35 Unique Halloween Cookies That Are So Easy to Make
You don't need next-level baking skills to make these creepy cookie recipes.
The best part about Halloween — aside from Halloween parties and scary movie marathons — is the endless amounts of Halloween treats on offer. From Halloween candy to Halloween cakes, there's no shortage of the sweet stuff around. And if you're throwing your own bash on October 31, may we suggest including some Halloween cookies on your dessert table?
Even if your baking skills are lacking, our favorite Halloween cookie recipes are super easy to make at home. Whether you're up for the challenge of intricately frosted spiderwebs and skeleton faces, or recipes made with tubes of refrigerated cookie dough are more your speed this selection of cookie recipes and Halloween cookie designs has something for bakers and decorators of all levels. But no matter what Halloween cookie recipe you decide to bake, make sure to keep a couple of these cute and creepy cookies for yourself because they’ll vanish like ghosts as soon as you put them out for your guests to devour.
Double Chocolate Mummies
Your gingerbread man cookie cutter isn't just for Christmas — use it to make these creepy cookies, too.
Monster Mask Cookies
These are the ultimate Halloween sugar cookies: Whip up a batch of sugar cookie dough, then use a mask template to carve out the shape of a witch, vampire, mummy, and Frankenstein.
Chocolate Tombstone Cookies
These creepy cookies are made with chocolate butter cookie dough and molded white chocolate skulls.
Spiced Pumpkin Softies
Loaded with pumpkin purée, raisins, and brown sugar, these fall treats are as soft as a cloud.
Chocolate Spiderweb Sandwich Cookies
Stuffed with cream cheese filling, these cookies will make your skin crawl but your tastebuds sing.
Buggy Leaf Spice Cookies
You'll need assorted sizes of leaf-shaped cookie cutters to make these creepy crawly treats.
Creepy Cookie Stacks
Made with refrigerated sugar cookie dough, give your cookies a cool 3-D effect by stacking Halloween shapes a top one another.
Oreo Monster Pops
Your little monsters will love making and eating these easy chocolate-dipped Oreo cookie pops!
Broom Cookies
You'll attract all the witches to your house with these delicious broom cookies made with peanut butter cookie dough.
Pretzel Ghosts
Not quite a cookie, but a sweet and spooky treat nevertheless! Microwave white candy melts and 1 tsp of coconut oil in 20-second increments until melted and smoothed. Dip ends of pretzel rods in two-thirds of the way, shaking off excess and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Let set until firm. Use a black edible marker to create the faces.
Cookie Skulls and Pumpkin Sugar Cookie Cutouts
Honor the Day of the Dead with these colorful treats that aren't nearly as difficult to make as they look.
Bats Flying Across the Moon Cookies
Bats are seriously underrated Halloween creature. Give them the attention they deserve with these eerie sweets.
Haunted Gingerbread House
Why wait until Christmas to make a cookie house? This haunted cookie house also includes an assortment of cookies, candies, and chocolate.
Haystack Creatures
Chow mein noodles coated in rich chocolate are the perfect combination of salty and sweet that you're craving after days of eating pure sugar.
Skull Cookies
Invest in some festive molds to create cookies that are as easy as melting and pouring chocolate.
Boo-Scotti
Give the parents a snack to go with their coffee (a must for Halloween night!).
Get the recipe at Good Housekeeping.
Spiced Chocolate Bat Cookies
With a little kick, these chocolate spice bats will take over the night.
Trick-or-Treater Sugar Cookies
Customize each of these sugar cookies to resemble your kids.
Decorated Halloween Cookies
All you need to make these cookies is cookie dough and an imagination.
Lauren (she/her) is the digital content director of the Hearst Lifestyle Group, where she oversees online content and strategy for Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day and other Hearst titles, including SEO, video, social media and e-commerce efforts. She has almost 20 years of experience writing and editing beauty, lifestyle, home, health, entertainment and product review content. She graduated from NYU with a degree in journalism and history.
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