45 Cute Halloween Cookie Recipes for a Spooky Good Time
Cute Halloween cookie ideas! These adorable spooky treats make delicious Halloween desserts for parties, movie nights, bake sales, or a fun afternoon snack.
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Halloween baking and mouth-watering Fall treats are one of the best parts of the autumn season!
It’s really the best way to feel festive, while enjoying sweet treats at the same time.
And you might as well call me Cookie Monster, because I’ve almost never met a cookie I didn’t like.
If you’re interested in making some fun cookies for Halloween, you’re in luck!
I put together a list of my favorite cute (and sometimes spooky) Halloween cookies so you have tons of Halloween dessert ideas.
These Halloween cookies are perfect for:
- Party favors
- School parties
- Snacking on before or after trick or treating
- Bake sales
- October potlucks
- Festive movie nights
- Dessert tables
Halloween isn’t just for candy anymore!
So grab your favorite nonstick baking sheet, easy Parchment paper liners, and maybe some candy googly eyes and Halloween sprinkles, and let’s dive in!
(🎃 For even more festive Halloween entertaining ideas, be sure to also check out these fun Halloween cupcakes, easy no-bake Halloween treats, fun Halloween party foods, and delicious Halloween charcuterie boards!)
Fun Halloween Cookie Ideas
Halloween Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Halloween themed sour cream sugar cookies are the perfect spooky party treat! The cream cheese frosting is fun to decorate and is a great Halloween activity for kids.
Chocolate Chip Halloween Sandwich Cookies
Enjoy the fall and coming holidays with these Halloween cookies! So easy to make that the kids can help with them.
Oreo Ghost Truffles
Oreo Ghost Truffles are fun Halloween treats that require just 5-ingredients to make. They are so cute, they’ll bring the perfect amount of ghoulish charm to any Halloween party.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bites
Made with homemade chocolate chip cookie dough, cheesecake, and candies, these delicious Cheesecake Bites are guaranteed to be the hit of the party!
Halloween Oreo Truffle Bats
Simple cookie and cream cheese Oreo truffles, decorated like bats, are so fun to bring to your next party or enjoy them with kids!
Ghoulish Ghost Dip Cookies
Turn store-bought Nutter Butter cookies into adorable ghosts! Super festive and easy enough for all skill levels.
Copycat Lofthouse Halloween Sugar Cookies
The soft, tender, frosted Lofthouse cookies are one of my favorite sweet treats to buy at the store. But you can actually make them right at home with this fun copycat recipe.
Peanut Butter Cup Halloween Spider Cookies
Peanut butter cup spider cookies are so cute, with adorable peanut butter cup spiders sitting on top of soft, chewy peanut butter cookies topped with chocolate legs and candy eyes.
Dracula Cookies
These mouthy Dracula cookies will make all the kids laugh when you tell them that these are the monster’s dentures, complete with marshmallow teeth and pointy fangs made from slivered almonds.
Halloween Pudding Cookies
If you need a super easy cookie recipe that will stay moist, you have to try out these pudding cookies. You can make them any color you want and add other festive sprinkles if you like!
Halloween Sprinkle Cookies
Halloween sprinkle cookies are soft vanilla cookies topped with a generous coating of Halloween candy sprinkles. This easy dessert recipe can be made from scratch in less than 30 minutes!
Black Cat Cookies
Black Cat Cookies are spooky sugar cookies flavored with black cocoa powder. They use zero food coloring and are adorable for Halloween.
Girly Oreo Spiders
So cute for a girls night, or to make with your daughters. The eyelashes are everything.
Maple Cinnamon Mummy Cookies
Maple Cinnamon Mummy 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.
Halloween Cutout Cookies
Halloween cut out cookies are a delightfully spooky treat and this recipe is super easy. These soft cookies hold their shape beautifully when baked and are filled with plenty of mini chocolate chips.
Halloween Chocolate Covered Oreos
Halloween chocolate-covered Oreos are a sweet, crunchy, 3-ingredient treat perfect for those spooky season chocolate cravings.
Witch Finger Cookies
This recipe is just as tasty as it is creepy! The buttery shortbread cookies that look just like the fingers of a witch are the perfect addition to any Halloween spread. Adults love them just as much as your little gremlins.
Ghost Sandwich Cookies
Halloween Ghost Sandwich Cookies have a ghostly white chocolate complexion and are filled with the spookiest black cocoa buttercream.
Mummy Birthday Cake Macarons
Looking to scare up some Halloween fun with a spooktacular treat? These Mummy Birthday Cake Macarons are an adorable Halloween dessert!
Spiderweb Cookies
These Spiderweb Cookies are the easiest spooky treat you'll ever make! They take less than 15 minutes to make and are made up of just two ingredients: chocolate sandwich cookies and white chocolate chips.
Goblin Skillet Cookie
Goblin Skillet Cookie is a giant, warm chocolate chip cookie filled with Ghoul Mix M&M's. It's fun, yummy, and a favorite treat for kids of all ages!
Frankenstein Monster Cookies
Transform store-bought Nutter Butters into festive Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein cookies. A fun and easy project that looks amazing!
