19 Halloween Desserts For A Scary Party

Halloween Desserts recipes

Are you tired of old recipes to try at Halloween and searching for perfect Halloween Desserts for trick or treat? You have landed at the perfect destination!

When Halloween month starts, everyone starts thinking about Halloween parties and desserts that they will try this time. There is an extensive list of Halloween desserts you can try at home.

Halloween desserts are sweet and irresistible due to their weird looks and delightful texture. Whether they are cake or cookies, from monster cookies to candy corn white chocolate cookies, they are super delicious and mouth-watering desserts that are so easy and quick to make in your kitchen.

Today I am here with 15-most easy desserts that taste heavenly and have a perfect look for a Halloween party. Try these desserts this time to amaze your friends and family.

1. Monster Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 35 minutes
  • Classic flourless cookies
  • Chocolaty and chewy
  • Hit in family gatherings

These thick and chewy monster cookies are the best Halloween cookies everyone loves due to their loaded peanut butter flavors, chocolate chips, and oats. They are delicious and heavenly because of their chewy texture, making them a perfect treat for your taste buds. Monster cookies look so beautiful because of their colorful appearance and texture. These cookies have extra softness and thickness, which is the perfect dessert to serve at a Halloween party to family and friends.

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2. Twix Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 2 hours 18 minutes
  • Rounded cookies with caramel topping
  • Easy and impressive
  • Famous and best to serve

The Twix cookies are so easy and impressive to cook at any festival or get-together, especially Halloween. The cookies have a delightful combination of caramel and chocolate. They are super soft and crispy, which is fun to make and taste. They are crowd-favorite cookies that you can make with little effort and time. Their flavors are a must to try at Halloween parties when everyone is happy and wants something homemade sweet, and captivating. There is no need to try candy bars from a store; make your own at home and enjoy this Halloween.

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3. Ghost Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 30 minutes
  • Adorable and tasty
  • Easy and kid’s friendly cookies
  • Rounded eyes are so whimsical touch

Ghost cookies are so cute that they attract everyone right after serving on the table. These are decorated, well-iced, and best served for guests at Halloween parties or at home. They are kids’ favorite cookies; if you are a parent, make these cookies this Halloween party, your kids will love them. You can decorate them in the way you want. Round eyeballs and licorice lace mouth make them look cute and playful. You can add pumpkin pie spice to make them good to go for a season.

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4. Spider Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 30 minutes
  • Uncooked chocolate cookies
  • Cute and soft
  • Perfect fun for a Halloween party

The spider cookies are so savory and delicious that no one can resist them. They are uncooked chocolate cookies but look so adorable. They are simple to cook; you do not need special skills or ingredients. You may already be familiar with peanut butter cookies; now, you can change them a little bit and turn them into spider cookies for a Halloween party. They have a topping of scrummy chocolate and little round eyeballs that make them look cute. This recipe will be a perfect dessert for extra mom points if you make them with various flavors.

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5. Witch Hat Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 1 hour
  • Fun to make a treat
  • Perfect spooky and yummy
  • Kid’s favorite

Witch hat cookies are so yummy and attractive that everyone loves to try them because of their witchy looks. They are colorful and fun to make with little kids in your kitchen. With a sprinkle, colorful Hershey’s hug chocolate topping makes them look unique and delectable. They are super fun, and kids adore this recipe because of the yummy flavors and attractive look. If you are looking for a different and unique dessert for kids or friends for Halloween day, you will love these cookies on the first try, and after a first try, the craving will never stop.

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What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 35 minutes
  • Quick and easy to make
  • A festive and beautiful treat for Halloween
  • Delicious buttercream frosting

Halloween cookie cake is a fun and tasty dessert for a Halloween party. It is very soft and chewy with various flavors inside it, making it the most delicious cake with tangy buttercream frosting. It is perfectly soft inside but crispy outside from the edges. It is a giant chocolate chip recipe that serves best on your Halloween dessert if you are hosting a Halloween party this year. Top it with your favorite topping; add colorful bounties, ice cream, chocolate chips, or spiderweb icing. It is not only specific for Halloween parties; you can make this cake whenever you crave a chocolaty and sweet dessert.

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7. Halloween Chocolate Chip Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 45 minutes
  • Monster themed cookies
  • Chewy inside but crispy outside
  • Decorated with tiny eyeballs.

