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21 Halloween Themed Desserts

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With these easy Halloween Themed Desserts you have the perfect excuse to play with your food. You’ll find inspiration with delicious treats like spooky ghost and bat cookies, ghost fruit skewers, mummy brownies, and so many more. These ideas are great for parties, baking with kids, or just enjoying the season. Have fun!

Collage of easy Halloween themed desserts including ghost cookies, mummy brownies, spider treats, and candy.

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Easy Halloween Cookies

Ghost and bat shaped sugar cookies decorated with white and black icing for Halloween.

Make the spookiest season of the year extra fun and delicious with these spooky Halloween Cookies. They’re sweet, buttery, and perfectly crisp on the edges but still slightly soft in the middle.

Mummy Brownies

Mummy brownies decorated with candy eyes and white chocolate drizzle on parchment paper.

Not only are these Mummy Brownies festive and a little spooky, they’re also rich, chewy, fudgy, and delicious.

Pretzel Witch Brooms

Witch broomstick treats made with peanut butter cups, pretzel sticks, and chocolate candy.

With literally just 3 ingredients, these Pretzel Witch Brooms are a festive, fun, and simple Halloween goodie you can make in your sleep.

Halloween Dirt Cups

Dirt pudding cups topped with crushed cookies and gummy worms for a spooky Halloween treat.

Eating Halloween Dirt Cups is like digging into a haunted garden. The base is a creamy chocolate pudding topped with sandwich cookie crumbs, also known as the dirt, and gummy worms.

Halloween Fruit Skewers

Fruit skewers with grapes, strawberries, and marshmallow ghosts decorated with candy eyes.

Halloween Fruit Skewers with marshmallows are so fun to make and eat. They’re a mix of juicy fruit and soft, fluffy marshmallows with a ghost-faced appearance.

Halloween Spider Cookies

Peanut butter spider cookies with Reese’s cups, candy eyes, and chocolate legs.

For these semi-homemade Halloween Spider Cookies, we combined store-bought cookies, miniature Reese’s cups, chocolate chips, and candy eyes to create the easiest, most festive treats of the spooky season.

Spider Halloween Cheese Ball

Oreo truffle spiders with pretzel legs and candy eyes arranged on white plates.

With crushed Oreos, cream cheese, and powdered sugar, these Halloween cheese balls are quick, easy, creamy, and just right for your spooky dessert table.

Easy Halloween Pretzels

Chocolate-dipped pretzel rods coated with colorful Halloween sprinkles in a glass jar.

These Halloween Pretzels are deliciously salty, sweet, and spooky in such a cute way. Best of all, they only take about 10 minutes to make.

Black Velvet Cake

Slice of moist black velvet cake with glossy frosting on a dark plate beside dried flowers and books.

This black velvet cake is a chocolate lover’s dream! Surprisingly, there is no food coloring. Instead, the dark color comes from the addition of black cocoa powder, which lends a deep, rich chocolate flavor (similar to Oreo Cookies).

Poison Apples

Glossy black candy apples with green centers and black straws on a rustic wooden table.

These black Halloween “poison” apples are delicious, spooky, and almost otherworldly. But they’re actually more treat than trick as they taste just like traditional caramel apples.

Spider Jello Cups

Halloween jello cups topped with gummy worms and plastic spiders for a spooky treat.

With just 2 or 3 ingredients, including gummy worms and spiders, these Spider Jello Cups are an easy Halloween treat that’s perfect for parties and school events.

Homemade Candy Corn

Bowl of homemade candy corn pieces in yellow, orange, and white, surrounded by more candy corn on table.

Do you love or hate candy corn? If it’s the former, you’ll really fall for this homemade candy corn recipe. It’s simple, and unlike store-bought options, there’s no artificial flavor, just pure vanilla.

Halloween Donut Eyes

Creepy eyeball donuts with red icing veins and candy centers on a Halloween platter.

These homemade Halloween Donut Eyes are spooky and terrifying all in the most delicious way!

Ghosteroos

Chocolate rice krispie bars topped with candy eyes and white chocolate ghost shapes.

Never heard of a ghosteroo? You’re not alone. The delicious treat is a combination of Rice Krispies, chocolate, butterscotch, and peanut butter for a cute and delicious treat.

Halloween Brain Jello

Green jello brain mold on a plate with plastic black spiders and candy, perfect for a Halloween party treat.

With a silicone Jello mold and 2 ingredients (3 if you count water), you can make this Halloween brain Jello recipe. It’s a fun, easy, and tasty recipe.

Black Velvet Cupcakes

Black velvet cupcake with tall black frosting swirl and gold sprinkles on top.

These black velvet cupcakes are perfect for Halloween or even special black and white dinners where you want a fancy dessert. And like the black velvet cake above, it doesn’t require black food coloring.

Halloween Bundt Cake

Chocolate bundt cake with marshmallow ghost toppers and candy pumpkins for Halloween.

When you need an impressive dessert that’s super easy to make, this Halloween Bundt Cake is the one. From the recipe to the decorations, no special skills are required.

Fanta Jack O Lantern Floats

Orange Fanta float served in a Jack-o’-lantern cup with sprinkles and Halloween décor.

While these Jack O Lantern Floats are a viral hit for Halloween parties. you don’t have to wait until then to enjoy them. You can also make them in July for a nice Summerween celebration.

Hocus Pocus Cookies

Hocus Pocus sugar cookies decorated to look like the Sanderson sisters with colorful icing.

OMG, with these Hocus Pocus cookies, the Sanderson sisters are back again. This time it’s the best sequel yet. These adorable treats are so cute, you won’t care if they cast a spell.

Halloween Hand Pies

Mummy hand pies drizzled with white icing, styled with milk bottle and toy spiders.

Don’t let these cute Halloween hand pies fool you; they’re just as easy as they are cute. With store-bought pie crust and your favorite jam, you can make these mummy-shaped treats in no time.

Halloween Sugar Cookie Bars

Orange frosted sugar cookie bars topped with candy eyes and colorful sprinkles for Halloween.

These Halloween sugar cookie bars are so soft and chewy with a deliciously fluffy buttercream frosting. Then, to top it off, you have Halloween sprinkles for a sweet and buttery flavor.

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