉 £100 ScobiesDirect Voucher



The World Cup 2026 Sweepstake Draw

  • Alderson Butchers – Sweden 🇸🇪
  • Barry’s Butchery – Paraguay 🇵🇾
  • Ben Kelly Market Place Butchery – Uruguay 🇺🇾
  • Betteridge Butchers LTD – USA 🇺🇸
  • Bews Meats – Qatar 🇶🇦
  • Boggs Family Butchers – Switzerland 🇨🇭
  • Buckwells of Southsea – Panama 🇵🇦
  • Callaghans of Helensburgh – Belgium 🇧🇪
  • Carlyles Fine Foods LTD – Czech Republic 🇨🇿
  • Cobbs Farmshop – Cape Verde 🇨🇻
  • Cooper Butchers – Brazil 🇧🇷
  • D Gilmour Butchers – Argentina 🇦🇷
  • David Withers Family Butchers – England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
  • Dewar Family Butchers LTD (East Calder) – Norway 🇳🇴
  • Duncan Mackenzie Butchers Greenock – Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
  • E Flett Butcher LTD – Curaçao 🇨🇼
  • Foston's Butchery (Duns) – Tunisia 🇹🇳
  • Gary’s Meat Grimsby – Mexico 🇲🇽
  • Gillespies Family Butcher – South Africa 🇿🇦
  • Goring Village Butchers – DR Congo 🇨🇩
  • Gregor Armour Butchers – Portugal 🇵🇹
  • Hegarty’s Butchers – Spain 🇪🇸
  • Keith Grant Master Butchers – Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦
  • LJD Meats – Morocco 🇲🇦
  • Ludlow Farmshop – Senegal 🇸🇳
  • Mark McGill Butcher Edinburgh – Haiti 🇭🇹
  • Mark’s Family Butchers (Jarrow) – Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
  • Marriotts Butchers – Colombia 🇨🇴
  • McDowall Butchers LTD Paisley – Iran 🇮🇷
  • Munro Butcher (Butchers & Wholesalers) – Australia 🇦🇺
  • North Coast Butchers – South Korea 🇰🇷
  • Oxtail & Trotter Butchers – Jordan 🇯🇴
  • Paul’s Butchers in Derry – Netherlands 🇳🇱
  • Sean Quinn Sunnyfields Farm Shop – Germany 🇩🇪
  • Southwick Square Meats LTD – Ecuador 🇪🇨
  • Spelman Family Butchers – New Zealand 🇳🇿
  • Steven Cronnie Family Butcher – Algeria 🇩🇿
  • Strachan Craft Butchers – France 🇫🇷
  • Taylors Family Butcher (Galashiels) – Egypt 🇪🇬
  • Thorne’s Butchers – Iraq 🇮🇶
  • Tom Courts Quality Foods Ltd – Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
  • Tunstall Meat Company – Turkey 🇹🇷
  • Waddings Butchers (Tralee) – Canada 🇨🇦
  • Webb’s Butchers – Ghana 🇬🇭
  • Welbeck Farm Shop – Croatia 🇭🇷
  • Wegnalls Farm Butchery – Japan 🇯🇵
  • W F Stark Butchers – Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
  • Yew Tree Butchery & Deli – Austria 🇦🇹

Good Luck to Everyone Taking Part

A huge thank you to everyone who entered. We hope you enjoy following your assigned nation throughout the tournament.

We’ll be keeping an eye on the action as the competition progresses and sharing updates along the way. Good luck to all entrants – and may the best team win!

Posted 127 days agomore...

 

TEAMS SELECTED - WORLD CUP 2026 SWEEPSTAKE



World Cup Sweepstake 2026

The Draw Is Done! Meet the Lucky Entrants in the Scobie & Junor World Cup 2026 Sweepstake

The excitement is building for the FIFA World Cup 2026, and here at Scobie & Junor we've added an extra layer of competition with our World Cup Sweepstake!