Halloween chocolate chip cookies are so fun and festive to make. They are simple and easy to cook at home with a few simple steps. Their monster theme and size make them look like a perfect dessert for Halloween party night. The inside’s chewy texture and crispy edges are captivating and mouth-watering. You are free to add any topping over them; ice cream, chocolate chips, or sprinkles look unique and delightful on them. Search for some eyeballs in the store; you can use them as topping to make them look cute. It would be one of the best cookies that you have ever made.

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8. Mummy Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 45 minutes
  • Spooktacular treat for everyone
  • Healthy and soft
  • Creamy frosting and eyeballs as a topping.

These mummy cookies are spin-off dessert that is mouth-watering to everyone. They melt in your mouth with every bite and give immense heavenly pleasure to your craving. You can decorate mummy cookies in your favorite way. Two ways to decorate them are to pipe the lines across the cookie or pipe the frosting in a pretty swirl. Add the candy eyes over the frosting at the end of the decoration that will turn them into a mummy. The twisting dessert will be a fantastic treat at your Halloween party.

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9. Tombstone Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 2 hours
  • It looks like a graveyard
  • Topped with lunettes or crosses
  • Chocolate wafer cookies

Tombstone cookies are made of rice cereal, marshmallows, and chocolate wafers. Whenever you think about Halloween, something horrible and unique pops up in your mind. So, tombstone cookies are perfect for trying this Halloween due to their unique and fearful look. People used to call them tombstone cookies because of their scary look; otherwise, they are super soft and delicious with every bite. If you also love creepy things, these cookies will be perfect for making and gifting to your family and friends this Halloween.

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10. Black Cat Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 35 minutes
  • A cute and fun dessert
  • They look like mini cats
  • Decorated with candy-coated sunflower seeds

Black cat cookies are fun to make because their cat like cute looks. They are made of vanilla, espresso powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, flour, and a few more. These ingredients are the perfect combination to make any dessert super sweet and delightful. Their topping is up to you; you can sprinkle icing or chocolate chips over them and add eyeballs candy to make them look like a cat. Its cat shape looks lovely for kids, so they love to make them in the kitchen with their mothers.

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11. Chocolate Chip Spider Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 50 minutes
  • Thick and chewy
  • Chocolate and caramel flavors
  • It looks like a spider

Chocolate chip spider cookies are very flavorsome and toothsome cookies that are so fun to cook in your kitchen. You can easily make it at home with a few ingredients like; flour, chocolate chips, and caramel. Anyone can make delightful, fantastic, spooky cookies at home. Everyone loves classic chocolate chips and caramel spider toppings, making them the perfect creepy dessert for Halloween. They serve best with melted chocolate or ice cream. It is a perfect sweet-to-tooth dessert for kids.

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12. Boo Bites

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 30 minutes
  • Tiny shortbread cookies
  • Very quick to make every day
  • Perfect Halloween gift

Boo bites are tiny shortbread cookies you can make in just a few minutes without any particular skill. You must ensure that the dough is in good condition when making cookies. Cut them into little squares and bake them in the oven to get crispy shortbread cookies. They look so colorful and cool; they attract everyone toward them instantly after coming out of the oven. Instead of using jimmies or sprinkles for their topping, use nonpareils that look amazing and captivating. If you want to use jimmies, then use a lot of them. It would be the best gift for this Halloween party.

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13. Bat Oreos

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 10 minutes
  • Super quick and easy to make
  • No bake dessert
  • Kid’s most favorite

Bat Oreos are so cute and delightful to make at home. You can make them in less than ten minutes. You need double Stuff Oreos, candy eyes, and melted chocolate to make them. Kids love bat Oreos not just because of their looks; their flavors are so unique and chocolaty that they can make anyone wild over them. No need for any fancy ingredients because they are so easy vegan Halloween cookies that anyone can make in their kitchen. There is no need to bake them quickly and serve them to your guests with ice cream or melted chocolate.

