22 Spooktacular Halloween Cookies
Your usual Halloween cookies all in one spot! Spooky scary skeletons and shivers down your spine! We love Halloween so much we can’t believe it’s almost here! Easy Halloween cookie recipes that will give your family a fright.
Get ready because we have the best cookie recipes for you to make at home during the month of October. If you love easy baking ideas with soft chewy results, this is the list for you. Here is a list of the best Halloween cookies to whip up for a Halloween party!
Also make sure to check out these monster Oreo ballsFrankenstein cupcakes or even this pumpkin spice hot chocolate bomb recipe. Or whip up these bloody glass cupcakes.
These Halloween Cookies Are…
- Great for a Halloween party, school party, or even a play date or weeknight dessert.
- Easy Halloween cookies from homemade cookie dough to store-bought cookies and cookie dough.
- A spooky treat for kids and adults this Halloween season.
- Easy recipes that are great for beginners in the kitchen all the way up to pros.
- The Halloween treat for you to make and let your kids help decorate to get them into the Halloween spirit.
- Spooky cookies, cute Halloween cookies, easy cookies, all in one large list.
Popular Kitchen Tools For Baking Cookies
Here are some of our favorite kitchen tools and accessories for when we bake cookies and other easy desserts in the kitchen. These are great to have in your cupboard to pull out when you want to bake.
- Measuring Cup and Spoons
- Hand Mixer or Stand Mixer (we love our KitchenAid!)
- Cooling Racks
- Cookie Scoop
- Cookie Sheet
- Silicone Baking Mat or Parchment Paper
- Rolling Pin
- Piping Bag if frosting
Looking for Halloween sugar cookie inspiration? We have the best list of spooky scary recipe ideas that look cool and festive plus taste outstanding. Boo!
Hocus Pocus Cookies
The Sanderson sisters came back after 30 years to delight us with their presence one more time! Hocus-pocus two cookies are packed with color and decadent flavors. They’re good for parties or just a family friendly treat to make at home.
Dark Chocolate Halloween Chip Cookies
All you need for Halloween are some scary dark chocolate chip sugar cookies with a soft texture. With white chocolate chips and creamy peanut butter chips for extra deliciousness. Press some bright M&Ms into the top of the freshly baked cookies so they stand out.
Red Velvet Halloween Cookies
Bloody red velvet sugar cookies are easy, scary, and lucious. They have a chocolate flavor with an undeniable red velvet taste as well. The color and design pop on party platters or even a spooky themed charcuterie board.
Halloween Ghost Cookies
How adorably scary and tasty looking are these easy web cookies? They are truly the best treat with simple pantry ingredients like flour, sugar, cocoa powder, mini marshmallows, sprinkles, and a few more items.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Monster Cookies
You have to make these Chocolate peanut butter cup monster cookies because they are tasty and fun. Anyone can make them soft and chewy with no baking skills required. Chocolate and peanut butter are a classic dessert combination for a good reason.
Halloween Chocolate Blossom Sprinkle Cookies
These sprinkle cookies are chewy and soft and oh-so-fun for an easy Halloween treat! Sugary and made with Hershey's Hugs, instead of Kisses, for an extra fun element. They don’t require much decorating skill to look cute and creepy at the same time! You can make them in the comfort of your home.
Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies- The Salt and Sweet Kitchen
Spider cookies are good for anybody who loves the classic combo of cookie and chocolate! They are a fun, easy treat to make with the kids or friends. All you need is simple ingredients like sugar, butter, eggs, flour, etc.
The Nightmare Before Christmas Pumpkin Cookies
Do you love Jack Skelington? He’s a Halloween icon! These are the best Nightmare Before Christmas desserts because they’re easy and fun. You can expect a soft pumpkin flavored cookie with beautiful frosting.
Halloween Pinwheel Cookies
Pretty and festive pinwheels are always a hit because of the intricate design. These sugar cookies are soft, chewy,, and fun to make at home. Pro tip: use gel food coloring to help make them pop!
Halloween Spider Cookies | Fun and Spooky Recipe!