Following the draw, 48 butcher shops and farm shops have each been randomly assigned a nation to cheer on throughout the tournament.

What's Up for Grabs?

🥇 1st Place

If your team wins the World Cup

👉 £500 ScobiesDirect Voucher

🥈 2nd Place

If your team reaches the final but finishes runners-up

👉 £250 ScobiesDirect Voucher

🥉 3rd Place

If your team finishes in 3rd place

👉 £100 ScobiesDirect Voucher

The World Cup 2026 Sweepstake Draw

  • Alderson Butchers – Sweden 🇸🇪
  • Barry’s Butchery – Paraguay 🇵🇾
  • Ben Kelly Market Place Butchery – Uruguay 🇺🇾
  • Betteridge Butchers LTD – USA 🇺🇸
  • Bews Meats – Qatar 🇶🇦
  • Boggs Family Butchers – Switzerland 🇨🇭
  • Buckwells of Southsea – Panama 🇵🇦
  • Callaghans of Helensburgh – Belgium 🇧🇪
  • Carlyles Fine Foods LTD – Czech Republic 🇨🇿
  • Cobbs Farmshop – Cape Verde 🇨🇻
  • Cooper Butchers – Brazil 🇧🇷
  • D Gilmour Butchers – Argentina 🇦🇷
  • David Withers Family Butchers – England 🏴
  • Dewar Family Butchers LTD (East Calder) – Norway 🇳🇴
  • Duncan Mackenzie Butchers Greenock – Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
  • E Flett Butcher LTD – Curaçao 🇨🇼
  • Foston's Butchery (Duns) – Tunisia 🇹🇳
  • Gary’s Meat Grimsby – Mexico 🇲🇽
  • Gillespies Family Butcher – South Africa 🇿🇦
  • Goring Village Butchers – DR Congo 🇨🇩
  • Gregor Armour Butchers – Portugal 🇵🇹
  • Hegarty’s Butchers – Spain 🇪🇸
  • Keith Grant Master Butchers – Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦
  • LJD Meats – Morocco 🇲🇦
  • Ludlow Farmshop – Senegal 🇸🇳
  • Mark McGill Butcher Edinburgh – Haiti 🇭🇹
  • Mark’s Family Butchers (Jarrow) – Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
  • Marriotts Butchers – Colombia 🇨🇴
  • McDowall Butchers LTD Paisley – Iran 🇮🇷
  • Munro Butcher (Butchers & Wholesalers) – Australia 🇦🇺
  • North Coast Butchers – South Korea 🇰🇷
  • Oxtail & Trotter Butchers – Jordan 🇯🇴
  • Paul’s Butchers in Derry – Netherlands 🇳🇱
  • Sean Quinn Sunnyfields Farm Shop – Germany 🇩🇪
  • Southwick Square Meats LTD – Ecuador 🇪🇨
  • Spelman Family Butchers – New Zealand 🇳🇿
  • Steven Cronnie Family Butcher – Algeria 🇩🇿
  • Strachan Craft Butchers – France 🇫🇷
  • Taylors Family Butcher (Galashiels) – Egypt 🇪🇬
  • Thorne’s Butchers – Iraq 🇮🇶
  • Tom Courts Quality Foods Ltd – Scotland 🏴
  • Tunstall Meat Company – Turkey 🇹🇷
  • Waddings Butchers (Tralee) – Canada 🇨🇦
  • Webb’s Butchers – Ghana 🇬🇭
  • Welbeck Farm Shop – Croatia 🇭🇷
  • Wegnalls Farm Butchery – Japan 🇯🇵
  • W F Stark Butchers – Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
  • Yew Tree Butchery & Deli – Austria 🇦🇹

Good Luck to Everyone Taking Part

A huge thank you to everyone who entered. We hope you enjoy following your assigned nation throughout the tournament.

We’ll be keeping an eye on the action as the competition progresses and sharing updates along the way. Good luck to all entrants – and may the best team win!

Posted 127 days agomore...