14 Frightfully Sweet Halloween Desserts That’ll Haunt Your Cravings
Halloween is the perfect excuse to indulge your sweet tooth — and these desserts are here to make things deliciously spooky. From creepy cupcakes and ghostly cookies to eerie candy creations, each recipe brings just the right mix of fright and delight. Whether you’re hosting a Halloween bash or just want a treat while watching scary movies, these desserts will keep your cravings happily haunted all night long. Get ready… they’re almost too good to be spooky!
Halloween Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles
These Halloween Sugar Cookies are the perfect spooky treat! They are loaded with colorful sprinkles and make a frightfully fun dessert for your Halloween night.
Halloween Chocolate Blossom Sprinkle Cookies
Halloween Chocolate Blossom Sprinkle Cookies are a fun, easy cookie to make! Made with Hershey’s Hugs, instead of Kisses, little helpers will love rolling the balls of chocolate cookie dough in Halloween-themed sprinkles and pressing the candies into the warm cookies!
Halloween Chocolate Cherry Hand Pies
These Halloween Chocolate Cherry Hand Pies are an easy and frightfully fun treat to enjoy this October! With a chocolate pastry crust cut out in jack-o’-lantern shapes and canned cherry pie filling, this handheld dessert will be a hit at Halloween parties!
Halloween Spider Tart (Blackberry Tart)
Halloween is one of my favourite celebrations, second only to Christmas. This tart is not only spooky, but also incredibly delicious! Made with a black sesame crust, a soft and delicious frangipane base and a sliky smooth blackberry ganache.
Hocus Pocus Cupcakes
These Hocus Pocus Cupcakes will put a spell on you this Halloween season! With a rich dark chocolate base, peanut “boo-tter” filling, and homemade vanilla buttercream frosting, these fun Halloween cupcakes are inspired by Disney’s latest seasonal desserts and the infamous Sanderson Sisters!
Black Velvet Cake
This wickedly decadent Black Velvet Cake with Marshmallow Spiderweb is made with rich black cocoa and smooth black cocoa buttercream. A frightful tangle of sticky marshmallow spiderweb, fosters the eerie candy spider egg sacks that top this stunning and deliciously spooky black velvet cake!
Halloween Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
These Halloween peanut butter spider cookies are a chewy, sweet, and ridiculously adorable treat that is perfect for Halloween. They feature tender peanut butter cookies topped with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which are then decorated with candy eyes and melted chocolate to look like spiders. They are a fun, delicious dessert that both kids and adults will love.
Bat Sugar Cookies
Bat sugar cookies are a tasty and fun Halloween dessert that’s perfect for baking with the kids during the scariest time of the year! These rolled-out spooky cookies are chilled, cut out into bats, then decorated with black royal icing. Try my easy bat sugar cookie recipe to share with crowds this Halloween season!
Maple Cinnamon Cookies
These Maple Cinnamon Cookies are soft, chewy, and delicious! The warm flavors of maple, cinnamon, and brown sugar are perfect for the season! The finishing touch is the maple vanilla glaze, which I suggest you apply with abandon!
High Hat Cupcakes
Chocolate cupcakes are a year-round treat, but add some marshmallow “spider webs” and you’ve got a spooky Halloween treat! Over the top in the best way, these High Hat Cupcakes need to be on your baking list!
Chocolate Madeleines
Since Halloween is coming up, I wanted to make something DEEP, DARK chocolate. I think these Chocolate Madeleines fit the bill nicely!
Monster Eyeball Cookies
Monster Eyeball Cookies are a fun spooky treat you can make with your kids. All you need are Oreos, M&Ms, and frosting for this Halloween party snack.
Halloween Chocolate Cherry Cookie Shots
Spooky and delicious Halloween Chocolate Cherry Cookie Shots are perfect for holiday parties. The cookie shots are made of a rich chocolate cookie and filled with sweet cherry pie filling or your favorite shot. Top them with whipped cream, a bloody knife and colorful Halloween sprinkles to complete an awesomely gruesome dessert. One that’s oh so delicious and, when you’re done, just eat the glass.
Spooky Spider Chocolate Cheese Ball
A Spooky Spider Chocolate Cheese Ball will be the hit of your Halloween party! This festive, easy to make, spider-shaped cheese ball is made with cream cheese, peanut butter, and lots of chocolate chips.
