18 Spooky Cute Halloween Cookies
Halloween is the perfect time to break out the candy eyes, colorful sprinkles, and get a little playful in the kitchen. These Halloween cookie recipes are all about fun, flavor, and getting a little spooky, no need for fancy decorating skills or complicated ingredients. Just simple, creative Halloween cookies that are perfect as Halloween party food or cute Halloween treats for kids.
From soft pumpkin cookies to spooky Halloween Oreos and easy no-bake Witch Hat Cookies, these recipes are easy enough to make with kids but still fun for grown-ups, too. You don’t need a ton of time or baking skills, just some basic ingredients and a little Halloween spirit.
These cookies are the kind of spooky treats that disappear fast, so don’t be surprised if you find yourself making a second batch. Let’s make some Halloween cookies!
Chocolate Covered Halloween Oreos
How fun are these Halloween Oreos? Candy melts and spooky sprinkles turn plain Oreos into festive Halloween cookies in just minutes. No baking required – just dip, decorate, and serve! The vibrant coating colors and fun decorations make them a hit with kids.
Spider Truffle Cookies
These spider cookies are so cute and super easy to make. Here’s the steps to make these:
- Bake store bought sugar cookies according to the package
- Melt chocolate candy melts according to package instructions. Put into piping bag or plastic baggie and cut tip
- While cookies bake, add candy eyes to Lindt Lindor truffles or equivalent with melted chocolate. Have the eyes facing up on the ball so they can set without sliding off.
- After the eyes have set and cookies cooled, adhere a Lindt Lindor Truffle to the cookie with melted chocolate
- Draw on eight legs from the ball with the melted chocolate
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
These pumpkin whoopie pies are one of my favorite Halloween treats. They’re soft, creamy and full of fall flavors.
Worm Cookies
These worm cookies add a fun ooey-gooey vibe to a Halloween party platter. They’re a crumbl cookie copycat so they’re delicious too!
Blood Splattered Oreos
Let’s keep it rolling with another Halloween Oreo idea! These spooky “blood splattered” Oreo cookies are an easy Halloween treat. They’re quick to put together, a little spooky, and perfect for adding some fun Halloween Oreos to your dessert table.
Halloween Nutter Butters
These Halloween mummy cookies are super cute and super easy to make. They are a kid favorite too.
Pumpkin Cookies with Caramel Frosting Swirl
These pumpkin cookies would look beautiful on a Halloween dessert table. They’re so good and perfectly pumpkin-y for the Halloween season.
Witch Hat Cookies
Witch hat Halloween cookies are maybe the easiest Halloween cookies, perfect when you need a simple Halloween party food or spooky treats for kids as fast as possible. All they take are store bought cookies, frosting and some Hershey kisses.
Ghost Cookies
These ghost cookies are simple to put together and can use any cookie you like as the base. Here’s how to make them:
- Start with cookie of your choice (store bought is fine!)
- Melt white chocolate candy melts according to package instructions
- Add a spoonful of melted white chocolate to the center of the cookie, dripping some over the edges
- Stick on a marshmallow to white chocolate. Use a decorative frosting tube to add eyes and mouth
Note, if you don’t mind them sticky on top, you can also use a little marshmallow fluff to adhere the marshmallow ghost.
Pumpkin Streusel Cookies
Is there anything more Halloween than a pumpkin? These pumpkin streusel cookies are topped with a buttery brown sugar streusel and finished with a drizzle of glaze. Perfect for Halloween parties or seasonal cookie trays.
Mummy cookies
Here’s another super flexible and easy Halloween cookie that still looks impressive. These Mummy Cookies can be made with any cookie as the base (chocolate chip cookies are used in the picture).
How to make these cookies:
- Start with any cookie (store bought is fine!)
- Melt white chocolate candy melts according to package instructions. Put into piping bag or a plastic baggie and cut off the corner
- Run lines of melted white chocolate across the cookies to look like bandages
- Add two candy eyes on one of the lines of white chocolate to adhere them.
- Let set and enjoy!
Apple Cider Cookies
Is there anything more quintessentially Halloween than drinking apple cider while trick-or-treating? These Apple Cider cookies feel like that moment, made with real apple cider and warm spices. And they make a great Halloween cookie for anyone who prefers apples over pumpkin.
Monster Cookies
No-Bake Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
These soft and chewy pumpkin oatmeal cookies come together in one pot, no oven needed. Full of cozy fall flavor, they feel like Halloween time and are a perfect make ahead treat for parties or lunch box snacks. A great way to enjoy pumpkin spice without the fuss of baking.
Witch Finger Cookies
This witch finger cookies are maybe the easiest Halloween cookie idea on this list, yet somehow the spookiest looking. Here’s how to make them:
- Buy lady finger cookies and almonds
- Lay out your lady fingers and attach almonds on the end as finger nails with frosting or peanut butter (I like peanut butter because then you don’t have to get frosting too)
You can also make these with sugar cookie dough if you want to hand-make the cookies.
Spider Cookie Sandwiches
My kids really loved these spider cookie sandwiches. Here’s the steps to make them, it’s super easy:
- Use cookie of your choice (store bought makes these super easy!)
- Add frosting or peanut butter to one cookie. I like peanut butter for the added protein and fat to balance the cookie sweetness.
- Press pretzel sticks into the filling to look like legs
- Top with another cookie
- Adhere candy eyes with more frosting or peanut butter
Monster Cookie Sandwiches
Steps to make these cool monster cookies:
- Use your choice of cookies (here we’re using chocolate chip cookies). Store bought cookies work great!
- Add red frosting to two cookies
- Line mini marshmallows to the edge of one half of one of the cookies. Gently press the other cookie on top.
- Adhere two big marshmallows on top with frosting. Gently press in a chocolate chip into each big marshmallows for pupil eyes (you may need to cut the marshmallow slightly to make them sticky for the chips)
Tombstone Cookies
These tombstone cookies literally couldn’t be any easier. You take Milano cookies, which already have that tombstone shape at the top, and write on RIP with icing or melted chocolate.
