Best Halloween Baking Recipes: Easy, Fun Dessert Ideas
Halloween is the perfect time to bake something fun—and maybe a little spooky. This list of the best Halloween baking recipes has something for everyone. Whether you love cute and colorful desserts or creepy creations, these treats are festive, delicious, and guaranteed to impress your family and friends.
About the Best Halloween Baking Recipes
I love to bake and make treats for Halloween, but I also like to keep things simple. So, this list of the best Halloween baking recipes focuses on desserts that are easy to make. Nothing is complicated, just cute and delicious treats for a Halloween party or a school event—desserts that are fun to bake with kids and loved by kids and adults alike. But if you want no-bake desserts instead, check out my list of easy no bake Halloween desserts.
Halloween Cookie Recipes
As you probably guessed, cookies are my go-to when looking for something to bake. Here are a few great ones for Halloween.
Ghost Chocolate Chip Cookies
You can’t go wrong with chocolate chip cookies, no matter the holiday or occasion. These Ghost Chocolate Chip cookies are a fun Halloween treat.
Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
A spider design is always perfect for Halloween, and you can’t go wrong with peanut butter cookies. Put the two together, and you have the perfect peanut butter spider cookies for Halloween.
Shortbread Witch Fingers
These shortbread cookies are tender and delicious. Colored and shaped like Witch Finger Cookies, this dessert is perfect for Halloween and excellent if you want a cookie recipe for a Wicked-themed party.
Witch Blossom Cookies
These Witch Blossom Cookies take the classic peanut butter blossom cookie and turn it into a Halloween treat by making them purple. With a Hershey kiss on top, these cookies look like mini Witch hats.
Spiderweb Cookies Recipe
These Spiderweb Cookies are a soft blackout chocolate cookie topped with a vanilla frosting and melted chocolate to create a spiderweb design.
Double Chocolate Eyeball Cookies
Adding candy eyes is one of the easiest ways to transform a regular cookie into something spooky, perfect for Halloween. These Spooky Eyeball Cookies are double chocolate cookies.
Halloween Cake Ball Recipes
Cake balls are a fun treat to make for Halloween. They are bite-sized, poppable snacks that can be decorated however you’d like. You can use your favorite cake recipe or a boxed cake mix. Here are some call ball designs to make.
Eyeball Cake Balls
Bloodshot eyeball cake balls recipe.
Spider Cake Balls
Creepy, crawly spiders are perfect for Halloween. These spider cake balls are also great for kids who love bugs.
Dirt Cake Pops
If you want spiders and creepy crawlers for Halloween, then these Dirt Cake Pops are perfect. Kids always love dirt cakes, and putting them on sticks makes them extra fun.
Brownies and Bar Recipes
Whip up these bars and brownies for more easy Halloween recipes.
Spiderweb Brownies
These Spiderweb Brownies take a blackout chocolate brownie and top it with a marshmallow web to give a cobweb effect.
Halloween Goody Bars
These Halloween Goody Bars are an easy layered bar cookie with an oat base, a chocolate layer, and candy. I like to make these cookies when I have extra Halloween candy to use up.
Pumpkin Mummy Hand Pies
These Mummy Hand Pies use puff pastry as the base, so they are really easy to put together. With a pumpkin pie filling, they are perfect for Thanksgiving, too, if you want to skip the candy eyes.
I hope you find something from this list of the best Halloween baking recipes that sparks your interest. These recipes are fun, easy, and bring that Halloween magic to life in the easiest, most delicious way. These desserts are all great to make with kids too, so have a little fun in the kitchen—because the best treats are the ones you bake with heart (and maybe a few candy eyes).
Want more great dessert and recipe ideas? My No-Bake Valentine Treats list has tons of easy desserts that you can make for someone special- anytime of year. And if you’re also looking for some good Thanksgiving goodies to make, how about these Pecan Pie Themed Desserts.
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