23 Spooky Halloween Desserts
Halloween is the perfect excuse to whip up some fun and spooky treats. Whether you’re planning your Halloween party food, need something festive for a Fall bake sale or are just looking for spooky food to get you in the Halloween spirit, these Halloween dessert recipes are easy, playful, and full of seasonal charm.
You’ll find everything from cute Halloween cookies to easy pumpkin desserts. These simple Halloween desserts are big on flavor and festivity, no fancy decorating skills required.
Let’s make some Halloween treats!
Halloween Dessert Charcuterie Board
This Halloween dessert board is a showstopper but is actually really easy to put together. It’s a perfect Halloween party food and is really fun for kids.
Candy Corn Mini Cheesecakes
These mini Halloween cheesecakes capture the candy corn color scheme with festive orange, yellow, and white layers, but taste way better than the classic Halloween candy. Creamy, smooth, and made in individual portions, they’re perfect for Halloween parties. A must-try Halloween dessert that’s as cute as it is delicious.
Blood Splattered Oreos
These creepy “blood splattered” Oreo cookies are an easy way to elevate Oreos to a festive Halloween treat. They’re quick to make, a little spooky, and perfect for adding some fun Halloween Oreos to your dessert table.
Halloween Candy Bark
This swirled Halloween candy bark is packed with candy corn, pretzels, and spooky sprinkles for a colorful treat that way easier to make than it looks. It’s a no-bake Halloween dessert that’s fun to make with kids and easy to customize with your favorite leftover candy. It’s eye-catching as a Halloween party dessert too.
Witch Broom Peanut Butter Cups
These may be the easiest of all the Halloween desserts. Here’s how to make them:
- Put peanut butter cups upside down on a plate
- Gently press in pretzel sticks as the broomsticks
Seriously, that’s all it takes. Make them immediately.
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
Pumpkin whoopie pies scream Halloween and fall in the best way. These make me want to go to a Fall carnival doing a cake walk game. These are pumpkin-y, soft and sweet, just like a Halloween treat should be.
Halloween Dipped 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.
Mummy Cookies
Mummy cookies are really easy to make and look great on any Halloween party food spread. Here’s how you make them:
- 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!
Witch Hat Cookies
Witch hat Halloween cookies are the EASIEST Halloween dessert, perfect when you need a simple Halloween party food or spooky treats for kids. All they take are store bought cookies, frosting and some Hershey kisses.
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.
Ghost donuts
These ghost donuts are insanely easy to make. All you have to do is:
- Buy powdered donuts and candy eyes
- Attach candy eyes to donuts with frosting or peanut butter. Position them so the donut hole looks like a mouth
Butterfinger Cookie Bars
This candy-forward dessert is perfect for a candy-themed holiday! Loaded with crushed Butterfingers, these chewy cookie bars are a perfect way to use up leftover Halloween candy. They’re rich, buttery, and totally addictive. One of those easy Halloween desserts everyone will ask for again.
Pumpkin Mousse Cups
These no-bake pumpkin mousse cups are creamy and full of fall vibes. They’re pumpkin-y in the best way and are an easy to make Halloween dessert. They’re another good make-ahead Halloween dessert for a crowd, or as a lighter alternative to pumpkin pie.
Monster cookies
These monster cookies are another quick and easy Halloween cookie. You can make them like this:
- Knead blue food coloring into store bought sugar cookie dough (you can entirely blend dye or leave it swirly for a pretty effect)
- Add blue sprinkles
- Bake according to package cookie instructions
- Press in googly candy eyes as soon as the cookies come out of the oven
Pumpkin Streusel Cookies
These pumpkin cookies are topped with a buttery brown sugar streusel and finished with a drizzle of glaze. Perfect for Halloween parties or seasonal cookie trays.
Ghost Cookies
Ghost cookies are another Halloween cookie that is shockingly easy for how impressive they look. 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
Ghost Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Sticking with the ghost theme, these Halloween chocolate covered strawberries are really easy and come together quickly. They’re great for Halloween charcuterie boards as much as Halloween dessert tables.
Apple Cider Cookies
Drinking apple cider feels like Halloween season so these cookies are the perfect accompaniment. Made with real apple cider and warm spices, these soft Apple Cider cookies are favorite fall treat. They make a great Halloween dessert for anyone who prefers apples over pumpkin. Sweet, spiced, and impossible to eat just one.
Spider Cookies
These spider cookies are as cute as they are easy. All you’ll need are sugar cookies, chocolate balls like Lindt lindor truffles and candy eyes. Here’s how to make them:
- Bake store bought sugar cookies according to the package
- Melt chocolate candy melts according to the instructions on the package. 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
Monster Cookie Sandwiches
These monster sandwich cookies look really impressive but all they take is some frosting, marshmallows and chocolate chips:
- 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)
Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars are great as Halloween party food when you want something a little more traditional pumpkin dessert. Plus, they’re so good with pumpkin swirled with rich cream cheese.
Witch Finger Cookies
These are the classic easy Halloween cookie. They’re so easy and look perfectly spooky. Here’s how to make them (yes, they’re so easy that they don’t even need a stand alone recipe):
- 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)
That’s it! You can also make these with sugar cookie dough if you want to hand-make the cookies.
Spider Cookie Sandwiches
These spider cookie sandwiches are so flexible, you can make them with pretty much any cookie and either fill them with frosting or peanut butter. Here’s how to make them:
- Use cookie of your choice (store bought makes these super easy!)
- Add frosting or peanut butter to one cookie
- Press pretzel sticks into the filling to look like legs
- Top with another cookie
- Adhere candy eyes with more frosting or peanut butter
These would also be cute with crackers for a kids Halloween snack
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