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14. Halloween Sprinkle Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 25 minutes
  • Perfect addition to Halloween festivities
  • Sprinkled with colorful bounties
  • Delicious and soft

Halloween sprinkle cookies are soft and crunchy cookies at the same time. They have yummy vanilla and candy sprinkles as a topping that makes them look like a real treat. They are so colorful that no one can say no to them. If you are a cookie lover, it will be a perfect addition to your table this year at the Halloween party. You can make them with a few common ingredients, like, flour, baking soda, and chocolate chips, then top them with your favorite cream frosting and add colorful sprinkles to make them look captivating. These vanilla cookies will be a charming addition to your Halloween festivities.

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15. Candy Corn Cookies

What’s Special?

  • Total Time Taken: 20 minutes
  • Packed with candy corn
  • Easy and quick to make in breakfast
  • Hit among the kids

These candy corn white chocolate cookies are so easy and quick that you can make them daily for breakfast. They have chocolate chips and candy corn filling in them that are so yummy to taste buds and satisfying for your craving. They are so soft and melting in the mouth that you will never stop making them after the first attempt.

The memmerizing aroma spreads while cooking them, making everyone want to gulp them. These cookies are so tender and soft; they are the perfect treat to serve the kids and adults this Halloween. You will admit that they are the most moreish cookies of this year till now.

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16. No-Bake Halloween Sponge Cake

No-Bake Halloween Sponge Cake

What’s Special

  • Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
  • Does not require an oven
  • The final look resembles a mummied cake

This fall, don’t just spend yourself in the kitchen baking creepy cookies or spooky pumpkin pies. Try this mummy-looking, vanilla-tasting no-bake cake, and also ask your children to help decorate it. You don’t need a lot of piping skills to do it. Just unleash your inner creativity.

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17. Chocolate-Covered Marshmallow Pops

Chocolate-Covered Marshmallow Pops

What’s Special

  • Total time: 35 minutes
  • An easy recipe to make a large batch
  • Requires only your creative skills

Chocolate-covered Marshmallow pops are not only a recipe, it’s a fun DIY project to engage all those energetic kids. The recipe is obvious, all you need is some creative skills of yours. Let us see how you decorate these to make them as spooky as possible.

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18. Pumpkin Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting

What’s Special

  • Total time: 1 hour
  • Simple, classy, and open for customization
  • Can be made into a cake as well

If you don’t want to decorate your edibles according to the Halloween theme, this recipe is just for you. Make use of the pumpkins and blend them with some baking spices. Cream cheese frosting is simply to die for. And if you don’t want mini cupcakes, bake an entire cake and indulge in its creamy goodness.

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19. 3-Ingredient Rice Krispies Treats Halloween Dessert

3-Ingredient Rice Krispies Treats Halloween Dessert

What’s Special

  • Total time: 1 hour
  • A different flavor to make sweet Halloween treats
  • A vegan and Gluten friendly recipe

Marshmallows, chocolate, vanilla, and pumpkin do make up good desserts, but let us make these cute little rice crispies treats. They are easy and fun to make and are fit for a vegan plus gluten-free diet. Use colorful candies to make them look more beautiful.

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Halloween Desserts recipes

19 Halloween Desserts For A Scary Party

Adalynn Ward
Are you tired of old recipes to try at Halloween and searching for perfect Halloween Desserts for trick or treat? You have landed at the perfect destination!
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 3 persons

Ingredients

  • Monster Cookies
  • Twix Cookies
  • Ghost Cookies
  • Spider Cookies
  • Witch Hat Cookies
  • Halloween Cookie Cake
  • Halloween Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Mummy Cookies
  • Tombstone Cookies
  • Black Cat Cookies
  • Chocolate Chip Spider Cookies
  • Boo Bites
  • Bat Oreos
  • Halloween Sprinkle Cookies
  • Candy Corn White Chocolate Cookies
  • 3-Ingredient Rice Krispies Treats HalloweenDessert
  • Pumpkin Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting
  • Chocolate-Covered Marshmallow Pops
  • No-Bake Halloween Sponge Cake

How to Make?

  • Select one dessert from these yummy desserts and open it on a new tab.
  • Note down all the ingredients that you need for the dessert.
  • Make sure to use fresh ingredients.
  • Follow the instructions to make a dessert.
  • I hope you have made the dessert that you want. Don't forget to give us your feedback.

Nutrition

Serving: 1dessertCalories: 230kcal
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Hello!! My name is Adalynn I love to eat, travel, and eat some more! I am married to the man of my dreams and have a beautiful little girl whose smiles can brighten anyone’s day!