These scary fun Halloween sugar cookies with spiders complete the look for a party or night at home with the family. With chocolatey flavor, luscious buttercream and a Lindor truffle spider! You will need some chocolate sugar cookies, orange buttercream, and black food gel or black frosting for the web.
Halloween Monster Cookies
You will love baking monster cookies in the spooky month of October. They’re soft and chewy with double chocolate chips. Also they have black cocoa powder and are decorated with candy eyeballs. 10 minutes of Oreo time, 10 minutes cook time, and 2 hours to chill.
Treat Bucket Sugar Cookies
Make a different shape of sugar cookie this Halloween with a simple candy corn cookie cutter. The design and flavor is sure to put a smile on your face! The best part is that they last for 5 days when properly sealed in the refrigerator. You can easily make the cookie at home.
Mummy Cookies
Aren’t these Mummy cookies so adorable for Halloween? They just couldn’t be more simple to whip up either. Using canned frosting mixed with powdered sugar, and candy eyeballs they are on the table in a flash. However keep in mind that the frosting will need to dry and set before serving.
Halloween Zombie Sugar Cookie Recipe
Have some fun designing zombie faces with various colors of frosting and some candy eyeball sprinkles! All you need to make this dessert is flour, powdered sugar, salt, baking soda, vanilla extract, eggs, shortening, multiple colors of frosting in piping bags, and some candy eyeballs.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies
Yes these pumpkin cheesecake cookies are probably more adult oriented but kids would like them too. Our kids aren’t fond of pumpkin flavored treats yet but if yours are then these are great for the whole family. Equipment needed includes: mixing bowls, measuring cups and spoons, hand mixer, and baking sheets.
Halloween Whoopie Pies
Whoopie pies are scrumptious and delectable especially these soft chocolate sandwiches with orange-colored cream cheese filling. They’re easy to bake at home. Then decorate with eyeball candies or other scary elements.
Spider Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
We can’t get enough pumpkin flavored desserts at this time of year. These cookies with chocolate chips and little chocolate spiders are the cutest treat. They are good for kids and adults plus they can stay fresh in an airtight container at room temperature up to four days!
Homemade Graham Crackers Sandwich Cookies
Honey gram cracker sandwich cookies are a scary fun Halloween dessert that are easy to make. Plus they are packed with toasty honey flavor as well as chocolate! Everyone will love the yummy whole-grain flavor with a mildly soft bite.
Gooey Monster Cookies
Colorful, bright and a spooktacular cookie that is full of candy eyes. Give this easy cookie recipe a try!
Monster Eye Cookies for Halloween
Whip up these monster eye cookies. They are so fun and are a twist to a classic thumbprint cookie.
Mummy Meringue Cookies
Do you love meringue? If so you have to try these meringue cookies. How adorable and simple it is to make.
Halloween Pumpkin Cookies
Try out these adorable Halloween pumpkin cookies. They are simple to decorate and hard to eat just one.
Practical notes
How do you make cookies without cookie cutters?You can’t easily make Halloween cookies without cookie cutters. The first option would be to make regular-shaped cookies and frost and decorate them in a way that celebrates the spooky season like the Zombie Face Cookies. Or you can use scissors or a knife to carefully cut the dough in your preferred shape.
How long in advance can we decorate our Halloween cookies with icing?We recommend only doing 24 hours at the most. Cookies will dry out pretty easily so you want to make sure you don’t do it too far in advance or your cookies will become dry.
How can we involve kids in making Halloween cookies?If you want your kids involved in making Halloween cookies let them help mix up the cookie dough, roll out the dough, use cookie cutters, or decorate the cookies. Depending on their age, will depend on how hands-on you want them to be.
Can we make cookies in advance?Generally, cookies are best served within 24 hours of being made. You will find cookies can dry out quickly so we recommend making up to 24 hours in advance, max.
Are you ready to celebrate Halloween with some easy cookies? All the fun and scary designs are simple yet chewy and. It’s not too late to celebrate so get in your kitchen and start baking!