Hocus Pocus Cookies
Bright Halloween colors and creepy candy eyes make these Hocus Pocus Cookies so fun! Underneath the colorful decorations are soft, fluffy, vanilla-flavored sugar cookies that everyone will go nuts for.
Skeleton Chocolate Cookies
Skeleton Cookies are a simple way to add a little Halloween magic to school lunches or Halloween parties. Use a gingerbread man cookie cutter to cut ghoulish shapes from chocolate cookie dough then decorate with royal icing and candy eyes.
Black Cocoa Cookies
Soft and spooky black cocoa cookies are made from scratch with black Dutch cocoa powder for delicate chocolate flavor and intense black color without food coloring.
Easy Fondant Sugar Cookies
Don’t love royal icing, or just can’t trust your sugar cookie decorating skills? Use fondant instead! This recipe makes it so easy to create showstopping Halloween cookies that look professionally made.
Monster Eye Crinkle Cookies
Colorful Monster Eye Cookies are super easy to make - with cake mix! And we all know that decorating with googly eyes never gets old.
Witch Hat Cookies & Pretzel Broomsticks Treats
Looking for a super cute treat to take to your next party? These semi-homemade witch hat cookies and broomsticks are the perfect quick and easy treat! Plus, they are so easy, kids can make them too!
Easy Halloween Chocolate Chip Cookies
These easy Halloween Chocolate Chip Cookies have 10 minute prep time and use sprinkles and candy eyes for a deliciously fun and simple halloween treat.
Easy Brownie Mix Halloween Cookies
A box of brownie mix plus festive Halloween candies easily combine to create decadently delicious brownie cookies aka brookies that are sure to be a hit! No tricks, all treats!
Oreo Brookie Bars
A really simple way to add a colorful and very tasty treat to your Halloween festivities, these brookie bars have 3 layers of deliciousness. It’s like chocolate cookies, brownies, and Oreos had a baby.
Halloween Cookie Pizza
Halloween Cookie Pizza uses refrigerated sugar cookie dough and store-bought vanilla frosting to make things simple, but feel free to make yours from scratch if you’d like.
Frankenstein Peanut Butter Cookies
No one can resist these super cute and tasty Frankenstein peanut butter cookies made with Reese’s Franken cups. Made from scratch, they’re soft, a little chewy, and spooked up with green peanut butter cups, candy eyes, black icing, and chocolate sprinkles.
Slice and Bake Candy Corn Cookies
Candy Corn Halloween Cookies are festive and delicious, and much easier to make than you might think!
Wednesday Addams Cookies
Wednesday & Enid Window Cookies are perfect for Halloween and inspired by the Wednesday series on Netflix! These icebox cookies have two different sides: one is bright and colorful like Enid, and the other is dark and chocolatey like Wednesday.
Mummy Sugar Cookies
Mummy sugar cookies are soft homemade vanilla sugar cookies topped with royal icing and candy eyes. These easy Halloween cookies make a festive Halloween treat or dessert.
Quick & Easy Halloween Shortbread Cookies
You're going to love how quickly these Halloween Shortbread Cookies come together! No mixer needed, and ready in 30 minutes from start to finish!
Spiderweb Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookies
Complete with frosting spiders and web, this skillet chocolate chip cookie is beyond easy and perfect for a Halloween dinner party or fun family night.
Bloody Bandaid Cookies
Incredibly easy to put together, Bloody Bandaid Cookies still manage to strike that creative cord! Arranged on a platter for a Halloween party, potluck or even for a movie night snack, they’re also surprisingly tasty, despite their appearance.
Hairy Monster Cookies
Get ready for Halloween with this hair-raising recipe for Hairy Monster Cookies. These ghoulishly delightful treats will enchant your taste buds and thrill your guests a touch of adorable and spooky fun to your celebrations!
Spiderweb Cake Mix Cookies
Spiderweb Cookies are made with cake mix and topped with a dark chocolate ganache and white chocolate to create cute spider webs.
Bat Sugar Cookies
Bat Sugar Cookies are seriously spooky and perfect for the scariest time of the year. Best of all, there’s no need to chill the dough. Simply make the cookie dough with simple ingredients, roll it out and start cutting out your bat shapes.
Oogie Boogie Meringue Cookies
Oogie Boogie Meringue Cookies are just so cute.These Nightmare Before Christmas themed treats will be a huge hit at any Halloween party.
Halloween Chocolate Monster Cookies
Chewy and slightly soft chocolate chip cookies, transformed into spooky, black Halloween Monster Cookies. Wickedly delicious and perfect for Halloween celebrations!
Mummy Cookies
Mummy cookies make a great addition to just about any Halloween-themed party or gathering whether you serve them as cookie pops, on a platter, or wrapped in cellophane baggies as a party favor.
Ready to make some cute Halloween cookies?
I hope this list of spooky cookies has given you lots of inspiration for fun Halloween desserts to make.
From monsters and mummies to ghosts, Dracula, and spiders – there’s something for every Halloween theme and event!
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